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There is something inside of
each of our
souls-
this desire
for the things
that will destroy
us.
We crave to
behave
in ways...
Round curls and shiny locks
In gold, red, and brown
Bounce on their foreheads
As they skip and run through the halls....
I tell my story
in 140 characters (or less),
trying to recreate my world
through a rose colored lens.
Raised on likes and...
this is my 100th poem- i kid you not
i didn't believe it was that many myself
this goes to show how much i love and endure...
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In front of a mirror, I stand
Not always sure of who I am.
Or who I’m even looking at.
That’s me...
I hide behind a mask
Trying not to fall
I don't want to break
Like I did long ago
Neglected, abused
That's what I went...
Searching for something to make me happy,
Sometime i think I'm my own worst enemy
For some reason I'm still struggling to...
We all knowthere's always room for improvement.But filters and makeup?Those are more like cover ups!
Behind those filters...
If he and she do not know each other and know right off the back they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words...
Love is of something divine
Created in a perfect design
Love dwells in the patient, the humbled, and the forgiving
Those...
Biting the tips of my poison ink. I hesitate to lick the drops of murderous drips of death.
You used me..bruised my lungs.....
when i was in high scool i thought it was for fools.
i would draw on my assignments instead of completing them.
i would draw...
Dear Dad
It wasn’t supposed to be this way
I was supposed to hug you one more time
Be able to look at you face so long it...
I should of performed a long time ago/
My watch spoke to me and told me it was time to grow,
So im’a start this thing/ and...
i watch a brother suffer
his pain spilled out of his eyes like milk pouring on a cereal
i look at the disintegrate figure...
8 out of 10 students are not college bound
by the time they start school, they're taking remedial courses; for them, it...
Breaking me piece by piece in hate.
Kissing the tears of pain away.
Framing a mask of pure disguise...
I watched in horror...
They laugh at her because they know not what they say and laugh at is the reason of the hurt.
They know not what pain they...
remember the time like michael jackson brings pleasant memories
listening to music bring so much joy
i remember as a kid...
my love and hunger to be the absolute best is endless
there are people that want to see me fall, in my eyes, your existence...
"So this is love..."
The thought echoes off the caverns of my mind,as cold and empty as the darkened motel room in whichI...
she realizedshe wasn't oneof life's prize winners like winning the nobel when she wasn't surelife to her was some dark,...
Neither my parents nor I could have imagined the future I have obtained and I haven’t even graduated from high school....
she spared her truth
and became her own truth
she spares her truth to me
knows she's poetically challenging
the one i chose...
You take one voice
Say it out loud
We've got a choice
This is our crowd
We've got to save her, save her
Now.
Our girls...
This poem is short and sweet,
Much like someone I know.
He might be under three feet,
But he’s got some time to grow.
He’s...
i thank you tamara g. saliva-i was inspire this piece
the scars of a woman tells it all
the story of a young girl...
I'm still me, but I'm not the same.
My hair is shorter, my spirit bolder.
I say I'm still me and in a way it is true...
i pledge the legions
to the flag of the city that never sleeps in america
and to the republic, which are racist
one nation,...
When the world surrounds you to bind your evolution
Break free
Break free from the people who mock your ambitions and...
Short story and visual illustration of how young ladies like me fight insecurities while being attracted to the opposite sex...
While tears welded in my eyes.
I caught a glance straight to the right.
Your face was dimpled with a smile.
And my thoughts...
And if we don't fightif we don't resistif we don't organize
if we don't unify andget the power to control our own livesThen...
For centuries the black woman has been
demoralized then defamed.
As well as watching her dignity being put to shame.
She...
you've been here with methrough thick and thinyou knew i was hurtbefore i told you you fought my wallsgot yourself ini cant...
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in one night
one person
managed
to pierce
hatred
to one's heart
so profound
it'll make that person
blind
with rage
and...
The word "gimmick" has derogatory connotations. It often suggests something cheap, tricky, fast, without substance, even...
You were once the boy I knew.
You saw and heard things that changd you.
Through thorns and thistles our worlds collide.
A...
gratefully appreciative
humbly spectating my friends sery, tato, prisionera, and jorge (georgie) take initiative
as they...
I Am The Waves In The Ocean And The Roots Of The Trees.
I am wind and thunder and rain.
I am the image of my father, Kemet....
This world's corruption grows,
To the point of nearly falling off a cliff.
