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You keep me alive everyday
Yet I don't even realize it
You keep my body going
even when least expected
Many others really...
Dear Mama,
Everything was fine until you left
I became vunerable to the world
My heart became a victim of theft
Once...
Between all emotions
why is it hurt?
why is it regret?
why can't I be comfortable?
like earlier
finding a topic for this...
I was only ten when I first became embarrassed about my body.
I wanted boobs so I stuffed my bra with toilet paper. And...
Because I love you
I will help you when you're down
Because I love you
I will do my best to never make you frown
Because I...
What is this feeling?
This personality that I have been bottling up.
I feel like I can't be myself.
What will people say...
Ya Know I've Heard It Said By Older Heads...
COMPETITION Is Part of Human STRENGTH... !!!
That's TRUE I Guess But Now...
I remember the day I told my mother I was gay. It was May 17, 2014. She always knew. I had boyfriends before. I was never...
I'm a kitten who just wants to play
But when it comes to playtime where I live it never ends nicely
I'm kicked, thrown, and...
What if Rapunzel didn't let down her hair?
What is the wolf ran out of air?
Who the three little pigs have lived?
What if...
Dear the future me,
I know you think
You're in a dark place,
But this is nothing
Compared to the incoming
Brace yourself,...
If I had a dime for every animal I currently own in my house, I’d be $1.10 richer. That's not a lot to most of us. Do you...
Our infatuation is a fickle monster by and by
I’ve been who I am, and yet me you do not know
Tell me, what it is you love...
Behind these eyes shows who I really am
What you have seen , is just a mask
I look so brave with fire in my eyes
But in my...
I am a teacher, a nurse, I am a caregiver, I am who I am. I am a singer but not a dancer, I am a driver, a maid, I am a...
The wing lined with feathers
All pull together
To lift the bird from the ground to the sky
He will soar on the breeze
And...
I am the future,
I am the past,
For my paretns I am the first,
And for someone special I will be the last.
I am curious,
I...
When I was five years old, I thought I was a boy
Growing up with guys all my life, I felt like I was one of them
Playing...
The Broken Circle
By Samantha Reece
A world without reason
is all without purpose
No warmth, no feel.
All is in the air...
The human body a shell
Social standards make rules
Inner turmoil, a living hell
Razor tongues used as tools
Changing is...
I couldn’t live without my mother
It has been years since we first met through an ultrasound
It seems like yesterday
When I...
I was a Sneetch walking down a segregated Mulberry Street
Passing my neighbor who’d let her trash pile higher and higher....
In my head I hear voices,
echoes that contain words of poison.
Are they talking about me?
Put on a smile and don't look so...
I just wanna know, Mommy Are You Proud? Your little girl has grown up.
Are you proud of anything she has accomplished? I...
If anyone has listened
to the words of a song
One will surely hear
a time long gone
It comes quite swiftly
too fast to...
'Tis a Lethean shore
Written upon a writhing worm ---
A half-winged bedight seraph of yore
Coos, in a butterfly's...
Could it really be true
I am now truly lost and without you
So this nightmare becomes a reality
To which not even you can...
High school;
Scholarships, applying for colleges
The stress of doing it all
Staying on top of school
Is like a hurricane....
Who am I without the pencil?
Who am I without the pen?
Who am I without the utensils that allow me to send-
Messages to my...
Is being pretty what flawless is?
Is being successful what flawless is?
what is flawless?
flawless is mearly a pigment of...
"Flaws
Flaws come to mind
Flaws manifest themselves inside
Like
Diamonds from the rough, hard, coal, they shine, and climb...
Contemporary age and the superstitious world
Everyone seems a myth with consciences hurled
"Selene, Endymion" lie in every...
There will come a day,
When praising the lord and wishing on a star will not suffice;
There will come a day;
When earth is...
Tick loves to tick me off!
Tick is a small unidentified creature.
A smirky grin is his best feature.
Tick is my car's worst...
Joy and calm is on the face
while a torrent of misery should take its place.
Calm to the world and all to see
all because I...
Orpheus was kinda vain,
He called himself a nice guy,
Eurydice believed him,
And thought she'd give him a try.
But Orpheus...
As the sun sets, i watch it brighly out of kitchen window , everyday its the same the whwaeather changes from greek cold. to...
