Long Business(a) Poems

Conditions were harsh out in Kansas,
For the children and Sarah and Paul.
Neighbors and friends packed up and were gone;
Headed west they could hear fortune's call.
Never sure year to year of the harvest,
So their talents were...

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Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...

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Purposes as incomprehensible and wonderful as these purposes
Either you had no purpose or the purpose is beyond the end
The purpose of sitting is not to be satisfied or satiated

Because the timepiece not only serves a...

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The American Calvary slaughtered native
Americans almost wiping them into
extinction. They took their land away and
put them on reservations. How come in the
movies, the old stories have the native
Americans as the savages. I ask you, who
were...

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Sanity on Colonial Road no longer exists.
The endless spiral downward still persists.
Friends have been lost, no longer exist.
Life is strange, wipe me off the list.

Have no wife, no kids, no job.
And yes, I live the...

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in the book of Luke there's a reference that's mentioned
a disclosure of the boy named Jesus and His future intentions
He had been chosen to wear the Jewish crown upon His head
and attend to  His...

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Poetry is much like a Great Photo,Capturing feelings and emotions of a single moment in 
time;then preserving it for future history books.Next generation learns.
Hurricane Katrina gives a lesson.For the next generation of Americans.
"TAKE CARE OF...

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I lost control of the day again ...
  Staring blindly at my tracks in the sand
  ... they go lonely
  He chose to die rather than live
  If only ... If...

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I married him not to change him, but because I loved him
Never dreaming he was marrying me for another reason
I wants to mold me into another person, a sixties housewife
I did not marry a house;...

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(“Meditation is not what you think…”)

These New Times

These new times have turned the world upside down.
The endless cultural revolutions of the past two centuries
Have finally hit a wall, Trumped at last
As the sheer accumulation 
Of...

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THE TRUTH WILL SET U FREE 
dont let go of me 
BIBLE damn LIARs 
hypocrites
I'm on trip  
finger prints on my soul 
ill never be sold 
RELIGION is GOOD FOR BUSINESS A TRIPLE DIGIT...

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I'm aware that
They'll dare me to surrender when my burner's unkindled
And the barrel is empty
Since their whiskey is missing
 
But it's in our blood and baby it's trickling and
We're on a roll
 
I heard from...

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She has got sweet skills and swagger,
stuffs up her sleeves make men stagger.
Some watch with awe her hyperactive hips
and lick lies from her luminous lips...
bowing to worship her royal madness.

Sunlight fraternizes her flaked up face,
dumb...

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I was minding my own business, a smart tabby cat lazing in the sun,
As the chief of this roost, the house diva, the boss of my domain,
Having such a busy itinerary, its really hard to...

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So proper and prim in my Brooks Broithers suit.
( I loathe that Obama! I much prefer Newt.)
Decorum at all times, when in public view.
( Dwelling on feelings would render one blue.)
An Ivy League background, a...

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I listened to a so called expert as he stated the obvious on TV
Defending bankers and politicians and their reckless spending policy. 
With a straight face he told us it was really all our own...

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