http://slow.writerscafe.org/Banks256 The original writings of author Lenard L. Banks III en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776016687 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 Chapter One: Between What’s Told and What’s KeptI don’t know how my parents met.And maybe that’s not something I was ever meant to know.Some stories belong only to the people who lived them. They carry details too fragile, too complicated, or too heavy to be passed .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/3130197/ Autobiography http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/3130196/ Only NeededShe never wanted him, she only needed him, her smile was lost and her inner light was dim. Her past love bum rushed, leaving her heart crushed, nothing remain of it but mush.Here he was ready to love and hold but found a broken soul, he was no coward to the challenge but stood .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/1937604/ Quote http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/1875503/ Life is choices. If you want a better life, make better choices. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/1694500/ There is no need to seek the complexity of love, If you can't master the simplicity of friendship. ~Lenard L. Banks III http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/1692028/ Capture by endless possibilities, drowning in loving memories, your smile takes me on a natural high, special memories that are only shared between you and I, let's not let this love pass us by. .. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/1137492/ This poem is about how being in bad relationships and losing women doesn't be in vain but how it helps you be a good or better man for the next woman. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/820319/ I'm just trying new ideas here. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/686240/ A love like this is almost impossible to find,we are so in sync our heart beats at the same time,I was swept off my feet, your maturity reminds me notto run the streets, our bodies move in perfect unisonthe natural rhythm we possess is impossible to teach, you finish my sentences.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/684385/ NEWLY REVISED! This poem was written because I always see young women who feel ugly inside and out and NEED a man at all times. Whether it's you or someone else is not a issue, she just needs any man. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/680779/ This is about a man not loving the woman but him loving her powerful love for him. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/680297/ We had no similarities we were more like night and day, It was your smile that caught my eye but your soul that made me stay, yes indeed it was your soul, you left and took a piece of me but you could of stayed and had me whole, we had nothing in common we were like fire and ice, it was your body th.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/678929/ I know my writings are very blunt but how I write is how I am...BLUNT. Sometimes our poems are better at a simpler form. Sometimes we lose our points and audience when we inject complexity. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/675267/ This poem was inspired by: My life and Tupac Shakur's poem "The Rose That Grew From Concrete" I wrote this back in 2006. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/673729/ Love and lost http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/673606/ Love http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/Banks256/673383/