Long Brazier Poems

Let My People Go


Ain’t I a woman?
Ain’t I a girl? 
Ain’t I one to bleed in underwear?
Ain’t I one to wear brazier 
And raise them high into the air?
Ain’t I one to carry life 
And...

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Equality

My first memory of women’s football is Brandy Chastain 
	Taking her sports shirt off after she scored on the pitch
		Don’t know if she got a yellow card but had to google her name

The brazier underneath...

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I'm but a frail bird tasked to bring hope and spread peace.
How shall I fly high in the sky with such a brittle burden!
My heart pounds in dilemma like a ping pong ball as I...

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Written: January 19, 2024
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Love swells as a glossy plum
Love is a heavenly amethyst duet
Lambent love, a luscious lake of...

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The sign outside the monastery reads:
“Near this spot, karma
first entered the world.” -
beside it, a small slot in a wooden box
painted white, with “DONATIONS”
in red letters scrawled across the top.

The cobbled track between the stalls
&...

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No I don't,
Talk about you anymore;
I don't see you too,
I've no cogent reason either;
For such ludicrous capers of mine.
Coz if I did, I know
I'd whisper only your name
On all forevers;
That'd come and go.

I still watch...

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I did not choose on my on
The soul chose
And my spirit was obsessed
I was content with the matters of my heart before 
But with one glance and a smile
 I found an eastern girl who...

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To all my Poetic Family, I would like to start a new word game It's very easy You pick a word
Define it and sign your name ( see examples below ) I will then with...

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Diamonds on the soles of her shoes brushed the intricate parquet 

Carmel was swept off her feet to the clanging tunes of Flamencos 

A pink flamingo swapping kisses and castanets high above the floor

Gypsy tattoos...

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The daytime radiation changed the forenoon breeze
And the windows were kept close
Flames hemmed in my room from the furnace terrasse
Brought my afternoon snooze at dispose. 

Abounded myself from my brazier bed and stepped on the...

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The Call to Venus

(A lone voice whispers as a ceremony begins)

Candles lit
In brazier pit

Like a reborn Prospero

Music playing 
As offerings 

Are lit

To summon the universe
And all who goes

To step in and commit
 
Guardians in
The Great...

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Ropin Pen
Headed to the ropin' pen
On a Saturday night
Cooler is loaded
This just feels right

Got the ol' dodge rollin'
You know I ain't no phony 
Got this six horse trailer
Loaded with my one and only

It's a 10...

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My Love, Love? What's That? Who's He?

Your skin glows like the Avocado, blossoms Groggy as the Bleeding Heart in the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises to your Ocarina voice and leaps like a...

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She takes her wand a sugar cane long
And waves it in the air singing a song
She likes to make her heroic cape
From collard green leaves that she crochet

She makes her brazier from coconuts
With licorice straps...

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The scent of Easter lilies is everywhere 
representing new life, new hope 
As we honor the resurrection of our Lord 
through a celebration of memorial love, 
we feel renewed and ready to meet a new...

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