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And i walk back to that Second
The poem is about a girl who survived a car accident.Her life could have been lost but due to the precautions she took, she was left unharmed.Later on when life gets hard and cold,...AND I WALK BACK TO THAT SECOND.. I look at her eyes gleaming red with the arrows of her aching heart. I look into them...
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Ghost
Sand, wind- Wasteland. Not like the beach I remember. The water is still there and I am too But it isn’t, and I’m not. Laying here, the sun shines on me in my dark room. It was there. Like me, it remembers. Please, I...
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Babul Mora – Father Mine
I discovered who my father was through 23andMe recently. He died 3 years before. He never knew I existed. I grew up in foster care. His pakastani family took care of him after his...Babul Mora - Father Mine Charming drifter Who gifted me Your candlelight Eyes tethered To insurmountable trauma Pakastani hybrid orphan With beautiful claws That beg to be held Just once Before the king of his own jungle Slips away Never giving you the chance To live there Farid's...
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A THIRST ONLY YOU CAN SATISFY
I am thirsty A rare thirst Water cannot satisfy A thirst only You can satisfy Give me you To drink And I will forever Be satisfied Quench this thirst With your love And never will I be thirsty Test...I am thirsty A rare thirst Water cannot satisfy A thirst only You can satisfy Give me you To drink And I will forever Be satisfied Quench this thirst With your love And never will I be thirsty Test...
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Loss
An unexpected loss is a blow to the face You were always around, always insight Now you act as if I don’t exist Was there something I did to cause fright I want to blame you But...
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Black and Muslim
This poem is one of my more personal pieces. As an african american who is also a muslim by religion, I have an in dept understanding of what it means to affirm both identities...Racism; xenophobia; psychological war fare; instruments of hate that have destroyed the lives of millions. Do you know what it feels like to be Muslim and black; black and Muslim; living the life of a...
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Low Delights
About how a long distance relationship can look like and feel like.Pose and smile, My attention's green light. I see you across the miles, Share my thoughts and delights. Low de -lights Low de -lights of us. Low lights, Far Fights, Far Delights, Distant lights. Tears that laugh, Drip drop passes...
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The Fight
This poem is written from the perspective of a person who is one half of a relationship and it is told in the aftermath of an argument between the couple. The narrator feels powerless...
There are things that you don’t like to talk about,
So you walk away while I flail and shout.
You say my attitude’s to blame
And that one of us should walk away.
I suspect that it’s a...
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Nostril damn mess
i still vividly recall this fear of extricating a rotten egg left to percolate with greater offensive stench.
most likely this lingering recollection continued to shoulder air time, thus the force of will to...
The putrid, malodorous and fowl nauseating smell
can still be conjured nearly fifty years later wracked
I never forget ineradicable tangy, sulfurous
acrid odor rankled olfaction tract
entire sinus cavity, yet amazingly enough isolate
this offal...
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