Long Abducting Poems

BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN...

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After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...

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Act 3. A dark, empty stage.

Marat
(standing up)

My eyes went blank. That's how it goes when
you have been doubly knocked flat on your back
in half an hour. He went, he went,
he went, he went, he went,...

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"The Boadicea Blood Cup"


Didst thou think? Didst thou?
Didst thou think, at all?
That thou would remain untouched, unchecked, unscathed
Safely locked up away from mine wrath and thee, thy self-made grave?
Imprisoned in your Dark Lost Woods of...

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No Name
by Cathrin Stuart

Do you know how it feels
when you say nine months you carried me,
but could think of no name?

Do you know how it feels
when you say you held me for the first time,
yet...

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The abusive stepfather bullies 
his family gathers corruption 
political leaders to honor his 
behavior payoffs bribes paid for 
with a traumatic brain injury 
claim from his battered wife 

she cries for help hides flees 
an...

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He crouches behind a false wall…hoping, praying,
Listening carefully to the commotion outside.
A knock on the door, another, two more!
They kick the door in and storm inside.
 
Men with rifles, boys with guns,
Searching, preying, abducting, killing,
They...

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We in a jungle: Raw meat and endless sweat,
Jobs hard, but dreams are even harder
Cause we always wake up from them,
So lets imagine:
It ain't Sunday but her name-
be ringing bells; so lets begin  

I...

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They who claim to have seen or been abducted by space aliens
are either very delusional or are just plain and simply lying
or they may have been deceived by others most conniving.
These aliens possess a torso,...

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I alight from my ebony ford
Porched beneath the shady mammoth tree 
One hand holding mommy
The other some grocery
As she leads me through
The mini pansy garden
Up the the rickety wooden planks
To our home in mid air

Small...

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I don’t know about you 
  but my dreams are always all mixed up
  like sometimes I’m half my current age
  and I can run like a gazelle, and then I’m
 ...

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Crows love an audience, not with people but with the gentle folk and others of their own kind .
and if their lucky it would be with jet her self.

My wife has taken to wearing heavy...

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What do you mean by freedom?

If someone is dying, let him die,
If someone is fighting, let him fight,
If someone is abusing, let him abuse,
If someone is smashing, let him smash.

Does freedom mean everyone’s own business?

If...

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("Untitled - The Eye of Jihad", 2019, original encaustic)

Love is Love - and other absurd truisms

“Love is love” is like “Follow your bliss”
a way to deflect the moral agency 
and subsequent consequence of our desires
with...

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With no end in sight and a year has passed. 
Kremlin won’t admit their forces are gassed. 
So they keep their foot on the wrong pedal. 
Exhausting their labor and supply of metal. 

Playing chicken...

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She was unsuspecting and frail,
so he overpowered her without fail,
and left no track,
so there would be no trail,
but anger ran through his head,
because he knew she was dead,
he was certain,
but there were no apparent signs,
that...

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“Bring back our girls”: a silent whisper now the global anthem, 
Re-echoing the opposing bells to our corrupt system
Is this the prospect sought-after by our patriotic gem?
Nigeria! Listen to the loud tears of your future...

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The voice speak of oneness
Drive for upliftment and cultural amendment.
It speaks of peace, justice ,love and freedom.
He stands in the street, unshaken
Audible and fearless, saying
"Make hay while the sun shine
Stop the killing and slaughtering of...

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You took and you took,
until I could give no more.
You corrupted my childhood,
abducting the youth I adored.

I tried to remain focused,
forgiving each and every day.
But your abominations towards me,
left me empty and betrayed.

It’s easy to...

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marauding foxes  
mutilating fruit
minutemen mischief-makers
marching upon us

pick our pockets
laugh at our loss
   
“No mangoes for sale”

maimed, mangled, mashed
sweetness shamed  
to death
ants and gnats feasting
off illicit mango chutney

sly scamps
evade 
like Bolt-pace
their intake...

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Things That Wake Me Up
I sleep in my bed and get woken up by different things
But not all at once they get me one at a time
There’s the earthquake shaking the bed side to side
The...

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The birds are our witnesses
The birds are our narrators
The birds are our revealers

The fire was burning
The smoke was rising

The bombs were bombing
The people were dying

The guns were sounding
The folks were weeping

The rapists were raping
The kidnapers...

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Elements Part II-Wind
Sponsor: Brian Davey 


Brisk breeze beyond the bluster of the buzzes from bumblebees,
great gusts gifted and granted toward the garden full of greaves.

Coiling curves within curls created contingent upon the current,
tangled and torrential...

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Spit out the clot of revenge
that kills your voice, that dries up world sympathy.
You have the right to resist -- to a limit.
Transgress and you're judged harshly by history.
Obey the law of conscience in your...

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I walked by the old cafe on Rue De Sienne and heard an angel playing harp 
a cherub an ethereal mome bewitching me and playing softly with my heart 
she wore a halo made of...

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