Long Breadwinner Poems

Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during...

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This is Nigeria where every thief is honest;
Where every politicians are good yet, they are probe.
This is Nigeria where every students are wise.
This is Nigeria where every He-Goats smell not.
This is Nigeria where every eyes...

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Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during papa's prime time
many years past when complacence
existed about...

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The bags under her eyes are very heavy,
You call them her luggage 
Why does she handle so much luggage ?
Because she keeps moving foward never forgetting her past 
Her cry cries out,
Sweet mother, salty tears.
Where...

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It has been twelve years
Every one of those years
I have been turned away 
by officials of the city
Twelve long years 
of being on the housing waiting list
Being the only breadwinner
Times got tougher 
To my children...

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This is Uganda
My motherland
My home that I love so much
Boom, boom, boom,boom
Another prominent leader has been shot dead
Who is it?
Abiriga, the yellow man
Panic here, panic there
Some arrests here and there
And that’s it
He is gone
And the...

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HOLDING BACK TEARS

Being a single mother is rarely appreciated,
when it is a very demanding, challenging, complex
responsibility to take on and carry on for years.
Who wants to be a single mother?  I chose to.

Couples marry...

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They all look happy after school
He suddenly lose all that glow after school
He now sees reality flashing as the school time end
It’s time to back where his roots lays
She is also showing signs of sadness
For...

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The long hard journey through
past to progress

These day's has far few many stops to make along it's tried and tested daily route to commute

As cutting costs has so many
uneconomic station laid bare
in it's path

Deemed unsustainable...

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How strong is your love? 
          Should a rather cruel fate befall me; 
          a disfiguring accident...

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I don't understand why people kill
That too without feeling bad about it
Why are wars needed?
How does it matter if area of a country is small?
Why expand?
What purpose does it serve?
Common man merely wants to earn...

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*Image from my family collection. 

My First Hour

*Mom's hospital bed/private room
There
     straight quite yond, mom's free passage
where
     blooms dyed green, tied like their leaves
fair
   ...

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I came into the world with my hands folded.
Yet they welcomed me with laughter and danced the sorrow away for tomorrow.
Soon, I could no longer walk with my four legs,
I became a little star, running...

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THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE OF MY LIFE

Ahhh… I had performed so many characters in my life.
A mother, then a single mother with all its encumbrances
of being a breadwinner, a homemaker and sometimes
a substitute father, a grandmother...

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The truth is never enticing
Like the cleavages of a fallen breast
You lay at the surface your lame lies
But I will dig truth from its daring depth

You murdered her son for little bread
But you claimed your...

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Her mother was the sole breadwinner, stood tall as a feminine symbol, laboring
to lift her family out of poverty, pay-check by pay-check.  When she was a tiny girl, her mother pampered her in her...

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Aspirations and desires he set out to reach,
One day he will make it and they will all be rich,
From a young age, he carried the burden,
Searching for purpose through it all,
Though it may seem like...

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This Year

                                 ...

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`      HONG KONG starlet YING CHOI YEE..
Which is that flat?
What and where are you that you come from.
What breed? Are you weaned? I am breadwinner only I might. How about...

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Because I love her, 
I will work with zeal; 
I will be the breadwinner, 
Doing the job so well.

Because I love her, 
I'll be loyal and kind; 
Ignoring temptation, 
Never leave her behind.

Because I love...

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Oh, to ride on your shoulders again,
a giant, a hero, a prince amongst men.
I'd be safe in the warmth of your crooked smile,
whilst, all the while, hugging you tight 
about your head, as home we...

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My family and friend look at me 
As a happy woman 
but they don't know 
In the deepest part of me 
Lies the pain of life 

They don't know 
That every smile and laugh 
Is...

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You come home from work tired,wornout, beat.
Your body aches all over from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet
The radio blaring, theT.V is full blast
Your oldest son wants to borrow the...

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Needful

Stuff, 
I need it here and there, 
and everywhere. 
It makes me feel safe, 
and warm like an animal in a hole. 
The reality is, 
none of "it" is important. 
It can not be eaten...

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A father's role is fraught with strain,
So much to balance, so much to maintain.
There's pressure to provide, to be strong and bold,
To be the rock that keeps the family whole.

But being a father may be...

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