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Heaven
Heaven is a ray of sun through a cloudy sky. Heaven is the first drop of water when you're thirsty. Heaven is long afternoons playing soccer. Heaven is moments with family and friends laughing our...
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As they leave me behind
My best gay friend for over 15 years decided to sabotage my relationship because they did not have the same values in marriage as I did. Continually called my dreams and desires. 'crazy'My hopes have been dashed My dreams are in shatters but I am still living as if it still matters. I wished to be wed, by thirty you see- but wishes like that apparently mean you are crazy. So here...
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Helios Part 1
Low gray, uniform. Sulk into the day Casting about drunken shadows Here and there Soul overburdens you The sadness Once again into the mire.
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time and love and I
The poem is about difficult choices we face. It becomes even more difficult when we are choosing between love and something else, i.e., time. The poem reminisce about wanting to, but not having, both...Time and love and I We took a walk last night We talked of things I wished I knew And love said “time will show you soon.” All that could be I wanted to see And time said “love...
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Love
:-)~~Love, You Beast!
O Love, you cheeky beast! You who sent Orpheus to his doom, Brought destruction to Troy, And inflicted madness upon Medea.
You who grants great power, But renders one so weak. You...
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Negligence
Not caring for the peasant is like mountains on the head of the peasant, and if not solve it always causes inglorious state by bringing in chaos and misconduct from the peasants with the...
Negligence - Austin Ogbenigho Odiri
Besides leaden negligence
Whose mother travelled
A folklore also off-hand tale
Withholding pale
From simultaneous narrator victim
Frost wide theme
Thus,
It beams like madness
And showeth forth coldness
A very capture for isolation
Frustration with condemnation,
Temptation not a rejection
Peasantry...
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EVERYBODY WANTS A PIECE OF THE CAKE BY MANGALISO COLIN MASONDO
~~THIS POEM IS ABOUT THE RICH TAKING FROM THE POOR.
CUTTING A PIECE OF CAKE MAY SEEM FUN AND OVERWHELMING BUT IN THE POEM WE SEE THE CAKE AS A LAND AND EVERYTIME SOMEONE...
LOOK AT THE CAKE LOOK AT THE PIECE OF CAKE CUT A PIECE OF CAKE LOOK AT THE PIECE OF THE CAKE LEAVE THE CAKE WITHOUT A PIECE LEAVE THE CAKE WITHOUT PEACE THE...
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IF THOU HATH SRONG
its a poem that preaches societal equality and justice especially in Africa.It gives women around the world a sense of first class,equal treatment,equal social and political right.i was inspired to right this when...The masterpiece of the prototype The perfection of the definition The Original from the original A fractional distillation from the crude You womb the masculine Tagged ,”weaker” mere feminine Where is thy supremacy o ye masculinity He who is to feed...
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All Wars are civil
This poem is just a kind of generalized view of the world. It starts out from an astronomical perspective and then transitions into humanity's closed mindedness.
On an orbital railway does the globe run it's course
Ever spinning into the shade of the void, perpetuating centrifugal force
On and on the rotations never cease
Little do these warring nations realize time is on...
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THE NOBEL PEACE PHONE CALL GOLDEN CALL
This poem was written without prejudice to any person or group but to encourage non-violent elections and peaceful transition of governments in Africa.
The seed was planted by an evil prophesy
We heard it whispered many years ago
It ate up our faith like cancer and unleashed fear in us
Like a weed it grew stronger each day, watered by...
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