Long Beat back Poems

The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...

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Despite the day-to-day signs of man’s bitter degradation, there were many in the South who somehow still failed to see the endless pain of segregation. From the viewpoint of those who never lived there as...

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Angles of Mercy
By
Kevin L Fairbrother

There is not to many of us that can say that the owe their existence on this earth to a Native in a Foreign country, in my case I can say...

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Scarcely the Dropper-- a roach antennae Felt,

Some Maudling exterminator of nakedly inhuman hands.

Boiled renunciation falling sick With life itself,

For Libido has and Always Will Be…. the most Impersonal of instrument.

Stepping out and through a purple...

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Note to the reader:  I wrote this poem yesterday in response to Peter Duggan's poem,
"Fear and Emptiness", which I highly recommend .  I intend it to complement Peter's 
excellent work on this vicious...

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In the early morning hours I sit and think of a time, a place, a moment it was 
almost twenty years ago,
In the distant I heard the gun shots ring out , 
soon I was...

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Strikingly Naked
                By Odin Roark

Voicing the reflection one sees insures
the facade really is,
was,
must have been.

Time passes…

How smoky the reflection,
this aging...

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In commemoration of your eighteen years
I will weave you a story fit for all ears
Of a special girl who is very much loved
A precious gift who was sent from above

A fallen angel who we are...

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Sitting in disbelief feeling anger and grief,
as if I’d wish the worst or place a curse
On people with more worth 
while I’m trying to turn a leaf.
 
Why would I hurt after I did desert...

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A breathing machine
is what I've become
no engine to rev in anger.

A tower of bones
with hands to shake hands
but no strength to hold onto purpose.

These feet making tracks,
they don't fill big shoes
and the shadow I cast...

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Parents beating their children with scale, belt, iron rod
Burning their hands, pricking them with needles
Leaving them in dark room alone
I hear them cry in agony
Distressed,sad mind says
Oh Gandhiji  come back, world needs you

Cases of...

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I am lost, my eyes wide, and my heart quivering.
My legs are paralyzed, and I have no memory.
I stroll silently, my consciousness wandering.
I am alone inside an unexplored territory.

I would wish the room to be...

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THE COMPANY YOU KEEP FALLS APART

I’m talking to myself again. I love me.
Sorry you don’t. Apologetic for words
beat back the devil with a baseball bat.

There is a dark spirit here. Push it in to outer...

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Some image of hate or frustration
The needles anguish you may have chosen
To stick and jab
In a collective spasm

The agreement to solicit such action
And beat onto the wall of prejudice
The same nails you are crucified with...

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In a picture I saw city kids on a hot summer day
It could have been any city like New York or Chicago
Kids are having a feast of fun, laughing with worries none
The sidewalks are lined...

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Nightmare, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s Cauchemar

(Translation of Paul Verlaine’s quintilla : « Cauchemar ». As usual, I have tried to stick to the original’s stanzaic format and rhyme scheme. T. Wignesan)

In my unfurling dream I...

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Your love comes 
rising to my face
and I see it written in your eyes
that together we've come to the place

Where Love, sweet sweet Love
is gonna beat back all our cares
wash away all the pain, the...

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The dayz beat back & fourth with the good & the bad rocking a lullaby to our daily agendas. Serenading the arrival of our deaths & the funeral that's sure to come for all. I...

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I beat back the shadows
all day long
for I know now
the right from wrong
a master student
rightfully so
this light disciple
expects to know
the way of a broken soldier
when the load is too much to shoulder
the back gives in...

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Sometimes you just have to look him right in the eye
You know!?
Look that potato of life right in the eye
And say
"HEY MAN!
LIFE AIN'T SO BAD!"

Sometimes you just have to wipe away all that grit
You know,...

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The day was falling,
enacting all its own regret 
with light, like washed-out technicolor.
One glance affirmed:
the rain would soon begin. 
Thunderheads played God, 
recruiting legions higher still;
I saw the sand provoked 
and furious upon the air.

I...

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You are a bright fallen star from the mesmerizing sight up above,
You make my tender heart pump pure blood of joy with just a minor glance,
If only you would grant me the blissful privilege to...

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Enter the velvet, black round room
where neon teeth are blinding bone
and whispers from limp spider webs
are drowned by the pulse of breathing
Windows melted a along time ago
trap the boarded up beats, and the aqua flow
of...

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Whatever happened to breakfast, lamented French Toast
    People love me, gushing with syrup, I used to boast
  But now my brand is flat as a pancake
     ...

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I want to unburry my smiles from the dust of Kachikau covals;
I want to whistle hope beyond the edge of Life's coarseness,
I want to wade again through that last forenoon's tasteless waters,
I want to plunge...

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