Category: Poetry
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Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time When humanity knew harmony When people smiled and said ‘good morning’ When looks held love When husbands respected their wives When wives revered their husbands When children obeyed their parents When learning was a passion When knowledge was pride When books were treasures When music was therapy When words were lyrical When movies […]
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I AM – Vol. 2.
I am not my fears. I AM my Fierce. I am not my weakness. I AM my wonder. I am not my past. I AM my possibility. I am not my regret. I AM my reinvention I am not my doubt. I AM my doing. I am not my low. I AM my loudest. I […]
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Waking Up Next To You
AS the bites frosted the tip of her ears, AND as her eyes came awake to the eastern orange sunrise, AND as the cool, almost-spring morning breeze kissed her cheekbones, SHE thought of sinking her head into plush pillows that smell of the sweetest lavender. SHE thought of the soft silk sheets swallowing her in […]
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Reality
Excuses they say, are the reason you can’t get what you desire. Work hard, hustle, fight, find a way, they say. Or your failure is on you. Yet reality laughs in your face. Your lost Irish pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Environment and Nature, opportunity and luck. Birthright, Golden spoons. The […]
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When I First Saw You
You smiled. I watched the dip form in your cheek. I saw the flash of your pearly whites, parted by that God given gap. I felt the twinkle in my eye, the rush of my heart , the tightening in my stomach. I felt my own cheeks fold upward in an uncontrollable expression of what […]
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