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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe


Try as thee most persuasive person might,
he/him, she/her,
they, them... can never wean
your...

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WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Happiness Personified

She pulled up next to me and parked, beaming with a smile

Minding her own black business as sh...

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863
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Prayer

Pray that the ignorant become enlightened

The sick become healed

The underserved and underp...

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WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: I got more bars that Applebee’s

I got more bars than Applebee’s

Flow so sick I ‘Gesundheit’ like a sneeze

And bless you wit...

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863
WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: Objects in mirror are closer that they appear

On the road of life, there’s always a curve

Here’s some advice, so you won’t lose your nerve

...
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2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe

Sun scenes arrival

Silhouettes in pirouette

We left the night lit.

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2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe
2b2b2
Title: Building Circles

Know an Arc, playing parts.

Castaways depart, intrepid two steps.

Escaping the deluge of un...

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650
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

It’s difficult to write of the celestial

And terrestrial beauty of nature

When so m...

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2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe
2b2b2
Title: Marronage

reasons for going elsewhither.

Must have been for sake of cooler climates.

Afterall, only t...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

Addends, minuend, subtrahends... all Greek

to poor student long haired pencil necked freak.

...
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542
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Dead Dead Dead

You can hear whatever words you want to hear, whether it is dead dead dead or dread dread dread. ...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe
ts735bSTUDENT10
Title: Stricken with anguished nausea

Written three years ago tomorrow,
yet superimposed (likened to
emotional palimpsest) upon

me...

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0
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542
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: MEET THE CHALLENGE

From crib to the grave,

Life is challenged until death;

Live out the challenge:-

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: GRACING POETRY VIBE

(Inspired By Poets Of The Vibe)

The savory beauty of life

and nature continues to b...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: WORD CISTERNS

As earthly times wane

it is not so much of what

has been given but more

of what has ...

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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Always Striving

I think we all want but you have to want it more than anything else and I think we want it more t...

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1
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957
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: To Taste

bake slowly three hours

add brown sugar cinnamon

you are delicious

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445
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Once Upon A Time

counted down the hours

pull up to your apartment

yesterday is gone

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445
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Hear No Evil

noise cancellation

I ain't really listening

walk away from me

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Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: If This World Were Mine

pair us together

write like ashford and simpson

and sing our duets

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445
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Liberty Or Death

he confessed to me

stuck in a situation

the frying pan blues

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1
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445
Trou8l3 | Poetry Vibe
Trou8l3
Title: Let's B Honest

One thing I can never understand is a woman

That lies

Twisting reality and making a mockery of ...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: Themes For Though...

(A 3-5-3 Vibing flow)

Soaring free…

Butterflies and bees…

Spreading life…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: CAN'T WE SEE THE COUNT!?

Are we blind or what!?

Can’t we see what is going on!?

Kids murdering kids!?

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SPIRALING DEATH SMOKE

Voices loudly screaming

Streams of blood quietly flowing

Empty guns smoking

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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: You Wanted It

Well you wanted it and here it is, the gift that keeps on giving, ME. I am impressed with myself ...

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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Unlimited Juice

I am building an empire here and I have unlimited juice. I have been to the mountaintop and I am ...

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2
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957
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Pressed

I was pressed for time so I bought more, the kitchen cabinets were empty so I bought a store. I w...

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957
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Stellar Performance

Did I not give a stellar performance? I came out here and gave it my all. I stepped it because ho...

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1
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957
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Urban Black Love Poems For Her

Hey, are you writing urban black love poems for her <question> because I really want you to think...

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0
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957
BlkLyryc86 | Poetry Vibe
BlkLyryc86
Title: Liquor

We don’t see eye to eye when I am under the control of “I-I”.

And as much as I would like ...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

I am not who you think I am

But am the who that I am

And the coming to be of more

Fo...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: AN EVEN-STEVEN MELODY...

Feel the pounding beat…

Grasp the smooth flowing rhythm…

Scales scored eye to eye…

...
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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: All Time Flow
will poetry survive the future can it stand the test of time what would it look like what would i...
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2
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: CHILLING...

