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DeepSoul | Poetry Vibe
DeepSoul
Title: "BLACK"

I took a look, in a little “BlackBook”, and what did I see? That we’re a bunch of “BlackShe...

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337
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1
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2
DeepSoul | Poetry Vibe
DeepSoul
Title: "CASTAWAYS"

Two islands, two hearts. Close , yet so very far….. Two people, shipwrecked. Roma...

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299
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1
poems
2
poetunleashed | Poetry Vibe
poetunleashed
Title: THIS SYSTEM
It has become apparent That black is still A colour of oppressed souls Because the system Was...
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518
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10
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115
odonko-ba | Poetry Vibe
odonko-ba
Title: Black Butterfly
Our children are dying Slaughtered upon amerikkkas streets Their blood soaks the concrete ...
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571
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3
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87
odonko-ba | Poetry Vibe
odonko-ba
Title: My God
Her lips The beacon that drives me ever so close. Her eyes what dreams are made of Her ski...
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548
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2
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87
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe
Social Seer
Title: APHRODITE'S SONG OF FREEDOM

One time I dreamed Aphrodite rose from the sea

All naked and glistening was she

"Why all the cl...

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454
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2
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142
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe
Social Seer
Title: NATURE WORKER

harsh wind

barbers rows of sunflowers

yellow carpet laid

free form haiku

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461
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0
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142
Hsanan | Poetry Vibe
Hsanan
Title: What You See, Who I Am

Firmly I have sat at the entrance to my higher self.

Yet through your eyes I have passed this ...

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713
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2
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62
scash102 | Poetry Vibe
scash102
Title: No More Band Aids

The longer we are silent..the less our words are heard.. complying aint stopping us from dying. ...

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633
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3
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125
tiffanyr | Poetry Vibe
tiffanyr
Title: "Senseless Killings" part 2
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS WORLD THESE DAYS? EVERYBODY IS SHOOTING AN INNOCENT VICTIM IN EVERY KIND...
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525
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5
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215
DaSoulChild | Poetry Vibe
DaSoulChild
Title: I should not!!!

How many more? How many more have to die? How many have to be killed in cold blood? Just for you ...

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567
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2
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110
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe
Social Seer
Title: LONELY GIRL

A blazing hearth

Food and guests at table

Two shy lovers standing

Off in a corner

The sla...

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439
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0
poems
142
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: purge

I am not great because I am an artist

I am an artist because am great


And that's how I al...

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381
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1
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69
Woven | Poetry Vibe
Woven
Title: Again

Trying to keep you safe..
If the police pull you over, do what they say
And when Black lives co...

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678
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14
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12
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe
Social Seer
Title: title at end

skyscrapers

multitudes

midget

LOST IN NEW YORK

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428
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0
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142
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Protesting is Pointless

The bereaved cannot conceive,

Of the phrase, "Administrative Leave",

No arrests, cops still get...

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664
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8
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889
Jane D. | Poetry Vibe

dear Black Brothas,

the sun rose without many of you todaydue to some form of injustice.

...
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483
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4
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4
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Stop the Violence

My religion is true justice, even if I have to pass out a$$ whippings,

Respect to KingQadarDwo...

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590
comments
3
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Watermelon and Ribs

Last Sunday, my wife cooked twodelicious racks of ribs,
From the most tender, juicy and tasty of...

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526
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2
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889
KingQadarDwon' | Poetry Vibe
KingQadarDwon'
Title: Look your enemy in the eyes

Another one?!558 so far this year.

It will end when we put a stop to it, not them.

And while ...

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807
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9
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331
vosh_89 | Poetry Vibe
vosh_89
Title: Note to myself
Dear myself I want to be like you. Better unlike no one else..I want to forget all what we done...
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304
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3
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5
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: How I met my wife

She said she wanted to know me,

I told her to look up Ptolemy,

Weeks later after she read A...

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781
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0
poems
889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Spit fire like carney side show freaks

Spit fire like carney side show freaks,
With crazy lexicons that confuses geeks for weeks,
Inve...

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423
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0
poems
889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Now & Then

Phrases amazes, grace replaces taste, postmark haste, lick stamps, email - cut & paste, delete & ...

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614
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2
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Change is Hard

Change is hard,
Starting over, cancelled card,
New location, same issues,
Friends forget but m...

