Long Aptitudes Poems

My dreams were of the dire Queen
I had allowed her reign over me, callousing my heart,
She was inside me, laughing
Having crawled in
My walls closing, as she filled my soul
We were one, yes for a time,...

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Life is not cricket: though a game of cricket reflects life 
It portrays real-life conditions; from cradle to urn 
Starting with toss of a coin; ends in pulling bails off
Just as cricket life is simply...

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II.
Thankfully she had been in the back seat,
and had only a minor concussion,
they sat for an hour, then Thomas said,
“Miles, we have to have a discussion.”

They walked outside into the corridor,
leaving Martina to site with...

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From dusk to dawn 
Sunrise to sundown
This I will never forget 
Your kisses that always left me in a comfort 
And a bliss that no grief could ever secrete
A mile-wide-smile and sweet
That never deserted your...

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WOMAN'S WITS
By  Ronalyn M. Pupa
“There is a woman in the house!”
She is the man’s partner and supporter,
Maintains household’s peace and order,
          Alone or with you,...

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Whistling a tune of sheer delight, silently in bliss – don’t invade my 
personal bubble! Let me sip in sweet, solacing solitude…I’m embracing the 
attitude of gratitude…not the rude attitude of ingratitude 
Avarice, envy, sorrow...

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Indoctrination courtesy pledge of allegiance
occurred every morning soon after I arrived
at grade school, a little boy namely Matthew
Scott Harris remembers obligatory recitation
mindful to keep right hand over left breast to
experience the beating heart, not knowing...

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“OMG! here we meet again”.
Kisses and hugs
“… just look at you!”
“Oh you’ve changed so much…”
“No, let me see…not so much”
“I think you’ve put on some weight”
“Ha ha ha” giggles…
Excitement in the eyes…
What to say and...

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We are family,
With different parts, different arts
Different stances, different hearts.
Different functions, different views
Different strengths, of different hues.
Different gifts and aptitudes
Different sizes and attitudes.
Different opinions and different passions
Different childhoods and different fashions.
Different skin, different hair
Different voices...

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Experience your most opulent dream.
Taste solitude as one sampling rare and
ancient wine from fluted crystal goblets.
Be exhilarated in reaching toward the heavens
in 'primal scream' ecstasy
after climbing a hazardous rock massif,
and there inhaling rarified air
no other...

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Gone are the days of childlike hope and dreams.
Our tender years were cast on life's broad streams.
Rich mem'ries float on waters still serene, 
while thoughts drift past the seasons in-between.

That final bend of river not...

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In the stillness of the night
when the world is asleep
and the place is at peace,
I bask giddily in quiet solitude.

Nothing’s quite like it. Feeling as light as a kite.
No noise or burden on me creep.
Only...

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Marred fictions of emus, ostriches
dip their heads neath, were hailed
by Ancient Rome's false divination,
of individuals, whose conquest of
enshrining their implied role.

Emancipated exacters, whereto,
the subjugators of the unlearned
majority, daily context by untruths,
orientations...

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Storms of adversity become obedient, easy as aptitudes master the dance. 
Oh the power of mastered life prance of many young dance manifests in 
the stance of the perfected dance. As aptitudes project, therefore, include...

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No print on hand-held screens can draw her in...
for only hard-bound, covered books are gems;
held close with love, absorbing through her eyes,
those magic words that fill her heart and mind.

At just months old, she trembled...

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Today’s my daughter’s birthday
And it sends me reeling back;
Her life was just a question mark,
A code I’d have to crack.

There were no clues to who she’d be – 
How cute or smart or charming,
Or whether...

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Our God is bountiful because of his charitable, liberal way
Of allowing us to steer our own lives into the creek or a bay
He gives us the experiences we need to make it in this world.
We...

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If I could change the world,
There would be world peace,
No one would fight,
Differences accepted,
Everyone be unique.

 No more cussing, No more hate,
Only just alot of LOVE!!
Everyone would be friends, 
All until the end,
A different world....

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