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No matter their age, some celebrities have old souls; poems written by celebrity poets and your favorite celebrities' favorite poems.
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Poetry of the Lizard King
You may know him as Mr. Mojo Risin, the psychedelic rock god of The Doors or you may know him as just a disturbing and strange artist who joined the famed 27 Club with his death on July 3, 1971. Both accounts would be true. Love him or hate him, James Douglas Morrison created a counter culture movement of rage that filled the 60s in stark opposition to the positive message of love from contemporaries John Lennon. Instead, Morrison tapped into the collective conscious of a generation enraged and disturbed by its wars and conspiracies and failures. Its betrayals.
Bryana FernPublished 4 years ago in Poets Lady Di
At 5ft 10 tall with stunning beauty This angel stunned the world With her duty. A young Diana did marry a Prince Charles
Janelle barkerPublished 4 years ago in PoetsPoetry to help through a pandemic
Pandemic What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling.
Sophia GenoPublished 4 years ago in PoetsWarsan Shire
Warsan shire is a London raised poet/writer and teacher of East African heritage. One of the most intriguing characteristics of her writing is her choice to be a voice for the voiceless. The essence of her work can be described as raw, and touches on hints of nostalgia from the perspective of those who have lost their homes, lives, and national value as a result of war. Despite the fact that she doesn’t have a personal experience with war, post-war trauma, loss, immigration and all the horror tales in between that are experienced by refugees. Her words paint vivid and detailed images of these scenarios.
"Hold Your Own" she said...
When I write poetry it is like an unconscious spiel of emotion, of thought, of... everything. Some writers have an endless list of other writers who inspire them. While I’m sure I do have this in my subconscious somewhere, I never really consciously acknowledge who they were or why they inspired me. Not really, not truly. I mean, of course there are the classics; Shakespeare, Bronte, Joyce, Austin; but nobody ever really spoke to me. Not until I first heard the poetry, the spoken word, of Kate Tempest.
Celious BlancPublished 4 years ago in PoetsHold your own
The power of an example I grew up in a religion where a lot of women around me were stifled, bound to the patriarchal head of the house – the husband. My mum did have a different way of life, but I was separated from her when I was quite young. This is because her mental disorder (and other obscure reasons lost to the past) caused her to do truly unspeakably twisted things; I’ve only ever been able to see her as a warning. She had 6 children to 3 different fathers, and my brother and I were separated from my older sisters after a tight relationship as kids. So I wouldn’t say I had a relatable female role model growing up. ( Now I do, including my two older sisters- and I’m so thankful to have been reunited with them! )
In The Name of Sanchez: Women Who Inspire.
The first time I read Sonia Sanchez my soul combusted. I must have been about seven. I was sitting on the floor in my room, in the middle of my pile of books, and from the first sentence, I could feel her words kissing my face. It felt like I was coming home again but coming back to something I had never known before. Every single time I read her work, I feel it all over again. She has saved my life more than once.
Doriana DiazPublished 4 years ago in PoetsThe Best
Walk around by myself, most people need an entourage, When I started out I had it embedded in that I wouldn’t need the team,
Diamond Dreams MovementPublished 4 years ago in PoetsThe Turkish Dervishes
They processed in slowly to the haunting music of Ney, Sas, and Drum. Like a funeral dirge, the Dervishes move solomly, wearing the tombstone Sika and the black funeral shroud. After four circuits around the Teka, the Dirvishes bowed deeply, then, dropped their black shrouds to reaveal a white robe which flared out as they began to turn.
Shamsuddin Jim Norton+*Published 4 years ago in PoetsBILLY JEAN..
BILLY JEAN She had a silken way of walking.. More like.. an ambulatory exhibition of wanton fascination, aimed at the visual..
Victor MendezPublished 4 years ago in PoetsTaylor Swift?
I have come to a conclusion all amidst this confusion my past is not a tragedy but a thing that's guiding me towards an even greater fate
Zachary BoulangerPublished 5 years ago in PoetsOh My God... Yes!
Something about Tribe, "right's all life's wrongs." The melodic flow of Phife, Q-Tip, Ali-Shaheed, JarobiSwear-to-God..."Changed my life!"Ever since, The People's Instinctive Travels and The Paths of Rhythm...
©I.M. "That Girl," Inure MusePublished 5 years ago in Poets