Long Astounds Poems

Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...

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(##background singers##)
Honestly, things are getting out of proportion (Do your part, man!)
Give me a portion of your love (a portion of your love)
You’re my ultimate luck, desire and devotion 
You’re as beloved and spectacular 
As...

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Quatrain Poem (23 Stanzas)
Halloween Story-by Trevor McLeod


As a child I remember well
how Halloween would interest me.
When school would end and I'd head home.
The leaves ground low and chasing me.

The air was cool that I'd feel...

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Under the depths below the deep 
     of this Atlantic Ocean,
live the lobsters that crawl and creep
     with an articulated motion.

They thrive on the ocean’s sea floor,
...

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Rounds
by Michael R. Burch

Solitude surrounds me
though nearby laughter sounds;
around me mingle men who think
to drink their demons down,
in rounds.

Now agony still hounds me
though elsewhere mirth abounds;
hidebound I stand and try to think,
not sink still further...

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zilch = the current net result dabbling with said medium
which upside per literary skill 
   allows, enables and provides
a golden opportunity 
   to write my own nonestablishmentarian epitaph.

Though gleeful at assiduous...

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Came home from hosp yest.  Surgery seems to have freed some nerve that were caught/inflamed and there has been allowed. Some small movements showing hope of further. Progress.  Here, I remain in a...

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Millionaire Giveaways

There are millionaires and then again there are multi millionaires…
How many zeroes to each of their fortunes and how much do they care….

In this nation I read of a multi millionaire that’s one of...

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Searching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...

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Like most of God's human creatures,                             ...

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A Visit to Graceland

By Elton Camp

Although Memphis is nearby
To visit Graceland I didn’t try.
Elvis wasn’t much older than me.
So his home I really should go see.

I followed the young tour guide.
“Stay together as we move...

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I ask you, “Where might we go:
A land to, or a land fro;
Let the land like a river flow.
Leave yourself behind, and dare,
Dare to know Thoreau.”
 
Ahh, how the day is
The simplest of all revolutions.
The...

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Look
What is
the matter
With me
I'm not 
Myself 
my brain
Is scattered 
it's splattered
Like a
shattered mirror
Anything
that's ever mattered
Has left
me here
To deal with 
My own fear
I climb
the ladder
Because the
wheel won't steer
Please do
I go slow 
Do I wait
right here
Please tell...

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Look
What is
the matter
With me
I'm not 
Myself 
my brain
Is scattered 
it's splattered
Like a
shattered mirror
Anything
that's ever mattered
Has left
me here
To deal with 
My own fear
I climb
the ladder
Because the
wheel won't steer
Please do
I go slow 
Do I wait
right here
Please tell...

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PROUD OF MY SKIN

I didn't ask to be the color I am, I was born this way. Talk about it all you want it still ain't gonna change. 
I'm proud of my skin and even...

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5.
As we hear love’s thousand guitars, 
we leave our song within the stars, 
our love does sing throughout the bars.
I leave my rose within your heart, 
dreams of love, they shall ever start, 
two hearts...

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“Rainy day, dream away
Ah let the sun take a holiday
Flowers bathe an' ah see the children play
Lay back and groove on a rainy day”
Jimi Hendrix 1968

A weep at first
to cure a thirst
becomes a cloud bursts...

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As Autumn's Beauty Rests In Dying Of Its Leaves
 
( Vae cuius obturatus est signatum manu sua. ) 
( Cuius spiritus in eis audita populi et ceterorum domantur socordiamque effusos)
( Cujus animam servare non curat.)


Years...

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Oh MSU-IIT, a campus so grand
A university that's known throughout the land
A place of learning, where knowledge abounds
A community of scholars, that truly astounds

From the towering buildings, that reach for the sky
To the green fields,...

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**The Next Zimbabwe: A Call to Rise**

In lands where dreams were forged in fire,  
A tale of strength, of fierce desire,  
From ashes of despair, they’ve learned to climb,  
Zimbabwe’s spirit soaring...

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Look What is the matter With me I'm not Myself my brain Is scattered it's splattered Like a shattered mirror Anything that's ever mattered Has left me here To deal with My own fear I...

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In Our Blindness, Chalked Up To Just Be Fate

Life, its complexity truly astounds
astounds this old soul so sadly earthbound
earthbound but not without imagined flight
flight into blue heavens's glimmering night.
Night of ill winds that beggars disbelief
disbelief...

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Creation energy in each atom glows.
Electron-bound sacred unity –
Thus, reverence for nature inside me grows
When I walk through rustling sheaves.
And I know in my heart power flows there,
In each cell throughout the trees –
And all...

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Poem title: " Unlearn what we learned"

By: Sankara/African Pen

our country was noisy with onslaught sounds/
deefening with gun astounds/
the smoke took over our nose/
and mouth like cigarette smoker 
overexpose/

Every phenomena move in opposite/
we later borrowed chicken's...

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The green meadows are vast 
The ocean of trees shadow will cast
The riding horses pick up dust
In the air falcon flies fast

The sunset above the lake is gold
The soft clouds in linen blue sky unfold
In...

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