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Happy Holidays and Happy New Years ,to you and Family "2022"
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Harsh Summer
Extends to Monsoon
Barren fields wait for sowing
Farmer's family keeps watching him
Before he thinks otherwise
The daughters elope
The sons earn.
- Shrineetee Kar
on 28.05.2015 for the contest
'Giveme a Sign' by nette onclaud
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Wish I was rich,with a family,a wife,no criminal record,no guns,no knives..2 point 4 children,drive a nice car,no dealing in alleys,no propping up bars...family outings,trips to the beach,I feel like im falling,outwards I reach..oneday ill be diffrent,a Completly changed man,no worries,no cares,my life I will plan..
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I wish that he would understand,
How much I really love him,
That I pray for him all of the time.
As the time winds,
I want him to be the best man
That he can be for him and me.
So that one day maybe,
We will be a real family.
His presence presents a
Remarkable loving resin.
He touches my heart,
Every time he touches me.
We have a unique bond.
When we make love,
It feels so right.
I’ll be honored for one day,
To be his wife.
I pray that he understands,
That I really truly deeply,
Love my man.
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This is poem is dedicated to my father.
Although we differ in how
We see some areas of life
You are my father.
The one that supported
A family with many sacrifices
Gave advice and support
Through my life.
Stand besides me in
Health and sickness.
Thank you for being my Father.
For Stand By Your By Man Ladies Only Contest.
Inspired by Silent One
Fourth Place
9-19-2015
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DO WELL
DO WELL, NEVER FAIL
DON’T HURT, ALWAYS ALERT
DON’T GO BACK, ALWAYS COME ON ATTACK
WELFARE EVERY BODY, DO WORK AFTER STUDY
MAKE POSSITIVE, NO NEGATIVE
DO WELL, NEVER FAIL
PREPARE TO HELP ALWAYS, NO MENTION ANY AGE
UP AND DOWN PART OF LIFE, DON’T WORRY ENJOY LIFE
DO GOOD, MAKE SMART
DON’T CHEAT TO ANY, LIFE IS NOT MORE AND MANY
DO WELL, NEVER FAIL
GIVE TIME TO YOUR FAMILY
UTILISE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY
DON’T INSULT, RESPECT ALWAYS
DON’T IGNORE, INTENTION ALWAYS
GUIDE PROPER TO EVERY BODY
DON’T MISGUIDE TO ANY BODY
DO WELL, NEVER FAIL
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When I first saw you
I never expected we would get this far
When we first did hangout
I never expected you to enjoy being with me
When we first went out to eat
I'd never expected you to take me to my favorite place
When I first came to your family home
I never expected to touch your hand nor
I never expected to of been kissed by you under the stars
When we went to the top of the world
I never expected I would want to cuddle you
When you first stayed over I didn't expect anything....
When we became a couple
I never expected that I would ever fall for someone...
But I did;
You.
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You came into my life in an instant
You stole my heart
I became the person I was before
I love your crazy life and family
I couldn't ask for a better place to be
Then right here with you.
Thank you for letting me be a part of it
From the kids
From all the cats
To all the dogs
I love it all
Fills my heart with nothing but happiness and joy
I really wouldn't change you nor your family for the world
You guys mean everything to me
Even though I only known you for a week and living together for few days
I finally feel like
I've found a place I could call home
Even though we are just friends.
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We went from summer time crushes while playing in the park.
Remember sitting on my porch when days became dark?
To romancing through our twenties while still becoming ourselves.
Had struggles, left and returned because we knew we were fooling ourselves.
Fights caused from our family norms that weren't the same
Fighting for our existence battled through the shame and blame.
We overcame our struggles with passion and snuggles.
Now we own a home and share child with your last name.
Young faces now wrinkled, hairs turning grey ...
Hope our lover is eternal and you feel the same way.
Love me eternally.
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Look at what ya do to me
I dont deserve, the stress your causing me.
I need to breathe, Your Suffocating me.
I cant take what your doin' anymore.
So, I called it off, I called off everything... cuz i cant take it anymore.
ya had your chance and you blew it,
Pics on your phone that ya tried to hide,
Blaming me for things and I didn't know why.
You were an ass to my family,
Ya talked to my sister more than you talked to me.
You're in denial, and I'm not talking Egypt,
Cuz you just... been.. RE-JECT-ED...
But now I moved on and I'm happy
and all the time I feel like i'm in paradise.
For me this aint the end, it's the beginning.
and as for you..... good RIDDENS!
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Hiding You
Why do I have to hide you in the shadows?
Why can’t I tell everyone about you?
Why can’t I tell them how good you are to me?
How much you love me, and how much I love you.
How you opened up my heart to a new love and a new
beginning to life.
I don’t understand why they judge me?
To be happy is all I ask for, to be with you.
Why do I have to hide you like I am ashamed of you?
