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sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: He Got His Wings

I know you are hurting I can see your pain

The loss of a loved one is heartbreaking

But he ...

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47
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Praises To The Father

Praises to the father
What happened to the mother
They said in his blood
But it was her blood ...

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206
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2
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47
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Bloody and Beaten

Hung beaten and ridiculed
Took out of homes
Not allowed to be schooled
Washing the floors on m...

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213
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1
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47
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: How Can You

How can you love yourmother

And hate your own brother

Same blood flowing

Divided against one a...

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203
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1
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47
sheltialgreen | Poetry Vibe
sheltialgreen
Title: Are We Living

Are we living

No, we're dying

Drug popping and pistol buying

What kind of seeds are bein...

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269
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2
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47
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: Right now

I’m hot,

Wayyyy to hot,

I’m starting to get dizzy,

Someone get me some water,

...
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149
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1
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122
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: You different

Life stinks,

When you don’t have anyone to

share it with,

I keep day dreaming,

...
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152
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0
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122
Julius170 | Poetry Vibe
Julius170
Title: Her

Being sober sucks,

I’m realizing why I smoke,

My mind is loud,

Weed shuts me up,

...
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131
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0
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122
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Reserved For One
A woman sits on the train. Watching, waiting for something to happen. She rushes pass building ...
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198
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1
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626
BrownchildT | Poetry Vibe
BrownchildT
Title: Plight Of The Black Woman

Plight of the Black Woman
Like a solider, we march on..
Proudly holding down the front line..
...

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319
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4
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101
BrownchildT | Poetry Vibe
BrownchildT
Title: If They Only Knew

If They Only Knew
How many times would our Ancestors turn in their graves?
How many tears would...

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321
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4
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101
BrownchildT | Poetry Vibe

SunKissed

Carbon Melaninated prototype
Bearer of the light
Nations procreated from my DNA
In ...

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347
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4
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101
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Misnomer = Black Privilege

Being Black in America (no Privilege) some just can’t stand it

Change doesn’t happen until we ...

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264
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0
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j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Argh re

solution between

self and eldest

dear daughter

more remote,

now then locat...

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183
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0
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444
JamarieW | Poetry Vibe
JamarieW
Title: wisely

When you see me

Hold me

Touch me

Feel me

You picked me and wanted me

You invested ...

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126
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0
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1
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: When She's Gone
In enough time she disappears. Although close she's gone. The utterance of nothing at all,ÂÂ...
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226
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1
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626
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Bottom
I had this tremendous fear. The mist soon all around; The water around capsizes. Substance at...
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145
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0
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626
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: In Untertain Times

we are living in uncertain times

a fair weather friend a nursery rhyme

eye taunt to the fab...

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175
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0
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hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Sid & Nancy

gone are the days with Sid & Nancy

nothing to fancy

to smile among the leaves

 

...
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0
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hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Sid & Nancy

gone are the days with Sid & Nancy

nothing to fancy

to smile among the leaves

 

...
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176
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Sid & Nancy

gone are the days with Sid & Nancy

nothing to fancy

to smile among the leaves

 

...
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189
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Moved By Her

there she sat

with woven hat

in cadence to her swell

through a living hell

with words...

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131
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: The Wings Of A Song

faint laughter

in the lulabye

a pull of my heart

with cadence to scent

 

on...

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196
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: The Minstrel Years

fought back those sullen tears

brow to big

to get ahead of the plan

the wandering hand

...
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221
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: All Your Names Are In Me

At dawn, your skin speaks to me through my skin like a drum beat

Tawny creatures of fur and fe...

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167
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0
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1139
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Though thine

two grown

former babes

in crib age,

now lead

checkered lives,

no l...

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165
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0
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444
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

ANNIVERSARY

(Apropos A Sable King & Ebony Queen)

Perpendicular...a score and ten...

...
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324
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3
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3139
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Perks At Highland Manor

I, (and the missus)

pleased as

punch residing

at this Schwenksville,

Pennsylvania loc...

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184
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0
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444
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: The Hobbits

1797 the town of Griswold, London
in back of the banks lived a wizard who wanted the world bette...

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189
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0
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1139
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Brown Bag
Before I knew it I ate half the bag. Fifty pounds deliciously resting the bottom of my stomach. ...
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150
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0
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626
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Vagrant Protests

Power concedes nothing without demand
Success comes from conflict, the mind, heart, and hand
We...

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228
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0
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823
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

As long

term aspiring

gurgling (stream

of consciousness)

paperback writer,

there d...

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167
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0
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444
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Gun

Gun

 

 

 

It was the year 1856 stayed at the summer styx

the ...

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189
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0
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1139
The90sResult | Poetry Vibe
The90sResult
Title: Things I should have said

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm playing with your emotions.

I've never felt this way about any...

