Long Animosities Poems

Who suggests a trip back...rides to this bit of nostalgia in the middle years of the Great Depression aboard a Chicago elevated train, "the El." We hurdle head-long above asphalt blanketed streets that are determined...

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Sweet soul of chastise,
Cometh like a thief in the night, 
Seeking to vindicate 
The tainted name of the innocent.  

The dagger of reprisal,
Pouncing fiercer than the rationale 
To strike the hands that aggressed
The heart...

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When one makes viable peace 
Between erstwhile colonial whites 
And erstwhile colonized blacks 
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such was the case in South Africa. 

‘It is all for...

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Announcement to Shepherds
Luke 2:8-20

Luke: “Nearby shepherds were living in the fields,
Guarding their sheep at night. 9 The Lord’s angel,
Stood before them, the Lord’s glory shone [yields],
Around them, and they were terrified [the dell].

10 The angel...

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7/5/22


Can it be done? Possibly
Will I do it underneath the moon and sun? Probably
Honestly
It all use to bother me
I was born in it, but I don't want to die in poverty
For a long time I...

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When times are good friendship blossoms
It fragrances all about
The sweet perfume of love
Let’s all about know
That no ill-will can see the light of day

Animosity can however set in quickly
Like a fast blowing wind
The sand castle...

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Chiraq

Date: Sun, Nov 15 2015 at 9:22 PM

("Killings")
("Victims")
"Imprisoned"
Highest ("Statistics")
In the ("System")
And of ("Disease")
Feeding the belly of the Beast "Obese"
Separated from Fathers & "Mothers"
Become "Hustlers"
Of the Streets Become "Brothers"
They Judge US by "Colors"
Only rightfully Almighty God...

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AEONIA-
   AEONI-
      AEON-

Vestal purity, all men succumb- the Virgin whose eyes stare silver beams- crystallizing his very soul. He,  and all who gaze upon she.

  ...

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War
Is where
Nobody wins
And everybody sins
At the unbeautiful bar
War is hell on earth
At birth
God created humans
To be better than the lions
And the other nefarious predators
That’s a given
War transforms young men
And young women
Into absurd killers and murderers
War...

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*Note - I posted this some time ago on PS and it got POTD, resulting in over fifty comments of support. Social media is a fickle animal, sometimes dangerous. We poets like to imagine ourselves...

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Love should only ever kindle the present and the future. Not the past…

Primarily, I am second.

For I have placed others on similar platforms
Made of charred cedar and revamped memories

Unintentionally

It is not intent that we embrace,...

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I wander through the night, alone and scared.
I cannot control my fright, for the sorrow's I've bared.
Where did you go, did He need you more than I?
Did He know, without you I long to die?
The...

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There are circumstances in life
that frighten people from finding new thresholds
as the random footstep trepidates the mellow rabbit,

the immense,monumental,momentous achievements of our lives
oft commence with common & innocuous prevails
over mild and trite tribulations,
impulsions,risks,spontenieaties
are the instruments...

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A inspired dedicated verse to Panagiota Romios



"I need His emergency number"
Operating, operator dear angel;
Please give me 
The number,  phone number to God
I need your assistance 
Operator  your emergency number is 7 7 7-...

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It's simple for one to recognise
the deep seeded ignorant animosities,
Entrenched firmly in the social consciousness.
Rooting out the troubling distubances
nearly seems impossible.
One may list the points of disagreements,
and we may all, acknowledge the challenges ;
but the...

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A shaman prays, the Spirit hears
While a Seventh Calvary regiment waits
Unarmed, a tribe endures a Union's hate
Their animosities, and their fears
As the blue coats begin to circle...
Their wrath begins to circle.

That shaman saw but a...

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“If you cannot be yourself, do not take away the identity of another.” -D.J.E.

Why do you return in another form,
Another residual voice?

Did you forget the palpable scar you left
Through your romantic coercions?

We believed you.
We trusted...

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Start

Deepavali, the festival of light
Ushered in a night of pure delight
Light from lamps, with inner light harness
To protect us from spiritual darkness

It marks the victory of Rama over the devil
And celebrates the triumph of good...

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Because we are all so called
human beings

Say for example we one day somehow
managed to get

2 age old sworn enemies to sit
at the 1 and same table

Even if that day was in fact say
the 25th December...

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Each generation
		is the next link in the chain
But our ancestral past
won’t let the future children 
		of posterity go, to run free
Adam and Eve put the first breach
in the human chain 
Caused us to start building...

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O come to me yon revelry
As you constantly stand ever,
Before me...loving people

Rise and rise up thine
Covertly any based on
My animosities

Clever and clover and cut
My stems ever so
Eat my petals as I grow evermore

Wash out thine...

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My words echo back to me
Off barren walls
Through empty halls
Find no hearing ears this eve
Except my own
I'm quite alone.

Soon perhaps I'll leave this place
For greener fields
'Cross distant hills
And never happen back this way
Except in thought
For...

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I was sitting idle,
in soft grass,
with blue yonder above me,
the birds chirped in sweet cacophony,
and the air swayed in just right,
the oxygen sparyed librally from green,
as I began to doze,
In doze without a dose,
I dreamt...

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 ALL OF ME 

World's written with the fictions that one can't explain ,
The streams full of photonic dust leads to abodes in gain. 

Empyreal deity embraces me ,
Episodic cuddlefests then braces me .
Bouts and...

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She appeared subtle
out of the depths
strengthened more than double
and caused so many deaths

so much fury and anger
satisfying Mother Nature
they tried to warn, none would listen
will the coastline ever again glisten

when there is so much at...

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