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Toni the lady with red dreadlocksThe lady with red dreadlocks Toni Townsend
Johnson henry she was one rasta Andrews female
drug dealer from the devils triangle in Tampa outside
USF where I received mental health treatment for
my severe anxiety...
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Categories:
celebration, chicago, city, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Verse
ACCIDENTAL WRITERI wanted to be everything in my life but not a writer
I wanted to scream shout and fight for everything but my timid self couldn't be a fighter,
And now It feels like writing has become an...
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Categories:
chicago, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Autobiographical PoetAs I sit wandering about the south
side of Chicago captured effortlessly
by the tall dandelions watching the
lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails
we often lit them just before the sun
sets over George...
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Categories:
books, chicago, confidence, cute
Form: Free verse
Guns and Roses It was 1986 I was setting in after giving
birth to my first son after wearing wires
pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts
of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer
loaded hand grenades silencers scopes gun...
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Categories:
chicago, integrity, poems, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Shadow Box. for public domain
Sometimes my shadow, more inviting than me,
a dark apparition on city walkways,
catches the passing cast down eye,
more so than the benched shadow caster nearby.
The shadow invites no one to speak,
to open one's...
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Categories:
chicago, new york,
Form: Free verse
Conjugal VisitWe finally arrived after going
through metal detectors passing
through so many children mothers
praying for their sons then there
was us my curiosity of it all passing
the guards I felt strange this place...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, chicago, corruption,
Form: Free verse
SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOISYOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBAND...
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Categories:
chicago, city, i love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lakeshore drive and Goethe ChicagoWe suddenly strolled down Lakeshore drive
facing Goethe street named after Wolfgang von
Goethe famous German poet just at the crosswalk
while waving to the hidden Walter Payton
nooks wandering steel of recycled metal
forming beautiful...
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Categories:
character, chicago, city,
Form: Free verse
Della VossaPatrick
Jovial, Inquisitive, Wise and Poetic
Brother of Brian, Daniel, Andrea, Mellissa, Jamil and Anwar
Lover of Freedom, Poetry, and Video Games
Who Feels...
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Categories:
best friend, chicago, christian,
Form: Bio
Lost ChicagoHow incandescent she, glance for what he's trembling for.
The dillusional inside sparks brightest like never,
seedlings of hopes arouses fancy over.
Hours left by gossiping, some mornings included.
Retrouvaille he lost within.
Utter-oblivion yappings relentlessly they carried, seem never...
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Categories:
chicago, crush, love, love
Form: Free verse
56 Years Ago
Three or four blocks from ground zero,
I watched the fires after a fallen hero.
It was one long black night in Chicago.
"Goodbye Martin"; To new heartaches, "Hello".
Mayhem in the streets like a rushing river flow.
Improvements, yes;...
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Categories:
america, chicago,
Form: Rhyme
U Can 2U can 2 was on the license plate of my
store manager brown Benz where a dead man
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store
manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan...
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Categories:
business, chicago, death, film,
Form: Acrostic
Teachers Conference the FBI and meThere was no easy day going under cover
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...
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Categories:
art, beautiful, caregiving, chicago,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Warm pair of faux muffsShopping during the winter trying
to keep my hands warm by placing
them in my pockets but how can
I carry my purse walking down
lake shore drive the horse carriages
stroll by the geese...
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Categories:
chicago, chocolate, weather, winter,
Form: Blank verse
My Serial KillerI didn't know him as a serial not exactly
at least not at first even though I'd overheard
the plotting of arson from a dim lit restroom
searching for tissue only to find several guns
rifles...
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Categories:
anxiety, chicago, literature, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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