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308
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2
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19
The90sResult | Poetry Vibe
The90sResult
Title: Fallback

If you tell me to chill then Imma fall back

But when I hang up this phone, please don’t call b...

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369
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1
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19
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe

When fake became real

It was just a con of a deal

Gods to crypto currency, figments of some...

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291
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6
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WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Black Barbershop

Sitting in a new barbershop on a Saturday

Don’t have an appointment but it won’t matter anyway...

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588
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3
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j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: My Matty Mattel Talking Doll

While meditating

earlier today,

a flashback leapt

clear for

me to assay,

those eve...

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210
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1
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444
Therealchoc98 | Poetry Vibe
Therealchoc98
Title: Live

I want to live

I wanna live like no one is watching

like I'mrunning through thefinish lineb...

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303
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4
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5
dvii | Poetry Vibe
dvii
Title: Someone

Find someone who keeps you grounded, calms your soul, and provides you with inner peace.

Someo...

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182
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2
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1
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: The Propagation Of Hate

Malignant gangrenous

political cancer

corrupts, festers,

and poisons

United States,

...
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167
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0
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444
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: A Lover's Dream

Secrets kept
Of tears silently wept
During endless dreams
Of you while I slept.

Searching m...

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459
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14
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323
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Magnolias in Taupe

 

He sat there gazing at the magnolia painting

Above my fireplace where it was h...

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240
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1
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Love Me...

 

I am so foolish and naive...I must have

forgotten...shattered glass does hurt....

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211
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1
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1139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Laying there at the shore,

My aloe ebony sheen body

Basking beneathpalm shaded skie...

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292
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3
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3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Sitting here

in igneous space

wrestling with naked thoughts

finds me face to fac...

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301
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3
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3139
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: Girl of My Dreams (part 2)

I took a journey deep in reverie. I found myself at the corner of Chance and Destiny in front of ...

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130
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1
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12
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: Punctuation Police Patrol

Dictionary in

hand Bobbies

manned state

of the

spy craft created

strategic

peri...

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144
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0
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444
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: no ordinary love

for going against the father
its a must that the evil should die
nothing personal
its just rev...

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168
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0
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207
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: But Fall
When I'm near you I'm anxious. At any moment I can explode. A coloration of floral hues printe...
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161
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0
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626
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Emo B 979

there came up from the projects a Brooklyn youth

holding anger in his eyes he came at a big su...

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174
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0
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1139
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

This Totally
Tubular Thinker
Touts Taylor Swift
(distilled from
the playlist crucible
quite ...

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160
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0
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444
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Such A Time (Sonnet)
And if such a time comes. I ask for courage anew, happier eyes. To delve into sweet slumber wit...
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180
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0
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626
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: God is a single parent

God is a single parent
Distracted, all or nothing, aberrant
All powerful in the since that a Da...

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296
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2
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Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Bob's Burger T-shirt
And there I felt a sense of elation. Seeing it for the first time. A sense of interest. Soft s...
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168
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0
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626
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Top notch

legal scholar

Erin Go Braw

(less concerned

about being

fair versus

ab...

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150
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0
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444
Nya_Pargo | Poetry Vibe
Nya_Pargo
Title: Stop reading the poetry...
I notice i only write poetry when im sad or mad....& I really hate reading them to him because th...
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175
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0
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14
Nya_Pargo | Poetry Vibe
Nya_Pargo
Title: Wisdom Of Marriage
A Queen can not guide her King without 1st protecting him. A woman without a Vision is a lost wom...
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289
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1
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14
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Love Treaded Lightly

I ask myself politely
what resistance flowers here
against love treaded lightly
or losing lovi...

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157
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0
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1139
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: the deciever

i yawn at the devils speech
you lie and accuse falsely
you must of been born with severe brain ...

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184
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0
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207
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Today the Sunday

special brief

iCloud online

worship session,

I did attend

(via re...

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156
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0
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444
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Time travel

Released these demons into your paradise

So our spawn can con its way thru to the afterlife

...
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243
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2
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823
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Something Missing
Let's make some time. Time for you and I to leap past Anything other than transcendent. A v...
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155
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0
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626
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Athlete’s foot (and hands)

It’s possible to admire and sympathize atthe same time

Athletes got money and fame but when th...

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213
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0
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823
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: On the EL train - Chicago, June 2018

I was on the EL riding to a Cub’s game
There was this young brother talking some crazy yang
He ...

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235
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0
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823
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: African American Emigrants?

In the nexus of my birth (Chicago)

On a business trip so the visit was terse

I don’t know w...

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262
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0
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823
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

“Give me your tired…your poor”… children.

They can stay, but you must go or die

Try...

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271
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1
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3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: dancing with words...

cue words:

motions

to ebony tuned

rhythms

slicing stolen space

with sa...

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345
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3
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3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: Banking Tomorrow...Today

Withdrawing fear,

I deposited strength:

Investing in the struggle—

Blood debt to...

