Category: Poems
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I like me
Tune your identity To the new definition of crazy: Be you You’ve tried for too long To be what you are not Prune away stress Be you The wisest doesn’t know it all Your true worth and destiny Lies in no man’s advice You only discover you By being you Sometimes, Conquering the world Winning…
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That song speaks to me
It was a cold, wet, Saturday evening I had gone to campus to study all day And was now headed home Tired and hungry As I exited the university campus I heard an old English song Playing softly on a radio Hanging in a security post I could not understand What the sad old white…
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Your past came knocking
Your past came knocking It came with a message packaged in the person of your Ex The urge to open it was strong But I resisted Wanted you to read it and tell me what it means for us Whatever you decide I just want you to know Darling, my collection of happiness That you…
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Creativity is a child
A true artist Doesn’t impose His lyrics On a beat But let the beat Speak to him A true sculptor Is an emancipator Granting liberty To beauties Trapped in wood and clay A true writer Is always a guest To inspiration His guide On an adventure To unplanned destinations
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Give me space
His mind An iron mold Casts words into poetry With impressive designs I marvel Starring down at mine The works of my mind Ugly designs Indents here and there From blows of low self-esteem And as I gaze At the stars in the night sky Stars of achievements Achievements of my predecessors I wonder If…
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Mirror
An isolated mind Breeding grounds for illusions Go live among people Hear stories See for yourself And see your illusions wilt And reality taking their place No one will tell you To bundle your illusions And cast them into the sea
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Pass it on
She cannot read She cannot write Imagine the wealth of potential Locked behind her walls Of illiteracy If you can read this Help another to see
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Ripe girls
Love mailed me her glances I hadn’t learnt to read To read her signs The same glance Kept coming In different persons I couldn’t I couldn’t see The message Boldly written On each opportunity One day whiles gleaning lessons From the footprints of time I came across a plantation of ripe girls Seeds of love’s…
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Adventures within
With outstretched arms Planes fly over my head To embrace Lands I have never seen I stare silently At the giant air sharks Across the sky Sailing away Far away I head home Saddened by visions of adventures I cannot afford Oblivious To adventures within No plane can see or reach No matter how high…
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A path calls me
I was born running Running with the masses In a race to nowhere And in the middle of nowhere A path calls me Something about this path Like a piece of me has journeyed it before Naked, Unashamed of labels Of being perverse, odd, wild and unruly.
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