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Chuck
Poem Published
Today 10:32pm
Today 10:32pm
This Afterlife
Normalcy
It will never be the same
Just months ago
Literally
We was living
Three months prior
A new year
2020
Everyone believed
This was the year
For prosperity
Everything was on the up
Economy was on the rise
But a nightmare soon approached
A Hollywood Sci-fi movie
Over exceeded its set
Making the whole U.S.
Its major punch line
And now....
This afterlife has been created
Bringing death to us
Killing every way of life we known
What was meant to be
Has all been...
It will never be the same
Just months ago
Literally
We was living
Three months prior
A new year
2020
Everyone believed
This was the year
For prosperity
Everything was on the up
Economy was on the rise
But a nightmare soon approached
A Hollywood Sci-fi movie
Over exceeded its set
Making the whole U.S.
Its major punch line
And now....
This afterlife has been created
Bringing death to us
Killing every way of life we known
What was meant to be
Has all been...
#America
#frustration
#suffering
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0 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
Today 10:19pm
Today 10:19pm
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses!
By Stanley Collymore
British right-wingers have
a massive problem with
money being sensibly
spent to stop children from
pointlessly ever starving,
but unsurprisingly are
amazingly okay with
practically multiple
billions of Pounds
Sterling, literally
spent on dodgy
contracts with
Tory donors -
like those, purportedly,
making Covid-19 PPE
that obviously don't
work. Or huge pay
rises for indolent
and thoroughly useless MPs.
And comparably too Boris ...
British right-wingers have
a massive problem with
money being sensibly
spent to stop children from
pointlessly ever starving,
but unsurprisingly are
amazingly okay with
practically multiple
billions of Pounds
Sterling, literally
spent on dodgy
contracts with
Tory donors -
like those, purportedly,
making Covid-19 PPE
that obviously don't
work. Or huge pay
rises for indolent
and thoroughly useless MPs.
And comparably too Boris ...
#hate
#rejection
#shame
#greed
#despair
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0 Comments
nomoth
Poem Published
Today 10:05pm
Today 10:05pm
these butchers' sketches
viz for butchers
#murder
#animals
#nature #holiday
#nature #holiday
19 reads
4 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
Today 5:46am
Today 5:46am
untitled
if love was water...
then we would all die
of thirst.
then we would all die
of thirst.
#humankind
23 reads
5 Comments
buddhakitty
Poem Published
Today 5:24am
Today 5:24am
untitled
fear lives in the heart
of memory...
a thousand hungry lions
waiting to pounce
from out of our darkness.
of memory...
a thousand hungry lions
waiting to pounce
from out of our darkness.
#humankind
21 reads
6 Comments
BlueBeastGirl
Poem Published
Today 4:31am
Today 4:31am
Newness
I miss the new
I miss those firsts
Kisses, touches, tastes
I miss the ability to say
"Let me try, I've never had it"
Curse my curiosity
Today I feel numb to all
That I seem to know
Sunsets seem to be
The only things that seem new
Each and every time a different artist
I wish that food wasn't predictable
That people weren't either
I wish oh how I wish for it
I miss those firsts
Kisses, touches, tastes
I miss the ability to say
"Let me try, I've never had it"
Curse my curiosity
Today I feel numb to all
That I seem to know
Sunsets seem to be
The only things that seem new
Each and every time a different artist
I wish that food wasn't predictable
That people weren't either
I wish oh how I wish for it
#emptiness
#apathy
#boredom
22 reads
2 Comments
BigVirge
Big Virge
Big Virge
Poem Published
Today 4:21am
Today 4:21am
“Clean” ... A Poem written by Big Virge 19/10/2020
So Who’s REALLY CLEAN In Our Societies ... ?!?
When It’s Clear Now That Money ...
Is MOSTLY ... DIRTY ... !!!!
Now By This I Mean ...
That It’s Made By Teams ...
Who Are Prone To Deceive ...
And Are Mostly WEALTHY ... !!!
ILLUMINATI ...
Or Just DIRTY THIEVES ... !?!
Who Seem To WREAK ...
of Those SOCIETIES Where SECRETS Be ... !!!
And Now It Seems ...
That We Have A DISEASE ... !!!
That Deals Title Deeds ...
For Ceremonies ...
Where People GRIEVE ... !!!
...
When It’s Clear Now That Money ...
Is MOSTLY ... DIRTY ... !!!!
Now By This I Mean ...
That It’s Made By Teams ...
Who Are Prone To Deceive ...
And Are Mostly WEALTHY ... !!!
ILLUMINATI ...
Or Just DIRTY THIEVES ... !?!
Who Seem To WREAK ...
of Those SOCIETIES Where SECRETS Be ... !!!
And Now It Seems ...
That We Have A DISEASE ... !!!
That Deals Title Deeds ...
For Ceremonies ...
Where People GRIEVE ... !!!
...
#relationships
#money
#humankind
#dirty
#pandemic
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BigVirge
Big Virge
Big Virge
Poem Published
Today 3:26am
Today 3:26am
“TRULY CRAZY” ... A Poem written By Big Virge 9/7/2020
So Today I Heard Rhymes ...
