History First Love Poems

"Jailhouse Rock," pocket combs
Jokes at the burger joint
Jiving to "Jitterbug"
Johnny Cash for a dime
Jumbo milkshake, two straws
Just one more song and dance
Journey's hit, "Faithfully"

9-12-2023...

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I am just dragging around the town carrying this heavy weight in my body when my normal weight is a hundred and ten pounds and...

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I write this piece for no one to see,
For iam to coward to admit what I feel
Pain, a heartache so deep it leaves me craving...

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I never knew growing together could bond us for life
For as long as I can remember you were my life
When everyone wanted to push me...

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We are all but a grain of sand , a picture of colourful dunes born of our  history 
Without which we would have nought...

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I usually hate blue eyes - sharp and cold.
Why I fell into yours, couldn’t be told.
This web we are now both in,
Shouldn’t, but it does,...

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My life
My heart
My honour 
My light
My cares
My mind
My thoughts
My lies
My truth
My pride
My dreams
My reasons
My history
My fears
My fight
My darkness
My feelings
My home
My hopes
My soul
My future
My money
My time

Combined

I...

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“Your brown eyes are like candlelight in the dark of the night.....
 Inside an archaeological library........
Do you see me looking at them as a historical...

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Old bones of my last feast 
lost and sold to the dust of ages 
collect in cryptic skulls 
of entities that sit and pray 
worship...

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Wooden half-desk folded down into place
Textbook open, pencil poised
Einstein poster on the wall observing
Equations flying across the blackboard
Cumulonimbus clouds of chalk dust 
Float across the...

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I remember your childlike enthusiasm,
when you presented the bracelet to me.
I smiled at your innocence,
I cried at your benevolence.

It wasn't made of gold or silver,
yet...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Dark -thirty

I don't know what time it is. 
I know work ended, 
at least the place I get paid, 
to do the things they need...

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Sometimes I feel I know nothing about life

But I do know something about Kenya

I come from the gustily, hilly terrains of rural Ingavira

Where huts form...

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Scales to Measure

We are not all equal. 
Some can dance on a wire...
above the crowd, 
Some can swim...
all the way to China. 
While others,
make food...

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