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Who

When I as young

Only a teen

I started to read

Some of poetry

Most I found

I did not like

Many poets

And did I read

Finding few

Who spoke to me

But I found one

I really liked

And I saw him

Everywhere

He wrote poems

He wrote songs

He wrote books

Oh so many

Oh he did

Speak to me

Yet when I look

On poet lists

He name is never

There to see

He sold millions

And won awards

But some how

He is not to be found

Looking for poets

Who were good

There are lists

Where he won’t be found

As I look for

The poets of today

And his name

You will not find

Some how he is not

Someone to be named

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Black Safety

Fear eats within my soul
	unknown moments where failure is
agony collapses giving away
	falling swiftly downward stopping hard

black iron lines angles down
	parallels joined in molten bonds
repeating rolls identical bars
	anchors are driven securing strong

jagged sharp edges down to doom
	to bite hard into yielding flesh
fear of slipping stumbling falls
	pounding apart in trembling flesh

seizing gripping clinging strong
	carefully edging descending down
memories of failure weaken resolve
	need to forces onward going down

straight lines bend in weakening curves
	strength is yielding giving away
fear is rebounding eating away
	resolve is weakening yielding to fear

careful slow movement continues down
	nearing an end carefully sought
freeing from dread at journeys end
	escaping too briefly at dangers end

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Neighborhood

There was a day
 Long ago
Then we knew
 Who our neighbor was
They were friends
 And we were close
And we would
 Help our neighbor out
They were there
 In our need
You could always
 Count on them
Those days are gone
 Now we don’t
Ever know their name
 And never talk
A neighborhood is
 Just where we live
Rows of strangers


Living alone

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Brother

In the cold of the night
as the cold wind does blow
under the far away stars
I walk in the dark

my footsteps empty sound
breathe clouds in the air
the night cuts to the bone
as I cry out the words

I have a brother
we're of the same flesh
our blood is the same
I have a brother

my heart does ache
my tears to flow
I know it is true
he is there somewhere
 
once he was here
walked by my side
together we were
for ever more

I have a brother
somehow I would know
if he was gone
somehow I would know
 
darkness has no answer
the night has no end
cold wind cuts through me
I walk alone

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Name of Art

A poet I was
‘Cause I wrote
Words so nice
Flowing lines
Easy and clear
Images that 
You could almost see
Paint with words
A world  so dear
Then I learned
To my horror
This is not
What poems should be
They need words
You've never seen
Linked together
Without a care
Blank lines


 


 
For no reason
 

               Formatting

  That   makes no sense

If you can them
Understand
The poet failed
It will never work
Now I know why
Poetry is dead
Poets killed it
In the name of art

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A Dream

The world I see
 I do not like
There is much
 I would change
Filled with hope
 I close my eyes
And I wish that
 It will be
Filled with love
 For all mankind
And become
 Quite color blind
Men and women
 Both can dream
The same dream
 For both of them
Peace and plenty
 For everyone
Is this too much
 To great a dream
I open my eyes
 With hope to see
A dream that
  We could see

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The Preacher

Long ago back in the day

When my beard was full

My hair wasn’t gray

Had a bike and used to ride

Had a friend from LA

He had been to Nam

Had worn as badge

Tough as nails hard as steel

One day word came around

He was down and feelin’ bad

Going to kill him self

And anyone who came around

A friend is a friend

A good one is hard to find

And there’s a bond

You don’t set aside

I got my bike

And I set off

Wondering if so I be dead

Knock on his door

And waited in dread

He opened the door

And looked me in the eye

If you’re going to kill yourself

Can I have your bike

He smiled and said

You wouldn’t want that

It got too many problems

I just wanted

To see who were my friends

 

Come on inside

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Braver Man

He lived hard
 Lived fast
But luck was
 Rarely his
He got hurt
 Many times
And with time
 The pain grew
Till one day
 He did do
Some act I
 Could never do
Took a gun
 With one shot
Stopped the pain
 Made it end
That I could
 Never do
He was
 A braver man

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Eyes Closed

With my eyes closed
I cannot see
the color of their skin
if they’re fat or thin
my judgments fall away
and who I think they are
I must talk with them
and listen to their words
to know who they are

with my eyes closed
when I hear their cries
of their hunger and their pains
and hear their joyful songs
when they laugh with joy
then they are the same

just like you and I
when I listen to them
they are the very same
when I close my eyes

when I close my eyes
and when I listen to them
we are the very same
there is not them and I

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Joye

In my life
 There have been times
Where I wish
 I could have done more
Where I would
 But I as not allowed
They walked
 A path very narrow
From which
 They would turn
As if
 They had blinders on
Looking only
 Straight ahead the sides did not see
There were
 Things I would have shown
But they
 Would not let me
What they
 Sought could not be
The way
 They wanted it to be
I would
 Have helped another way
Their dream
 Could have then came true
I turned
 From them long ago
I wanted
 To find joy with them
I wanted
 Them to find their dream
But on
  Their path it could never be