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sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Baby Are You Ready

Satin sheets between you and me

Naked bodies magnetic chemistry

Moonlight natural body heat

...
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1
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47
tiffanyr | Poetry Vibe
tiffanyr
Title: " I Smile"
I wasn't a great Christian ,but I still smile I smile when I hear cheers rooting for me when I...
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296
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4
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192
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: The Wages of Atrocity
it was midnight when the lights went out in California and the ground gave way the people believ...
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241
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2
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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: 3am Theory

the alternative movement should

honestly be to Know Thyself

too many people moving funny

...
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291
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1
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3631
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: C. Cure T. Clarence

Been making,
(sans
daily) regular
appearance
in the news oval
hate gambling
arrogance
vis ...

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138
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0
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444
MissEricaChanel | Poetry Vibe
MissEricaChanel
Title: Untitled

It's funny how I"m a down a** chick

But when it's time reciprocrate I get the short end of the...

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264
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4
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15
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Set The Record Straight
don't tell me you feel like committing suicide sorry I can't sympathize you don't want your lif...
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269
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0
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3631
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Scoped Out

worry is a hell of a hereditary condition

most definitely handed down from

generation to ge...

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467
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0
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3631
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Jack's & Jill's

problems found

see what had happen was

she met met him online
looking for love

she nev...

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268
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0
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3631
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Send The Troops Home

 

Oh blessed hope doth hardly a dream

blood shed in our street

warning to get...

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174
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0
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1139
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Tale Of A Fictitious Seaman

My ("FAKE")
grandfather
Hymie
spent his entire
life at sea
his thick
calloused hands
and r...

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155
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0
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444
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Fallow wing
on figurative

awk kill
lees heal
of: "My
on call (Uncle)
Muse
Never Sleeps"-...

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144
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0
poems
444
indyiansummer | Poetry Vibe
indyiansummer
Title: Boiling Over Rev 1

the veiled angst overflowed
pouring thoughts into a legitimacy
I have been told
best left
not...

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131
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0
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28
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Untitled

If I am I am what am I
Who is I am is I am me
Where am I am I where
I am suposed to be
Why am...

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221
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1
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3631
Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Coalhouse
Title: Paper Bag Test

High Yella

Red

Bright

Beige

Screen test for Negrettes

Video vixens

Drop booty i...

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351
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5
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285
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Aretha Louise Franklin

(March 25, 1942 –
August 16, 2018)
(Thee ALFA (alpha)
BETS Best
"Queen of Soul")


Though ...

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228
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3
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444
lyfee | Poetry Vibe
lyfee
Title: The Reflection Of Him
Staring at the reflection in the mirror His dark chocolate skin His hazel brown eyes A face t...
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275
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3
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7
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Crying In The Dark

I treated you bad
you treated me kind
I had to pay every time
I was out of line

Karma kick...

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250
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0
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3631
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: TO THE TASK AHEAD

TO THE TASK AHEAD

I

No one can write our story but us;

History merely footnotes us...

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336
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5
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3139
Tali | Poetry Vibe
Tali
Title: Aunt Jemima

It is a burden to know that this is not your real name

And that your real history has been faded...

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638
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8
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70
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: We're all the same

If you want proof that everyone is the same
Go to an amusement park that has little fame
Not a ...

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276
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2
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823
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Omega - post script of the bible

1 - And it came to pass that the truth should be known

2- Man And God alike had to reap what w...

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237
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3
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823
Skyee95 | Poetry Vibe
Skyee95
Title: Set The Record Straight
Whatever obstacles the enemy pitch my way Ima Barry Bonds it every time. Chubby by nature meani...
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253
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2
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18
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: HEMOPHILIAC
you say you're sorry but I'm still PIST steady lying about being over it trying everything to ...
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246
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2
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3631
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: Just you and me

Let’s all bow our heads,

Its time to pray,

To thank god,

For all my blessings,

...
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156
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1
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122
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Mixed Nuts and a Bowl of fruit

there's caucuses in Arizona deserts
their talking bout African dust in Texas
presidential tweet...