The toxic air of death ever flows.
... The people...
So many people worry about what other people think and say
about their clothes and hair and whatever else they may be...
Clouded sky. Crisp , blue breeze.
Thunder, lightening. Clear, summer glee.
Jumping daffodiles. Crused green moss.
Rushing...
a little girl being beaten by her father
a little girl being molested by her father's friend
same child looking for love...
Nimble fingers, busy hands-
A guilty head tilt off to the right
As delicate lines kiss the page.
She spends her imaginary...
It come in an array of body sizes
with a structure capturing other
ethnicity eyes.
Although in a negative disguise,
a black...
The people I see,
They touch, but I don't feel.
In dreams
I see their faces,
Full of quiet docility.
Our lives pass by
With...
Some days I cover my arms shamefully with
itchy sweaters and flannel shirts
Because I can’t stand the thought of being seen...
We're all broken in some form
yet we strive to be perfect
and pretend to be fixed.
what would the world be like
if we were...
Windows painted with no brush
Secrets revealed but on the hush
Clothes on but see through
Vest on but bullet thrushes u...
Connecting the dots.
Making thin, crooked lines.
My lids squint, and make out a masterpiece.
An image of an artist's eye...
For hundreds of years the black man has been crying
with inner tears, striped from his manly dignity and
identity, his self...
Most of you think that we dont belong to a world like yours.
That we should go back, and never come back.
Most of you think...
Creeping measures of love at first sight.
The dew in the morning of a heart gone aflight.
It came as the wind, and left like...
Change: the act of altering; to make different. To stay up with the current, assimilate with the apparent, take on a new...
You’re not my first,
but you’re definitely my last.
I’ve been through a lot of heartache,
but that’s all in the past.
...
The mountains smiled down at the river below.
And the moss spunged quietly in glee.
With tress of crimson barks and leaves,...
all of us are good at something
we have talents possessed inside that is gifted
it's a way out of a hazardous environment...
The strength of a woman is her kindhearted ways
that she forever displays.
It’s her loving confident smile that takes you to...
ALTER EGO
Cara Robert she was, called
They all accepted her
I did too
An amazing young lady
Vibrant
Full of life
And...
Wisp of words
Enter my ear
Slowly tracing the canal
To the brain inside
Once there
Word particles settle
Then go about...
This is my story...
A fate that left me raw. That he did it to me...me,one of all.
I was innocent! My love for him was...
As I write out my passions,
And share them with others,
Someone comes to steal my pleasure.
It is my act of this gift I...
I looked your death in the eyes
but I only saw myself
I lit a candle in your memory
it wasn't easy to extinguish the flame...
She suffers unimaginable violence and neglect from him
Not because she likes mistreatment
But because she’s financially...
Forever grateful is my plea.
That your love would stay for me.
My heart throbbed for your embrace.
But your hands...
Teacher this is what I want to learn
Imaginary numbers make my stomach churn
How about balancing a checkbook instead
I would...
You Taught me A lot Not only How to love but how to listen how to understand how to be there how to be your self how to...
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I want you to knowone thing.
You know how this is:if I lookat the shining starsof the slow...
They are more than just words on paper
They are the words....my words
Secret words of my inner heart
Secret words of my...
(Though life, though shall live upon
shall I surrender from the weaknesses
or shall I go to the hardships of upon
live, or...
On pillows they laid, roses,
Small and fragrant, still pure in nature.
Its meek pedals in full blossom, they could not...
i bet it has slipped your mind.
my face, i mean.
the look on my face when we first locked eyes & my skin touched yours...
yea thats me scretching off BMW 745 hovvering off, streets still watching to see what im riding next 64 chevy got a trunk...
There's two people
Living in the same neighborhood
One most likely to succeed than the other
One most likely to fail based...
i'm not drinking in bars getting drunk
i'm at home reciting, typing, working, and writing
that is what you call a modern...
To procrastinate or not procrastinate—that is question:
Whether it’s Math, English, Government, or Economics
The hours of...
before you judge
my poems by its words
read 1st
dust off the ignorance of dirt in your heart and soul
and just read
read...
I tire of this endless call,
Of the frustration drawn within.
My heart is hardened with aching claw,
For a release in...
I love to write, I love to write...to express my feelings day and night..built up anger built up thoughts..I started...
the lord is my shepherd
i shall not want
in verdent green pastures, he gives me repose
before restful waters , he leads me...