Why is your family happy for us?
Why not mine?
Should I say, forget it all, or should I love you with everything in me.
Should I be happy no matter what?
Should I follow my heart for the first time and not worry about being judged or anything else?
In the shadows you are waiting.
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Bubblicious, not Bubble Yum
was my dad's favorite bubble gum.
Outperforming the second best,
on the coffee table it would rest
like a rubber wad between meals.
(Just one of dad's daily ordeals.)
Chomp, chomp, he'd continue the same,
whether reading or watching a ball game.
Then it'd rest on the coffee table
while he'd jog, gum strong and stable.
Not behind ears, where hair could cling,
not stuck on plates or any such thing.
On the coffee table it would be
as comfortable as family.
Grum, grum, upon the gum he'd graze,
each piece lasting two whole days.
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Long, the coffee table's been laid bare,
save waxy steaks and a vacant stare.
3/9/2021
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When I think back...
I see your eyes on me across the room,
The way your lips slowly curve into a happy smile,
Your strong arms holding a child,
And I think back...
Do you remember being the "Big Man" on campus back then?
Or the easy ways of the women you've held?
The loving hearts that you've shuttered and broke?
And I think back...
Do you remember those secret games we once played?
Or the silent pleas to the Lord that you've made?
The loving family you've had and destroyed?
And I think back...
And I think back to the way things are and smile,
And I think back to the way you were and I know,
And I think back to the man you've become and I love you,
And I thank back...then I thank God.
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Today is your wedding and you will look your most beautiful.
He will turn around with tears because you are so special to him.
May love be the first and last thought of your day.
You will have struggles, but each struggle comes with a gift. These gifts may be at first hard to see at first, but they will make you stronger.
Your love and life will be transformed as you go through life hand in hand, wondering what is next because living life is more than your dreams.
May your milestones in life are those working together as a family.
May the only scars you see in life being in the hands from heaven, holding you up on your journey.
Edward J Ebbs - October 6, 2021
Copyright © Edward Ebbs | Year Posted 2021
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Your thought not to hate
But why I hate you so much
Lord please come into my heart
My heart has hardened
She left me
Left me with the boys
I loved her
But she loved the bottle
Smoke
Party
Streets
Friends
She was unloyal
Had my questions DNA
But my genes run deep
Lord bring forgiveness in my heart
I want to break her down
I wish she drop dead
No I don't
Lord help me please
How could she
I wanted to be family
Be a man
Do right by her
5 years no calls
Letters
Visits
Now you expecting again
How dare you
Lord bless her soul
Will you abandon
This one
I pray not
Lord take this hostility
Out my spirit
Take it out
This built up anger
Remove it
Lord my heart hardened
-Patrice Jackson and Ricky Jackson
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Your time of birth is almost here
It seems so far, yet so near
You are my son, my special little boy
You are my happiness and all my joy
We have so much to look forward to
So many new adventures for me and you
Your smiles, your laughs, my gentle touch
Me holding and loving you oh so much
My world now revolves around you
My every thoughy of happiness and love is so true
To know you are growing inside of me
Makes me realize what I want to see
And that is you, so tiny in my arms
Knowing that, there will be no harm
Only excitement, happiness, and joy
Knowing me and your daddy are finally seeing our little boy
The little boy we've waited so long for
We would never wish for nothing more
Just you, your daddy, and me
Being our own special family
7/10/15
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She was hurting but yet in advance
She is afraid to call out his name
She prayed to God everyday
Why is she here why is she afraid
She has imagined to leave this place
Searching for a more universal meeting place
New place to serve the Lord
A place to mend her family
And this place her mendings alone
Her face in man has been disowned
And yet there is a spark in this one man's heart
Could he be one who could abandon her qualms
And yet she is not searching for a man
She is not searching for a new love
And yet her liking poor man
Her soul understands afraid of a fear of rejection
She stands notice she's afraid to speak out his name
Her soul stands alone afraid to call out his name
2/24/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
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A long time ago,
A boy met a Lady, They Danced and drank and met up daily,
Laughter filled their lungs, as they acted a little crazy,
Soon time began to fly by lately,
Although in their 20s they dreaded turning eighty,
One day a ring appeared in the boy’s hand, rather shaky,
Please my darling girl marry me Baby,
The wedding was merry, and full with friends and family,
And of course the best matey,
The boy became a man the day he held his first baby,
Life was grand and as sweet as the ocean and sand,
Although the couple prayed daily life became rather racy,
And here we are my dear husband, Mi. Lady,
Although a few memories have become a little hazy,
They remain each year in my heart filling it with gayety,
And my love remains like the blooms of a fresh daisy.
