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YESTERDAY

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Yesterday Yesterday is blue begonias Planted in a purple vase beside my window Yesterday is a smiling moon in the sky It's a stainless cone on an empty shelf where there's an empty poems and prose to write, to read and to show dramatic lines. Yesterday is a lonely highway the road that leads to the lands of regret It's an artist with a quill, a board and colors Yesterday is a broken canvas, shattered dreams  a bent pine tree where birds sit carefree. Yesterday is the rumbling wave of the deep blue sea  a milestone founded under the long bridge where street children are tattered rags whirled by winds Yesterday is brown, pink, maroon and white It is an iroko tree where I was told a ghost lived where vultures took a turn to eat the dead Yesterday is the reggae song granny puts on repeat It is the thud of Mama's feet on blank nights when electricity is like fallen London bridge. Yesterday is a calendar, a date and a number It is a pallid gown worn by a trooping ghoul Yeste...

BUS OF RHYTHM

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If the rhyme of black is back slack and crack will work with clack if bat is said to be rhymed with cat matching heart and hat is not perfect chat don't take glow to match a stroll  when there's droll, scroll and roll why will you rhyme fold with coal have you forgotten foal and also goal? don't rhyme deep with pimp when there's sleep  end rhymes if not carefully used might bleep  and the poem will become a black sheep grief is not a perfect partner for give but thief and chief can allign with brief even though end rhyme is so common and there are some cheats we can summon to make it perfect you need something common common in words, spelling rhythm and sound like bound, ground, pound, found and round try to repeat these words twice or thrice rice, dice, mice, nice, slice and spice can you feel the rhythm in your tongue how it sings ding ding ding with no dung? poetry is a honey when the rhyme is clean  to the readers it'll be like a fitted jean pronounce the word o...