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Don’t take my words
And put them on a table.
And cut them open
Like a corpse
That is being dissected.
My words are not dead...
One, three, four
The only numbers
That burned my skull
The flashing
Of the devil’s eyes
Crushed mine
The roaring
Of his...
I TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER I'LL BE BACK
I TOLD HER TO REST DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME
I'M A LIAR, I DID'NT COME BACK
INSTEAD I SHOT...
I've learned what an inane life i live.
Nothing I have done is worth anything.
I sit here under this rain hoping it will...
POEM BY: ALICK MUSHEKWA®
©2020
*THE OLD AFRICA LIVES*
Westerners have tried to change Africans mentality,
But whatever...
Isn't life so easy?
get great grades, do good and follow the rules,
in their eyes there is no temptation so sleazy
and...
There's a room
Where memories,
Of what I became,
In Vietnam.
Just to survive,
Are stored,
They're locked tight,
And not...
Who am I?
No one is to Judge,
Who am I?
My name is not the definition of any or a smudge?
Who am I?
I am a human,
Who am I?...
More concrete, cracked beneath our feet.
Moans of souls long gone oscillate
Between the empty buildings.
Emptiness and...
More emotion than you could ever know is poetry
Yes , its when I feel a vague entity
But you do understand, you understand...
This is your weekly routine.
You walk through the hallways of our school
talking with yor friends about assasin's creed or...
You’re not a poet
And for that I’m glad
But still your words drip like honey
Your lie sings like a promise
And like a...
Sun shining bright through the window's ruby curtains,
She got up.
Hair in disarray,
Face a mess with squinted brown eyes,...
Human beings fused with technology
Fibre optics causing a catastrophe
With no fees or privacy
Feasible the world needs...
My sound?
Is a silent night, I have no music
no beats, or rhythem.
My sound?
Crickets on a summer day.
When I was born they...
(You listen to his words of seduction his whispers in your ears so softly pumping will he be there when you are at the...
I hope to live to see my riches
not a loved one from the past
what does it feel like to be appreciated
right here and right...
As the sun greets her face every morning, she say a prayer. A prayer ensuring her that she'll make it safely. This prayer is...
There is so much hate in this world.
For every man, woman, boy, and girl
Hating, killing, raping, hazing
Why? because of...
Believe in the Great white race is, What they tell me
I told them I'd believe anyting if they'd turn loose.
If they turn me...
Every Morning,
I wake up to my father telling me to get ready for another day in the chamber.
I strap on my clothing with a...
There she lies in the depths of despair. She's been loved as well as lost, beaten as well as believed, cowardly at times...
Honeybees
Bursting in fields
of gold
Ripples of jasmine
filled the warm air.
Wild and bright
Flowers bloom
Sun~kissed...
Your reflection in the mirror Is not an image of yourself Your reflection in the mirror Is a glimpse of someone else The you...
I
You
He
She
It
We
They
Are all calling out,
Hear us singing?
Are traveling about,
Hear us ringing?
Vibrating through
many...
It came to the mind in a way of being whack.I wanna try just once, I promise I'll be back. Happiness spreads like a needle...
(poems go hI take care of you when you’re unable to see. I take care of you when you’re trapped in a place of darkness and...
His skin looks old, brown, and wrinkled; scarred by the Mexican Sun;
His wrinkles are a chronicle of his life-long Wisdom....
Who created this situation?
A person without love or hesitation
Whose fault is this tragedy?
I wish I could’ve stopped...
Im sorry that im a kid thats young and stern
yelling at me means i'll never never learn
I wanna take my clothes and pack
I...
How you came upon me was like a tsunami in Japan
Love like water and I am just sand
How you brought me down was like jumping...
No one ever said it was easy,to journey through the challenges all alone.Perhaps one day you will smile and look back and...
Life isnt easy, take one step at a time. Remember to breathe, since the time goes by. Never give up, just hold on. Once you...
the witness of a public beating
so harsh, so raw
the red liquid with such high viscosity
drips ever so slowly to the ground...
