Best Long Faced Poems

Another haunted night, I watch 
raindrops fall from consolatory words,
track each plane flying south, and 
I think of you.
My lungs empty a lonely sigh…
I bullet...

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Questions arise as I walk with them -
finding contradictions of formality and intimacy,
darkness and light, the tangible and ethereal - 
where a sunset meets moon...

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It had only been a few days
Still unfamiliar with my grief, (it was my first time, you see...)
I was such a novice to the proper...

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Vertically they have gone to see the horizon
dividing into two parallel paths of iron and stone
nor to return or to encounter
sometimes, only crease cross
to pass...

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Oh father of mine - who long has withstood
trials to which I can’t even relate -
how sad you must feel –  how misunderstood.
On your...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XVIII

IF you pull a long dopey face
The least one can in this case say
You don't belong to...

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By Laura D
August 26, 2016

Give me the strength to carry through
The times you knew the audience was out of view
When you're alone and crying out...

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It's my advice to you guys:  before you venture out shopping,
fill your wallet with enough cash, or check the balance
on your credit or debit...

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Just because love came around one day
It was pleasing to the eye and touch 
Did not ask much
Gave what was needed 
Without the study dust
Mesmerized
Gave...

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A stony gut mi come from
Long march through the bruising night
Vex in mi soul without rum
Me in dis Morant Bay bright
Deh yah since broad day...

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Plastic for garment hopeful Mc Guyver
        Privileged upbringing Mum funded Uni
       ...

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-The King's Dead-

Suddenly, I see. Chicken pox, is full of bandwagons.

Not the biggest reach for a climb to mount Everest.

It’s a bold statement with eternal...

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Eroding names 
on long-faced headstones.
Graves marooned
in a patch of the past
while 2019 blares unseeing
around the forgotten lot.

An old-fangled America
tucked between gas station and strip mall,
a...

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I’m at the center of war
I’m afraid of my life in fear
I’ve engaged in a battle fist
Oh, how I so much desire a relief 

Soldiers...

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Eroding names on long-faced headstones,
a small graveyard marooned on a patch of past;
long rooted and confined while beside it
2022 blares unseeing past the forgotten lot.

An...

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