Long Baptise Poems

"The Call of the Grimoire" 


when Exalibur was retrieved 

from the rock, then foolishly 
and irretrievably lost 
in that dreadful battle most worthless

the imps encouraged 
the once good Poesie folk 
to jeer and throw pebbles

the...

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 Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate

With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An ugly form of art.
That don't make you look too smart.

In...

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12 hours of excruciating labor pangs have Sacagawea breathing
into the face of Death,
as she violently shakes her head back and forth, teeth clenched,
sweat boiling and eyes furious
it seems to me that she is detetmined to...

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off too see her 
now we sliding on chrome slippining past slip;ery serpents
its certain its aknown fact
dont push me cause i push back
push black white in the night and
winding sliding sliders right in time too
clean...

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"Timeless trust,
   trapped in Selene's pendant,
                   pulsates purity and faith 
    ...

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"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth gone all
libertine sour 
like Lemon Grass
crushed and burnt 
acrid smoke...

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There's certainly no right or wrong way to survive war to survive a taino curse on your ancestors we grow we know we move past taino forever currents flowing backwards as we grieve the loss...

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I will hold my pen to sleep-
When there is nothing to write,
When there is no poetry in sight
To cave from the tearful tilted sky.


I will hold the dreams of dashed wishes
I will fight through a...

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THE COLOR OF HATE UNLIKE ALL 
THEE OTHER BRILLANT COLORS 
OF THE WORLD I MEAN YOU SEE 
IT IT'S STUNNING CAPTIVATING 
EVEN CAUSING STRANGERS TO 
GATHER TOGETHER SHARING THE 
VERY SAME FAMILIAR TRAIT OF HATE...

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TILL WE MEET AGAIN

Have you seen the sun smile recently?
I have seen him smiled in the season of my 
Song in the year of the great harvest of yams.
Everyday is a gift, every moment is...

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This is where black breaks open into bright bleeding feeling
as souls suffer the fire of flesh to enter arena Earth screaming
searching the ether for Adam and Eve's answer to forbidden fever
while angels wear snake skins...

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Matthew Scott Harris, whar art thou spunk?

The following admission
honest to dogness haint no bunk
nobody, but yours truly
bore deeply and countersunk
his spontaneity satisfactorily
lightweight corporeal mein kampf,
didst more than baptise or dunk
cuff, which admirably aided to flunk,
(whereat...

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I want to go to school
Where papers draw lines on the sky;
Where we see our future backoning at us.



I want to learn how to steal with the biro
I want to reveil the hidden lines on...

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Some where in Nigeria,
We sleep without light
Mosquitoes feasting on our body.
We are taken for granted, 
We are abused morally and physically.

Here in Nigeria,
We see  mothers abandoned children.
Girls get pregnant before they get husband,
Father rape...

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Lord to-day we come to you with joy in our hearts

As Evie’s journey of faith through life with God starts

Fill her with your faith, joy, peace and love

Please always watch over her from heaven above.

...

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This I ask not in folly but in honesty,
Perfect me gods of poetry
Make me an eyes that sees,
Make me the mouth that speaks.
Let me be the hands that writes,
The legs that walk for perfection
The tongue...

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Egal your hurly-burly city,
Egal your stress bureaucracy;
Saturday I shall visit my garden,
Where I will bury all your plights
Like a slough snake long forgotten.

There await me rosy welcome
From my carnation and dafodil,
The sweet aroma of my...

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IF TOMORROW COMES
A dialogue of the drum sounding in distance
Have crowded my emotions and feelings
Not in my season of song shall there be a
Beautiful virgin without a real man.
Eating tomorrow's yam today in a hurry
Might...

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Tears fall, gone the smile so warm, the light of our day.
Where are those deep gentle brown eyes? Doe’s eyes!
Why you, so small, so innocent. Why did you have to go away?

Where do I find...

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Come to me..
And I will quench.
Umbrella free..
And I will drench. 

Fill your rivers..
Every one.
Morning grass..
I rest upon. 

Cut the rock
In Canyon Grand.
Cool you as
Your skin is fanned.. 

Descend to earth
As sad clouds cry,
Restore the arid...

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Come to me..
And I will quench.
Umbrella free..
And I will drench. 

Fill your rivers..
Every one.
Morning grass..
I rest upon. 

Cut the rock
In Canyon Grand.
Cool you as
Your skin is fanned.. 

Descend to earth
As sad clouds cry,
Restore the arid...

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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." 
                           ...

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Go on 
tell them

tell them how
your democratic masturbation
searching for solutions
has failed in calculation again

now people with eyes made of glass
are bringing war to us

war has no heroes, only victims
and people who forgot they are

formula is...

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If they are faithless and our country is mostly Catholic 
stands to sense their is requirements to meet on entering reason

As schools in my town are called St Patrick's and St Bridget's 
principle rules are...

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What layer do the clouds stop to form?
I want bathe my eyes above tropospheric gates in search of the innocence I found in the walls of my mother's uterus

Build the one million fahrenheit furnace that...

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