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Mahogaredbrown | Poetry Vibe
Mahogaredbrown
Title: Gangsta She

She stayed ready for whatever

Never hesitated to pull the trigga

breathing on the pistol

she ...

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401
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2
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5
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Heads or Tales

I am so esoterically hard to understand
Do not ask me to explain myself
I too often can be a ...

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452
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4
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3799
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Apart of You

I bare my soul to you

My naked flesh

I'm inviting you into my universe

To explore my world

I'll tell ...

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431
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3
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114
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Smile to keep from crying

I smile to keep from crying

Because I don't want people to see

My true feelings

What deep inside of...

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460
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2
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114
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Dreamt

four were killed around my way today
not to mention the 3 yesterday
black on black crime
on ...

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428
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1
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3799
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Confusion

The night condenses into me, I'm dust.
understand the pain,
feel your own lust. twisted plea...

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413
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3
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208
darylg44 | Poetry Vibe
darylg44
Title: When Nothing Else Matters

Every night he plays

Lost in a melodic never land

Far beyond the controlled confusion of this place...

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693
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9
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37
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Into A Soul

I see into your eyes
And I look into a mirror,
Only hollow reflections of shadows
and ghost fr...

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345
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2
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: One Message

One Message

BLACK-ON-BLACK......

Crime
Revenge
Jealousy
Murder
Abuse
Fatherless
Mo...

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407
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3
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208
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Spirit Writer

Spirit writer, come, pen my thoughts
Quick! Write these words down
Before they get lost in tran...

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866
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19
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323
Mahogaredbrown | Poetry Vibe

I'm so tired of you making big things out of something so little

then you question my actions

H...

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392
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8
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5
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Tribalism

I woke to see the sun rise

Surrounded by the sum total of my life

I do not always like wh...

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477
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2
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3799
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: At the Counter

Drinking from a dirty water glass
In the best diner in town
The waitress comes around
To ch...

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494
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4
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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Spiral


I can not stand on the back of a dream
Hoping it will carry me
Far and wide across the dark...

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476
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2
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3799
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: No Answer To No Reasons

No moss has gathered under the stones of my shoes,

The rivers run too shallow in the valley and

...
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336
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2
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: The Whispers of Winds

The many days, many lives,

And only a few hours to live each one.

Can any be full when they all...

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382
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1
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208
Jah Lyrix | Poetry Vibe

Sometimes id rather starve than fulfill my appetite for love

As sensitive as my heart is it ma...

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384
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5
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68
Royale jones | Poetry Vibe
Royale jones
Title: Church!

Her body is my temple

She nourishes my soul

Eases my mental

She's my religion

I worship the groun...

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439
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4
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234
Princess | Poetry Vibe
Princess
Title: List

I wrote a list wen i woke up today

I decided im going to change

1. Lose weight

Because i am carry ...

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258
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2
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42
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: What....

What....

I don't know, I don't understand

As I stand looking up as Gods tears pour upon my face...

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320
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1
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208
Princess | Poetry Vibe
Princess
Title: Beautiful Pain

Pound in me

Become lost

I am in bliss of agony

Stretch me

With your manhood

Show me who owns me

Yo...

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214
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1
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42
Jah Lyrix | Poetry Vibe
Jah Lyrix
Title: "Motivation"

I was told that even at my best, i was at my worst

No recognition for my effort, though its what i...

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346
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2
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<3 | Poetry Vibe

I wrote you a letter today,

but quickly discarded and threw it away.

I thought we connected...

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333
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4
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Number3 | Poetry Vibe

Adam...the meaning being.".coming from the soil".

The african soil which bread mankind.

So in other...

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426
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4
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193
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe

Crushing sounds echo deep within the depths of the mind,

Fires that ravish the memories and f...

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364
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0
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: TO YOU OF ALL WE COMMEND

Struggled against those who chained his feet,

but they could not chain his soul,

Broke down the...

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347
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0
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: ( In Mans' Mind)

There's a presence of mind beneath that which holds shadows of shallow memories.