My Art?
Fine Art,
It's Not!
My Lot?
Dry Rot-
Tied Knots
While Not
Fine Art,
Wood Art
Is Hot!
This a story of my past I could reminisce on that
My path was stack with million dollar on my back
My journey was to be...
Harassed by manipulative government
Stricken by paucity;He had an idea, to leave his sanctuaryWas that a possibility? Future...
A pen and pad of paper
the way you speak to me
Synonymous to turning on a tap
all of your wonderful images
p
o
u...
I came up with Light Fire because I'm like a bright type of person and can
get angry. My powers include fireballs, hot...
Help I’m tearing apart
I feel like someone is stabbing my heart
Fighting off negative thoughts is such a battle
Minds...
Spilled fruit, slovenly utensils
across a disheveled table
add to the tornado of ladies and gents
near the tranquil waves of...
Have you listened lately?
Or did you become blinded by what you wanted to hear over what you needed to hear.
Selective...
The Feared Beast
It is the beat of the drum
Underneath the heart of the sun,
A piper of the people
That fills this holy...
The more knowledge you have in life.
The more you think.
The more you try to accomplish.
The...
This morning I died.
Earth abruptly ceased, carrying me to my end.
Solace of the pomegranate
Scented air captured me...
Water Fight
Run Fast! Dunk quickly! Watch out!
We all got water balloons and we are goin to throw them now
SPLASH!!!!!!...
I simply visualize a place in'harmony...on my way home from work.
But these torns have grown over my'path, constantly......
What a Thing
It was nightfall when I recollected my thoughts.
My dad and I would sit outside
Talking about the nature that...
You are the black hole of my being—
your cold, gnarled fingers squeeze and
twist and yank at me from the inside,
desperate...
Humans are Ignorant;
Illiterate and Inexperienced.
We live in a world Poisoned by Greed.
The land We Claim as Our own Decays...
Wait a minute....
Dont leave me here, alone in this place
Don't leave me lost and confused...
Don't make me admit this...
(poems go here) kissing is a habit
sex is a game
guys get all the girls
girls get all the pain
a nigga says he loves you
you...
Down on the pavement,
dripping behind me a trail,
of sweat and worries coming,
off me in shock waves figuring,
out how to be...
Respect the beauty of what God has to offer
Go gently, seeking all beauty and bounty
Tread lightly, in the blue abyss, never...
An open book
I just continue to read
that I left a year ago
To Start over, to be clean
Old characters
A New Beginning
Wiser...
Where is the love?
The tenderness of the heart where people join together.
Arms all around and hands held.
I miss the...
on any other day i would hear you
out; im much too busy today
go play in the sand like
good girls and beetles
and come back...
The human stares.
The mask stares.
A piercing gray stare.
A smoky, black stare.
It wants to tell the
world its truth.
To...
It should speak,
Passionate whispers of desire
Trembling shouts of abuse
To live, to feel, but it cannot
Trapped in a square...
Needless I must say
That this is quite the oddest dayy
Even though all is not bright and dandy
We all act like the world...
Proverbs 29:18
“Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; But happy is he who keeps the law.”
Clashes of...
I know part of nature is to have losses.
I mean we lose, friends, family, even bosses.
Like it is for human nature to keep...
I want only to touch upon what I'm missing, to poke a pin through my darkness, so I can see fiery reds, and envious greens,...
I am and I am not
You can see me
But you cannot touch me
You see me in the way you want
Sometimes you don't see as you...
In this world exists somewhere peaceful in all its natural beauty;
A place where the evergreen grows,
And the fallen leaves...
A man came from His throne to give life to those who should've been left alone
The Light of the World that some had never...
The pale faced woman,
clearly, we see.
Her tight embrace,
and rapture emotion
framed by her static face
The flamboyant...
Birds are shown in many different colors.
