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Diangelo Tyler Nov 2018
The rain isn’t just for you
The sun doesn’t belong to me
We all grow from the same root
Planted in the soil beneath our feet
Though our flower may look different
It requires the same life necessities
In order to flourish, live and thrive
No matter how different we try to be  
Separation and division
Are man made realties
Sometime we just need to close our eyes
To blind us from these casualties
And prevent our heart from hardening
From the perception casted by falsities
Because the human truth is
We will all struggle to prosper in some way
If we don’t rally around community
Masse Oct 2018
Many spy as they are
Spy on everything I do
Yet they say, they hate me
I don’t believe that

Why do they have
Have to mind my life
While their don’t love me
They do love me a lot

No matter how their
Pretend but their love
Me so much

When they don’t see me
Just for a single day
For them is like an
Year without seeing me

So tell me
What do you think
This (that) is
If is not love
They love me
elle Oct 2018
the sunset
and it’s fury beating-
stretching across your face
restricting, conforming
thin plastic over space

this city dies every night
born again each morning to fresh laundry
and hot trash
steaming in the beaten streets

this city is beating
thousands of hearts clapping
at our own demise
muffled, behind closed doors
hidden, like the heart of our one, true
glorified,
dead God

in church halls and train station platforms
he sings at sunset and again each dawn
at every note his hand
reaching out to you
across impossible time

the wheels of shopping carts all screeching his name
his message, his orchestra

but our struggle, our bleeding
just for this love-
stifled and fleeting,
but
still beating in our stolen,
swollen hearts
Haifsa Oct 2018
Fading sunlight in the horizon
Falling leaves in breezy autumn
While nature paves way for hope
I wish this self to be lost and forgotten
Similar to tides, uncontrolled and heightened
A lone wolf yowling at her sight
Adjoined by the constant urge to be isolated
Fervent to cut loose the rope of gloom
Like a lost traveler in search of dwelling
A barren land thirsty for rain
Tired of this skin and mind
To devastation this heart is intertwined
What is lost darkens my soul
Your voice and memories cut deep through
Your brown hair blowing in wind
Hazel eyes sparkling in the sun
Echoes of your footsteps,
Deepness of your voice
Still surrounded by your existence
Harmed and scarred, I want to leave
Fragile lives and untamed hearts
Filled with fiery of desert storm
I want to run, away from your hue
Before I turn into an emotional massacre
Did I really deserve? Did you really want?
Let the leaves of our memory fall
And the blossoming florets wilt
Clinging to hope with intemperate self
Permit yourself to grow vines by own
Ashen and burnt, bury us in ground
Let youraelf grow either as roses or thorns
Amongst all this I realize what Rumi said
Nostalgia is a powerful witch indeed.
To new beginnings and old life, memories i have made and all the people i have loved, when the decision of moving on hits you feel nostalgic, a little hope that your past could have been better dies hard
Haifsa Oct 2018
I stepped out of my gloom

In the the gibberish street

Stomping steps, chattering mouth

Men running around, Women carrying children

Some making choices, others laughing in corner

I looked around more deeply

Sky seemed in motion, thousands birds flying

Pretty girls, Handsome men crossing me by

I stood there, my ripped pyjamas, over sized shirt

Uncombed hair, being a muddy puddle beside a green river

Unable to find, where do i fit?

Do i belong here, do i know them?
Sometimes i really feel an urge to escape and to run away. i feel like a misfit, a person who has not yet learned the ways of survival.
AW Sep 2018
I was born a warrior, even if I always faced defeat, I've never stopped to breathe. I've been trying hard and even if I failed, I've still been standing at last.

Over twenty years of sorrow and it seemed like nobody had some time to borrow. I had no goal in my life, but I've always been aiming to thrive. Many months, actually years, I've been wasting with wiping away my tears.

But every tear that I have dropped, was just another knowledge unlocked. A new chapter of my story, but all of them never ended with a sorry. My feelings were turned into stones and I could feel the pain passing through my bones.

Pain, tears and me, nobody will ever take us apart, because that's how it shall be. I've told myself that everything might change some day, and as long as my heart is beating I will stay.
AW Sep 2018
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If I write, then I usually stay up late night.
Most of the times, I don't think about good rhymes.
Sadly at last, I am wasting years thinking about my past.

There's something in my head, something on my mind.
Maybe it's another sad story which my brain just has designed.
But I see no reason to write it down, I rather have fun with this weird looking clown.
Everything feels so weird and strange, but at least I don't have to adapt to change.

