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Does Anyone Care
by Carol Ali
Little boy sitting in the park, no coat, no shoes, it's 20 degrees today
Old man with a sign, hungry, nothing to eat today
Little girl home
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Bullying
by Bob Taub
Bullying
Bullying is the work of a troubled mind
He or She friends cannot find
Many of them suffer at home from abuse
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Moral Of The Story-Gendercide
by Brian Pierre-Alexander
The leaks are out
The moral of the story shout
You talk about you care
But in truth and in fact you fear
He, she, them, who gov-over-men
Neglect,
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Stubborn
by Gillyan Gilchrist
Is a stick broke Inna har ears or piece a wood. This likkle gyal nuh listen innu, me tell har stop walk round wid
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Growth
by Adelaine Lowe
Growth by Adelaine Lowe
For once I am happy
Yes, that may be true.
Still, nobody can bring me down
Quite like you do.
I will still cry I
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You Never Broke Me
by Caroline Coyle
YOU NEVER BROKE ME????
My mind can be a dark place to contend with each day. While raising my beautiful children I locked these thoughts away.
I
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Calvary
by Rebekah Gibson
Calvary
A glimpse of Calvary let me see,
Thine agony Thou suffered for me
Redemption for all Thine goal
Thou sheddest Thy precious blood
To ransom the darkest soul
Upon
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The Story In My Head (II)
by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade
I look down and I don't recognize myself
I tried to push my legs to go faster
but I guess theirs was faster than mine
Pushed
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refugee
by amaris vazquez
Refugee... a person who has been forced to leave their country. Forced to leave in order to escape war and persecution, leaving so their kids
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Blame It On The Money
by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade
Look at our daughters
They now show no ill in laying with men old as their fathers
Look at our sons
Nothing is holding them
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An Angry Girl
by Briana Scarbrough
She wakes up in the morning hoping for a new day. In her mind everything's good, everyting's going her way. But when she opens her
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The Story In My Head
by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade
THE STORY IN MY HEAD
(Sounds Of Silence)
Would I have had it any better in life?
Why would it be me?
Why would he hurt
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She was abused
by Alishah Ali
I see her as a beautiful butterfly spreading colors wherever she flies
Those sparkling eyes of her can light up the darken sky
Giving us all tears,
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fool me once
by Tosanmi Gbenebitse-daniel
FOOL ME ONCE
I was obsessed, with friendship
I laid the foundation of my life, around it
Joy was continually aboard with me, even in township
I was
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Abandoned
by Debbie Walker
I’ve lost it all
Memories choke the breath that dies to cry for help
Into silence I've become
No one saves me from the wounded
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Sisalindile!
by Zakhele Mncwango
Iphi le ngane eyazalwayo?
Iphi yonke lento esayethenjiswa?
Ithemba lenjabulo salifumbathiswa.
Namanje sisalubambile lolo donga.
Miningi kakhulu manje le minyaka
Kwabulaw' ubandlululo kuleli
Ukuz' engacindezel' unkululeko
Le ngane eyayizozalwa.
Nanamuhla kusefana nakuqala.
Iph' inkululeko?
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Universal inversion
by Florence Ezekiel
Cursed love - puzzled world
chock full of anguish and misery
one SARAH-angel faced
and MICHAEL-hosea dealt with
just as Francine rivers had depicted
in her ink. Hearts of men
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Dogmatic
by Waveney Lander-Walters
Dogmatic
We must never kill the spiders
While, they wove their words into the likeness of thunder
You only watch the news to find out<>
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Lustful Youth
by Tosanmi Gbenebitse-daniel
LUSTFUL YOUTH
The world is filled with vanities
The lust of the eyes and flesh in entirety
Behold how the great and mighty has fallen
Because of beautiful
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When Our Love Has Gone And Left Us
by Waveney Lander-Walters
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Sex is To Blame
by Brian Sluga
Let’s just continue on
sexual ambiguity lives
women like the alpha male
pushing boundaries
demons of a childhood
shame and self-blame
defying my authority
testing my affection
the scene is set
everybody around me
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Stronger
by ADEBAYO KEHINDE
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Let The Child Out
by Bob Taub
LET THE CHILD OUT
My life was over before it started
I spent my childhood brokenhearted,
My parents didn’t treat me as they should,
When I was still in
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Bigotry
by Bob Taub
BIGOTRY
The world would be a better place
If people would respect each others race
There are many people that names do call
They are nothing but
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No More
by Savannah Otto
No more covering my mouth to muffle my screams
No more convincing me it's okay when it isn't
No more "Shh they don't have to
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