Long Backfire Poems

Sometimes, I feel like I have PTSD
Depression damages me in distress
I’m somewhat mad and sad and yet glad, but it’s not rad…
It feels bad…it’s the best thing I’ve always had…my dad…
Seems to go through so...

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Who among you is brave enough
(or dumb enough)
to take the challenge
Bet your life to beat the odds ...
One out of six
Load the chamber with one bullet,
spin the cylinder, 
spin it good
Place the wager with a...

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I cried: Dragon I beseech Thee… Not to tempt me with your crazy ways!
Yet here I am, always… again… caught in your vortex every, single day.
Now he wants a statue, made in his own image...

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Messiah’s portent
His advent, descent, ascent
Returns to cement

Apostates conspire
To douse the prophet's hellfire
But reap God's backfire

Curse your weighted scale
Your oppression leaves a trail
God's scale will prevail

Salvation has highs
Persecutions brutalize
Faith to exercise

Human worth erodes
Divine judgment at crossroads
Man's...

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Ready set go, pick yourself up off of that floor
Because you probably drank to much the night before
You have an alcohol problem you can't ignore

Put your pants on one leg at a time 
Now make...

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realising the world is built on dreams
everything that has been written
and dreampt up eventually gets a chance to exist
in some way or another
even if it only dwells in our souls

Realising that not everyone is going...

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The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will then asked in verse:
“O World Honored One of wondrous countenance, 
I now seek once more the origins of the One Who Hears 
And Heeds the Sounds of the World!” 

And...

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Do you feel nature? Do you feel the air
Do you feel the ground that you walk on that someday become corrupted by earthquake.
Do you feel the rain that someday can create floods. we
Do you feel...

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...We knew of religion, academically,
considered it a plague of human thought,
illogical and not of that much use,
certainly not something a machine sought!

But dazed as I was from damage I took,
I could deny what I saw...

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Where is the president?
Have you seen the president?
He ran away from the country
When he heard the boom sound of 
The terrorist guns down the north west.
He said he can't control the raging terrorists
Because their arsenals...

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Right now, I'm a look back on the things I said 
I wsih I could go back and regret the things I did
That sunny Monday, morning that I layed in bed 
I thought I would...

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There is no part of life mine alone,
If regarding my whole existence.      
What belongs to me is only flesh and bone,
Therefrom this life has subsistence.

Down on the farm I was...

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A God-forsaken city
Dictated by incompetent people
Though characterized by secret frowns 
Lying in wait for a beautiful day
Please resurrect one from the ashes of the past
Growing like grass is the sense of melancholy
While innocence dies like...

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I feel the heat rising…the heat rising
It isn’t surprising me as you can see
It doesn’t surprise me, recognizing
That you are the moon of misery

I am the stars that shimmer agleam
Desert nature hears my silent scream
Wishing...

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“That dream only needs a speech to bring about the change the world has been waiting for, 
never be speechless no matter what; you have something to say...” 
 Felix Joseph.o



SPEECHLESS!
 
A feeling contends to...

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I didn’t get on with my neighbour next
Door, he didn’t like me being happy
I’ll turn you into a mouse he said or a rat
Or perhaps a dog, or a skunk or a cat,
Fancy that, he...

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Listening to you complain all day
Gives me migraines beyond belief
Good grief, could you just shut your mouth?
I wish we can go our separate ways – me, going north and you, going south

Ah, my pain empire…
Let...

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If You Think...

If you think a love like a mother will exist, there and then  
You must have been building castles in the air and thus 
 Need a medic or an injection to...

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When I was young my grandpa and I would talk a lot,
Down by the lake at our favorite spot.
He would tell me stories about men of his day,
How times were hard and they had to...

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Has anyone been in this situation before……..
You love someone who you can’t have for certain reasons
The feelings constantly change like the seasons
You never know when enough is enough, if what you have is a bluff
Either...

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"When doubting Thomases doubt you, dismiss them with a laugh!" - self quote


   Doubt me, doubting Thomas, and I'll have so much fun
    reminding you just what a grave mistake...

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i just want to sit around,
drinking, sniffing things, scratching
myself, getting high.
just watching my pen
fill up a page.

do whatever it takes
to become a 'writer.'
a 'poet.'

something i admire, but
never really aspire to.

i just don't think i'd fit...

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IN  MODERATION
By: William S. Labtis

Anything….taken
in excess is wrong! 
Physically, morally or legally!
What may cause or uncaused  you
Un-ending  indigestion, detestation
 protestation , exhaustion or exhumation!
After that condemnation…is a word of caution!

We may take...

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IN  MODERATION
By: William S. Labtis

Anything….taken
in excess is wrong! 
Physically, morally or legally!
What may cause or uncaused  you
Un-ending  indigestion, detestation
 protestation , exhaustion or exhumation!
After that condemnation…is a word of caution!

We may take...

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The early sounds of the day
begin to be heard, even before the sun has risen;
one by one sounds are added as the great city awakens -
like an orchestra beginning to warm up
in anticipation of the...

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