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#711

Failure

I wrote this poem after the gym, as I was determined to loose weight, and look good, a goal I've had for years.


Apologize for your mistakes, or pay for your sins.

Fight for your freedom, or fear the confined room.

Man up and face your problems, or drown deep in your depression, cuz' one way or other,...

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#712

Borrow me your torch

Trying to hold on to something that I cannot even see


Borrow me your torch

 

I was told where there is darkness there is light

I seem to have lost my torch because I cannot see anything

The road seems to get steeper as I rise

The journey is...

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#713

DRYNESS

About the poem: the poem deals on summer and further reach it out with its construction of hunger for food at summer. The first lines is on dryness.


   DRYNESS   by G. Ogbenigho

 

The sands breathes out dust

Grasses feeling her ripe age

Gale in frustration lust

Her away from the cage

Fires ply’s through the bush

Each ply as slap or push

Quite perplexed

The way the days now...

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#714

Lost

Missing 


 

Remember we used to drink the day away 

My arm around you in Katy's tavern 

Remember we used to drink the day away 

Sitting so close in the crown kissing under lady liberty in the Manhattan 

Remember we...

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#715

Your Hatred is your Love


Your hatred, as evident, as you place it on paper and to anyone lending an ear, is solid evidence of your love my dear. My inability to read between blurred lines and questionable actions...

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#716

Love and beloveth


Accept uniqueness and proclaim trust Cherish and never think of perished Complain, supplement and complement each other Secure and protect the counterparts, but fate Will still be the same and so dignity? Complacent and complete even in...

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#717

Gone gone

Mmnnñnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
She should know me by now Pushing me away Shadowing what's bothering me Walking past me...

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#718

It feels so good


Energy, Drive, Passion, Yearning Yearning to feel, to feel good, it feels so good. Hope, Will, Power, Roaring Loving to be alive despite Its trials Is the epitome of human spirit. Dreams, Breath, fire, flaring It just… It just feels so...

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#719

Hurt

Looking back at what I was, I was happy, your life was over, I was the person that supported when I was empty, I was a father and a mother when I needed you, I was the father...

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#720

Love


As I sit here With tired eyes. With a lit cigarette in my mouth. Trying to understand my heart. It’s telling me that it loves this girl. But that’s a language I don’t know. What is...

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