1 out of 5 black kids are subject to a place where all they are numbers in an orange jumpsuit
what happens to the other 4?...
You stand before Julian Alden Weir
He taught you to pose
He and his brothers each took their turn
Hunched over canvas in the...
students were marching down the aisle in the assembly line
it was not to purchase a ticket to view nyc to nj. it was to...
You’re on my mind all the damn time.
I just want you gone, I just want you out.
There’s nothing there from your end,
just...
he is that man hanging from the 16th floor window
his hands are pressed white against the old concrete moulding
of the...
The laugh trickled inside me. A smirk crossed my face. Serves him right for acting the fool.
Now is the time his dues are...
Newspaper over heads, suits that run in the dark,
That run in fear from the choking of the ground.
The bombs rain down in...
i love people
who make me laugh
i honestly think
its the thing i like the most
to laugh
it cures a multitude
of ills
it's...
yo my dude what's good
what's on and poppin in the hood
mad niggazs is smoking weed on the corner
you heard about that chick...
Let us dance together.
Let us hold each other close.
Let us dance on clouds like feathers and forget all our foes.
Let us be...
Every time it takes you there.
Takes you to a time of despair.
Your hatred haunts you,
And your love betrays you.
Every time...
i belong to that classification of the male species known as man
i am a man
and, not altogether the same
i'm a man in my own...
How many times will the wind keep blowing?
How much further do we have to go?
Better off finding a way out, never knowing...
I'm sorry
For the pain you went through
I'm sorry
For the suffering that chased you
I'm sorry
For the tears that ran away
I'...
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Urban streets, bustling with life in bright afternoons,
Become quiet and cool on cloudy days and early nights--
A barren...
I grabbed him by the
hair, bit his face, his nose.
My ankles still taped to the chair
removed itself...
be strong when you are weak
be brave when you are scared
and be humble
when you are victorious
A poem written for people who are tired of being labeled.
A teacher once called me a sponge.
She said it because I “soak...
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making all woman act like desperate housewives
put the phone down and...
I was trapped in the cocoon of a memory. And of a lie I had deamed truth.
My world was non other than a fantasy.
And my mind...
your body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds where you lay, but also those desires for you, ...
I will never forget. That day I stared into to the eyes of the most extraordinary creature hplaced upon this earth. It was a...
Silence happens you cannot avoid it. It never fails to stop you in your tracks and force you to quack with the ever present...
Will I be amidst my collegiate career
When I learn of your desire for us to cohere?
Now is the time I dream to explore you,...
Who should define my race?
Is it the man who auctions my ancestor from a stand
and then lynch’s them on poisoned land.
Who...
I write because the words in my mind
Are better than the ones I'm brave enough to say
Because poetry is like sweetened...
I'm the girl who was born on a winters day.
I'm the girl whos mother couldnt settle for two names, so she blessed her with...
Drained.
Here I go.
Such a fragile lane.
I'm completely emotional.
Not a single question has been answered.
Give up...
drug dealers lives in a paradise in Miami
drug dealers drives a Bentley in the ghetto of the Bronx
drug dealers claim to run...
Pretend your sleeping
He might believe you
Close, close eyes
Violate
Violate
Violate
Make it stop
Pretend your sleeping...
two women were arguing on the corner acting in societies eyes like typical spics
people making fun of them calling them...
bullets flying
people dying
muggers robbing
innocent victims running
violence spreading
angry residents shouting
people...
Hi, my name is Kai and I am gender-fluid.
Well, that's not what my birth certificate says
But it's who I am nowadays.
I...
the man hanging from the 16th floor window in soundview
hears voices
they come out of nowhere in the dark
when the lights...
Twinkle, twinkle in your eyes.
Perfect, lovely lulliby.
Sinking, dreaming, being free.
Swallowing each point of memory.
...
i despise when people steal beats and not pay homage to those that made it possible
i hate it when people rob verses in...
See,
The thing with writers
is that
We won't remember the important
things;
The things you would classify
as
Important...
Taken from my home, you see daddy couldn't afford to feed the three of us.
See in my village girls like me are shipped off...
You Taught me A lot Not only How to love but how to listen how to understand how to be there how to be your self how to...
expensive jordans
expensive stores
expensive footwear i can afford
they make my soul overwhelme
when i wear the famous...
Just because I wear hoop earrings, lipstick, and have pointy eyebrows instead of round ones doesn’t mean I was looking for...