Long Chine Poems

Lisa, a freshman in our residential hall sister-suite, and I have become fast friends over the last couple of weeks. Before we began hanging out I penned a piece about her that she thought was...

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I sat under the grey shadow of the gloomy night
Raising the closed curtain of the darkest day's flight
My heart subdued the voice of my inner shrine
Wiping the droplets of tears that wet my chine

I sat...

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I am the leaves in the trees
and the critters that crawl 
when the sun is sleeping,
the pleasant and gentle wind 
that tangles through your hair, 
the writhing of your toes 
in the warm sand. 

I...

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I. e., this unfortunate
     mere erred reflection,
     aye re: zine
     (pronounced Syne),
     cuz you Matthew Scott Harris
act like an...

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9/18/12
By:Sami LaRose
Over coming Child Hood Tram's

Trains trains how you drive me 
insane, it's like you've bit a 
tumor into my brain
So powerful and filled with 
courage until that time comes 
along, where you by the...

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I am going to sea in a blueberry boat
That danced in the wind by the lee she did float
With vanilla sails and strawberry jib to bend her
Her chocolate chine hull held true on this double-ender

From...

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The Plight of the Ghoul
                              ...

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nobody knows what defines once sorrow and pain without any gain 
nobody knows the tears that dry with the wind as they fly to hide the pain deep inside 
nobody knows the feeling of losing...

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Three blank canvasses lean  against a hallway corner wall
Upstairs are boxes of paints, brushes and knives
Finished signed framed paintings hang throughout the house
Woodcarved dragons sit on shelves in homes across the world
Each Boston Whaler...

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In our father's house, you were doing fine,
but you did not want to toe the line.
Father, you said, 'give me what is mine.'
Leaving home sent a jolt of joy up your spine.

No more scenes of...

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Lets see if I got this strait
trust no one but believe in fate,
take time to smell the roses
but don't waist time on stupid choices,
always keep you head up and don't let any thing get you...

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At any time
After lunch
I will have my nap
For a few hours
And in the afternoon
I will wake up
I will stay indoors
Where there is
Cool
Because my air condition
Is on
And I will do
Some work for
My Father
Because I am my
Father's...

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Three blank canvasses lean plastic wrapped against a hallway corner wall
Upstairs are boxes filled with paints and brushes and several sets of knives
Finished signed framed paintings hang throughout the house
Woodcarvings adorn shelves in Germany, Florida,...

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The Chinese (told to me by a South African)

They are all over Arica now building houses,
Railways and roads using their workers
There is little work for the local population.
If you take a train in Africa, there...

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Oliver often scolded Hardy, on a point of which he was
Never tardy.!
They had to have 'their daily fix' if not hourly? They were like two cats on
Hot bricks!
Their made up mayhem, garnered them gold, it...

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Planning on crossing over
where footprints of night
are ne'er seen...
There fish are spawning
in clear blue stream ~
Surrounded by verdant green;
Nature begins speaking to me.
An antiquated chine-wood bridge
gracefully arches it back
with sturdy braids makes a path ~
That...

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