Long Blackouts Poems

Our lives and our time
Fired useless
Into the air
Toy cap gun shots
Those winter palaces unstormed
No tax offices ransacked
Where is utopia I asked
And no-one knew
They looked at me with pity
As if I still talked
To an imaginary friend
At...

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I was seven years old when began World War Two
And eleven became by the time it was through.
I have vague recollections of things when that small,
But events during wartime I clearly recall.

Since there was no...

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*read part one for explanation and context please and thank you*

Dear lord why did I do the dishes why I spent the whole time screaming at myself to leave. It would've been easy so why...

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To All Who Gave Their Lives

Far across the seas, they went, to keep this great land ….safe and free.
I was just a wee bit of a girl, decades ago.I was born the week of the...

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I’m from small town homes and rose bushes overgrown, with
Close-but-not-too-close-close-knit-crazies.
Where my best friend lives down the block and I make late night trips to her house past the town curfew, because I am from just...

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What's true these days? This world we live in has so much lies we can't even 
tell the truth anymore. Real eyes, realise, real lies. If only people could see with 
the eyes they were...

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TARNISHED REFLECTIONS

At the age of twenty, after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, I took my first alcohol based drink.  It was a Tom Collins, generally considered a ladies drink.  I soon began...

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A little girl with dark brown braids.
White blouse, gold-colored wool skirt 
and patent leather Mary Janes.
An only child with a wired haired fox 
terrier that lived with Grandpa,
Mother and Father.

Her Mother, sweet, who saw to...

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"I baptized you in the name of Father 
and of the Son of the Holy Spirit...."

Our relationship has began...

I was welcomed to the life of Christianity
Taught to walk and be Christ-like...

I have professed my faith...

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In Kenya, they are called value-added taxes, “yani VAT”.
They change and increase every year
And are placed on everything under the sun.
The prices increase daily, 
But they say it would lead to everyone paying their fair...

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This would be just prior to circa 2000. I'm guessing it's closer to the 80s, but my memory fails, The Philippines was one of three Southeast Asiatic island nations that I went to with my...

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Time, to buy our poppies
To remember once again
remember those who died for us
And those who were just maimed
We must also remember
Those, who lost their loved ones
Mothers, sister’s, daughters
Fathers, brothers, son's
What a lot of us can't...

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When all was lost.	
I saw stars in all their eyes, and they always talked the same all lines.
Always someone’s mistress or someone’s dirty secret.
They all think they got the best of me.  
No longer...

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The fingers all pointed at the accuser, ME

I was charged with betrayal, for standing on an unwavering foundation of strength

My pillars of strength had no virtue or stadium to entertain and withstand the onslaught that...

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                      Photigraphs
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Wars has been declared fighting in foreign lands,
1914 men and boys join the fight for king and country,
"Over by christmas" it was said,
Off they went with cheers and flags been waved .... most never to...

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We looked at the world through rose-colored glasses,
sped through the night under blue moons,
parked in cars and gave boys the green light.

Explored gray areas, dreamed of golden boys,
painted the town red and got caught red-handed.

We...

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I really didn’t know my mother
I knew her moods
But, I didn’t know her
And I really don’t think she knew her children 
She knew our names...mostly 
But, she didn’t know us
I know my mother loved singing
I...

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I cannot be caretaker to you
self-medicated, altering perceptive fields by choice
seeking to numb the pain, escape mundane routine
circumvent natural boredom that could instruct
straight life is as subtle
as a babe moving its lips while sleeping
or as...

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Our dad drives with the recliner down like a waterbed as uncapped bottles of water gushes down. My older sister putting on her third face now, none of it hides her stuck-out tongue at me....

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soldier ...

I know I'll never understand
   how maimed you are inside ...
      so many wounds aren't visible
         their scars, you've...

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             Cream of fire, liquicksilvered star incendiaire, 
           leaves imprint for the World...

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I remember being in my crib, hugging a soft Teddy Bear.

I remember, my Mother, so young, reading poetry to me.

I remember being a wee girl, dancing, in front ot a tall mirror.

I remember my first...

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when you kill the fat chickens
to fill your big bellies and pet kittens
please keep the feathers for me

I crave to craft some strong and long wings
that I should fly to those deceased things,
sweated for, but...

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He leads me through East London, docks, pubs and stray dogs, the 
Thames lapping at low clouds.
We find the second-hand player in a street where the shops
are dusty holes under viaducts.
Carrying the Dansette portable record...

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