Long Bulldozing Poems

Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship, 
(whereby one or the other of us)...

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En-trumped

There are many en-tities. Narrative psychologist speak of living and telling 
a story. Our lives should be as we en-live them and en-story them. We tell 
our tale as we see it, at the moment...

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Ah... the glory of a restful sleep

Nothing beats the refreshing
blissful peaceful easy feeling
resulting from shut-eye after
feeling zonked out staying up
late after a hard day's night
binge reading or slaving o'er
crafting an umpteenth brilliant
masterpiece a comment from
modest...

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"The Will to Survive" 

It was a peaceful time
back then in the dreams
that were once 
our prepossessing future.

sands of time 
dragged under our bare feet 
while the crystal clean warm ocean
of life that once was,...

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a ma lingering effect from angst riddled adolescence 
written some years ago, the psycho social mental events
indelible imprint etched psyche ova this pa on a win tree day hence
though a survivor of self starvation i...

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To be clear...  
I’m not asking you to love this.  
I’m asking for you to meet me  
where the words land hard—  
where syllables ignite  
like the last coin ...

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When civilization begins to crumble,
it's gonna end with a crash
The sound is gonna be loud:
Big Bang!
Everything
swirling down the toilet drain
The first crashing sound
is the financial markets plummeting to the ground
Those banks are gonna be closed,
no...

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A FLOWER FOR THE FUTURE

In 1964 a wall went up between
East and West Berlin!
What a barrier of shame, 
What a humanitarian sin,
During the 28 years until 
November 1989, over eighty 
People tried to escape over
The...

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Trudge home
All alone
Can’t condone
What I feel inside
Can’t abide
What constitutes
My whole
My soul
My hope for
What is to come
What is to some
Their whole life
An allergy
An allegory
Of their whole existence
Their whole subsistence
In the long drawn-
Out years
Rolled out in front
Of...

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You can hear the whisper of rain in the breeze
feel it in your bones, taste it on your lips
feel it on your skin, Please Dear God hear a prayer for rain...

The parch earth thirst for...

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What the poet knows,
I'll tell you what:

He moulds the clay of wisdom,
Fine-tunes the disruption of misconceptions.

He listens to breaking sorrows
And leans a helping arm on society.

He is the eye of the ancestors
An encyclopaedia of generations...

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.
Pennies saved by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher.
One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the...

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(Dedicated to all Refugees, the world 
over)

Here we are
Soaked in hunger
Dressed in thirst
Drenched rags
Fear, our pillow
Neglect, friend...

Then...
Our land yields peace
We sleep with eyes closed
We snore
And leave doors open...

Later...
Came the gendarmes
Guns booming
Shrapnels tearing
Bombs tearing
Shrill cries 
Rending...

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Written By:  D. Collins 10/12/23


Is depriving people of food, fuel, and water genocide?
With no reporters in Gaza and the world lets it slide.
It is easy to look away as if a slaughter isn’t about...

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It's not easy
keeping yourself together 
when there is a part of you
hiding away still darkened
with fear. It's been curled up
there for years.
Then there's that other part
of you who can't keep still,
creating havoc as it charges
around...

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Heavily Veiled~
A Poem by Debbie_Philly 

Life love hope dreams
Friends lovers passion
streams like a steam liner
bulldozing through me

The waves that seem to
come all so frequently
crashing into my life
my thoughts my soul

Never giving a chance
to swim above...

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Kaolin ceramics shelved for display
A framed mirror suggests a window into time
Fortifications in a continuum surround this fortress

Inside a Southwestern style is secured
Bulldozing nature for architectural delight
Rich in warm tones and textures of stucco
Baroque oval...

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First comes the soldiers, then comes the tanks,
Just another day in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Heartless military monsters show no remorse,
Itchy trigger fingers so eager to use force.
Torturing children, breaking their bones,
Occupying lands and...

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It rained for three days
Constant outpouring awakens
The dry river to life again
A little farther besides our home
I hear the rumbling sound
Of water slowly snaking though
Descending, bulldozing its might
Pushing those like foam and debris
Downward plaining going...

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Dark clouds loom beyond battered mountains,
cracking sounds seep through broken walls
and murmuring voices echo near and far.
We did not know where to begin,
but I had  a strong feeling that we would win.
We leaped through...

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Beethoven smashes one piano after another.
He shears through keyboards,
a peasant scything hay.
The composer's fingers listen
through touch,
they become deeper, more blunted,
a vibration of mallets.

Frown the brow,
push the plow
make music drive a steamroller.

His apartment is disorderly,
tools and...

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One dollar and eighty-seven cents, that was all
And sixty cents of it was in pennies 
Pennies saved one and two at a time 
By bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher 
Until...

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Never
Can I begin to
Comprehend
How could I ever
Understand what you went though
Imagine what your eyes have seen
Fathom what your ears have heard
Feel the hunger that ravaged your body
Comprehend the savage cruelty endured
Day after day
In the streets...

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Thoughtless Day   

I was looking out of the window
The view was a road and an opposite wall
And I decided to think of nothing 
Emptying my brain for all the rubbish and
Lies I had...

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Money, has created the wealthy 
and many, who are unhealthy

Money, has given us disease
with a bacterium, of too many humans

Money, has created the wars
which has made, many sores

Money, has made many do crime
to relieve stress,...

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