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Poetry
New entries
Toys in need
As above
You brought me many gifts Each time you passed me by A teddy with one ear A doll with a missing eye To others it was tat Toys no longer required Probably Cos they were old and that And new...
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Love At First Sight
True feeling and experience
LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT The sight of her, my new neighbour, Her smile was so lethargic, Rooted to the ground I was with shaky legs, It melted me, her smile, Taking me into her,...
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Still born
I watched a movie about a woman who lost her baby at child birth and imagined myself in her position
STILL BORN
I looked forward to your birth Dreamt of holding you in my hands. what blessing you would be. But the nurse said stillborn. I died.
Lay on the cold floor to ease the pain. We...
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Ifedo
This is about my strange love for the unknown woman.. IFEDO is an Igala word for My Love. Igala is a tribe in Nigeria, West Africa.IFEDO, My love for you.. Ifedo, (who you are) You are my only problem, yet, my only solution.. Ifedo, You are the beautiful truth, and the good lie, whisper, and I shall acquiesce..Ifedo, speak! Ifedo, Oh, you are the only Lioness,...
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Heart Cry
I was inspired by the feelings stated in the poem. A personal experience
To the one who makes my heart beat and my head spin:
I choose you
In the midst of plenty of others, I choose you
Passionately, devoid of sound reason
Yet I am seemingly unable to hold back
Day...
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scream
bullying
I want to feel that feeling they feel When the reality is just real
I want to know why they do Such a thing out of the blue
Do they feel satisfied When they go around...
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Take Me Out Of The Streets
Seeing the situation in Zimbabwe, Youths have a lot of power and potential to be great people in the world but resources are not made availble to them. Thus i was inspired to wite this poem, read and...
TAKE ME OUT OF THE STREETS
Take me out of the street
That’s all I am asking for.
Help me to achieve my greatest heights.
I can’t continue sharing the streets with rats,
Because the postman is knocking at...
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Ashes Rise
life inspired
Ashes Rise
your ill intent to burn me down
harm me not
look
at the ashes rise
your harmful ways
bring upon my life
wiser ways,you may
hate my every being in your
twisted friendship
your laughter to bring me
to an end
this
is only the
beginning...
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THE DEVIL IN MARY KAY
THE DEVIL IN MARY KAY
Never again!! You said
Never again!!!
You wailed
Then waltz in the devil
With horns
Perfectly concealed under
Her Mary Kay
In a red velvet dress she came
With “bum bum” that quaked your heart, and
Breasts that stilled...
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