Visions of mush...

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329
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0
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe

Two sitting amongst many, scripting Black Men as they go by:

My God! look another gangster, see ...

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277
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0
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Definitions

BLACK WOMAN'S DEFINITION (ACCORDING TO BLACK MEN)

RESPECT (MEANING UNKNOWN)

ADMIRATION (NOT G...

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392
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1
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: STRANGE FRUIT A PICKIN


Smells of summers night shine dull amongst the background
haze of morning.

Through town, bus...

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356
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0
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208
lashann roberts | Poetry Vibe
lashann roberts
Title: LIKEABLE BONDAGE


A prisoner of the life chained to the money because it’s quick and easy and gives me a n...

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399
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4
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97
lashann roberts | Poetry Vibe
lashann roberts
Title: THE NIGHT BEFORE


I caught a man dressed like Santa dancing around my Christmas tree
Telling me he brought a pre...

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301
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2
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97
lashann roberts | Poetry Vibe
lashann roberts
Title: LOVE SONG

Play a symphony on my body I want to hear the notes loud and clear, but make them soft as a rose ...

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348
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3
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97
lashann roberts | Poetry Vibe
lashann roberts
Title: PILLOW TALK


If my pillow could talk it would tell all about the freaky things it was forced to do in my bed...

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367
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2
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97
Jah Lyrix | Poetry Vibe
Jah Lyrix
Title: "A DOLLAR & A DREAM"

Aint got much but a pretty penny in a world where everything costs

Youre paying more for the air y...

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296
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1
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68
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: The Darkness

The darkness creeps up on me like a theif in the night

Through my window

Under my bed

Up the side

Ben...

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487
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2
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114
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Floetically Flowing

I woke up in a rant

Because I had been dreaming

And I didn't wanna forget what I was thinki...

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479
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1
poems
114
Artist JoeMac | Poetry Vibe
Artist JoeMac
Title: Negro Haiku

She did not give head

I found a woman who did

She is now my main

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264
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1
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268
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Sour Song

Sour Song Mother,

Mother, Where did you go wrong, having a girl is no longer a pretty song.

The...

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362
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1
poems
208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Little Boy Secrets

I am a man who holds secrets like a little boy


I am a man who stands with his boys and stares...

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344
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1
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208
Mahogaredbrown | Poetry Vibe
Mahogaredbrown
Title: in my feelings and confused

Stop with the apology it won't heal the pain inside of me

Pettiness gets you in to deep when you...

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364
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2
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5
SensationThePoet | Poetry Vibe
SensationThePoet
Title: Freedom is a Dream

Old skool

 headstones popping out the ground like daisies, there's more black brothers dead th...

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585
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3
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24
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Dear Mommy & Daddy

Dear Mommy and Daddy,

One last look, I take to see, just what it was I left behind me. no laught...

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461
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4
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Letters From A Child 2

As I grow before I die, the world I will view from the inside,
for I am tired and weak….

...
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358
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1
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Letter From A Child

After I was born I begun to die, because of your irresponsibility and your lies, so I write to yo...

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332
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2
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208
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: In Your World

Your World is….

Hate,
You, yourself have the reason for hating someone
Who is differentÃ...

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341
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1
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208
PhranklynKhian | Poetry Vibe
PhranklynKhian
Title: A Celestial Mystery

I wish it would rain,
So it could wash away the pain that you leave,
Every time you leave.

Thi...

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305
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3
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1
Wordman21 | Poetry Vibe
Wordman21
Title: Swirls of Emptiness

Gathered inside my hand, siver studs and golden stars

glisten from the oils within my bath.

As ...

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369
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5
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208
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: Wicked Games

Babe you're like some ice cream,

So sweet

So cold

You give me cold feet.

The cold wind blows

...
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431
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3
poems
58
Jay Beach | Poetry Vibe
Jay Beach
Title: My Honest Joint

To be honest, poetry is more than a monthly contest and a prize

Its a way of life

I picked up that...