I could hear them chirping with their yellow beaks.
They always sing when they are...
Harassed by manipulative governmentStricken by paucity;He had an idea, to leave his sanctuaryWas that a possibility? Future...
"How worthless could you be foolish girl?"
Look in the mirror and see, the imperfections magnified
You don't look like her...
When we crossed paths,
There was already a connection
You caress me with your voice and penetrated me with your words
You...
Category Five
By: Deniqua Washington
Like a glimmer of light flashing off the tips of my skin.
The sun peering at me,...
Little Black Girl your future was chosen for you ; school,family,kids.Little Black Girl the world will challenge your...
The notes from
My piano notebook
Sail off the page as if the
Sea had just swept them away.
I then play the
Notes in front of...
Depressing to see 12 year olds saying they're in love.
The silence in others make you think of your own.
Breaking promises...
I am the girl with the dragon tattoo.
I have the fire in my heart and the drive to be flawless in every facet of the word.
I...
What’s the deepest poem I ever wrote?
I don't know, because I'm writing it, NOW!
Thought about the topic being you.
But...
Your body is a masterpiece
You were built with skills to master any obstacle
Those mountainous bulking muscles
That you made...
Today is the day I'll die.
You never think about death at 15,
In the Marching Band,
An average B student.
Today started...
Come,
take a stroll with me.
To a land between reality
where life is full of surprises,
and nothing is what it seems.
...
When I heard what she went through
I know she had what it took to make it
through a hard, cruel world.
When you looked into...
Stand tall, speak with grace, never crumble because I am going to win this race.
I may be the tortoise and you the...
Tubes in my arms, tube in my throat to help me breathe
Hurts to talk, hurts to move, hurts - just hurts
Kids all around in...
I looked at the glass half empty. Lemonade tipped on my lips. I looked at the glass half empty. My toes drew colonies in the...
If I could do the work of a raindrop,
I would be as triumphant as the vast terrain;
And I’d suffer a transformation as if a...
I awoke to the fusion of the heavenly scents of eggs, pancakes, waffles, and bacon.
Sunlight engulfed my bedroom in a...
There it was, flowing in the shadows
Gazing at me, provoking my empty soul.
It then hid behind my heart, defensive and...
I write you wondering if I've made a mistake giving you my heart so fast. even though I told myself after the one before you...
As a profession of life saving
Every vaccine is an immunity against virus
A virus of corruption and selfishness
Which grows...
chilling with the homies down the block , even though its past two o'clock , mama dont know i have a 22 in the back pocket...
Talking, laughing, crying, shouting, winning, smiling, giggling, screaming
and more are expressions we put as humans, as...
Believing in herself, she can never find words to say,
Her mind constantly ponders day by day.
She wonders if her soul will...
Cogent waves tremble the earth,Washing away the imprint man makes in the sand.Forcing itself back into an outline, these...
Abandoned.
Paralyzed in the present of the unwelcome,
Enveloped with the fear of FUTURE.
CAN’T CHANGE...
Change is in
the eye of the
beholder
But when blood
scars the skin
what is one to
believe?
As blood flows
from white...
Under the sovereign of myths...There's a youngmen surviveyouth power in preserve of rights......Strong and pierce new dilema...
Shake that ass and watch yourself
Watch the greedy eyes glued to your temple of sacred exploitation…
Idolizing these...
I look around ...I see the drug dealers who are killing off these addicts , the men who beat women , the liar or the thief...
I write so that you may see me
Wrapped so eagerly into this language
That can move so swift from my lips that the meaning
...
pretty girl who is to blame
frightened girl they dont know her name
physco girl who cuts her wrists
fairytale girl who...
Throbbing and pounding,I give you your deepest thoughts.You're not using me correctly,Everything about me gradually rots....
Floating above our heads being
Utterly eery and mysterious.
Lighting our paths in the darkness providing the
Lost a glimpse...
