Poems
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
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You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
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Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
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The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
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Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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The most important thing we've learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set -
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His death in Benares
Won't save the assassin
From certain hell,
Any more than a dip
In the Ganges will send
Frogs—or you—to paradise.
My home, says Kabir,
Is where there's no day, no night,
And no holy book in sight
To squat on our lives.
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I step outside
myself, out of my eyes,
hands, mouth, outside
of myself I
step, a bundle
of goodness and godliness
that must make good
this devilry
that has happened.
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Creation
Proliferation
exploitation
Deprivation
Starvation
Devastation
Desolation
Destination
Annihilation
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A 17 year old boy put a bunch of fireworks on his head.
The fuses were lit and when they exploded, he was dead.
His mother was angry and tried to have fireworks banned.
But there was something that his mother didn't understand.
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Wild, red roses undulate, in the windswept way,
Purple peonies flutter, along the breeze highway,
Blue and pink daisies waltz, in pathways of sun,
Delicate lilies waver, in gentle cream commotion.
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Many were already knee-deep in the water
but didn't dare to take the plunge --
their hearts were in the wrong places
their fears they couldn't expunge
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game warps time and duty
Amaras tears and treasure
God in the desert
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Situation
Unification
Personification
Poets love personification
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This was a place I was born in
But I know not of, hidden in the darkest facade
Of our surroundings is the brutal gangs that terrorize
The innocent, , illtreat the old and unprotected tear family
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My feet is hot and the fire never stop, ,
Before you step hold my hands, I see no tears in your eyes
I see no fears in your hearth but earth is red and the fire never stops,
My father never lie but my teachers did, my brother never lie but my pastors did, , my mother never lies but my politician did, , my sister never lie but their man did, my feet is hot and the fire never stops, my barber never lies but the government did, , water is cold but the wood is dry, , rain com calling but
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The world is in a spin politician is in a spin, yet we fight to see the new world order, , vaccine is the thing yet we fail to see the spin, nature is falling while Humpty Dumpty get calling, , , black lives matter is bawling spinning the game
While the world is spinning out of control we fight to reach the mind of the fallen, ,
The world is in a spin, wobbling sometime with feelings, global manefestation
Take a hold and we fail to see the calling, , , black man is dieting because we see no reason to strive jails are crumbling bursting with the pain of brothers crying,
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Saturday, July 2 and Sunday July 3,2022
'Police lying is as old as policing itself, and like all culturally ingrained customs, it will not disappear without the sustained intervention of outside forces.'
-- Kali Holloway, AlterNet, 'Lying Is A Fundamental Part of American Police Culture', April 3,2018
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Whether
Feather
Weather
Rainy weather has a different taste
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A sea anemone watches
the expanding bank of turbulent
water to stretch the full moon.
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Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
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Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation
right across the border from the liquor store
and he stays open 24 hours a day,7 days a week
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1. Take a shower you don't want to smell.
2. Pick out an outfit that will blend in with the latest trends and won't make you a laughing stock of the school more than you already are
3. Put on some makeup so you can't even recognize yourself and your face tingles with an unbelievable issue. You can't satisfy otherwise you'll have ruined the hours of meticulous painting you apply to your face.
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I will never forget you my dearest soulmate..
these old meomries will never fade...
you've always laid me in your shade...
whenever I trembled or felt afraid....
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He was before his beloved,
Kneeling on his thighs……..
His shoulders were down,
With his soulful cries…….
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As most Nigerians remain ruefully lukewarm
about President Buhari's second term bid;
An ever-increasing multitude of potential
voters across ethnic divides, seem to be
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Rappelle-toi Barbara
Il pleuvait sans cesse sur Brest ce jour-là
Et tu marchais souriante
Épanouie ravie ruisselante
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TO AMARANTHA; THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVELL HER HAIRE.
I.
Amarantha sweet and faire,
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you put this pen
in my hand and you
take the pen from you put this pen
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On this dry prepared path walk heavy feet.
This is not "dinner music." This is a power structure.
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"Come, pretty birds, present your lays,
And learn to chaunt a goddess praise;
Ye wood-nymphs, let your voices be
Employ'd to serve her deity:
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If you had the choice of two women to wed,
(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)
And the first from her heels to her dainty head
Was charming in every sense of the word:
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A little while, a little while,
The weary task is put away,
And I can sing and I can smile,
Alike, while I have holiday.
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Between us now and here -
Two thrown together
Who are not wont to wear
Life's flushest feather -
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