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Dirt and sweat cover our faces. Our hands are our tools.
We become numb to the pain and the cold metal. Slowly we become...
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When life brought me down I only knew one I could turn to
When I see his eyes I see confort
When I gaze his way a warmth...
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I shout hoorah hoorah!
But my voice has never been heard/
Should I join the herd? Am I just another black man or better yet...
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Dead diary
I feel damaged..
Frail; a burnt piece of paper..
Brittle, wounded edges..
As if I'd crumble to the touch or...
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Behind the cutain is a monsterous beast
A feril bohemoth DYING to feast
On lust on hate on gossip on love
Now she's in a...
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Broken chains, shattered windows.
They're no tame, so don't get too close.
Run run away, until you see the light of day....
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Why nail yourself shut
to stand haunted and
alone
at the top of a hill?
Open up your
doors and let
the wind blow through...
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An empty casket appears before me
I cast my eyes upon the hapless victim
This man is my own self
There are no mourners...
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I saw you in the heavens;a shining jet,so proud, sereneyet cynical,mocking small shapes below.With your avoidance,you avert...
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You were my present tense
And supposedly my future tense
Everything seemed fine
Until errors were made
Now all you ever...
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Life forgot my passion there
And handed me the key;
For what possesses better snare
Of curiosity?
The key, ornate with...
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P belonged to palaces
The place of Princes and Princesses
They gave way to democracy
Bringing polls that chose the
Power and...
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One of man’s oldest tools
A Paper.
Barely recognized, even ignored
A Paper.
Thrown away, stored away, never to be seen again...
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I have passion for fashionSo strong with love and affectionIt tells from the way I look; suave and just thatIn mood and...
Don’t reveal I’m soft insideMake them believe I’m hard and dryIf I don’t venture to show myself.They will believe I’m...
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I could wipe off 90% of that so called beauty with a kleenex...
I see that your outershell is gorgeous
Underneath that.. It'...
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Two days ago I woke up with a sign on my door that read "Sorry We Missed You"
I was with my friends late last night so I...
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Do not be like a jagged rock;
static, forlorn, yet easily eroded.
Do not be like the mountain;
overbearing, ignorant,...
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The time has drafted away
Year’s after year’s it slay
Meaningless, it continue at bay
The flower has fallen and lay
Without...
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You tried to save me, you did
But I was already lost in the blue
And skating on the yellow
You would’ve never found me there...
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I
Am told
By TV
And by my peers
What to think, but not
How to think. You
Must teach me
How to
Think.
You
Teach me
How to...
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Capitalism
A free market doesn’t make you free
What we have is a free market and unfree people
Look at the world around...
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They say it takes billions of years
for the last glow of a star to reach us,
yet it still lives with us.
Every night we...
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Teachers. Real teachers.
What is the meaning of being a teacher?
Does it mean to tell people the facts or teach them what...
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A hot boiling pot of water
Is anger inside your daughter
But then again, anger doesn't solve problems
I want to find freedom...
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Once upon a time,
Ariel, a beautiful mermaid lived in an under water sea world with her over bearing father.
Her Father...
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Poetry to me is like a stoner to weedLike a rose that grew from concrete, I find hope when I put pen to paper Life has no...
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A dream been covered by darkness, fear and loneliness.
Tears and my hunger being watch from a cellphone or a TV Tower
I've...
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life is a bleesing but life aint fair
blows from each direction put a knife right here
dreams aint distant but they dont...
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pieces of a mason jar
glass vases
broken
violently torn,
pink roses
heavy imprints
of foot prints
on the ceiling
walls...
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As you live your life,
going day to day
The date has changed,
all seems the same
You look for tomorrow,
losing sight of...
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My heart belongs to you
I’m confused, lost, and broken
Help me, help me, help me
Bruised from the massacre you left on my...
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Stop judging.
Move Slowly.
The mind will race.
You can see it in the face.
Searching for the enemy.
Never with a back...
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Which way do I go?
Who should I talk to about this?
Who really wants whats best for me?
Why can't you see things the way I...
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1. Scrub your skin cleanuntil the fingerprintsof mean boysare wiped clear fromyour thighs and wrists.
2. When your heart...
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A large white bucket.
A large white bucket with small black lines.
With small black spots.
A large white dog with small...
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As he watched him
He begins to change
He knew he couldn't be the same man
until he achnolewdged who he was
He wanted to...
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The quiet of their voices told of their strained thoughts.
Shifting eyes wander about telling of their hidden secrets....
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From our view the moon goes into secrecy almost every month;
it simply makes itself invisible to or eyes,
but it always...
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I wish on broken stars,
because the bright ones give off too much light.
The feeble stars,
with fractured points and fading...
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The Robin sings his songs
The Song Thrush is the jailer
And, with the Blackbird's help
They've put the poor Wren in prison...
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In a world of hate and displeasing love three characters, (heartbreak, seduction, consciousness), live and thrive off of...