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Just Because I'm Naked — Stacey Powells	Just because I’m naked Gives you no right to stare I have my wrinkles, bumps and bruises I’m more than enough I’m more than aware Just because I’m...	509 views Rate it
I can touch the Stars. — A J C	I can touch the stars. I forget what we once had. It's still there, but when I look, it's nowhere to be found. As I search up and down and all around,...	508 views Rate it
Soldier — Steve Dupere	Thank you to the brave men and women who serve. Redemption comes and goes for the broken, A life we lived of wounds unspoken. We’ve spilled our...	507 views Rate it
Fiwi Jamiekan Labrish (Jamaican Creole) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A ful taim wi rekagnaiz seh fiwi Jamiekan piipldem av tuu langwijdem wid Hinglish an Jamiekan. Fi aal a Jamiekan yaadi pipldem, di langwij weh dem nuo...	503 views Rate it
A Child's Prayer — Margaret Betham-Edwards	God, make my life a little light Within the world to glow; A little flame that burneth bright Wherever I may...	503 views Rate it
We Are All Aborigines — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Often, at nighttime, I enter Jukurrpa world. The world of dreaming. Dreamers’ native residence; Eternal — uncreated. Like world of Tao, It appears...	498 views Rate it
Seeing the World Upside Down — Karl Constantine FOLKES	To me right is left. So don’t ask for directions. Too old to change now. Is it a common problem? It’s lasted eighty years now. To me left is right....	498 views Rate it
Elizabethan Prayer — Karl Constantine FOLKES	An olive branch passed. As token of unity. A peace offering. By monarch King Charles the Third. A Royal Dispensation. The House of Windsor. By...	492 views Rate it
Reason, Season, a Lifetime — A Reason, A Season. A lifetime	It is said people come into your life for a reason, a season, a lifetime. For those who have come and gone for a reason, I wish you a beautiful life. ...	487 views Rate it
A Poet’s Two Voices — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I lay in bed and think of this: A poet has two voices. The one he writes with gravitas, the other of his muse. The one expressed in syntax text, with...	481 views Rate it
A Government House Divided — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A House divided Is what America is Government ruling By partisan politics “House divided cannot...	477 views Rate it
Why Choose to Die When You Can Fly — Cristina Kim	Why choose to die when you can fly? Little bird, try and spread your wings across the sky. Because after you’ve tried and there’s no one to guide, ...	475 views Rate it
I think I can. — Dianejean57	My Handicap Though my steps may be slow and my vision dim, I refuse to let my spirit grow dim. My story is unique, my journey my own, I rise above my...	467 views Rate it
Childhood living in is easy to do. — A J C	Childhood living is easy to do. All my days have come and gone, and all my memories end up in the past. My childhood living was easy to do but now it's...	463 views Rate it
A Road Less Traveled — Seth Haynes Warner	There was a time, It was many years ago, I found myself hitchhiking, Down a lonesome, barren road. This long desert highway, Was so desolate in...	463 views Rate it
In the fog the lighthouse sits. — A J C	In the fog, the tower sits. As I approach the lonely midnight hour, I see the lighthouse tower, and then I see the distant things in purple: the kings....	462 views Rate it
I can climb mountains. — A J C	I can climb mountains. Who is disabled—is it you or me, or is it based on what you can do? I can climb up mountains and soar through the sky. I can...	462 views Rate it
The Rocking Chair — Betsy Wokersien Stephens	She gathers her thoughts as she rocks in the chair And stares out the window into the thin air Alone with the memories that dance in her mind The old...	461 views Rate it
A Woman Ribbed — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Ah, borne from man’s ribs. Woman — preemptively scorned. O daunting the pain! Man — dominating… A woman second fiddle. Nature offended! Ribbing...	461 views Rate it
Show me the way. — A J C	Show me the way. You have no fortune, and men disgrace you with their eyes. You kneel down and weep all alone, and heaven does not hear your cries. So...	460 views Rate it
Still the children cry. — A J C	Still, the children cry. I can hear the children crying in the middle of the night. They whisper in my ears the things I fear and never want to hear....	456 views Rate it
The dagger you put into my heart. — A J C	The dagger you put into my heart. I loved you for many years yet with your dagger, you stabbed me in the heart, ripping it apart. The words you speak...	450 views Rate it
Stand Against the Wind — Paul E Wells	When brooding clouds grow angry, When threatening skies lash out, When thunder jolts the heavens, When tempests drift about, When driving gales...	449 views Rate it
A walk through the woods. — A J C	A walk through the woods. I took a path into the woods, with the branches crackling beneath my feet. The field opened up, and I saw a host of golden...	443 views Rate it
The oak tree and little boy. — A J C	The oak tree and the little boy. I sat down and spoke to the oak tree. We were young and green. We talked about growing things, the wind, water, and...	441 views Rate it