Long Ast Poems

MY VALENTINE RITUALS

A day set aside
Only for love to tangle
A day where gifts are exchanged 
All in the name of love

A day where love is confessed willingly
A day that increases birth rate 
A day where...

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Christmas

           A zure Sky rejoiced and glanced on Green Earth.
           B ethlehem Star glistened, glittered...

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! lock !    bloody murder
! me !              for sale / every picture with her face was
! up ! ...

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N.orth E.ast W.est S.outh


In the North the news brays
There’s no equality
And adds to the fray
Staged hostility

In the East they mouth
There’s new racial frictions
Plus they, in West and South
Peddle hostile fictions

Don’t look to the NEWS
Look to...

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Everyone has a dark side...shhhh but dnt tell anyone....
IM GOING TO TELL U ABOUT HELL ... ITS HELL RIDE..
Nw im alive...wit a vibe..to tell ma tribe tat i didnt gve bribe ,it was easy 2...

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Conclusion of past regrets full of rage
Last scene closing on the finale stage
Oblique entries into a malevolent cage
Secretive questions why were we engaged
Egressions of needing to turn another page

Optimism for a novel and fresh new...

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Answerable to no one, thoughts are free
Belonging a choice, settle in or flee
Charter a course, any direction
Decide the stops, make a connection
Engineer all you wish to achieve
Find your vision, just believe
Generate always forward motion
Hard work...

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A HELL DATE

Like an order from the military junta
He swerved the steering off our route
I was surprised... not really scared
It was four days after my birthday
Where are we going? 
What's happening? tell me
We are going...

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KIND OF BLURRY

Yes !!! blurry
That was how my yesterday was 
I slept like a drugged captive
A confined soul of my own snores 
A slave to my sound sleep
An inmate of my own blurry dream 
That...

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A season to delight, to sing and thrive

Birth of spring beckons new life

Casting aside the winter nights

Dancing gay the flowers bloom

Endless days of soothing clime

From the trees the wind chime

Grasses lush and green grow tall

Hotter...

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I CRY EVERYDAY 2

I cry everyday still...in my corner 
The type that could only come from a young soul
I am a she with a boy, expecting another baby
What do I do? My man isn't a...

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After God had set the worlds to spin
Below the splendid canopy of stars
Cyan skies to let each breath begin
Dangled o'er an orb of earthen spars

Each river, lake and rill so set with care
Feeding all the...

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To husbands who are mystified
We offer here this marriage guide.
You'll have the finest union yet
If you accept this alphabet.

A  dopt a female point of view.
B  e strong, but gentle, kind, and true.

C ...

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Many are the maples that encircle my home, my nest, my dwelling abode,
And in the dark of night they tap on my frosty windows, crying;
Past their deathly stance, a wintry scene, 
Looking through their tangled...

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A new sunrise and a new day and a promise.

Now, this day is the time to let go, to just let go,
Everything in my life is going to be wonderful;
Weeping will wither away and courage...

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I CRY EVERYDAY

Why would I cry every day?
What do I do  to stop this weeping?
It is my marriage that brings those tears
Tears of no joy...I mean gnashing of teeth 
Yet still on earth with...

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Out of the yard
    daughter Bev & me
  on a hot summer day
             of Eighty-three
Hastoe to Cadsden,
there and back
...

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Out of the yard
    daughter Bev & me
  on a hot summer day
             of Eighty-three
Hastoe to Cadsden,
there and back
...

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Fading blossoms drooping low in abeyance
Arouse Summer’s suspicions that now Autumn
Races forward, seeking Summer’s abdication. 
Even as the birds plan their migration south,
Willful Summer scoffs as she stifles the wind,
Eventually losing to the tug of...

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CAUGHT NAPPING

Cocky 
bluffing like the covered duck

Tripping
boasting 50 years sojourn ahead of tomorrow 

Stuffing
filching away our future in a "Ghana Must Go"

Sniffing
snuffing life out of the halves not

Smiling
suffering in the midst of plenteous

Praying
screaming to God...

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River Line

                             A creek has no commemoration

River...

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After the rains disappear and summer heat dissolves
Under sapphire sky soft breeze ripples and revolves
Trees lining the garden path prepare to face the fall
Umber leaves wilt slow and wait for the winter’s call
Morning dew clings...

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Oh in the early days you couldn’t wait to get your hands on my curves
Now I am getting older, you simply don’t want to know

The times you got my motor running
How you loved to get...

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Missin’ Pieces

I learnt a lot just getting’ here
Been many a year passed
Most of my smarts come from the trail
What you don’t know, just ast.

Ropin’ longhorns can be scary
It’s good to feel some fear.
You’ll lose a...

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ESCAPE FROM REALITY (2)

I enjoyed my solitude 
I engaged my loneliness
I sent my mind on an errand
I breathed ... though heavily
I sighed through my nostril

Again, I summoned courage
Wanting to restore my shattered dreams
I hoped all...

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