Long Badgered Poems

Poetical Journey Of Pizzaz

Apple Blossom Orchids are spreading across my grandmother's land like a whiZ
Zestfully all around one's earnest expectations like the smallest of fleA
Bites a person's imagination like they're singing a song and plaY
Years...

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shadowfiend sold me
a place to hang the alphabet
the transformation of your schism
communication of the ascention we havent learned just yet
slide away the weapon of a code of imperfection
the stories told like whispering winds
closer now than...

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You have been persecuted.
You have been oppressed and depressed,
Wronged and aggrieved, even violated,
And for what?
Because of gender,
Because your body lacks a certain appendage,
Your chest is more pronounced, or your voice more pleasant?

You have been slighted.
You...

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Night is looming around. 
Daylight he abandoned. 
I sit near the edge of the pond.
Watching her transform,
her fashion for the night.

As light grows dimmer,
my night vision more clearer. 
Moonbeam fondles the pond. 
A fish reaches...

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Badgered In Baltimore

Dear Blabby,
     My bride of forty-five years has a cow whenever she suspects me of catting around.  She calls me a little weasel and a  snake in...

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I once owned a uniform that shone in pride
The polished brass, creases and lines

An army of friends and civilian respect
I marched upon every street, placed every laureate

The glowing admiration, the tireless market
Of gazing faces that...

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Annoyances 


One of the first things to go is that
never appreciated tactile proficiency.
The ability to find the car keys in an
overstuffed bag.  Close your eyes.  Tell
me if it’s a raisin or a kumquat.
Tying...

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Happy.  Genial.  Merry.  Jolly
Blottoed, blasted, etched and blitzed
Mellow, foggy, hazy, squiffy
Tipsy.  Tiddly.  Brahms and Liszt

Dazed, zombied, tanked-up, trollied
Ganted, gubbed, guttered
Bladdered, blathered, leathered, plastered, 
Sozzled, sloshed, scuttered

Hammered, battered, caned, mangled
Spannered, mullered....

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There was never any controlling it?
No dodging it. Unloading it?
It stuck us both together and held us tightly in its grip              ...

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We are badgered by the media most every other day,
Blaring that self-appointed conjurors want to take our God away!
Maybe they should be challenged with more productive things to do,
Like caring for the hungry and homeless,...

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She wanted a big production wedding,
badgered her fiancee into going along 
	with the bad idea
Get the marriage started off wrong
Money that needed to be saved, not squandered
on some reality TV thrill
She was used to getting...

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Growing Up Down South

The southern town where I grew up was just like all the rest.

Where cousins played and moms dismayed and dads knew what was best.

Where you were sometimes badgered for the color of...

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so someone badgered you
threw their words at you
they splintered like sticks 
they broke the skin like stones
you swallowed your heart
you lost the movement of your watch

i'm sorry they attacked you
unprovoked 

later i'll remind you bruises...

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It's hard, stationary, 
 transfixed in place
 weather-worn, 
 badgered by reactive innuendo
a sculpted image of someone's admiration
 some hardened forgotten 
 deluded memory 
 recorded in a complicated untruthful history
focused on one failure or...

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I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.

So, I took a long walk...

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It’s become such a long walk home
Fairytales may blossom
Continuously over these hills 
And through these mountains I will toss them
From the hemp around my ankle
To my wrist and neck
As my smile wrinkles
You will realize I...

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My joy surrounds me with character 
beauty essence I bow to the on lookers 
I dance to the sweetest sound all over town  
of lovely joyous Caribbean tunes melody 
opens my eyes just one...

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Ignorant living in monochrome world

defenceless  just surviving in their way

safe during the day in their set curled,

they must be culled! kill them some humans say,

creatures of the night don't deserve this fate,

tarred with a...

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How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me  from his  battered chair

Though I  have  money and no needs...

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How can it be he is no longer here?
How can it be I do not hear that voice
His presence haunts me  from his  battered chair

Though I  have  money and no needs...

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When the program isn’t working like it should,
No rabbit’s foot, nor horseshoe’s gonna bring you any luck.
When the techie’s not around to make things good
Ya gotta figure out a way to get yourself unstuck.
All it...

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I used to be a poet-on-demand.
Their curious faces looked at none but me.
When I did write, the poems turned to sand.

I would imagine stories swift and grand
and points of view, me, you, them, he, and...

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My sleep is disrupted, badgered
by incessant wordplay,
a thesaurus of woolgathering
in semi-conscious dreams.
I keep a voice recorder,
bedside, to record the tidbit morsels
Lest they're forgotten
when I awaken and make bread
from the crumbs dropped
on my passage through the...

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We all know 'America' is classed as the land of the free
But any country can only be so, if it includes you and thee
Just like life is, irrespective of your circumstances, they be
For no one...

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Slowly, 
The air fills with blue, and the greens catch fire
The hammerlight of Summer
With little mouse-steps,
Steals off into apricity.

I divide my days
Between wine and responsibilities
As a child divides his
Between play and obedience.

The time itself, at...

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