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A WOMANS VOICE
This poem is about women. I was inspired by migrant domestic workers here, who's been working so hard.
A WOMAN’S VOICE
I am a domestic worker, who left my country, I took over my husband’s responsibility. To provide for my children, I struggled and persevere. No off days, no sick leave, no privacy,...
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When the Sunset Comes
When the Sunset comes,
The moon waves goodbye,
As the sun slowly sets down by the earth,
She trys not to cry,
Not knowing that the moon,
Will take good care of the sky.
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Controlled
Our lives are controlled by greedy people
~CONTROLLED Our lives are controlled by greedy men In Ivory towers who care not when The poor get hungry and try to survive They're not even aware that you are alive They're hand in...
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A Moment of Uncertainty
Life
This Moment/Wings sprouting darkly/Between shoulder blades/ This moment/A song vibrating/In the mouth of silence//Each flower a wild sisterhood/ Each cloud a neighborhood of electric possiblities/...
I am leaving the poem unfinished here if someone wants to...
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My Nation
this poem was inspired based on the way my country react to one another and the kind of love they show to each other
Our nation is for worship, so declare its valleys, where very old waterway flood the occupied sphere of life, below the proud eyeball of birds decorating the sky.
My state is for stillness, so says...
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For Her
Inspiration comes from God through my Family members, so its about my love for a lady a trust
Your lips so flexible and red, the idea of kissing you is fixed in my head. Your good looks so clear and warm, shinning from side to side the darkest storm.
Your eyes shine like...
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An Ode to the Sun song of humanity
The poem: have a mixture of right and age. When we sit at the table looking up unto the sun, each every night , year that pass makes us older than ever.
Contributing to our...
An Ode to the Sun (song of humanity)
- Austin G. Ogbenigho Odiri
Now we had come to kiss the sun,
No one had respect our song
Songs of humanity,
Many days peep’s the child
To aged,
Together whether...
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Like a Shadow
These is a true expression of experience. Ladies are so ruthless sometimes, they never care of their lovers state, rather they prefer their lover wealth than him. And this makes love lost in quiet...
LIKE A SHADOW
Austin G. Ogbenigho Odiri
Like a shadow to no wife
Fret comes giving sleep restlessness
Accompany by loneliness rife
I had drunk tonight love coldness
Tonight am robbed of a whole
So she is gone my heart...
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Self Worth
I want it to be open to different perspectives
Take a look at this coin,
It has value as long as it exists
Characterized by its size or its material
Determined by a majority opinion
Spend it on a gumball
Its value now lost to be regained...
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The prayer of a love
The love of godThe prayer of a live I don't know that god sent. The image of a beauty which I can see from within. Heaven sent me a angel makes me smile laugh and cry later as I...
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