In the hardest times,
Refreshing love gently flows;
Life and I,balanced:-

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Engaged in spiritual labors of love,

We are sowers of fertile poetic seeds

Into the...

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Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: We Are One

They gripping, they bitting, they scratching, they pulling, but I can't go under, I won't go unde...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

While merrily bobbing along
(getting sponged courtesy
man in square pants)
the boulevard of br...

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165
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1
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542
Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: Role Model

The order has came in, they say that I am a role model, so if I am a role model, my first order i...

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blakmista | Poetry Vibe
blakmista
Title: American Beauty

(EARTHOLOGY) 3/12/2023

(American Beauty)

IN A SYSTEM OF DAWNS EARLY LIGHT

TO BE 'ONE...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Table...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: A Child Is Born...

Incubating mind

swells toward delivery;

fetal words kicking…

The breaking co...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

In the wet cistern of mind so many words

Wobble and bobble while waiting to be

Pour...

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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Body Of Work Alert

the system is failing be self sustainable today's energy is self sufficientcy when in need of ...

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1
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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: It Will Happen

words aren't toys words ought to be taken seriously and not lightly especially when they suddenly...

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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: Seeing Spots
this movie has too many sequels every episode they killing all the people if you survive you gone...
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The Immortal Wize  | Poetry Vibe
The Immortal Wize
Title: The First Chapter

it's not that late it's still early I'm not that sleep I'm still awake underneath a full moon lo...

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Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: Colors

We have been brutalized for being birth of colors, but just look around us, the earth is covered ...

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WarriorCarryingWater | Poetry Vibe
WarriorCarryingWater
Title: YGGY - You're Gonna Get Yours

If he can do it,

And they can do,

And she can do it

Why not me?

I failed a lot

But...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: MIND UNSHACKLED

Oppressive thoughts gone…

Divine wisdom has arrived…

Liberation is here…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: COSMIC ONENESS

Earth and I are one…

Grounded in ebon beauty…

Light shines above me…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: EBONY VIBES

Weird but beautiful…

The light and darkness of vibes…

Eyes closed…ears ringing…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe


Cocooning finished—

Can now royally soar freely;

Likewise so can you:-

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Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: The Gazebo

I prayed the Lord my soul to keep
Tossing and turning the night before
Because I could not slee...

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Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Nothing

I ain't got nothin' to say
today
so
Not even gonna try to sit myself down in this chair
with ...

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445
ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe
ts735bSTUDENT10
Title: Espousing irreverent greed

Crafted one year ago today
yours truly – hopefully self plagiarism okay

worse case scenario,

...
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542
Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: Manifest

We are watching and pretending to be something we envy until the gun is on empty, I see in your e...

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257
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: HEED THE RHYME

We must seize the time;

Freeing our minds from the bind—

Please heed the rhyme:-

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe


We must not be so concerned about ourselves

That we forget about the concern we must...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

(Apropos Of A Contemplative Minute)

Hey, being Black is not a style

It is a reality...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

when held spellbound courtesy grifter

Flim-flam man left lasting emotional whiplash
his derel...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SILENT VIBES...

Sitting in silence…

Ears rhythmically ringing…

Quiet quietness flowing…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Ancestral soldiers of freedom

justice and equality

Made sure that they left footpri...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Our children watching

Imitating what we do

Be aware and know

As children’s m...

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0
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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: The Heart Of Poetry

I can infinitely say I have a heart of poetry, I was built to spin this words to that they take t...

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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Love Love Poems

I really cannot say the word enough, I am in love with love love poems. I just wish I knew the wo...

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305
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1
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957
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Woke Up With Jesus On His Mind

It was his plan
To wake up in that
Great gettin’ up mornin’
With his mind on Jesus
Just l...

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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

(how about that topic for a change of pace?)

Yes back to getting walloped, decked
and clubbed...

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0
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542
ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

being analogous to a
limp biscuit viz
wussy wonky willy,
yet back in the day
rolling in hay w...

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0
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SUNNED POOL...

Dove into the pool…

Got slapped right back up and out…

What a wet sunburn…

...
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: HUMILITY...

It has been written…

You must not exalt yourself…

Exalting is earned…

Seek humil...