By The Man ... DEFARI ...
That Just BLEW My Mind ... !!!
Because of The Vibe of His Rhyme Design ...
Because He Spoke About WHY ...?!?
In These ... Days And Times ...
There’s Been A RISE In Protest Lines ...
About ... RACIST Guys ...
Who Make Black Folks DIE ... !!!
But The CRAZY Thing ...
Is That Within His Lyrics ...
What He Was STATING ...
Is That A MOBILE PHONE ... !!!
Is What’s ... OPENED Up Folks ... ?!?
To ABUSE That In TRUTH ...
Is ... NOTHING New...
By The Man ... DEFARI ...
That Just BLEW My Mind ... !!!
Because of The Vibe of His Rhyme Design ...
Because He Spoke About WHY ...?!?
In These ... Days And Times ...
There’s Been A RISE In Protest Lines ...
About ... RACIST Guys ...
Who Make Black Folks DIE ... !!!
But The CRAZY Thing ...
Is That Within His Lyrics ...
What He Was STATING ...
Is That A MOBILE PHONE ... !!!
Is What’s ... OPENED Up Folks ... ?!?
To ABUSE That In TRUTH ...
Is ... NOTHING New...
#technology
#TruthOfLife
#honesty
#humankind
#racism
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0 Comments
Billy_Snagg
Snaggy
Snaggy
Poem Published
Today 1:58am
Today 1:58am
Magical Beach Off-Peak
In winter this place resembles a ghost town; soulless.
The arcades and gift shops boarded up along the front.
Whenever I stayed over, it was all in easy reach,
Spent our time strolling on Bognor's chilly beach.
The bay was always open for us to skim some stones,
It felt better later on when tourists had gone home.
Finally we owned the shore, reclaimed it as our own...
Now I see the beauty I hadn't always known.
The arcades and gift shops boarded up along the front.
Whenever I stayed over, it was all in easy reach,
Spent our time strolling on Bognor's chilly beach.
The bay was always open for us to skim some stones,
It felt better later on when tourists had gone home.
Finally we owned the shore, reclaimed it as our own...
Now I see the beauty I hadn't always known.
#beach
#winter
#respect
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1 Comment
prometheus5290
Poem Published
Yesterday 11:49pm
Yesterday 11:49pm
murals for morals
You call it grafiti
but I call it art
you say it's pollution
but I say it is the heart
of the community themselves
muralizing the walls
to visualize the intention
to moralize the halls
of the governor
the government
the senators
and establishment.
(unfinished?)
but I call it art
you say it's pollution
but I say it is the heart
of the community themselves
muralizing the walls
to visualize the intention
to moralize the halls
of the governor
the government
the senators
and establishment.
(unfinished?)
#corruption
#politics
24 reads
3 Comments
Academic
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:38pm
Yesterday 6:38pm
Mirror's Reflection Hurting Your Noodle?
By Stanley Collymore
Only in the USA and, of
course, its discernibly
so vilely sycophantic
toady Britain, is liberal, per
se, seen and quite nastily
derided as a pejorative
term. Usually, as it so
happens, by clearly
very intellectually
challenged, quite
dim-witted, also
disturbingly as
well, in this so
brazenly sick
and actually
twisted in a
completely
inimically
managed
schedule
in an obvious process
by...
Only in the USA and, of
course, its discernibly
so vilely sycophantic
toady Britain, is liberal, per
se, seen and quite nastily
derided as a pejorative
term. Usually, as it so
happens, by clearly
very intellectually
challenged, quite
dim-witted, also
disturbingly as
well, in this so
brazenly sick
and actually
twisted in a
completely
inimically
managed
schedule
in an obvious process
by...
#jealousy
#hate
#rejection
#shame
#denial
14 reads
0 Comments
asbr808
Anthony R
Anthony R
Poem Published
Yesterday 6:08pm
Yesterday 6:08pm
Pescatarian
I bask in the sunlight
It's 12:58
The air is cool and the breeze undulates
I separate the wavelengths
Into red green and blue
I analyze the footpaths
Of the fatal chosen few.
Destined to walk
On concrete sidewalks
And they lean to the side
To pick a rose:
Now a door, close;
Bilateral vision of the third-most degree
Something's afoot
Something smells fishy
I glance at the reflection
Of a plane overhead
In the tinted window
Of a casket and head
It's immovable and fetal
By joves it's superb! ...
It's 12:58
The air is cool and the breeze undulates
I separate the wavelengths
Into red green and blue
I analyze the footpaths
Of the fatal chosen few.
Destined to walk
On concrete sidewalks
And they lean to the side
To pick a rose:
Now a door, close;
Bilateral vision of the third-most degree
Something's afoot
Something smells fishy
I glance at the reflection
Of a plane overhead
In the tinted window
Of a casket and head
It's immovable and fetal
By joves it's superb! ...
#men
#food
#vanity
23 reads
10 Comments
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