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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
Get off my back!
Don't put those chains on me.
I can't take it no more
The arguing
The fussing
The fighting!
The monkey is on my back!
The boss wants this
The wife wants that
I need peace of mind
Get these chains off of me!
Feels like a vice on my head
Squeezing everything from me
Pulling me this way
Pulling me that way
I don't need this STRESS on me
So GET OFF OF ME!
Copyright © Kenneth R. Jenkins | Year Posted 2015
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
Brother,
Lover,
Poet,
Freelance writer,
Son,
Grandson,
Nephew,
Godfather too.
Christian in transition
Whose life changed in so many positions
Through so many persons and faces
Changing from many places.
Dreamer of dreams
Poet of the extreme
A deep thinker of thoughts and ideas.
Undercover comic relief
A man who had its share of sorrow and grief,
Walker of many miles,
And who puts on many smiles.
I'm no ego tripper
But a man who reaches for the Big Dipper,
Commanding dreams to come true
And a person who also encourages you.
People lover
never undercover
But face 2 face with you
A thinker so deep like an ocean blue.
A dreamer who goes beyond the stars
No matter how deep or how far
This is who I am!
I maybe a gem in a rough place
But I am the person with that face
You'll never forget
But in time your mind will set
On the things I told you
And all of this is surely true
Of who I am to me.
Child of the '60's long ago
i write these verses to let you know
Of who I am so listen well
As I finish this to tell
For this is who I am!
Black Man
Trying to do what's right in this land
For this is who I am
This is who I am!
(C) 2006
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
to my wife Vanessa
I celebrate you---
For just being you and only you,
Keeping it real
As I celebrate you.
Now that you are growing older,
Wiser,
Better,
I do celebrate you.
For what you do
And who you are---
I do celebrate you.
A daughter to someone's mother,
A sister to someone's brother,
A wife to someone's husband
A lover and friend
To this point
I do celebrate you.
May 2014
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
When riding the bus you see things
Cars rushing by
People crossing the streets,
Bike people riding in and out of traffic
And then it's watching spring emerge
Blooming the flowers and trees.
All kinds of people riding,
From the poor working man
Trying to make it work on time,
To busy people hustling and bustling
To an elderly people trying to get about their day.
From the window view
The world seems to pass on by quickly
With it's well managed yards
To not so the not so managed yards and big buildings
Standing tall like soldiers in amazement.
I love the bus rides as it travels
One place to another along the city
Traveling those long roads and streets.
April. 2014
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
Here are the lyrical, poetic, rhymes of many
Words sewed together into one poem
Even in an uneasy world
There are not easy words
To say to you in any shape or form.
You see I am armed
With poetic verses split down the middle
Of what my brains proceeds
And from out of my pen
Are those words from within me.
Sooner or later it comes out
As spit out these words
Making me very, very dangerous.
Dangerous with poetic words or thoughts
Preceded by one after another.
3 July 2004
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Open up the windows
Look out into the skies
Millions and billions of stars,
All shapes and size.
The Heavens are filled
Playful lovely lights,
Giving off such beauty and delight,
Brightly so shinning.
The moon glows brightly,
High up above,
What a delight to see,
Among the stars.
Poets dream while lovers play
And lovely is such a night,
Just looking up to see
Yet another sweet delight.
Those sweet memories
Of a night lover's dream,
Making me wonder more,
Of what may be seen.
Copyright © Kenneth R. Jenkins | Year Posted 2017
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
The day has gone
passed another day
Of hustle and bustle of another day
And the struggles of the day
The trials of the day.
Then the evening sky appears
With it's stars dancing in yonder skies
And lighting up the night so wonderfully.
Splendor is the beauty of it all
As the night darkens the skies
And the loveliness of it all
Suddenly defines in wonderness.
The peacefulness brings on silence
And the life of the night comes alive
With the city shinning below
As a diamond glittering glowing.
Suddenly the night gives way to the day
As daylight shows its face once more...
(C) 2006
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
I am living for today,
To look forward towards my tomorrows.
No matter the cloudy skies that may
Bring on showers of happiness.
No matter how gloomy
No matter what the problems are,
You have to let loose and free
Those things that seems not so.
I am living for today
I am looking forward to the future
Forgetting the past in every way
Making strides for whatever maybe.
I traveled down the road of hope,
No matter how dark it maybe,
Through God I am to cope
To whatever there is
I am living for today.
To My People
If my people could hear God’s voice
And obey the voice of the Lord
For my people
To my people
Hear the voice of the Lord
And love the Lord.
I share my God to you
To my people
To my God!
1983
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I am a man-
No matter the color
No matter the race
No matter the time or place
I AM A MAN!
I am CoLoRlEsS-
No matter if I am WHITE
No matter if I am BLACK
But this is a fact
I AM A MAN!
I am human-
No matter who we are
No matter the boundries
I am color blind you see
And I AM A MAN!
No matter how you are
Rather black or white
Dark or light
A brown or gray,
I AM A MAN!
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Kenneth R. Jenkins Poem
a social commentary
Among the vast of sea and land
Where a nation is born
Where a nation arises from the ashes to stand
Upon other large shoulders.
And coming from out of this very land we live,
A mass of people from every race and creed,
A nation of the rich, the poor that's ready to give,
Solace to those who are in need.
From the ashes of war and sudden death of a nation
Young but ready to face any peril in its way
Becoming patriots of a nation ready at any time.
Struggling for equality
Of rights we believe in,
And that's not for some but for you and me
As this young nation be always ready.
Our churches may burn to the ground
Or tallest building suddenly falls,
But I know for each battle cry and sound,
A young nation goes forward at any cost.
When Black Lives Do Matters to some but not others,
When fascism and racism bleed the bodies of our sisters and brothers
And mothers hold their children tightly
A young nation goes forward.
When churches are supposed to be a place of safety,
But instead killing fields for those hateful ones
Leaving those behind to be
Orphans, widows and in sadness.
When there are men who are filled with hate
Fueled like fire burning inside
Crash into our nation's most sacred gated
Just for the sake of freedom.
Who will fight for me?
Who will fight for those left behind?
Who will fight so I can be free
While this nation suffers and die.
I lost faith in this nation
As she slumbers and sleeps
While there's a generation
Trying to understand each other.
The Rainbow People wants rights because they are gay
The Indigenous People wants belongs to them
Everybody's got a handout in everyway
Pulling a nation further and further apart.
Arise people of this Union so brave
Arise and take note,
Have you forgotten the blessings God gave
While a nation sleeps away.
In the vast of people in one place,
Divided and strong
But one as a Union none to replace
Or bring about unity
This nation we live in
Yes, this nation we live in.
16 July 2022
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