Long Bus fare Poems

ME dear FATHER you already know,
But you need to be briefed,
On a tragedy I believe you must not know.
There’s a deadly dance with violence killing teens in America’s Black Communities.
Use to be, 
Good Christian mothers,...

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YES ABOUT A DRESS

El, please come shopping with me today,
He knew she would ask him anyway,
Sure Honey, he immediately lit
A cigarette, we’ll leave in a bit!
Shopping with Jen wasn’t too much fun,
She was fussy, and...

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If you value your freedoms, please stop President Joe Biden's
reelection campaign for 2024 for the following reasons:

i) Nine members of his immediate family have business
interests in Red China including his prodigal son,
Hunter Biden.

1A) President Joe...

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Edith had been suffering from shoulder pain
She'd developed a stoop and only her left shoulder would sag
When she went to see her doctor
He put all the blame on her weighty handbag

One afternoon she had time...

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Pity my city
I pity my city there is no dignity in this city
There is no justice no freedom
Street children in a locked hall, shocking
County council overworking
The city must be clean so some humans are garbage
Some...

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EARLY POEMS XVIII

You didn't have time
by Michael R. Burch

You didn't have time to love me,
always hurrying here and hurrying there;
you didn't have time to love me,
and you didn't have time to care.

You were playing a...

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Sometimes I don't hear so well,
Sometimes I get confused
English is a tough language
Verse, tense, structures, sentences
It's an easy language to get abused

I sat on the couch, facing the TV,
And on the coffee table before me,
What...

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She saw him as she was driving by
She noticed an air of desolation about the guy
Huddled in his overcoat, his face was blue with cold
Stooped and unshaven, walking slowly as if quite old

She stopped the...

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The infamous Borga Borga! Kings of self-deception, lords of make-believe, and emperors of "I've got it all together"!

They travel to far-off lands, where the streets are paved with gold (or so they claim), and return...

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The infamous Borga Borga! Kings of self-deception, lords of make-believe, and emperors of "I've got it all together"!

They travel to far-off lands, where the streets are paved with gold (or so they claim), and return...

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I'se  been working my ass all day
in them government agencies in this here hot city	 
and them only giving me this little to pay
for food, rent and give them back the change in my...

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This week has been so fair to me with fares. i get lifts and other times get my bus fare paid by strangers without asking, this is unusual as it has been occurring consistently for...

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Forget to count the presents under the tree
Look beyond the gifts and tinsel
they will be tucked away or forgotten

Forget the gnarly parking lots 
Soon everyone will go home
Failing at finding the perfect gift

Forget to buy...

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I have seen yet another miracle under the sun,
An eastern girl.
A firefly that has brought light to my pitiable living....
Poetry like music is just another description of art a painter never had the words to...

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As I ride this inconsistent city bus at 4:22 not 4:15; I realize that I am the miscreant among people who simply are traveling home. Clearly the people on this bus should be looking at...

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Sometimes we pay double extra
During inflation
Price rise in cooking oil
It has been a long time
We're eating waste oil
Increment in electric bills
Already suffering from 
An extreme  hot day
Price rise in cars
MCO lingers 
We're unable to...

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steely-eyed bunny wabbits

she smells like perfumed soaps and spray paints
i want parts of her reality in unnatural ways
steely-eyed bunny wabbits couldn't be more bold
as she is traipsing round the backstreets at a quarter to three
with...

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The magnificent sun is shining bright
Flooding the natural earth with white light
My emotions are immersed in anger
My strength is usurped by pangs of hunger
I think of years of economic boom
While I am leaning over an...

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Your day wasn't bad enough.
You had to work late,
on a job with no 
time and half for overtime. 
On your way home,
waiting for the bus.
Only to be held up
by two members 
of Thugs-R-us.

There's never a...

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Dad said this about the penny
Have one in your pocket to touch
You will never, ever be broke
Times, I have existed on the penny

Have one in your pocket to touch
I have many in various vessels
Times,...

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I've invested too much time 
Into people I thought were genuine 
It's baffling
How many people you know 
You think have your back
But actually don't 
When you need me there
I show up 
When I need you...

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My Kingdom 
For a verse
Worthy of note 
A poignant stanza 
Recited before a willing audience 
My Kingdom 
For the words
Etched on an unmarked grave
Moss won't grow over
Because it's visited 
Time to time
Read chapter and verse...

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HOMELESS

Pale palms spread ! Lie flat, damp on a beer mat
lip stained pint glass, bubbles rising,carbon gas.
Puddle, pooled, red-eyed perspective, insulin injected.
Life lives in a toilet visit, dripped, stained, unzipped.
Crabbed-walked, twisted-talked, bent legged kneeling
urine smell...

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A handfull of it
Wont buy a pint
Wether its milk
Or beer, even a coffee
Black or flat white.

A handfull of it
May jingle and clank
Wont buy a chunk of wood,
Not even bus fare
Certainly not a full plank.

A handfull...

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They could be anywhere
Greased on my bus fare. Any Tom Dick or Jack and Solitaire 
On every bit of bittie bit, on any drop of there.

They're everywhere in ambush
On every pull you push. Each panicked...

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