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476
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3
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72
Royale jones | Poetry Vibe
Royale jones
Title: Cast away

Your love is an ocean

I wanna feel your waves

Why don't pour over me and let me drown in you for da...

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440
comments
6
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234
SensationThePoet | Poetry Vibe
SensationThePoet
Title: Reality

I have a dream, I have a dream said doctor King, but is his dream unseen,

to the black on black cr...

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630
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9
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24
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: MS.MISUNDERSTOOD

HELLO MY NAME IS....MS.MISUNDERSTOOD

My words are often misinterpreted

My eyes are usually misread

M...

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556
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5
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114
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: Immortal Thoughts

I walk on the clouds

I rest my head on the moon

I buy my asteroids by the thousands

I got a co...

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502
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6
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: Until I See You Again

How do you mend the soul of a broken heart?

In the dark depths of my mind where we grew apart.

...
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464
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1
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: My Mona Lisa

So smooth,

I'm spitting game like I got something to prove

I hope she choose,

Me. Every artist...

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571
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2
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: The Sweetest Goodbye

I'm in like with a girl

who's in love with me.

Never one to deceive,

I try to leave subtle ges...

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442
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0
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: Love Theory

She says I sparked her fire

Her eyes filled with desire

Miss too fine!

Her hips switch with a ...

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472
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0
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: The Reasons

Our love is interwined,

We're getting tangled with each other like a jungle vine.

You turn the ...

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415
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0
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58
tretre | Poetry Vibe
tretre
Title: What Is Love

You ask if I have ever loved

I ask what is love?

You reply love is when two people care for one...

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437
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3
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311
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: But I'm Not A Poet

This girl told me I'm not poetic.

And I don't understand why.

Maybe because I don't have long...

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458
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4
poems
58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: The Meeting

Toe taps

Soft sounds surroundsour aura,

Aurora Borealis, allow me to paint this portrait.

Al...

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427
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0
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58
ceetaylor | Poetry Vibe
ceetaylor
Title: I Am...

I am that,

Hair raising sensation creeping up your spine

I am that,

Anticipation, impatiently ...

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426
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0
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58
tretre | Poetry Vibe
tretre
Title: My Loving Heart

I have a loving heart inside me.

I keep it safe as a queen's tart.

It is warm and soft.

Nice a...

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432
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2
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311
tretre | Poetry Vibe
tretre
Title: For You Alone

My world

is swirling in the accents

of beautiful music

so that my mind dances

to a rare plate...

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400
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3
poems
311
Number3 | Poetry Vibe

Trapped between the spokes of society's movement; adhering to the motion with no ill talk of impr...

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471
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2
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193
darylg44 | Poetry Vibe
darylg44
Title: Tears and Tipped Glasses

The first line was all I could bare

Almost instantly I was out of body

As if my every muscle had ...

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594
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13
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37
Majestic | Poetry Vibe

Looking out the window I see streets full of gold,
Full of dangers and miscreants..or so I was t...

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302
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3
poems
50
Majestic | Poetry Vibe
Majestic
Title: Loneliness

Sometimes the loneliness gets to me so much I sit in silence,

Even when friends wanna hang out w...

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332
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3
poems
50
Majestic | Poetry Vibe
Majestic
Title: V.S = Bipolar

Bipolar she is and it goes untreated,

Her relationships and friendships all depleted,

Every dis...

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316
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0
poems
50
miss_chaniel | Poetry Vibe
miss_chaniel
Title: Quiet escape

Sets of circle Eyes compelling Synchronized souls Slightly swaying Hands diving in the pond...
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360
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2
poems
153
Princess | Poetry Vibe
Princess
Title: Realising

Why are you ashamed

Did you not see me

Especially as i was once a seed in your cave

Look at me

Do...

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313
comments
4
poems
42
CW Trent | Poetry Vibe
CW Trent
Title: Life in Fatherless Times

First of all,

There are no Fathers where I
Live. No Husbands. No Heroes.
No Heads of Househ...

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280
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5
poems
2
CW Trent | Poetry Vibe

If I may, allow me to show you a place

where children never hear footsteps of father
where home...