They say black lives don’t matter cause we out here killing each other.And when they see him all they think of is a thug....
June 1952, Marilyn?
How does it feel to be the most
iconic sex symbol of all time?
“Becoming a sex symbol is becoming
a...
Say this
Do that
Look like her
Be like a mat
Well,
I say no.
...
For I will not be walked on,
forgotten and tread upon,
I...
Sometimes my house is not a home but a prison
From the front yard it looks like a lovely family
But the grass isn't always...
I know it's reality but it feels like a dream somehow I know you're standing there watching me. I hear ...
Steps echo
Across concrete rough as sand.
Cries pound through air cold as ice.
I search for the source,
In darkness it lies...
Some days remind me of how great life can be
A nice dinner
with the ones I love
A chance to study
in pursuit...
our skin is a tattoo itself
so why get tattoo and worry about all the money and wealth
where the ink is our pass memories...
Her whole life she's dreamt of love.
She's dreamt of euphoria,
All consumed euphoria.
She's dreamt of optimism,
Blind but...
They say Drake said, YOLO; thats the motto that we follow
Lil Wayne said, Its young money cash money
and They say Chris...
War child , she was merely just a kid with a heart of steel when the people lost their livelihood whilst she kept it real,...
When you peer through the halls and watch me pass by,
You think you know exactly what goes through my mind.
When you smile...
Some say memorizing the thoughts in your head
Emotion to the pencil, and the tears that you bled to the lead
Is easier than...
Life. . . something that is a spectacular,
which can be uplifted or taken away,
but it seems that we prefer the latter,...
How easy it is
To hide behind a mask.
One that makes everyone smile,
So that no one may ask
What exactly does that face look...
I let go of you
The hateful words and backstabbing
I let go of the friendship we once had before
The judging I...
Waves crashing, the smell of salt in the air, and the grit of sand beneath my feet, I feel it. Y’all, when asked a year ago...
I am strong and beautiful.
I wonder how different my life would be if I never believed those awful things I was told.
I hear...
Would you pour me a cup
In a classic mug
The morning cup
Sweeter than a hug
Without all the gushy stuff
If only life was a...
happiness is being 4 years old and thinking happiness is spelled 'happyness'
it's thinking mommy and daddy will always love...
Giving thanks not only uplifts ourselves
but to those who are to come.
It brings such joy and happiness to all the
innocent...
This time last year
I was not this "me."
Despite only a year passing
I have grown.
My morals are stronger.
My depression is...
In an indefinable world
Only able to transcribe
Sensations and experiences
Through words, sentences and phrases
A...
Come in here and you will see
Here, I can be me
Everyday, very exicited
Me, Myself, and I are always invited
In here, I...
Man, $1000 is great.!
School is what I can use it for.
I began to reminisce
My mother Struggling for a dollar
I'm Hustling...
I am unpredictable.
I soar through the world in fragments, each being
meaning
seeming
like something apart from myself
...
Blacken Berries
Black OF Barry
Back in Various Thoughts of the Last Name Hunter a sequence
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You learn pretty early on that words are never enough
Love is a complicated emotion that when put from pen to paper
Loses it...
Have you ever been sad, alone or even felt unloved?
Well, that’s been me since my childhood
Going from home to home...
My voice carries most when I sing,
Warming my throat and painted toes.
It is a visceral and spiritual experience for me...
Blue outline,
Green middle,
Brown center,
Fleckled yellow in the sun.
Sparkling bright when Smiling.
Every changing in the...
It’s a quarter past 3 and I know I should be asleep,
because I have a calculus test tomorrow
but I just can’t clear the...
I'm hurting I'm crawling
I can't find my heart
I know you have it but it's falling apart
you don't see but I'm crying and...
My world
My own chaos
Surrounds in ways that
nobody can feel but I.
My thoughts
My own ideas
provokes me in ways that...
He believe your love was pure and so he walked through the line of your fire
When you pull the trigger and let the...
Blacken Berries
Black OF Barry
Back in Various Thoughts of the Last Name Hunter a sequence
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I met him in my dreamsI could hear him in my headI'm not sure what it all meansBut im holding on by a thread I write and...
Prolific interrogation facing me from nation to nation. You can't tell the differentiation. Do you explain your rights or do...
People treat life like it's some kind of game
until shit get's fucked up and nothing's the same.
