Long Boiled down Poems

The Sun Is a Liar



It’s been quite some time since I've awoke early enough to meet the sun coming over the horizon. As I gazed out the window from my bedroom window seat, the sky...

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Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens,...

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When a woman I yearned for would not return my emotion,
I consulted a witch for a magic love potion.
She said there was an elixir that would suit my request,
Time-consuming to make, but was by far...

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Recess 1


Third grade
Ms. Greene
Handed me tightly wrapped Chinese candy 
And Starburst occasionally

A little girl
Fresh out of Haiti
Bullied
Teased, punched and kicked
Scared and scarred
Yet well mannered 

Blue she wore “going on a date?
Ms. Greene giggles and smiled

In...

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I was walking the streets 
Of magnificent city with elegant
Skyscraper buildings and sidewalks 
Enveloped in the veil of colorful
Blooming summer flowers all over
I was window shopping for unusual
Pretty things that I couldn’t afford
And I saw...

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Two more hours as I anticipate,
a meeting with my doctor that's going to take place,
I'm not happy with what's going to be a certainty,
been trying to find ways out of it, I don't want to...

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After it all came down and dust was settling along the sidewalk, a small bird 
landed on the re bar and sang a song that unraveled a truth that existed 
underneath these distractions. It sang:...

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“There are enormous possibilities for one to improve in life, as world is a great university and we are taught through text books of life’s experiences with sagacious sages and savants as our teachers and...

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As the "good book" tells us: Bring forth a child up in the way she shall go. Assuredly, I say to you, nurturing a child from birth until death is the parents responsibility. What ever...

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Faith. 
I know faith. 
I’ve read faith
Lived faith 
Breathed faith. 
Bled faith. 
I know faith. 

I’ve believed in a god who never came
I’ve screamed to a god who said I only need whisper a name....

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“Take it back!”
I shouted in protest, in earnest
to defend my honesty, personal integrity
Truth be told I don't know why
what she spoke was true
I'm a fool, I'm no good
at least that's what I believe
but this world...

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I awake from winters slumber
As my sap begins to flow
My buds will shortly sprout
While my limbs begin to grow

I watch the many animals
That start to come around
To some I am a gym
While others lay quite...

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Look at my Buddy Bear. 
Missing an eye, still has his grin,
he has his grandpa’s hair
with bare spots on his head and chin.
Bud heard my ev’ry prayer.
He’s been to ev’ry place I’ve been.

For my gramps...

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Today my thoughts are on Master Sergeant Joe D.
my brother who was four years younger than me.

Growing up Brother Joe was always the battler,
he took no one’s “stuff” and was never a prattler.

At twenty one...

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All good things come to an end
You never see it coming when it first begins.
For example love when it first starts,
And you love a person deeply in you heart,
But things come to change 
and you...

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Sometimes the time we spend apart makes our love grow stronger
         and make us realize how much we love and appreicate eachother
     ...

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Myron P. Fusternick
Stepped into sand that was quick,
Unfortunately for him, his head,
Was far too thick...
I watched in awe,
As one leg sunk into the ground,
The other still on dry land,
And from his mouth came a fearful...

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Everything your heart desires,
All that for you life requires,
Can be boiled down to one thing,
That in this gift resides.

Want you not the treasured things,
That others crave - like diamond rings,
And cars and riches and the...

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Tonight forever was broken
and the
Door
Was left
Ajarr.
A flux of destinies
I don't remember
Can't remember
Of the senses you're not making, something I'm forgetting due to there being 
nothing to remember, a constant desire to surrender
To this insanity
Being controlled
Proving...

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This is a pencil

This was his challenge to
a different understanding..
A proper challenge..I might add..
which can be boiled down to
a choice of perception..
We appear to live in a world
of separation..of duality..
and common sense asserts: 
yes..this indeed...

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Waiting for life to come to me,
the clock ticked down to one

With barely but a second left,
my tendency to run

With nothing left but one last tick,
all motion seemed to stop

Perspective changed, then rearranged,
a lifetime on...

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Silence.
Louder than any sound.
Louder than the words left unspoken the last time we met.
And I can still remember your famous last words.
“Die, Die, die.”
Echoing forever inside of these walls in my skull.
A never ending headache.
That’s...

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His life had boiled down to this one moment
Nerves shaking but could never show it

A lifetime of practice to get to this fall day
Always saying goodbye & never getting to stay

The half dirt covered plate...

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