Poetry
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Wk 2: Love Poems Challenge: A Love Like Music
Welcome back everyone for another week of Looooveee with Lisa Tetting’s Love Poem Challenge brought to you every Friday. This one is a re-post, an oldie but goodie. Enjoy. A Love Like Music… the instant birth of calm and racing anxiety slowed, and slick, and subtle like splashes of sunlight chipping at our faces warm… Continue reading
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If These Walls Could Talk
They would scalpel the mask off your face Pull back the deception bleeding from your eyes And reveal how dark you really are. A slave to the ignorance pulsing from your mouth Cloned imagination Words bending, tainted by the cold lashes of society Originality lying desolate The inability to bring forth substance Meat And bone… Continue reading
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In-between the Lines
Trees that died in vain Wasted paper Blind post Wingless words On a road to nowhere Reaching no one It seems invisible value but learn to value what the eye cannot see To dance to whispered songs With loud messages Screaming purpose that it takes another set of eyes to see Regular eyeballs just can’t… Continue reading
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Let the Truth Be…
..like fire shut up in my bones, sizzling on my tongue and falling from my mouth let it enter my throat like singing and into my bones like oil let me bathe in its humility and cover myself in its wisdom Continue reading
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Guest Feature – To My Momma
“Who thinks her money talks louder than her womanhood” ….whew, this line! To my momma, Who has swallowed the amerikan dream And chocked on it To my momma, Whose dreams have fought each other— And died. Who sees, But cannot bear to see. A volcano eating its own lava. To my momma, who couldn’t turn… Continue reading
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The Twins Had a Brother
dem twins lived around the corner boys chocolate tall and smooth skinned like dem twins didn’t know they had a brother tho till word got round bout the mind he left on his mother’s front porch that ain’t a metaphor his brains divided itself between the concrete and front porch of his mother’s front yard… Continue reading
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