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679
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0
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: The day after July 4th

Burnt Bottle Rocket sticks and firecracker paper litter the lawn,
Back to work and school - the ...

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495
comments
2
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889
Ak Rio | Poetry Vibe
Ak Rio
Title: No Mas Por Favor

Im fed up
not talking with a spoon
life full of darkness
hope sun comes through
really need s...

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532
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5
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188
Ak Rio | Poetry Vibe
Ak Rio
Title: lil black boy

I'm back though dressed in all black clothes
tried to lock me out
forgot about the backdoor
th...

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634
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2
poems
188
Edna | Poetry Vibe
Edna
Title: DIFFICULT DAYS

YOU'VE HELD OUR HAND, LORD

IN DARK AND DIFFICULT DAYS.

PLEASE HOLD AMERICA'S HAND NOW.

O...

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535
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4
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54
kenni_writes | Poetry Vibe
kenni_writes
Title: Here

It went from

You

Giving me your all

To

You

Giving me just enough

To keep me int...

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476
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4
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46
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: WELL DAMN!!!

When you're waiting for an important phone call and everybody else but that person is calling y...

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480
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2
poems
38
Jay Beach | Poetry Vibe
Jay Beach
Title: Reality Vs Fantasy

I wish I could just get away

Away from this city, this state, these people, my reality

A pl...

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604
comments
3
poems
72
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Jesus is a Capricorn


Jesus lord,
I know you probably bored,
With the vicious cycle of men's sin,
Then again, mayb...

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518
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0
poems
889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Gentle Finger Friction

Palms itch, hands shake, the anticipation is sublime, you're blowing my mind, without speaking a ...

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584
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0
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Dad said, "What's your purpose son"?

These rhymes in my mind, spin like blades on a helicopter, never speak proper, Ebonics be my phon...

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399
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0
poems
889
Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Coalhouse
Title: Haiku and Collard greens
Seven goddammit! I fade you ... 5 on that ... Chance stamped into dots.. Seven! Seven godd...
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610
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2
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320
2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe
2b2b2
Title: Hardships

Streams of consciousness

Casting lines of confidence

Flotsam of consequence

Roug...

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774
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7
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650
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: So Prolific, You Thought I Had A Twin

Its Friday, picture me rolling with rollers in my hair,
Like Big Perm, worried 'bout what they s...

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507
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0
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe

Old and young dance and sing,
To the latest moves and grooves,
Hundreds of the same shirts roam...

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574
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3
poems
889
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe
Social Seer
Title: A POEM FOR OUR TIMES

In this world where some people

have turned their backs on beauty,

on the right to human di...

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583
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3
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142
KiloMsundrstd | Poetry Vibe
KiloMsundrstd
Title: The mind of an odd

Welcome to the mind of a beast.. Unknown to most and translated by few.. None enter and few u...

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543
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2
poems
54
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: Forgive Me
If I seem too animated, forgive me; I'm passionate about my point.

If I seem to be in constant m...

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542
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3
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38
HymnAgen | Poetry Vibe
HymnAgen
Title: With Open Arms

My feet have tread this soil

half the expected years

I suspect I have been allotted

shou...

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708
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14
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185
SMusinga | Poetry Vibe
SMusinga
Title: Judgment Day

It was 06H30 Am on the faithful day of November 2010,

I was directed to Bread & Milk Street in H...

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529
comments
4
poems
81
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: If
If my next breath happened to be my last, I'd want your voice to be the last I'd ever hear. Rev...
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357
comments
2
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626
KingQadarDwon' | Poetry Vibe
KingQadarDwon'
Title: First day back on the Job

Qadar where you been?!

Dwon' where you been?!

For surely I haven't been chasing Dollars

Ju...

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689
comments
8
poems
331
Shortiiie_q | Poetry Vibe
Shortiiie_q
Title: what is love ?
If you're telling me u love me then you need to show it . i shouldn't have to ask questions for m...
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642
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10
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10
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe


I'm cinnamon toast crunch,
You're Chex mix, yuck,
Imma G you a schmuk,
Wanna battle me? Good...

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618
comments
3
poems
889
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: Merkaba

Do you want to understand any kind of self-blame or self-judgement no matter the extent, the beha...

