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Melancholy Kaytee	Like a black slip sliding down my naked body There is sliver of happiness under that layer of gloom For...	Rate it (4.93 / 16 votes)
No Longer yours to keep Janet H Stafford	This hole I am in growing black and...	Rate it (4.92 / 13 votes)
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost	In leaves no step had trodden...	Rate it (4.39 / 142 votes)
I HAVE BECOME THE STORY TELLER mad hippie poet	voices and came out with my wings charred in...	Rate it (4.70 / 10 votes)
Raven’s Gift Chris E Morganroth IV	There lived a raven, black as the night, Whose wings caught stars, eyes dark pools of...	Rate it (5.00 / 6 votes)
Scratches and Stones Teri	The trees have scratches, black and...	Rate it (5.00 / 6 votes)
Season's Jilting Je Woo Han	In a world of black and white, the blue he saw offered no...	Rate it (5.00 / 6 votes)
The homeless man. Laura Sanders	himself- slumped over, grimy, black teethe, tatty...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
The Insomniac's Gospel Jon Saviours	At the all-night diner, you order coffee black as a new...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
The Outlaw John M. Broadhead	the tiger’s path appeared the figure dressed in...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
The Poem That Never Ends Jessica Wheeler	I painted with black ink until the summer sun turned on, then spilled a final line to start...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
Train 11 Leaving Portland Gregory Baranoff	A white woman dressed in black shorts, black t-shirt and in sandals Waving hello or bon voyage At the...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
War Torn Steven Dupere	Peppered black with fading names In memory of those who paid the price Of war's barbaric games In...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
We Cry Together Frederick Joseph	A black hole I cannot save her...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
Leaves Talia Garza Hernandez	are hanging everywhere, like the black birds I asked for a summer midnight, instead I received autumn’s afternoon, a still strong...	Rate it (4.83 / 6 votes)
The Hill We Climb Amanda Gorman	of a country and a time, where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only...	Rate it (4.62 / 8 votes)
A Love Story or the end of the world? Amanda East	power and threw him far away to be alone in a black abyss...	Rate it (5.01 / 4 votes)
A child meant to die Musfira Dar	the demons of the...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Colours of Unity Niranjan Selvadurai	Two men, one white and one black, Locked in battle, then dying on a...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Dear Grandma John W. May	Noiseless, Black, Slow, it moved right overhead Without a rumble, a wave, or...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
God is needed in the hood Latin X	Giving black and brown lives a chance at...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
God’s child Latin X	To help empower a black and brown...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Happy Halloween! Susan Mayer Brumel	And dance in skies of black bonbons, Lighting roofs of caramel thatch Bewitching music plays beneath The...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Letter to my unborn child Uhunoma Leonard Iyahen	them the poet is neither black nor white man ,nor slave nor king, Say i am just a dad, a real good one at...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
No Shame Hope Harrison	And help someone whose night is...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)

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