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340
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2
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3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Trails leading once to survival hunting grounds

Have now become urban streets of survi...

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246
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1
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3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: MELLENNIAL 4TH

Echoes of lies resound endlessly

throughout his-story: “we hold these truths

to be ...

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289
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0
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3139
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Wind-Up Doll
It is possible. To leap beyond where fear takes us. Surely so many things happen. By contras...
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197
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1
poems
626
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Bipolar

I was high this morning, drug free and my thoughts were potent. I had wisdom in my cleavage and p...

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294
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0
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881
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Riches

Im rich b*tch, or more to the point, Im rich, b*tch but you could move that comma one more time a...

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269
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0
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881
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe
j68skijo9
Title: An Aire ' Bout Central Air

Far moost

o' me

three score

minus one year

tethered upon

terra firmae where

pla...

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168
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0
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444
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Just Saying! For A Friend
I know this may sound strange. To know if we could meet again As if the first hasn't happened....
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144
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0
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626
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Prevaricated Forth
Write Declaration!

As most every
girl and boy
taught back
in the day,
...

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158
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0
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444
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Silent Lightening
And like my favorite song You've been on my mind since I heard you. Escalating into the next ti...
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152
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0
poems
626
Enticed_Poetry | Poetry Vibe
Enticed_Poetry
Title: Destruction

Destruction

She fell in love with his attitude
fearless nature
hunger for blood

He was a ...

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214
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0
poems
5
Enticed_Poetry | Poetry Vibe
Enticed_Poetry
Title: Woman Up!

WOMAN UP!

Her heart exploded into shame
how could she settle into shame
the pain
the game
...

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213
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0
poems
5
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Kamikaze

Kamikaze

 

ough, two the window two to shore

rrgh..hey penny one penny tri penny ...

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170
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0
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1139
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: God's Perfect Jewel

a call for renewal

to be the perfect jewel

a time of testing to most

like a lost seagull...

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172
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0
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1139
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: justified

lets just leave it all in the past
and thank the lord for his kindness
i never thought that we'...

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163
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0
poems
207
<3 | Poetry Vibe
<3
Title: Unbreakable Ties

I stare at the rain drops on my window, the simplicity of them and the delicate patterns they mak...

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280
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1
poems
146
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Is God racist?

None of this is real, nothing is simple, nobody is in charge
The place where you want to be is j...

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284
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0
poems
823
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Black Codes

Look up the Black Codes to better understand American history
When you read them you’ll be pisse...

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308
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3
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823
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

(as imagined
by this
lumpenproletariat)

When no bigger
then innocuous,
ho hum, happy
go l...

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136
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0
poems
444
kayiroo | Poetry Vibe
kayiroo
Title: super man

in a sense
its no way you could ever
take away my innocence
the first time that i tasted sin
...

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160
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0
poems
207
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

I cannot cry for the children

of others—

the deaths of my own have drained dry

t...

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244
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0
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: Jericho Awakening

Deception has always been

a strategy and ally of injustice—

veiling its ruthless de...

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284
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1
poems
3139
BlkLyryc86 | Poetry Vibe
BlkLyryc86
Title: My Life In Their Eyes

There was nothing that I could do but reach out for you

I tried to wrap my mind around the tho...

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191
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0
poems
96
hitalot879 | Poetry Vibe
hitalot879
Title: Awake II

Today I sit on the pinnacle of trust knowing that my poems will reach the masses
I look past all...

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155
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0
poems
1139
TamaraD | Poetry Vibe
TamaraD
Title: ROYAL SWAG

I am a woman with my own mind and head space

that independent S W A G

running this

Saved...

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367
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4
poems
135
TamaraD | Poetry Vibe
TamaraD
Title: Written Ministry

I have the pen

but God you are the writer

I work the pen stroke by stroke

but God you are the ...

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350
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3
poems
135
j68skijo9 | Poetry Vibe

Upon (die) re rhea
ding previous poem
All In The Name
Of "Progress" zen
a glaring, leering,

...
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130
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0
poems
444
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: Off 3rd Shift Morning Love

The door opens

no words are spoken

kissing sucking touching caressing undressing furniture ...

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110
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0
poems
12
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: Greatest Head I Ever Had

Let me tell you a story about the greatest head I’ve ever had

This sister was bad

She stood...

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122
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0
poems
12
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: We Gotta Get Over

We all ask the question is there more to this

the conclusion is

a result of the choices mad...

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124
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0
poems
12
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: Touch

Can I touch you?

Where?

Perhaps where you’d like to be touched most

That secret place th...

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115
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0
poems
12
LyonStyles | Poetry Vibe
LyonStyles
Title: I want to be your poet

I want to be your poet

Pray that my words put you in the moment

Elevate your soul when you’...

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138
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1
poems
12

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