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I see a man who is misunderstood
I see a man who is assumed to be up to no good
I see a man who has a good heart
I see a man whose heart is regularly ripped apart
I see a man that wants to be loved
I see a man that focuses on heaven above
I see a man whose skin color is assumed to be a threat
I see a man whose own family he may one day come to regret
I see a man who shines bright as a star
I see a man whose life will be way above par
I see a man whose mother is the love of his life
I see a man who one day will find someone like his mother in a wife
Who is this man I see?
It is my son, my life, an extraordinary part of me.
Dedicated with all my love to my son Xavier Floyd who will one day become the man of someone's dreams. Thank you for being your mother, Mara Prose's, biggest fan.
~ Author Mara Prose
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Please don't cry over my casket
For I am not there
Please don't cry at my grave
My soul has been set free
I know it's hard not to cry
We've been down this road one to many times
I have no more pain
I have no more sickness
And I wouldn't change a thing
As I walk threw the gates of Heaven
Mom Dad our brothers and our sisters
Will welcome me with open arms
Here I am free
Don't blame yourself
It was my time to go home
This is where I'm supposed to be
Don't dwell on things which you can not change
I will always be in your heart
I will always be watching over you
When that day comes for you to come home
I will be there to welcome you
With open arms
And walk you through the gates of Heaven
You will be greeted by our family & friends
Who came home before you
Until that day I will be watching over you
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down underneath
down to rock
rock the world
rock on hard
hard to breath
hard to say
say the words
say your lies
lies of family
lies so cruel
cruel death
cruel six feet under
under the world
under the dust
dust you came
dust you return
return to the grave
return to your love
love you lost
love you never had
had you waited
had you never gone
gone too soon
gone so far away
away with you
away with the broken heart
heart beat
heart broken
broken for you
broken over and over
over your grave
over your under
under the world
under me
me and you forever
me alone now
now you are gone
now I am alone
alone and crying
alone and dying
dying for you
dying over your lies
lies I believed
lies I lived for
for us
for you
you never again
you are in the grave
Grave...
Again...
©Copyright 2015. All rights reserved.
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uncle
you forgot you had a niece
you work in glasses
you wear the best clothes
you reign in shinning shoes
you eat the world at once
you send your kids to fly
you pretend to care
you pretend to call
you live comfortably
while I get bitten.
while I bail water outta my house.
while I try to be me.
while I sip garri
getting fever and my sight bad.
there's a million reasons why I should get mad.
Because you have more to waste and not a look back at your family.
I beg to buy books
I cry to pay fees
I plead to register
I try to finish up getting a man to be my hubby.
then you come in mass to request with your legs open, a price bigger than your entire bodies.
when you have no clue of how a child was trained.
you don't eat where you didn't sow.
you can't eat my birth price.
no! you can't.
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Behold the sky a moon yonder with family tonight,
You and me sitting afar, with stir heart tonight,
Drifting air, warm breeze embrace and gone away,
And who’d be my crony, confederate, chum tonight,
You wasn’t fair creature of a hour,
Can’t I explain and elucidate the truth tonight,
Flower of Love and gabfest with you,
Is a piece of pleasure and calmness tonight,
If your shadow be in the smoke of cigarette,
Let I ignite this poor companion tonight,
Drowned in amativeness of your abstractive love,
Will anyone narrate resplendent beauty of my lass tonight,
But, your reflection now faded from cruel moon,
Where did I go, whom I see tonight?
Say, how I could be without you,
You’re not here but Love is here tonight,
And I Shahid sitting on the shore of hope, stucked in estuary,
Might I be triumphed or die off tonight.
M. Shahid H. Chouhdry ©
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I never felt as though my gender offered an advantage or that my race offered a place ahead of any other,
I felt as though I must compete with anyone who challenged and that it was unlikely I would be the best on offer,
I always felt it was the man who had to work much harder to supply the family needs that see it growing larger
I always knew the woman in my life was mine to flatter and treat her to the finer things so she knows that she matters
As the man I stand alone whenever there is danger protect my family with my life as dying is my honour
and for this I only wish my family have it better in happy health so I myself can die with them much stronger
So if this is a man’s world it’s a man’s sacrifice
giving what is never given so others will survive
women get the recognition I wonder if it’s nice
in a man’s world it’s a man’s will and duty to provide
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I saw your body
laying purple and covered with makeup skill
it looked like you might jump awake
however, I'd never seen you so still.
We were just on the phone
I told you no chance
to break my heart
you took the ultimate decision
and ended your life
no future children, no future friends, family, or wife
you gave up everything
with me on your mind
to leave me feeling
like a murderer in a crime.
People tell me that it's not my fault
you know I don't believe them
I know you know I'm taking responsibility
because it's what I've always done
I've stuck by your side,
through drug attempts and dangerous flights
but I never gave up on you
I never shut out the lights.
The one time I did, You ended it all
so tell me, world,
how is this not my fault?
I remembered last week
when we were laughing over life
no one is laughing now
it's as silent as your body laid.
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