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268
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3
poems
2
danielleangie3 | Poetry Vibe
danielleangie3
Title: Loneliness

This loneliness holds its victims

It seizes no end

Entices you with the hopes of a

Happy ending

Suc...

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488
comments
10
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31
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Elevated

How high am I…to feel so good

How high am I… to touch the sky

How high am Iââ‚...

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479
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4
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3799
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Point of view

I do not see me looking at you

Other tell me that I do

I see you too

You don’t th...

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481
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4
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3799
The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Drop Cloth

I tug of war till the rope broke

Rolling down the windows to let out some smoke

The sun tur...

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482
comments
3
poems
3799
Ak Rio | Poetry Vibe

over hot tea and tacos

I told my homey bravo

He just returned from overseas

With a bunch of st...

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408
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2
poems
188
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: I Wait

I wait for a man

A man I never had

Loving

Caring

Honest

And true

I wait for a man

Where are you

Gentle

Swe...

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490
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3
poems
114
LP45 | Poetry Vibe

The fire within the flame
Defiantly burns on and on
Through many trials and tribulations
Until...

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883
comments
9
poems
323
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Mental Lovemaking

It was late and you called me

Saying you had things on your mind and you couldn't sleep

So I took a...

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663
comments
1
poems
114
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Have A Little Faith

Have a little faith
Even where you think
It shouldn’t be
It won’t do you any goo...

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665
comments
6
poems
323
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Impatiently Waiting for you

I think about you

Everynight and everyday

Hoping that you are doing alright

Because I know those wal...

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508
comments
4
poems
114
2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe

Starting out in lower middle class


School was indeed a lesson to learn


Heading straight for...

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567
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6
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650
Princess | Poetry Vibe
Princess
Title: Lost, save me

I aint here to give you no rage

Imma just tell you the truth

Im in pain

Its indescribable

Its unbel...

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259
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5
poems
42
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Another Man

There's never a right time to say goodbye

So I search for the right words to say to you

But everyti...

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499
comments
4
poems
114
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: A single mothers struggle

I try to tell you my story, but it's hard to explain

To make you understand this life I live

The r...

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2307
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1
poems
114
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: A soulmate for everyone

If there's a soulmate for everyone

Then why am I on my own

Stuck in this universe all alone Eterna...

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378
comments
2
poems
114
SoFloetic | Poetry Vibe
SoFloetic
Title: Letting go

I'm letting go of you

I will no longer be there to pick you up when you fall

No more of those late ...

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421
comments
2
poems
114
Artist JoeMac | Poetry Vibe
Artist JoeMac
Title: Oreo

The say the best way to eat an Oreo is to separate it, dip it in milk and lick the middle

thats ch...

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256
comments
3
poems
268
Ak Rio | Poetry Vibe
Ak Rio
Title: Poetic language

I live the life of a writer

All my lines must be fire

From a man trying find his way

To the pe...

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448
comments
3
poems
188
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Truly Ann

A woman so loved
No one could take her place
As she greeted each day
With a smile on her face...

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679
comments
6
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Conversation

The way of communication to explore
The thoughts of one's mind and much, much more
For the kno...

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693
comments
3
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe

When I'm feeling alone
Like I've been left behind
I look to God for comfort
For he is my peace...

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605
comments
2
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Precious Little Angel

Precious little angel
So dear to my heart
With a smile so bright
You're a priceless work of ar...

views
606
comments
3
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe
LP45
Title: Never Give Up Hope

When it seems the world
Is standing on your shoulders
And everything is passing you by
Even w...

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604
comments
4
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe

As the sun rises on this day
I kneel down and begin to pray
As sadness and pain take their toll...

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574
comments
6
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe

Inside downtown Camden
Is a lot more than meets the eye
There's more than just people walking
...

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641
comments
6
poems
323
LP45 | Poetry Vibe

I've had my share of joy
I've seen and had my share of pain
Although my time has come
I know s...

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568
comments
2
poems
323

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