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455
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0
poems
69
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: CAPITAL
No care no karma

Its a dare eloquent drama

No fair precedent trauma

Its a share fixed antenna

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403
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0
poems
69
BlkLyryc86 | Poetry Vibe
BlkLyryc86
Title: Milk & Honey

It was as if fire had leaned over and kissed me

My body immediately went up in flames

Yet w...

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444
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5
poems
98
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: IT IS
If you look close even freedom is lie

The dream is to fly

The hope is its worth the cry

The r...

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375
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0
poems
69
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

For Dead Poets Who Yet Live

The earth swallowed you—

spitting out seeded words

to linger...

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568
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6
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Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Peasants dream as kings lying upon this nights pallet made of Daily News.. Kings dare not dream, ...
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506
comments
2
poems
320
Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Coalhouse
Title: Heroes
Heroes hiding in six glass zeros... Superstar status.... Media apparatus... Manufacturing hero...
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599
comments
2
poems
320
Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Coalhouse
Title: The Working Man
The day casts its shadow over me... Carrying weary bones into evening....
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680
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2
poems
320
Coalhouse | Poetry Vibe
Coalhouse
Title: Momma

When Daddy ran off we cried.

You did'nt...

Knees sore, knuckles raw from adays work....

...
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652
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3
poems
320
Just_Me_Kelee | Poetry Vibe
Just_Me_Kelee
Title: A Request

Handle my heart with care because i swear it couldnt take another break.

Please accept my love...

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565
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2
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43
Just_Me_Kelee | Poetry Vibe
Just_Me_Kelee
Title: I Choose

There is darkness in my heart, Ichoose the light daily.

There is anger behind my eyes, I relea...

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569
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2
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43
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: lord.goodbye
I don't care no more

I don't wanna feel like I know it all

Cause my brain has never given up be...

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407
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0
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69
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Penny Candy Fix

Listen to menowthen re-read this again later,
Myrhymesareold school and packed with mad flavor,
...

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502
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0
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Programmed to pursue pu$$y...

When I'm away, adipose, I suppose,
Is the tissue that makes me miss you most,
Love to hold and ...

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558
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3
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889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe

Boom Shaka Locka,
Hot rhyme droppa,
Head knocka,
Shouda been a Dr.,
Yao Ming?
Get gold, get ...

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599
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1
poems
889
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe

Treat this like my thesis,
Digested the track like a bagof Reese’s Pieces
All that remai...

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510
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0
poems
889
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Once More…

(Apropos Orlando)

Once more and again

bigotry spreads

like a keloi...

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639
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0
poems
3139
gregory.mccant@gmail.com | Poetry Vibe
gregory.mccant@gmail.com
Title: The Old Man in The Cafe

The years have not been kind to him. No, he has suffered mentally and physically more than most, ...

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938
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6
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26
KiloMsundrstd | Poetry Vibe
KiloMsundrstd
Title: A VIZION

This woman is amazing.. Extravagant from head to toe.. Flawed but only in her eyes.. I see a perf...

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474
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0
poems
54
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Smurfette

You're the only woman in my world,
Smurfette, yet our love remains unfurled,
I bet this test yo...

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596
comments
3
poems
889
KiloMsundrstd | Poetry Vibe
KiloMsundrstd
Title: Perfection

Perfect I'm not but a man I am.. Black, strong, whitty and accomplished.. I look the part and...

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511
comments
2
poems
54
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Breathe

You have to breathe and then count the breaths. The next one could be your last. It sounds like a...

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609
comments
4
poems
994
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Sideways

Its all going sideways, even the bullets and strays. Life gave me what I asked of it, I took my a...

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601
comments
2
poems
994
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: self-less
What's selfish? please explain to me
What is this rubbish? just break down that tree Yes...
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496
comments
1
poems
69
vosh_89 | Poetry Vibe
vosh_89
Title: Thinking of you
As long as my dreams are always of you. As long as a couple only means two. As long as forever co...
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319
comments
5
poems
5
Social Seer | Poetry Vibe

I grabbed her fawning hands to mine

and we danced on the dish of the moon

serenaded by a lo...

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370
comments
2
poems
142
SMusinga | Poetry Vibe
SMusinga
Title: I don’t care!

I don’t care!

I've had enough,

I've seen enough,

I've heard enough

If something good ...