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0
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love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Love Me Poem

Its a shame that I should have to say it directly but here it is, this is a love me poem because ...

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205
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4
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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe
ts735bSTUDENT10
Title: Overzealousness and assiduousness...

now propels yours truly towards restitution
courtesy sophisticated mountebank,
whose criminal m...

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168
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1
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542
TEEDUB815 | Poetry Vibe
TEEDUB815
Title: Your Business Is Your Own

In This Life And In The Flesh

If You Want Your Dreams, Your Blessings, And For Yours Prayers T...

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246
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1
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456
2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe
2b2b2
Title: Soul-Mate Station

Travelers’ from far to near

Goin’ places, fulfilling dreams that never leave.

Tracing steps...

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650
2b2b2 | Poetry Vibe

Pluck Good Memories

Consume daily until done.

Make more and share some.

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650
TEEDUB815 | Poetry Vibe

She's involved with a man who resides over 14 hundred miles away

Distant, in another state

She ...

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2
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: ONE...EVEN IN DEATH


No matter the strife,

We’re tied together for life;

You’re my God-sent wife:-

...
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1
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: WELDED

I may not be

that which you

always wanted

but I am that which

to you was gran...

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4
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SELF SOUL SPIRIT

I’m always ready to go and be anywhere;

I’m that spiritual energy that will al...

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249
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1
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Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: Doom

They have told me to lay still and let love die, No, no, not I, never will I sit by like I'm at a...

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207
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2
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Kamau44 | Poetry Vibe
Kamau44
Title: Terrifying Notion

"What type of man can raise a child from a cage?"...hate turns to rage as questions burns my brai...

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192
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2
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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe
ts735bSTUDENT10
Title: Senor's wealth management...

battered pinata like

Yours truly courtesy servitude
tethered existence suffers neck
brunt of...

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0
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542
mrmelody7 | Poetry Vibe
mrmelody7
Title: Age Aint Nothin But A Number

Who in the world came

up with that

Hilarious fiction farthest thing

from a fact

Those...

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4
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ts735bSTUDENT10 | Poetry Vibe

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

recorded July sixth nineteen sixty
upon birth of she who dogged...

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0
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542
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SILENT VIBES


Sitting in silence…

Ears rhythmically ringing…

Quiet quietness flowing…

...
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323
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0
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: SUNNED POOL

Dove into the pool

Got slapped right back up and out

With my wet sunburn

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0
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: chains...

chains…

there

can

be

no

liberation

in

our

self

inflicted

exterm...

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Yes, we could say that it could be worse

But to just sit by and accept it is even worser

...
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0
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe




(Apropos Of A Black Sonetto)

There is no such thing as killing softly

We’re k...

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0
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: PERSPECTIVE IN BLACK

Even in Haiku

We tell it just like it is—

Revealing to you

Whatever we write...

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1
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: BLACK WIDOW



My panther sheen glows

Weaving wisely with wisdom

I’m an ace of spade

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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe
mlowe5
Title: STACKED DECK






Shrewd spades be aware…

Clubbing red jokers lurking…

Trump cards everyw...

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2
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mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

Initially when race

was considered

and it became

obvious we were

the strongest

...
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3
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Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: I Dressed In Black

Year and months
Employing the use of my poetic
GPS
Exact direction to your address
Blooming f...

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389
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2
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445
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe
love_supreme
Title: Black Poetry Day

Its official, today is Black Poetry Day just because I called it. We miss out on this day or the ...

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213
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3
poems
957
mrmelody7 | Poetry Vibe
mrmelody7
Title: I See The Light-Billy Paul

Billy Paul hipped me

to what the light

is all about during a

dark time of my life

One...

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2
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678
love_supreme | Poetry Vibe

They asked forpoems written by african american poets, well here we are. They asked and Poetry Vi...

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2
poems
957
Newpanther | Poetry Vibe
Newpanther
Title: Freedom For The Day

grey clouds gathering
together
whispering amongst themselves
freedom
just for the day
and th...

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285
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1
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445
mlowe5 | Poetry Vibe

While transcending

Through this life

Death thought

He would pay me a visit

But be...

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2
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