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Mar 23, 20211 min read
CHARLOTTESVILLE
The bay doors of my eyes, Rolled up in tears in cries, On this new and given day, As much to my dismay, The eyes of this morning, Would...
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Mar 23, 20211 min read
WHEN OYIBO ROLLED UP OUR SHORES
I have sometimes from myself inquired, and from all else I have required, about this mystery much more to know, where the hell were they...
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Mar 23, 20211 min read
FASCISM
Lost to eyes our glorious sun Amidst the dark and raging fumes Born if fatal rockets ………………………………………………………………… fascism Like masks and...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
THE CASTLE
On solid rock it stands, For did not the pastors book say, That the wise did build on locks, And overlooking the vast ocean it stares,...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
SOUND THE GONG GONG
In the purest values she is arrayed, With concealed beauty of ages untold, A sight to be blessed to behold, Where beauty transcends all...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
WE LONG FOR PEACE
In their scabbards they stuff Daggers that cut diamonds In their quivers they pile, Arrows of rainbow, arrows of lengths With mighty bow...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
TO US ON A PLANET
On every smiling day And every mourning day We long the matrimony of Of our hearts For we are but one A race, a people But on this...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
SHE WAILS MY AFRICA
CLAD in gowns of dismal glare, She shows a plaintive sight, Like a night that bears no moon, And bears its skies their fires quenched....
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
MORE FOR ME
The metro was packed And space we lacked In a Russian rush hour Destined for a school hour Tight on rails all clinging Most passengers...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
SALT
When the maestros For this discord music Strike their cords To make their sounds Even we that dance To their melodies Shall dance our...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
A Wall Crumbles
The Berlin Wall My teary eyes recall The remnants of war That once a family tore Cold war tensions Rising with contention A guarded...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
GIVE EAR EBONYMAN
And they with sharpened noses, Concealed in masks like roses, In days of jubilations, Born out of tribulations, On days their memories...
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Mar 5, 20211 min read
IF NOT FOR THE VIDEO CAMARA
If not for the video camara A painful, daunting past Even to this day and era Cannot be shoved in the past If not for smartphone lookouts...
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Mar 1, 20211 min read
THE AMBASSADOR
With but my black skin only Standing in as accreditation This young African wholly Credentialled in representation Away from abundant...
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