I am nothing, but that's still something, not much not even a bit, but nothing.
A lot of these things might not make sense to you, but that's fine, not everything fits, just like my shoe.
Steve Page Sep 2018
Community -
it's not so much a social force
it's not out to coerce
it's an embrace
and in the end
that's what it's all about
it's a focus on people
it's a focal point on community
a common unity of those entwined
common folk connected and over-lapped
those over-wrapped by common loves
securely bound by common ties
occupying common ground
filling common space
with a wrap-around embrace
that lasts a tight hold longer
that ignores odd body odour
an embrace that lasts
a whole lot together
-  It's what we have
in common
Not sure about the structure of this one.  I compose on a phone screen a lot (rather than on paper or desktop), which leans me toward shorter lines and this has shorter lines than most of my wittering. Anyhow, I may try it again once I get to a desktop.  
#2 Now edited with slightly longer lines and a little reworking, but not much.
Big Virge Aug 2018
The thought of ... Communities ...
Interests Me .....

because communities NEED ... " UNITY " ...
If they're gonna succeed ...
In ... Keeping The ... " Peace " ... !!!

Peace and Love ...
Can Create ... Harmony ...

Harmony ...
Creates ... Peaceful Streets ...

Streets that require ...
LESS police ... !!!
Because Police are required ...
TOO FREQUENTLY ... !!!!!

Police NEED To ... Recognise ...
How They ... BE ... !!!
cos' Harassment of youth ...
Can UPSET Their ... " Chi " ... !!!

They ...
NEED TO feel .......... FREE ............
to be ... Who They BE ...
Without always fearing ... BRUTALITY ... !!!!!

This comes from ... " Patience " ...
MORE ... " Race Integration " ... !!!!

MORE ... Workshops for THEM ...

They NEED ... Education ... !!!!!

On how our youth are ...
Black Youngsters and Asians ...
and Youthful ... Caucasians ... !!!

Racists NEED .................................................................­................................ REMOVAL ...
from our ... " Police Stations " ... !!!!!

That WASN'T ... " A Dig " ... !!!
But ..........

ABUSE of ... " The Law " ...
Makes .....
Most People ... SICK ... !!!

and this can bring ... TROUBLE ...
when dealing with ... KIDS ... !!!

Communities NEED ...
to ... FIGHT OFF ............... *** - isi - on ... !!!!!

They NEED ... POSITIVE Leaders ...
With Singular ... Visions ...

People, who ... LISTEN ...
to Statements with ... Missions ... !!!!!
NOT People who have ...
"Narrow Minded" ... Opinions ... !!!

From groups run by ... " Muslims " ...
to ... groups run by ... " Christians " ...

DON'T Use Your Religion ...
to ... Build A ...................................................... Partition ... !!!!!

Use Your ... Religion ...
to UNIFY Children ...
cos' UNITY is ...
What Most People are ................................... Missing .......................... !!!

We NEED ... Education ...
That FEEDS ... Information ...
to Help us ................................... AVOID ...
Social .... "depravation" .... !!!!!

There is ... NO EXCUSE ...
for Children's ... STARVATION ... !!!!!!

Private Investment ...
Can Save populations ...
From ...... Discrimination ......

FORGET The ... " Playstation " ... !!!

The games of TODAY ...
NOW NEED ... Alterations ... !!!

Investment is ... NEEDED ...
In REAL .... Recreation .... !!!

Sports Clubs and Parks ...
This ISN'T ... A Call ...

But PLEASE ......
Hear My ... HARK ... !!!!!
cos' ... Those Who DON'T LISTEN ...
REMAIN ... "in the dark" ...

This piece has been ... Written ...
For Peoples' ... PROTECTION ...

Crime DOES NEED ... Inspection ... !!!

Our Youth NEED ... Direction ...
BEFORE They ... End Up Hearing ... !!!!!

"Son you've been sectioned !"

cos' violence can lead to ...
Psychiatrists Questions ... !!!!!!!

Violence is SPREADING ...
A DEADLY ... Infection ... !!!!!!!

THE CURE ... is ...

PREVENTION.

PEACE ... is a word ...
That DESERVES ...

One More Mention ... !!!!!

I Hope what you've read ...
INSPIRES ... " Reflection " ...

So to those who've read this ...
REFLECT ... Upon This ...

Communities WON'T GROW ...
Without ... STRONG CONNECTIONS ... !!!!!
Written upon request, for a community group who wanted something to cover youth crime, and other issues affecting their community ........
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