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223
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2
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3631
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Feeling Anonymous

got me a habit I have to break
got to have it I need to pray
if I did what would I say
broken ...

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312
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3
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3631
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Tickets

I will give you a ticket
If only you can keep a secret
I will give you a ticket
If only, you p...

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201
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0
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47
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: A Luddite I am Not!

Courtesy of AskJeeves,
and special
acknowledgement
to Google search
algorithm, this
anachron...

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177
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0
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444
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Homeward James: by Bill

For the king
hath arisen
nsync with
royal couture
decked out
and bedizened
to the nines
re...

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180
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0
poems
444
mrmelody7 | Poetry Vibe

One of many hit songs I say a lil prayer

for you by the one and only Queen of Soul

Aretha frank...

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441
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7
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675
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Chess Game of Love

Sitting here

Feeling sorrow

Feeling pain

Trying to find a positive

From the knowledge I have ...

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267
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1
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Rough Waters

When the tides get rough
remember the waves will subside
intimated by the ocean
feeling all th...

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218
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1
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Preserving the Mind

One must swerve from the path of reason

To keep ones presence of mind

And self possession

...
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201
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1
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Essence of you

The Essence of You
When your not around me
Makes me quiver
As I want you beside me
The though...

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205
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1
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Power of Love

There is no end
As with us
Its forever lasting
Its ETERNITY
This euphoria of love
Feelings o...

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411
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3
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Next Chapter

Onto a new year
leaving the past in the past
filled with goals, ambitions
love and laughter
a...

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216
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0
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Beyond the Surface

LOOK DEEP

You accuse me of cheating

Cant you see my heart bleeding?

The sound of sil...

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231
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1
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Freedom of Speech

Poetry….

A place where I get to be me

Release my inhibitions

Letting the pen guide me

...
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142
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0
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Right

With every day that goes by

I say to myself…

You are truly the love of my life

Hoping to...

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251
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0
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Trials and Tribulations

Trials and Tribulations

What a creation

Looks can deceive

What you see on the surface

Is not ...

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141
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0
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47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Concerns that turn

Concerns that turn
the world on its side
concerns that turn
a fire that burns
brightly with l...

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149
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0
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47
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: y am.i. On this site??? -

to bask
in offline
and/or
online friendship
like quaffing
from flask
with no
deliberate
i...

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129
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0
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444
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Heavenly Walk

 

I wonder how it would be to take a walk through heaven

And to feel the Lord's ...

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264
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1
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1139
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Oy Vey Smear -

More'n' $500.00
For Car Repair!

Hence mine
plaintive
strut forward
doleful
poetically lam...

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139
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0
poems
444
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: No Reason To Complain

Yikes, aside
from mental
health re:
psychotherapy,
which haint
the worse
cyst phase
of bei...

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150
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0
poems
444
miss_chaniel | Poetry Vibe
miss_chaniel
Title: Honesty in a lie

Honesty in a lie

Truthfully there is honesty in a lie
I honesty have to lie to
spare your fe...

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287
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1
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153
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

(alternately titled:
this stoned temple
pilot ready for Styx)

I hate tubby
a nuisance
boot...

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172
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0
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444
QueenJ | Poetry Vibe
QueenJ
Title: I CRY AT NIGHT
The sun is down, the star brighting up the sky. All the people that hurt me are asleep now, no ...
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395
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4
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25
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Actuality
With so little time I could not decide. Shelf after shelf filled with book upon book. The likes...
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167
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1
poems
626
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: i will wait for the

its like satin knows my souls at steak
and hes fighting his hardest to enslave me
his whole exi...

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158
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2
poems
207
BrownchildT | Poetry Vibe
BrownchildT
Title: We Lovin Us!

WE LOVIN US

We Lovin Us!