A place that represents me is called “Dark Forest Purgatory”. Ever since I became a teenager I started to...
I was once full of colour
I had a rainbow through my heart
My days were never rough
Right from the start
One day something...
The creator places a soul into a hollow figure
Contractions awaken tributaries
Sparks arise above the blistering faults
Pure...
Some love is glass
beautiful to see
smooth to the touch
but dropped once
shatters completely
some love is metal
hard to...
When will the world change? When its too late and we"re all outside of the gate. We're so easy to judge so easy to fight ...
In the warmth of the brilliant, early morning sun,
comes a shadow only I can see
marinating in its holy scent
the delicate...
Another late night
Full of fright
I’m laying here crying in pain
While mommy’s here screaming my name
This thing you call “...
Who are you to tell me what I can do or can’t,
You don’t know me and I don’t know you,
Nevertheless, I am somebody and...
Dark shadows hinder his soul,Dance on his slaughter heart like coal.In search for light in this cold,But he cries out to...
There is no poem long enough
To describe the closest person to me.
His words spewing out of his mouth like a racecar
As he...
i will fall today..
i will bow today..
today will break me..
my "what could have been" will disolve..
all the lives i told...
Manipulative,
Greedy,
Selfish,
King.
In a world so claimed to be run by democracy,
it sure feels like a monarchy.
Like a...
He told me I looked better
With a bright orange flower in my hair
It reminds him of the innocence
Of our first date to the...
You are the flesh
of my flesh
the heart in my chest
every beat tells the rest
little feet play the drum
in my soul...
On a winter day
The sun comes out and gleams a blur,
because of the thin whipped, winter frosted clouds.
On a winter day at...
She is all woman,
Her silhouette gives me chills,
Her curvaceous hips,
Her smile and her full lips,
Can't get her off my...
April 25th
She carried the baby for nine precious months,
The baby boy was delivered, everyone rejoice and sang a joyful...
waking up to nothing
praying to god just for a little something
going to school just to be made fun of
you ignore them...
A deadline approaches...the mind starts to crumble
Its only takes one choice
to move ahead
follow the right path
it happened...
This poem is a conversation between a mother and her child, relaying to each other the woes of college life.
Text: From Mom...
innocence in watching grass grow; the cliche is there but so is the truth
Grass all around her little chunky clear painted...
Fruits and Vegetables
are good for you to eat
They make you strong
from your head to your feet
Some are round
some are long...
Walking into the surgery room, the doctor looks sad,
Losing his only son to an accident, worse report he just had,
Emotional...
I don’t know your name. I don’t know your face.
I don’t know where you are, or the look on your face.
I don’t know your...
The hair of the free Shall abscond in fear of bondage. The brow of the worry-freeShall furrow in apprehensiveness. The eyes...
I love the way he speaks,
With a voice so rich and deep.
He moves me, like the iwnd moves the trees, with a breeze,
a...
I’m walking the green mile I’m not coming back today
Walking the green mile with so many words left to say
Somebody call...
Let the blood rain down from the heavens
All these swirls of deprivation
Of sweet, farewell sorrow
Screams that bring...
It's dark, cold, and rainy. I am alone for the first time in my life. My parents got in a fight and left me here. Dad was an...
Each day you wake up to go to school
You often boar me until I drool,
Teaching is different for each body
As a teacher you...
To Flirt, Lust And To Bliss
Can Start with One Exotic kiss
A Jump Start To A Love Of Forever
Charges Your Heart To Power Up...
Adrenaline is in my blood
Running through my every vein
Pumping faster and faster
Adrenaline is racing through me
Each...
by:
Mia Derrera
I am a Tall Tree
I am a tall tree.
A strong, rugged, natural provider is me.
Something that will continue...
A butterfly dancing through a gentle breeze shows the beauty of nature as it flies with such ease. Gliding from flowers and...
You don't know my story so why judge me.
You don't know my secrets so don't judge me.
My words are powerful.
My story is my...