Long Betters Poems

Bright lights, big city...
bright lights, big city dreams...
please just take me away tonight
Let me rest on your elegance tonight
I have no energy left to spend in reality
so please knock me unconscious
just to be in the...

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See as a child having a child he was my saving grace, allowing me to refocus my path to a better place, Where he could grow and flourish, So I developed him to nourish, Through...

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(World War One Poem)

Field Of Dreams

The World has stated our freedom,
the worms shall share a soldier's fear.
To look above my trench
is to be a thief in the night.
Life shall lurk, afraid of what is above.

My...

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the Mask behind the smiles
Why am I so sensitive 
Could it be blamed on my mother 
Could it be blamed on my father 
Or 
Could it be blamed on nature 
Oh please tell me why...

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* I wrote my first poem 2 years ago, to celebrate, I've written this poem where I've stole my own rhymes from my own poems and morphed it all together enjoy

I'm a quick wit picnic...

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...“There they found a small Evenki village,
settled down there, took the women as wives,
True Man thought they would live there quietly,
but very soon a strange fact they did find…

“It seemed their genes were hyper-dominant,
and as...

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(verse 1)
Yo we'll let bygones be bygones though bygones bite on
blessed to have had the good times it’s life it all went wrong

though it hurts good memories
to the end you’ll always be 
my friends and...

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I’ve got it - woot! 
Well, we’ve (Lisa and I) have it. The Covid.
After living carefully serpentine lives - for the last half decade - we both have it.

Lisa started feeling punky Friday night, after...

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...“For two years we tried, but ambushes came,
they hit and run, would not stand up and fight,
the meadows were deadly, the forests were hell,
wherever we went, we were in their sights.

“Imagine one hundred million peasants
as...

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First and foremost is you 
Yes you, all parts of you and gratitude as your plus one for a better attitude, as you well know 
Better tag on hard to that grounding of yours,
Solid footing...

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Don’t try to reason with them
or you will be called ULTA MAGA!

Never try facts or logic to dissuade them
or you will be labeled ULTRA MAGA!!

Forget discussing social issues with them,
for you will be called a...

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Don’t try to reason with them
or you will be called ULTA MAGA!

Never try facts or logic to dissuade them
or you will be labeled ULTRA MAGA!!

Forget discussing social issues with them,
for you will be called a...

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Don’t run, take a walk
Deal with things better than before
There will be breakers there will be hurdles
Be worried but never a hopeless

You could be the sun
You could be the moon
Which shines in their own ways
Find...

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The Soul-train was leaving the station,
Believers were gathered on board.
Their hands were all reaching for heaven, 
And happily praising the lord.
But someone was left on the platform,
A ticket-stub fell from his hands.
He waved as the...

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I know a man who would be King,
Who, born a fool, wants everything;
When bankrupt, saved by Daddy's dimes!
His penchant, now commit high crimes
And misdemeanors too it seems;
He slithers slowly toward his dreams!
Who cares what constitution...

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I cannot help but notice that,
since Wuhan virus was released,
we have seen a real absence of
those who proclaim themselves elite.
The lawyer and the professors,
the politicians and the like,
have all become somewhat useless,
and some have just...

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The Fear.

Before the Good ol ' '48'  The Fear was always there, should you, could you call the 

Doc; must you rely on the gentry true or those who would rob you blue, or...

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I’m offended by ‘ski slope,’
they should be ‘ski inclines,’
they’re insulting Asian people,
have those fools lost their minds?

I’m offender by ‘Black’ Russians,
when made by pale people,
I’m offended by ‘cow’ boys,
for excluding the bulls!

I’m offended by those...

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I am a dreamer
I know I am capable of greatness
But I am grounded in hesitancy
I am a listener, an observer
I take in the world before me
With open eyes and eager interest
I am an adventurer
I have...

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Your red light betters consider you a black bug
on the windshield of life

That freedom flight of fancy smushed condition,
it don’t spotted glass much matter

Just another ghetto pest
that didn’t pass the police car 
collision course tute...

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I can't remember when we met 
Or how our friendship began
But I do know that knowing you
Must have been part of gods plan

You have a way 
Of bringing fun to a gloomy day
With a little...

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Its not a joke.' Well to some that is ! How did they miss
Such crazy biz.? First there were 'roller coaster noises'
Then drawn out breaths, and hauranging voices comply
Was a buzz-word, and no-thing was normal?...

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Salute them too.

As that old clock struck six, on that cold Winter's morn.
An unjust bullet ripped through his tunic bloodied, tattered and torn.
They said he should die, as he didn't have the heart.
But he wasn't...

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I have a grey shirt, grey short pants and grey socks.
The grey school with its grey toilet blocks and grey nuns
made my mother buy them,
which was understandable, because folks like us
were supposed to only buy...

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SOFTLY THE VOICE COMES FROM WITHIN
SPEAKING THROUGH ME TO MY PEN
ONTO THIS PAPER LAID DOWN BEFORE ME
THE WORDS COME FASTER, MORE READILY
AS I GET INTO THE RHYTHM AND RHYME
I OFTEN WISH I HAD THIS EASY...

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