They wanna shed tears
for...
Me being me shouldnt have to come with fear. As i was walking with intensity to be home before the moon was in full bloom...
We are America The Great
We are America the broken
Filled with hate and discrimination
We are destroying our nation
Peice by...
I am flawless yes I am
I work so hard to be that man
everyday I get in my ram
and work on the land
I till up the garden with...
I'm pretty fucking great.
Pshh, you know what they say...
Okay,
so I didn't start that way.
I started by living my life on...
Who is looking at you?
Your friends,
Who bring out your best?
Your kids,
With clear, innocent eyes?
Your wife,
Love etched...
Why do people have to die
we just wish they could stay a live
people say it's going to be okay
but it's not
it's not okay...
Home, where I relaxed.
Relaxing was part of the bubble.
Bubbles pop.
Poping meant leaving my comfort zone.
My comfort zone...
What is it like being Black?
Do you drink 40’s and sell Crack?
Or do you steal from others
Because they shot one of your...
Its 3am when he leaves,
You know this because you were expecting it to happen,
They never stay
And you never learn,
That...
I handle stress, chaos, and failure quite well
When I see damage, I solve it then dwell
I can’t do it on my own
It’s scary...
Deejay just got here.
but im not a disc jockey.
cross me i'll have to gut.
this jockey.
mocking bird ass nigga.
try and mock...
No sight! No taste!
I’ve lost senses.
A cane? A limp?
Yet atitude still skimp
Jump into my shoes and one would see
That...
I asked her “what is a passion”?
She said “it’s a way of life”.
“It’s to have great love for something,
Like a man and a...
I’m just a kid from So-Cal.
First in my class,
But not by much.
I bite off more than I can chew
Because I don’t see it as...
Open up a book
To learn from your life
See history before your eyes.
Closed your mouth to hear
The sweetest rhythm of...
I rise not for the sole purpose of
Having some place to be- which I do,
But rather, because I want to.
I rise for all of...
Days filled with endless time to do an endless amount of things
yet, somehow, we do the same things day in and day out.
I...
College Ruled Paper (But NEVER Wide Ruled.)
There's a call for change, for warmth, for compassion
But you can only find...
It's a little misery
from a place
my mother's stomach
to my abusive sibling and dad
I am born to be infuriated
born to not...
If last year
The dreaded 2016 that everyone treats as a beast, is a story
Then the beginning would be January
This poem, by...
One, when I was younger I did not believe in the tooth fairy. I could not find the sanity in the tradition of a lady coming...
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And Who Are Your Mates ... ???
Cos' People These Days ...
MOSTLY Are Two Faced...
Away
On my knees prayin' to God I come home someday
The yells of a black man yellin' and screamin', cursin' at the white man...
Sometimes I wonder;
Life doesn't make sense.
Where am I going?
It's all just nonsense.
Today I was looking
For something...
Pushed to the limit,Student in it to win it.Studying non-stop around the clock,Waking up to get to class all to hear people...
Words are constantly expressed into the public eye,
rumors, judgements, and harmful expressions expand all over the world.
I...
Greedy they all are, in none I trust
Salvation gone
So it seemed
The darkness runs
It runs away from the worlds I create...
I stop. The blade freezes.
Change, there is so much
That has changed.
Adulthood is near,
I don´t find joy in stupid things...
Because I love you….
I will allow you into my heart,
I will share my secrets with you,
Because I know they are safe with you...
America, Americathe land of the freeAmerica the beautifulbuilt on bravery
But are we as boundlessas we claim to be?
...
Down by two points,
Only 45 seconds left,
Dribbling down the court,
No worries at all.
Feels like all the struggles
before...
She crys as the tears fill her eyes she's afraid and doesn't know why ,
she can look at him and see hes a good guy her...
I am from my black Barbie doll
From vapor and miracle whip
I am from those looks that say “good job “
And the ones that say...
You can't catch me, I'm black AND proud
They say I'm a target, just because I'm brown
But i dont ever front, 'cause they'll...
We know each other by heart.
It is impossible to pull us apart.
I know you like the back of my hand.
You know me too, like a...
Justice
Cops.
The “racist” men in blue, known for committing hate crimes
But no worries, it’s fine
We live in a society...
When people keep asking you the same question over and over again
How am I supposed to answer that ONE stupid question if I...