Long Chalking Poems

Long before you were born, long before your great grandfather was born, in the time when magic was approximately eight times more plentiful than it is today, there lived a family in the remote part...

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Pride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story

Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain

Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
God stores His resource

When God sends trouble
And we climb...

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So I’m caught red handed in another lie
I thought you believed me on everything
But it’s clear that you just found safety in routine 
And I’ve caught on to your shameful smiles
And all your “I’ll be...

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Pain is falling. Into your arms; pain is calling. Answer me! Pain says. Pain says jump. Anguish says how high sir. And the sky's the limit. It's right there. Here in your face; can you...

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I shed a lot of silent tears last night
Tensed greatly I was at my ill-starred plight
My vigor was deteriorating
My exuberance diminishing
Life sucked out of my soul I was dearly wishing
So many obstacles, so many hurdles...

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How lovely, isn't
It, to have an 'off' switch, shotty wiring
And all,
And a presence lined up to ****?

They are always there
To cauterize the wounds of emotional castration
Without desire to examine
The blood pattern forensics,
Chalking the splatter up
To...

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Rainbow Winkin’
               by Odin Roark

Sitting atop worn tires,
We remove wax paper, 
Positioning our Wonder bread sandwiches,
Cheese, 
Bologna,
Mayo,
A canned pickle,
Each with a...

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“Become your dream” is written
On the sidewalks, done in chalk.
Most people step right over it –
They do not stop to gawk.

In fact, I’m sure that very few
Give it a second thought;
But some do ponder what...

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It’s a double-shot espresso at midnight
Where you filter my dreams into
Have-beens and maybe-nots
And I feel so alone

It makes me shiver upanddown my spine
The lone lines left in the vacant lies 
You abridged me with

It’s the...

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Lights catch random particles, drawing attention to the eye. Heart beats out of rythm. Smoke clouds magically appear as thoughts bluntly dissipate. Into thin air goes the brain, gliding down memory lane. Day brought Déjà...

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Still, I hold my head up high 
And why you might ask 
It was not I that left, but she 
I wear no mask 
My deeds are opened 
My life is before you 
I loved...

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It was in my younger years
That you took away my heart
Just looking for a conquest
You tore it all part
You. put yourself so far above me
No mercy to be found
Playing as the victim
Finding joy in putting...

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To the West, I looked.
Free-falling backwards, down.
Like Ripley into the furnace, clutching an alien
horror...destruction. Death.
Violet petal soft falling. No pain. Slow motion.
No impact. Peaceful.

'Girl, get off my pool table, ' my Daddy, smiling, 
Chalking the...

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When you deal with your mother
You touch her like a feather

When you move with your father
Be kind, make him not bother

Let association with your brother
Cause not any kind of bad weather

Your relation with your sister
Must...

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Tenebrous night steals autumn days,
Invading ink subtracts the breath of light,
With tarnished mingling edge,
With dusty dusk’s laments.

Tenebrous night of immutable grave,
Infiltrating melanin loots the golden glow,
Where criminal and crucifix sink,
Where dream and delirium drown.

We are...

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Making mud tamales
Sucking cherry tomatoes
Gorging on figs til
my stomach ached
Splattering a watermelon
to the ground
Ripping its guts out

Competitively running
from the start of Isabella Street
to the Rail Road Tracks
of our dead end street
I was faster than Larry...

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The painter took up his brush to paint
he picturized a valley cupped by mountains
numerous waterfalls were cascading down
ripples expanding and bubbles bursting all around
Sunrise is an invasion of light and shade
through the clump of trees...

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A pampered child as I was
Always loved,cuddled and respected
Due to the radiance and brilliance
Behoving my tender and soft face
Coming out of my parents' ego
Or may be of their baseless boasting.

A calm but isolated in the...

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The world has changed in so many ways 
It's nothing like the good old days 

There was only 3 channels on the TV and we boiled a kettle to make the tea

Lots of fresh air...

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MEN WITHOUT MERIT

smallminded lopsided 
these are the
men I mind

jealous of anything outside
their re-invented Utopia
like jealous little gods that
would have the whole world
bow to their insidious 
arrogance wanting the
world flat because they
are faking a fauxflat 
perception...

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The chosen 


Standing at a point where two roads will start,
Choosing one would be tougher yet smart,
Gather courage, must you choose one,
And be sure life is half done,
Confidence thereafter,
Ample dose laughter,
Thoughtful chalking,
Keep walking,
Till end,
Bend,
Gist,
A tryst,
Heart...

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Time: It is what moves the world
pushing us into corners
squeezing the final life moments from our very soul
letting us think we have the upper hand and all the control.

In our chest
beats a bomb...
ticking away and...

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choosing choices, chosen choice
choking chalking chortle voice
what is it about making a choice

that makes it so difficult
so reprimanding
so dangerous
so rewarding
what is it about making a choice

that applies to me
to you
to friends
to enemies
what is it about...

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I sit and I stare
Like a cat that is feeling so comfortable
Waning and wondering to the sky
Could I come to the home
In my dreams

Should I feel 
This way for you
If I walk down
The chalking stairs

I...

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She, the younger one
Continuously 
Chirping and tweeting
The nest
Otherwise sombre
Coming to life
Because of her
With time
Her wings gather strength
Flap and flutter
Now, mother’s pride 
The daughter
Almost ready to fly out
But not so easy
Both counter
Bottled emotions
Sobs…not so loud
Nervousness descends
She...

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