Best Blackouts Poems

Dedication is to my Friends who avoid judging:

You are not the judge
But judge you must
For earthly matters and such
Leave hell to satan or demons
But Heaven...

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All these thoughts running around my head in a sadistic fashion 
sitting me down and force feeding misery to the shallow doll that is me.

What...

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A little girl with dark brown braids.
White blouse, gold-colored wool skirt 
and patent leather Mary Janes.
An only child with a wired haired fox 
terrier that...

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Loose Pocket Change



A whistle blew
And out went candlelight 
It’s wax ,cascaded and crystallized
It’s  tears, warm and heavy, emptied into the deep
A bouquet of wilted...

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We don't appreciate electricity until it's gone.
Especially at night when our lights can't be turned on.
Most of us take electricity for granted until we have...

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Fear is my unspoken words
Emotions linger in my mind
like free flying birds
but still my life is sad!

Unspoken words remain Undefeated
Just as the sky remains seated
As...

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I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that...

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soldier ...

I know I'll never understand
   how maimed you are inside ...
      so many wounds aren't visible
 ...

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They know every word from the Good Book,
but that doesn’t stop them from being hooked
to all kinds of mess.
A driver hits a pedestrian in broad...

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Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at...

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dark clouds overhead
with heavy rain unending…
the sea is claiming all

dark in the morning
foretells the rainstorm coming….
sojourner take care

spring rains bring flowers
dark rains of winter bring...

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"I baptized you in the name of Father 
and of the Son of the Holy Spirit...."

Our relationship has began...

I was welcomed to the life of...

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Time, to buy our poppies
To remember once again
remember those who died for us
And those who were just maimed
We must also remember
Those, who lost their loved...

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I’m from small town homes and rose bushes overgrown, with
Close-but-not-too-close-close-knit-crazies.
Where my best friend lives down the block and I make late night trips to her...

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In Kenya, they are called value-added taxes, “yani VAT”.
They change and increase every year
And are placed on everything under the sun.
The prices increase daily, 
But...

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