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if we were all one tribe
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…..every person the whole world over…..
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if we joined together in song
to greet the rising sun
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our voices would carry
around the world
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and end where the song had begun
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originally posted 6 May 2010
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Filed under NaBloPoMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, Post-A-Day2012, redux, the sun, verse
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defiant!
doesn’t mean
i’m not afraid
but
fuck my fears!
i’m gonna live
create
write
sing
dance
get the demons out
any way i can
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defiant!
doesn’t mean
i’m not afraid
but
fuck my fears!
i’m gonna keep tryin’
to be aware
to pay attention
to really care
to give my all
chase the demons away
with kindness
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defiant!
doesn’t mean
i’m not afraid
but
fuck my fears!
i’m not alone
if i fall down
there’s a hand
reaching out
to help me up
beat the demons off
push ‘em away
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defiant!
doesn’t mean
i’m not afraid
but
fuck my fears!
i’m still here
i’ve had enough
of giving in to my fears
sabotaging myself
gonna make a change
ignore the demons
turn my back
and walk away
into my future
defiant!
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One Stop Poetry the Arts and Graffiti #streetart
at One Stop Poetry
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originally posted 10 June 2011
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photograph of girl dancing with green light by Eric Hamilton
some rights reserved
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all other photographs and images from One Stop Poetry the Arts and Graffiti #streetart
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i recommend listening to the song while reading the poem as i was listening to it as i wrote. i don’t know much about Eminem’s work, but my muse led me to this song and i feel it fits in perfectly with the feeling of my poem and ~ maybe ~ relates to how a graffiti artist feels at times, i don’t know.
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Filed under poetry, music, music video, NaBloPoMo, National Poetry Month, one stop poetry, Post-A-Day2012, redux, verse
Wind God by Ogata Korin
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as the wind blows chill
and the willow weeps
as day turns to night
and half the world sleeps
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as the sun and moon
chase each other ’round the sky
as the stars just watch
never wondering why
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as time wanders by
because it can’t stand still
life doesn’t stop
and it never will
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i turn in my grave
unnoticed by all
my death meant nothing
no one heeds my call
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as the earth keeps turning
my soul now sleeps
as the wind blows chill
and the willow weeps
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originally posted 15 March 2011
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Filed under NaBloPoMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, Post-A-Day2012, redux, the moon, the stars, the sun, verse
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i am the earth mother
my brother, the Sun
my sister, the Moon
my birthing duties are now done
four children came from my womb
but don’t dare ask me the name of their sire
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i am the earth mother
i taught the birds to sing and bees to sting
i taught the wind to howl
i named the seasons ~ first lovely spring
then burning summer… wind-swept autumn…
and last the cold, cold winter i so admire
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i am the earth mother
moonbeams caress you when i sleep
sunshine warms you when i smile
raindrops fall upon you when i weep
thunder warns of my displeasure…
i wield lightning bolts in my ire
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i am the earth mother
once i was worshipped
and treated with respect
now my treasures have all been stripped
…you’d best be warned …don’t piss me off
or your future will be dire
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“Earth Mother”
Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner and Grace Slick
{environmental song from 1971 soon after the first Earth Day}
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originally posted 21 March 2010
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Filed under NaBloPoMo, National Poetry Month, poetry, Post-A-Day2012, verse
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1914
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all by my self
is this truly my fate?
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when faced with choices
my indecision
determined
which direction i’d take
if we don’t move
forward
when we have the option
we are choosing
to live in the past
alone
i listened to my fears
never
to take the chance
that love could succeed
now… all by my self
regretting the roads not taken
a cliché, but true
too late to change
the indecisions made
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{please take the time to listen to the music video. always one of my favorite songs, this version gave me shivers.}
“All by Myself” by Charice Pempengco
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originally posted 14 July 2011
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