Long Chili pepper Poems

your silken skin gleams opaline
bathed in Luna's soft wash of cornflower - like a
porcelain Madonna by Michelangelo
conjured to life by the magic
of moonlight

your eyes open just long enough to
affix mine, and affirm I'm in a...

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I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I had rounded a curve on
    my motorcycle,...

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yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were etched
by happenstance??
not even CLOSE, sweetheart
I earned those ragged rivulets one-by-one
and...

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(continued)

She wanted me to re-marry, you see, but I never did.
Oh, I had a few trysts, here-and-there,
just to remind myself the plumbing still worked,
but all it REALLY did was remind me
how much more incredible making...

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""Entirely you know 
I cannot change 
the whole of the 
World all on my 
own." - 


"Or can I?"  

"I mean whom 
better to start 
with?"" 


""Yes, finding I 
am; Humility 
raises no 
defense...

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Red hot chili pepper poker face...

Born that way angry antithetical 
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective 
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprieve 
against bigotry, deviltry, idolatry (nah),  
et cetera across...

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Oh, such captivating concupiscence ...

I am lost to your thrall, your virtue's vassal
You are the perfect impish angel - raw sensuality, incarnate
You are hunger, insatiable and wry, and I your food
I watch you speak, breathe,...

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The concert had been perfect ...

Chaka and Al Jarreau on the grass at Foxwoods
     A dry and warm July evening
Sleepy full moon peeking up over the horizon
    ...

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On my way to work this morning,
Sandwiched between two perverts,
I opened my eyes to look beyond the sky;
Someday, I will be out of this bus!

Standing in an overloaded BRT is quite a challenge,
Different flavors ...

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she …

stood on tiptoe ...
her hair knot, now unpinned, softly burst
tawny, gold-streaked tresses
tumbling down her shapely form
coming to sassy rest upon her rounded backside
and on the cool of his hand 'bout her waist
his deft index...

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Uniform bravery blue
checked out 
before the stroke of midnight
Just as my black butt inadvertently ran into
a bullet fired by
the nervous trigger finger of officer Fife
But in the court of law,
my ebony word didn’t stand a...

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From the mists ...

Why are you here?
Half a world away, so not your volition
I did not lay down with thoughts of you
I did not lie here, eyes closed, waiting on your ghosts

Bent on nothing but...

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Sweet

Princess

sensual sass

oh virtue sublime

two perfect little bows

plump raspberries, fresh

tapered, moist lusciousness

wispy chili pepper spiciness pure

plucked in cool rain for love's intent

dew-dappled fruits of desire, inexorable.

Oh, like spinning the moon in your hands

there's naught but Luna's...

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THE BUHARI BROUHAHA 

We were agog
excited, impatient, and in suspense
 unknowingly ushering in the "gog of magog"
Oh! The mastery of his pretence!

Enmass, We obliged our franchise
Gulibly buying into their merchandise
here's my neighbours' drift, wise?
twill surfice...

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to swim the abyss ...
          dark depths of a sparkling gaze -
     your coy, captive eyes

to touch electric ...
   ...

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I met a pretty queen 
whose eyes sparkled like  
the diamonds of Sierra Leone 
whose lips as red and hot  
as chili pepper 
whose cheeks charmingly dark 
as the night skies 
whose hair...

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Spirit child
Spirit wild
Motor mouth sprinting for miles
Been here rhyme spitting for awhile
Practicing my free form graffiti style
Scorching chili pepper temperatures
Never white people mild
I'm constantly told to wipe my stoner smile

Multitasking talents
Managing mental fragments
Juggling social judgments
I...

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RISE AND FALL

       his eyes undress hers
slowly
       timid lashes
lower
        her face a cherub-red
chili pepper
  ...

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