No longer can we undermined our own significance

We need t...

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256
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5
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101
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Only When Blue Birds Fly

the devil is out on a course of destruction and ruin
do you all remember what you've been do...

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161
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2
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1139
BlueDichotomy | Poetry Vibe
BlueDichotomy
Title: 1:11am

Love is fleeting, blowing in the wind...

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311
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5
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20
GenesisThePoet1996 | Poetry Vibe
GenesisThePoet1996
Title: My Environment 💯
My Environment My fist will baby sit his if he don't watch his mouth I'm a neg...
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150
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1
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5
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: Fighting the emotions

I miss you,

Out here,

I’m the one,

Who has a desire,

Seeing you smile,

From th...

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168
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1
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122
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: STANDING ON THE ROCK

STANDING ON THE ROCK

The bones of ancestors are rattling…shaking—

Itching from infecti...

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321
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3
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3139
jbreezy | Poetry Vibe
jbreezy
Title: Her
She stood by him thinking he would love her l But the only thing he loved was what he got underc...
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240
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3
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14
jbreezy | Poetry Vibe
jbreezy
Title: Not mine
Your body always in the palms of my hand but your heart forever at the tips of my fingers slippin...
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181
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1
poems
14
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: The Cocoa
I am sweet honey dipped in brown sugar The plant I derived from it's called the sweet dark cocoa...
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190
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4
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47
indyiansummer | Poetry Vibe
indyiansummer
Title: When He Left

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

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167
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3
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28
indyiansummer | Poetry Vibe
indyiansummer
Title: When He Left

when someone leaves
it is so loud
so personal
so silent

a deafening emptiness
that has a m...

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117
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1
poems
28
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

An Indigenous Sonnet

To An Indigenous Beloved Mother

To breathe each day is cha...

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238
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3
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3139
young_poet | Poetry Vibe
young_poet
Title: Reality

If the world stopped would you finally be able to breathe

If your eyes sunk deep into your sou...

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506
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2
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58
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Living In The Zone

pierced hearts come to fruition
upon the weight of the day
cold hearts in derision along li...

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114
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0
poems
1139
BloomingQueen93 | Poetry Vibe
BloomingQueen93
Title: Unrecognizable
I had put it in the wrong hands, but now I've given it back to God. From broken, battered, crack...
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118
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1
poems
5
BloomingQueen93 | Poetry Vibe
BloomingQueen93
Title: Strip (The Response)
Strip for you? I don't mind but first I have a question. Are you sure you have the time, see I've...
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122
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1
poems
5
BloomingQueen93 | Poetry Vibe
BloomingQueen93
Title: Misconception
I used him. Too scared and impatient to sit still like God placed it on my heart. Now I've ...
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84
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1
poems
5
BloomingQueen93 | Poetry Vibe
BloomingQueen93
Title: I Tried
I tried not to love you. I tried to take every ounce of love and every other emotion I had towa...
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115
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1
poems
5
BloomingQueen93 | Poetry Vibe
BloomingQueen93
Title: Best Friend
You used to be my best friend, I can't help by wonder where it ended. The outbursts of laughte...
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91
comments
0
poems
5
T.6hunnittt | Poetry Vibe
T.6hunnittt
Title: Unkown Temptation

Girl you take me for a joke.

But I’m really serious.

I told you that i needed you, why you ...

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261
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1
poems
18
BrownchildT | Poetry Vibe

Black Is Beautiful
Rich
distinct, alluring
glow
our fortitude
passion and endurance
that ex...

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342
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12
poems
101
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

THE BRIDGE AND THE FOX

(An Allegory)

Quietly spanning the space

over the banks sepa...

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291
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7
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3139
Repstylez | Poetry Vibe
Repstylez
Title: ?
Not fully than from the winters bone chiller spending knights on the train from NJ 2 the world t...
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249
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1
poems
39
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Headaches

I have headaches, its like the world is trying to grow in my brain. I guess its opposing forces t...