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522
comments
5
poems
81
Lyrrix | Poetry Vibe
Lyrrix
Title: Broken Strings

He took me to inner places
he taught me
he taught me that I could sleep inside my mind

He wa...

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510
comments
1
poems
28
Lyrrix | Poetry Vibe
Lyrrix
Title: Canvas of Catastrophe

An outcast portait of society,
public opinion timidly restrained.
Descriptive world of psychoti...

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420
comments
3
poems
28
vosh_89 | Poetry Vibe
vosh_89
Title: Death
Theres something no one wants to talk about. Whenever you mentioned it everyone knows what it is...
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260
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2
poems
5
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: One On One...

One On One…

A peculiar similarity between

you and me;

I born a slave being;

you ,...

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552
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0
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: The Call...

The Call…

Pain answered the call

you never returned;

Happiness took a dive—fell

i...

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575
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0
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: One On One...

One On One…

A peculiar similarity between

you and me;

I born a slave being;

you ,...

views
567
comments
0
poems
3139
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: One Day...

One Day…

One day pus filled eyes

will heal

and the world will see;

One day flies...

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573
comments
4
poems
3139
vosh_89 | Poetry Vibe
vosh_89
Title: In Search for you
I play the field in search for you. While I make mistakes by the people I do. I look and look in ...
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304
comments
1
poems
5
vosh_89 | Poetry Vibe
vosh_89
Title: Why Don't You Love Me
It hurts When you love someone And they don't love You back Seems like everytime You try to...
views
473
comments
1
poems
5
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: And He Said

She had once soared high above normalcy with the beautiful people. In fact, she had soared ev...
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417
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1
poems
38
Mellow | Poetry Vibe
Mellow
Title: deity
Today God talked to me in my own way

Who I am understand what he say

Although I knew that I wou...

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463
comments
3
poems
69
Woven | Poetry Vibe
Woven
Title: The Best Medicine

His laughter
Took me to fields of clover
bare feet, and bubbling brooks
and pomegranate juice ...

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728
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10
poems
12
newverb4me | Poetry Vibe
newverb4me
Title: Thoughts of a Thunderstorm

I hear you! I hear your song

Saying rain, rain go away

All because you want to play

Than...

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239
comments
2
poems
2
newverb4me | Poetry Vibe
newverb4me
Title: Thoughts of a Diamond

I'm here! Yes, I made it

I carried your burdens and your heat

I took all the pressure you p...

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216
comments
2
poems
2
SMusinga | Poetry Vibe
SMusinga
Title: Your Name

I wrote your name in the shore,

but

the waves washed it away.

I marked your name in the ...

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507
comments
2
poems
81
Fm110comphodent | Poetry Vibe
Fm110comphodent
Title: Red Alert

To every species that evolve through wait,

Mankind has been trickled down to his fate,

The ...

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413
comments
6
poems
173
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
I've asked to be blessed with your melodious voice, The look in your eye a fine rendition of fee...
views
282
comments
0
poems
626
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: MUST

Baby seals, dolphins and whales must be left to be the miraculous creatures in GOD'S sea.

Love...

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408
comments
0
poems
38
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: Europa

Through my upturned wine glass I sensed a burning seize my body. The sensation of being studied...

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436
comments
3
poems
38
SMusinga | Poetry Vibe

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ,

Our God and our King, to Him we will sing

In His great mercy,...

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598
comments
2
poems
81
jtj1982 | Poetry Vibe
jtj1982
Title: What Do I Want?
What Do I Want? I want you to walk hand in hand with bald headed me. I want to play hard in t...
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485
comments
2
poems
38
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Sour Patch Kids
Without knowing, my heart beseeched my eyes. I'd fallen in love; My heart leaving my chest to fi...
views
407
comments
1
poems
626
Kewayne Wadley | Poetry Vibe
Kewayne Wadley
Title: Hidden Colors
Colors primarily exist knowing one specific hue, Neutral in a sense, knowing nothing of the vivi...
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380
comments
3
poems
626
ShawnPen | Poetry Vibe
ShawnPen
Title: Lyrical Miracles
Lyrical Miracles I help/ resurrect the dead/ when I write/ with lead,/ ink or fingers....
views
559
comments
2
poems
15
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe

Jacking fools for punch rhymes like a Comedian,

While I'm sipping Don P in every VIP that you se...

views
401
comments
0
poems
889

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