TO BEING ON BOARDTO BEING ON BOARD *
I can remember when
It was blackboards,
Which have been replaced
By their whiteboards;
Loaded with selective
Brainwashing videos:
Primarily coded to entertain
Rather than educate;
Particularly, if you’ve not chosen
Teaching as a labor of love:-
When asked how could I, at 83,
Teach without a whiteboard,
I simply replied that I was
A live retired living blackboard:
Programmed by...
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, black
Form: Prose
OF FULFILLING AND SEALING LIBERATIONYou can’t grasp liberation
With butterfinger hands;
Rather, you must grasp her
With an iron-fist grip;
Clasping her here forever:-
Thus, let us get to being about
Fulfilling and sealing our liberation,
Rather than just rapping about it:-
Rember, liberation is not given,
It is faithfully fought for and won:-
And the best part of the fight is,
It's not with those weapons given us
To freely...
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Categories:
allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
Woman Friend RequestA woman accepts your friend request
That means she accepted your friendship
Not your offer of courtship.
When a woman send you a friend request
It means she wants to be your friend
Not your girlfriend.
When a woman comment on your status
It means she is social not flirty.
When she likes your comments
It means...
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Categories:
friendship, perspective, relationship, woman,
Form: Prose
Healing The SoulHealing the soul is trusting God completely
This is a return to your integrity
In to your own silence
In to your own kindness
Holiness means accepting
All parts of yourself
Our reasonable service
Directing them to serve men and God....
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Categories:
character, health, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Painted Grin, Permanent MarkerHe sat in the corner of the moment,
pressed like a crease in a suit no longer worn,
faking laughter in a dialect he'd forgotten how to speak.
They called him Light-Bringer.
Said he lit the room like a dying bulb—
flickering, faulty, but still trying.
Applause was his oxygen,
but even lungs grow tired of breathing fire
when the room only...
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Categories:
sad,
Form: Prose
The Night StormNight fells suddenly sending rays of hope in the sky as
anxious hearts make music with their flute and the violin with its tender strings bring back memories of my youth. It is the part of me that no one can see but something bigger than me is always speaking to me and it is...
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Categories:
beautiful, business, community, culture,
Form: Prose
Noble ProfessionEach person has his own teacher and mentor
By their example, they inspire us to go through life
Attain and arrive to our peaks with dignity
To achieve success in everything we do
I want to express my sincere gratitude
To mentors and teachers for our knowledge
Teacher, mentor is a vocation
A destiny from God, a...
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Categories:
career, destiny, life,
Form: Prose
Real Aesthetic YouWe often communicate to the people
We use edited phrase to frank them
One of the most important asset is
To be by yourself, express who you are
Show yourself with beauty, genuine
No exaggerated aspiration, real you
No photoshopped soul, feel yourself
Doing the most wonderful unique you....
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Categories:
beauty, character, identity,
Form: Prose
Playing God
An eerie wind blows through the decaying bushes on the outskirts,
while a rusted door sways on its broken hinges.
The smell of ozone lingers from thunder cracking in the distance,
as heavy rain unleashes upon the abandoned prairie.
A broken soul wanders the expanse,
searching for any solace in...
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Categories:
adventure, corruption, future, poetry,
Form: Prose
Third party annotated bibliography by Tamanna Ferdous
Rene was composing a bangla song. After decades and motivations distant from a light year, he truly tried. Just with one concept. Photosynthesis is not something photogenic. Certainly not an easy subject, not quite popular that fame is blessed about.
"I think you need a break. Simply try an easier path."
Shanta wanted to cheer him up.
"Let...
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Categories:
prose, april,
Form: Prose Poetry
Interview with an AngelInterview With an Angel
Angel, please tell me your name.
Gabriel
What does angel mean and what do angels do?
Angel is Greek for messenger from God. We have
several functions. We deliver messages from God to
believers and sometimes non-believers.
For example; I was tasked with delivering the greatest
message to affect the world. I told Mary she would give birth
to the...
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Categories:
prose, angel,
Form: Prose Poetry
People Who Need People
People don't always need advice.
Sometimes all they need is:
a hand to support,
an ear to...
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Categories:
caregiving, love, people,
Form: Prose
Meat MarketJenny leaned against the counter, counting the stitches where Ariana’s arm had been severed, each segment arranged in clinical precision beneath the glass. The overhead lights hummed, sterile and white, reflecting off the muscle striations, the fine marbling of fat. The attendant, masked and impassive, weighed the cost. A rib’s soft curve. A shoulder blade,...
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Categories:
america, cute love, dark,
Form: Prose
JERICHO AWAKENINGDeception has always been
A strategy and ally of injustice;
Veiling its ruthless deeds,
And shifting attention
From aged-old atrocities,
While living and percolating
Behind invisible Jericho walls:-
Let not the reality
Of new Jericho borders
Blind and deceive us;
Legislative freedom and unity
For so-called refugees
Remain at hand and
Our struggle to be masters
Of ourselves continues,
Lease we be caged and considered
Refugees in this, our...
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Categories:
allegory, america, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Prose
I Know I Am WrongIt’s shameful, the way I clutch.
Like a child with a broken toy,
believing if I just hug it tight enough,
it’ll fix itself.
I know people aren’t possessions.
But tell that to the part of me
that has only known love as something
that gets taken
just when I start to believe it’s mine.
I rot with envy when he smiles at someone...
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Categories:
deep, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Prose
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