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324
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5
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881
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: In Quiet Tranquility...

In Quiet Tranquility…

Here I sit

in the womb of room…

gazing out into the sunlit sce...

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297
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3
poems
3139
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Civilization
My love for you isn't just a feeling. It's a civilization. It's a group formed in unorganized n...
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170
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1
poems
626
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Tonight Is The Night

G

Tonight is the night of consummation

Another step in our relation......ship His m...

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151
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0
poems
47
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

A fly dropped

into my soup—drowning.

Down the drain

I poured—watching an old lad...

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234
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3
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: dreaming tears of joy

awakened

by the saltiness

i felt wet memories

flowing down my cheeks

kissing ...

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254
comments
2
poems
3139
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Leaving me Mesmerized

The way you make me feel inside

Making my body quiver

As I sit here

Thinking of how you ...

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206
comments
3
poems
47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Loving you from a far

Loving you from a far
No matter where you are
No matter what you are
I will always be
Loving ...

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193
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0
poems
47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Equation for Success

Dont know where our endeavors will take us
Dont know what the outcome will be
Riding on faith.....

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181
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0
poems
47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: In Search for Mr. Right

Oh, How I’ve longed for Mr. Right

To come rescue me

From the arms

Of this

Screwed up ...

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144
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0
poems
47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Clouds of Heaven

Its a quarter past ten

Lets go for a drive

Meet me at seven

lets ride into the clouds of...

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196
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0
poems
47
Johannav007 | Poetry Vibe
Johannav007
Title: Found my way back on the keys

Found my way back on the keys

As I came to find the previous poem

Was a bit disorganized

...
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155
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0
poems
47
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Give them the Samuel L. Jackson face

Being the only black(at work) sitting in a cubical in the back, allows one to hear

What Caucas...

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242
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5
poems
823
KingQadarDwon' | Poetry Vibe

Her Words are walking and her thoughts are talking, proverbs from the Black beautiful Nubian wo...

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438
comments
10
poems
327
MaxOp | Poetry Vibe
MaxOp
Title: Whipt Pedigree

Of late, imust stipulate,

my observation be in wonder,

some strait 'women of color' desire

to ...

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114
comments
0
poems
1
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: blessed to be called

i wasnt sleep
i was in slumber
tumbling deep down a tunnel
instead of walking
i was stumbling...

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182
comments
2
poems
207
indyiansummer | Poetry Vibe
indyiansummer
Title: I Lifted Up

from the suffering and pain that is piped into veins

by the organ-less Master who relentlessly...

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142
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0
poems
28
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

There is little left her

for ole death to lay claim:

swollen bellies…parched skins…...

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306
comments
1
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: TO MEN OF SOUL

TO MEN OF SOUL

That Achebe should herald us men of soul

repositories of the spirits of...

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360
comments
5
poems
3139
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: The Wombman Is

You Said The Black Woman

You say the black wombman is God
You say the black wombman is Queen
...

views
329
comments
2
poems
47
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: Communication is important

I over reacted,

I know,

In a way,

I may be wrong,

I was just trying to communicat...

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148
comments
1
poems
122
SolitudeVibes | Poetry Vibe
SolitudeVibes
Title: SuperNova
When my pen touch paper My emotions pour over, My love is an sweet water wave of whirlpools, ...
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251
comments
3
poems
8
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Lost Social Scene Queen


She runs the streets
The need for every social scene
She has to be there
She has to be seen
...

views
247
comments
1
poems
47
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Selling That Hard

Selling that hard
Say you won't be a slave
You won't work for the white man
So the streets you...

views
199
comments
1
poems
47
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Weekend
When does our weekend begin Time flies in contemplation. The day ends, quick to start. Beli...
views
163
comments
1
poems
626
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Fear Of A Black Son

The fear of the black son
Someone has to save them
Especially if dad is locked up
With only ma...

views
297
comments
3
poems
47

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