Long Big as life Poems

Submitted for contest:  A Child's Home
 adventure, candy, childhood, city, fear, first love, freedom,
Memoirs Of Being A Child At Home





Memoirs Of Being A Child At Home


I was brought home to a red brick apartment...

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I heard a man is coming to
speak at a local college soon,
some students had invited him,
to hear an outside point-of-view.
But then a loud majority
got up in arms over the talk,
said they opposed supremacy,
at the man’s...

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I put my lips to his cheek 
Reminded me of winter time, not ice cold
Without warmth yes, but with texture
hard to the touch like a rubber glove on a rock

Thoughts will never leave me
Sad thing...

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God viewed the work that He had done
In six short days and it was good.
But there was no one there to see
The beauty and the magnitude.
He said I need to make a man 
In my...

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Ridin' Down The Slide

Now I'm not wild as cowboys go -
I drink some now an' then.
I play poker come Friday night
But that's about the end.

So how was I to know back then
The Devil'd come see...

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Seemed Like for Lifetime Together

In and out of traffic we would weave
Until big city life, we finally did leave
For soft, smooth ride in the countryside
Residents comfortably continually abide.

We saw a hill here and dale over...

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Looking out onto to the glare off the streets, it almost appears as if the asphalt were a 

sheet of glass, as the rain pours down on the street. I see them but they hardly...

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He whispered in my ear with his openly admittion, "things I love come from you baby" and I find it attractive that he never censors anything that falls outta his mouth.  There won't ever...

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Drive yourself forward in life
not with gluttony but with
love in your heart
towards your goals and dreams
humans are born to love and to
spread love in all their doings

cherish the love in your heart
nourish your vision with...

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When he discovered that big city life was not in his future,
He wasted no time, reversed his life, and made his departure.
The story has it that he accepted forty acres and a mule,
settled down in...

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Patience is a virtue 
and a necessity
Sometimes one must
pull up a chair, sit and wait
Patience is key! 

Take. Your. Time.
Let no one pressure you
into meeting an unrealistic
deadline. Do your own thing, 
at your own speed

Running...

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Behold the pioneering spiritualist, living on the edge
Of the civilizations harshest grid, seeking tranquilities
Harmony beyond the brick lined streets of stress and
Strife of the big city life!
These individualist of true grits foundation, whom live
Life to...

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That day has arrived
 The one I thought will never come
 Oh! Not for him at list
 For he’s the greater one of all,
 Oh! The black dark cloud fell

I used to sit outside the...

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All of the Gnomes from around the globe
Just sneezed their very last sneeze
They've had enough of this allergy stuff
And from the garden they're taking their leave

They packed up their bags, donned their bonnet's and caps
Left...

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The way you promised me,

The promise that was never fulfilled,

The promise that means nothing to you,

 I hope you are feeling guilt.


The feeling of guilt holds a meaning,

A meaning of not feeling well,

Big Sis my...

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The way you promised me,

The promise that was never fulfilled,

The promise that means nothing to you,

 I hope you are feeling guilt.


The feeling of guilt holds a meaning,

A meaning of not feeling well,

Big Sis my...

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Waiting for my knight in shining armor to come calling for me.
As I glance in the mirror on the wall, a flawless princess I see.
He's late! He's late! For a very important date...oh where, oh...

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There is a group of us that live around
the Cul-De-Sac of our neighborhood.

Jimmy is ten-years-old, the same age I am.
He has  a big tall life oak tree in the backyard
with a tree-house we use...

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He’s having a big mid life crisis
It’s a bit late, I grant you, but true
It should have begun in his forties
And not when he hit eighty two
When he traded his wife for a new one
(She...

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For six years I lived the big city LIFE
If you asked, I would give you ADVICE
Asphalt jungle covers the TURF
Mile after mile of heartache and HURT
Violent crimes are hard to AVERT
Many good people have often...

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I was so looking forward to my trip to Tahiti
this was to be my panacea, a sure cure for all my ails.
For once there I could forget the dregs of big city life
and swim the...

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I wake and stare at the people outside my window at night. 

Boy do I love this big city life.

I sometimes ride down to the park on hot summer’s nights. 

Just to watch the hoochie...

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We hold light in our hands
Leave all that we touch with a lasting brand
We are the sail to any vehicle of change
The tempo to progress in the space age

Our soul is heat, passion and courage
In...

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It's raining cats and dogs on a dark and stormy night -
with such a stroke of genius, a poet starts to write.
Inane clichés he's banging out to beat the band,
a booby trap as big as...

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I entered the city scared and unsure,
with no money nor prospects of a job.
And drifting with the city's human tide,
I was acting cocky and immature.

I felt homesick: and aching for the cure,
entrenched myself into big...

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