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I hear the shrilling cry of the Chibok girls,
Abducted in the dead of the night ,
From their beds taken captive,
Forced...
Light outside snapped and dipped
around the old stone
and the
clipped clean manicured lawn.
i had to look up to meet your...
Just a word,
a movement
without beginning.
The world soul,
the key words,
my own rhythm,
vowels and pulsation.
Words...
CHANGE-Ian “wordsmith”Munywe
upon his visage boasts sweat,
industry an upheld virtue.
Firm stature is exhibited,
hard labour...
Short curly hair with the eyes of the future
One eye I should say, I'm a visionary cyclop.
I envision the past to...
People say America is the place to be.
But that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Sure our county is one of the best.
But...
They say black women are the backbone of the country...
but you would never want to be me.
I am the "mean girl" in the...
the clock stricks 12 as I walk out of my room all im hearing is boom what the fuck is wrong with you what did I do to you...
The book was seen as dirt
"I don't wanna touch it, it'll mess up my white shirt"
They saw it as useless, unusual and stupid...
JUST U & I
It’s just U & I militating against love; let’s not drink ourselves to stupor, let’s not drink ourselves...
Sometimes you make me feel strong when I feel weak
Sometimes you make me weak when I should be strong
It's something about...
Tears fall from her face
That is ever so clear
You did not treat her right
You were insincere
You messed with her heart
And...
"Because I love you"
Doesn't mean it's okay
For me to do as you say.
The phrase "because I love you"
Should only be used...
Roses are red
And violets are blue
This is not the original poem
So bring everyone to see too.
A smile on a face
A joyful...
"ESSENTIAL WORKERS"
The sun and the moon live in the same sky
Yet they are great enemies-
But that has never made either of...
today is the day ,
you cant say there is no way
you are in the game play,
dont talk about tomorrow ,
when today you not made...
1 Corinthians 13:12
12 For now, we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know...
Even though tomorrow is uncertain
I still march forward with hope and passion
Though I might be down I still look forward...
In honor of the month that is hushed on school speakers
Torn out of the history books
Dumbed down with empty proclamations...
The way of life
Oh how pleasent it is
But the way your world is
And how cold and black it runs
I cannot bear to be in it
Its...
They say black people ain’t shit
Your skins too dark
Your such a whore
Black people can’t keep their bodies covered
They...
You taught me what love was when I had lost all hope of finding it.
You filled me with happiness as well as sadness.
I miss...
tell me, what
what
what would you do if you could feel?
killin our people
do you see souls behind eyes?
killin our people...
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Blue sea, blue skyEagles, flying highA nation so greatI could not wait For its influence is so greatYou may askWhy I have no...
I always want things that are impossible to have
I always give so much to people, expecting nothing to have
I always put...
Freedom they said,
born into fredom.
Free ideas that race like wild stallons,
skipping across an empty night,
waiting for...
Do we live our life, or are we the pre-determined strife walking amongst light, if so I'd rather take flight with my angelic...
What is life? What is knowledge?
Is it a life of ignorance and selfishness?
Or maybe,
Just maybe,
a life meant to explore!...
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Everyone knows the common story where the princess stay with her prince,
not every story goes as it is told
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Poetry to me, keeps me from feeling blue.
It takes away all negative thoughts, leaving my mind free.
It provides meaning...
Late night crying
Struggling with pain and insecurities
Bad thoughts running through your mind
Feeling invisible like a...
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Is my whole life put before me
When the cannon fires its shots
Time travels unabatedly shifts me
From memoirs of...
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Dear Mr./Ms. Authority, I am Vassal. You don’t know me personally—just my kind—but I’ve noticed your presence...
This is a meaningless poem.
Just another piece of gray trying to be a color in a monochrome world.
Just a shade of gray,...
We are all human beings.
We all have feelings.
You are all the same in that we are human.
It doesn't matter what color we...
And so I guess that’s what it means to be in love
Not that we never fight, or that I love everything about you
(Do believe...
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Hope has always been a mirage to us as we toss and turn,
scratch and scrap everywhere looking for answers
Hope has been...
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Is it okay?
Is it okay to call me out of my name?
Like baby, Lil mama...
Do you see him
I sure you don't
He stands to my right
He touches my hip
He isn't Verry nice
He wakes me up when I sleeping...
"Brown" Bears just moved in next door, I'm pretty sure their foregin because of the odor
My daddy lost his job to Papa Bear...
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We doubt,we doubt if we'll make it
We've tried,tried all the merits
We've lifted all the heavy weights
We climbed,climbed...
Four years’ worth of opportunity and tragedy
Lead to some of the craziest of dreams
And I would reach these by any means...
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i get up
i get dressed
i say sup
i look so fresh
i go to school
i get good grades
i am cool
i got everything made
my life is...
Some say you question me, well you may know me as shy and sweet but I'm in tears, to say don't cry no pressure at all being...
Big smile,
little smile.
A smile is a smile.
It generates this feeling
In us.
It can even make other people
Smile.
It can...
I'm sinking, slowing drowning;
Struggling to even catch my breath.
I try to look up,
And reach out of the black of death....
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Hope
Hope is healing to the breaking
Hope is healing to the aching
Hope is healing to the agony we didn't know was...