Long Change of heart Poems

"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thoughts … and feelings,
in the flow, always arrive 
before words, they are cast 

in the...

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For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees and man...

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Nowhere Else To Go

Welcome to Israel: Land of Hope.1
(The land of Zion and Jerusalem.)2
Where prophets walked and prophesied,
For their God, our God:
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.3

And the Lord spoke to Abram, and he...

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The Titanic played its music
                              ...

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Pt. I

The Lodger

Morning sneaked inside the flat and lit the dusty air
through holes in the torn curtains forming spotlights on the floor.
He woke from the discomfort of a night in his armchair
and stared at all...

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You gave me peace once in a while…
All your silly sayings got out of style…
Getting a little more weary, living in a nightmare
After being awfully teary as it may appear, my dear
It’s due to the...

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Wham Bam not even a thank you ma’am, was I hit by a Mack truck or slapped in the face where I stand?
The severity of it, but to you a job well done, the patting...

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From That Dark, Dark Abyss, The Long Black Curtain Rises
 Third poet in my poet dedication series

Part One:
 
Curtain rises and we see as Raven's prisoner, old Master Poe
chained to his cell, held captive by...

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Hold That Thought in Faith

I know that there is something that surrounds me
Permeating through every living thing
In every blade of grass and with every atom
It speaks to me from the light
A light which is born...

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the position your life takes or how you position yourself in life
depends on how you live and if it lines up with Christ
have you positioned yourself where you connect with God?
have you positioned yourself where...

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it was the meeting of an epic bout in the Motherland
two heavyweights in the ring battling hand to hand
it was on, it was a rumble it was fight night in the African jungle
one fighter employed...

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He gave me unconditional, abundant grace
He gave me unbelievable faith during life’s regretless race
The light of life is what I truly try to embrace
In this darkened world of loveless lust, this world of disgrace

Agape Love...

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Back in the day the states gave them the weapons
Before media reality, before we were threatened
So we send off our men to avenge for 9-11
The event was tragic, but so is getting even

A change of...

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How am I supposed to feel, how should I feel?
Should this not hurt, should this be filled with joy?
A warm place is all I long for

Comfort & understanding

There's just something about it...when skin touches
Behind my...

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Project Progress


Born under a black star, progress has been made,
But birthdays come and go and I still cannot act my age.
Destiny has been calling; it is time to pick up the phone.
Plans are in place...

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when you are in love 
you want that feeling to last forever
and when you are in each others arms
you wish to stay till the twelve of never

its feels like a dream come true
and you want...

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Willie Winkie lived in a land of magic, in the region called Butterfly Haven;
For Willie was a diminutive elf, like the violet blossoms, of purple fixation.

Willie and his beloved wife, Elvira, lived highly organized, pleasant...

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(A Long Agonizing Conversion.



Out of the dark forbidding night,

 I Struggle now to see the light.

 I never felt this way before,

 Loved the lair of darkness more.



 Was careful in nothing, no good to...

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A Letter To The Debtor
 
To those I've hurt and all I've wronged, 
I never before accepted where I belonged.

I could apologize but I'm not sure that even matters now.

Maybe those who hear this will...

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Jesus am down here right on my knees in your 
holy sanctuary
To speeak to you through my prayers cos I don't 
want to be stationary.
I ain't a mercenary who has the love for money,
But Am...

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Jesus am down here right on my knees in your 
holy sanctuary
To speak to you through my prayers cos I don't 
want to be stationary.
I ain't a mercenary who has the love for money,
But Am...

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anger is not always a sin
if it's righteous indignation

Biblically anger is that emotion which often compels
us to change our ways so we won't wind up in hell
anger is acceptable as self-defense of others or moral...

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Hahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahaha
and now I'm all...alone
It's the way I wanted it, the way I planned it
why I came so far, drowned in darkness
attempted to cut down everyone in my path
I'm so close in my conquest for revolution
so...

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MAN   IN    A    SUITCASE

Used to joke  how Gregory Peck  was my father             ...

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Endings ? – I do believe . 

There is this great, growing, emptiness, filling my soul, –
permeating every fiber, every beat ( pounding away at my heart ) – 
it’s oppressive weight, bearing down, collapsing...

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