Long Backfiring Poems

The human heart…the young human heart. I look at our lives, the confusion we live in. Falling in and out of love, having friends..with benefits…dreaming of perfect relationships…unrealistic ones. Sometimes I wonder what kind of...

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You see, you see I’m captured within my pain I’m 13
13 only 13
13 years old when my soul died
13, eight months later when my spirit died
13, 13 is all I’ve cried
Within a year I watched...

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Destined to be a failed success...a successed fail...yes, I made up a bizarre name with a matching term to success...I'm clutter butter (margarine) when I should be the finest quality of butter when I utter...

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Part One

                 Still the din dashes about in his dreams
now louder in the spacedout quiet:
an occasional auto-rickshaw backfiring revving
spluttering...

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What once was true love, has now become vengeance,
 we love each other better from a distance. 
Pride married Foolish, they begot Vanity,
 A sorceress who invented insanity. 
Under her spell, Foolish turned Pride to...

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Memories
 become sand full of hourglasses. 
One thousand snowflakes are one thousand dead cats in the Hudson River.
 Memories hurt. 
They are Michael Schofield broken out of prison. 
Prison is the look on your father’s...

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This time now

Lord I need to go somewhere private to talk to you
It seem like everything is backfiring on me
Now what do I do
All I did was pray and tell the truth
 I just prayed...

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Unopposed Oxymoron

This poem is light as a heavy contradicting complement
and rhymes with no correspondence of sound sharp at
the cutting horizon’s edge of melting confusing fission

Serious like a foolish jester and in trivial necessity it wants...

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Fake news covers up for every Biden lie
projecting on to Trump to demonize
Yet the truth leaks out to their own demise.

Trump is Putin puppet yet Trump kept Putin in check
Biden lost Ukraine with massive funding...

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Kindness consists of love in action,
not just feelings of warm fuzzies.
It’s done not in self-interest,
but is repaid in other ways.
Staying selfless, not selfish,
not transacting one-sidedly,
it makes both parties smile,
even bringing joy’s tears.

Acts of kindness are...

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Me good old mate Henry Hawkins
is prankster intent through and through.
He’ll play those silly practical jokes
on the likes of both me and on you.
But I don’t think that he ever thought,
one alone could give him...

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Like sparks trailing
from a million, billion fireflies,
a single thought limns a trillion suns.

From the first small bonfire
flickering across four million years,
whose light imprints itself
upon the canvas backdrop
of a feckless, barely cohesive Infinity,

the matter of man,...

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Sadness

turns into madness 
people explode in 
Movie Theaters;
People explode on roads; 
People have road rage 
on this road called life."
Say it soft shhh hush 
CAN you say
"Zoloft "

Resentments

In churches, where 
black-folk congregate.
Under the protection of...

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He does not answer when I speak,
     the severed head in the picnic basket,
nor do the swarming flies on the muslin sack,
     buzzing on the dried blood,...

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I didn't mean to I swear
It was an accident no doubt 
That Halloween night
We both went out

It was supposed to be fun
And cause a terrible fright
To those who walked by
On an innocent night

Turns out it...

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A ghost began whispering inside the soul's echo 
there one Trojan horse enters defeated 
spiritually the battle ground stands firmly fixed 
against those whom denounce the King 
misery will follow with disastrous events

Where human rights...

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The squeaky wheel of a shopping cart
caught me before the morning dew
a tattered figure pushing the limits of both
collecting his pot of gold called aluminum

Gene Pitney blared from a radio
its battery hanging out, broken antenna
had...

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Free wheeling down the hill
chuck-a-bang out of fuel
referring quickly to my map
a gas pump is what I need.

Right at the bottom of the hill
appears a grand and wacky 
garage flying a flag and a sign
fill...

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A lustful obsession
Mistrustful connection
Sullied reflection
Imagined dream

In passion, seamed
A thought intertwined
Lost, enshrined
In a fanciful bliss

Romantic mist
The kiss of shattered
enchantments
Romantic’s blood
Frantic

Spill of scattered hopes
Battered ropes untwisted
Mind ballistic
A maddened heart, ablaze

A fire’s sparkling rage
Desire lost in plagues
Of fantasy...

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Night Noises
By: Tom Wright 
1/8/99

Reverberations,
of a summer's night.
A lawnmower overhead,
or that of an ultra light?

Booming bass woofers,
from a cruising car.
With It's ground shaking sound,
I wonder, can it be far?

A barking dog,
Probably something up a tree.
A...

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Reverberations,
of a summers night.
Can't be a lawnmower overhead,
must be an ultra light?

Booming bass woofers,
from a cruising car.
With its ground shaking sound,
I wonder can it be far?

A barking dog,
probably something up a tree.
A neighborhood cat perhaps,
should...

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