Long College girl Poems

I was sitting in the crowded train station with time to waste, waiting on the train to take me home on Christmas Eve.  A very pretty, young lady, carrying a full backpack headed for...

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...The man nodded a bit, taking it in,
then absently stroked the beard on his chin,
said,”Everyone wants hat they think they deserve,
I can’t help but think you got it backwards.

“Not you alone, the issue is this:
You’ve...

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“I’m reading your poems, Mama”
She wrote while we were chatting online today
I was thrilled
What could give me more joy
Than to have my 19 year old 
My only child, the light of my life
Read my work?

Then...

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Dear Anxiety,
You lurked your way back into my life. Causing me to fumble back into my old fears. I spent sleepless nights after I felt your presence. You broke me down in the utter darkness...

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Why take a stand?

Everyday she's tortured in silence
Isn't it funny how we ignore the violence?
A comment, a touch, an inappropriate stare
What difference does it make? Why should we care?
They say the eyes are the window...

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Homeless? Not me.
I have my wires and my twigs and a place to go.
Uncle Joe is allowing us in
For a time.
Until Little Guy throws one of his famous fits
If I had a few more bucks...

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A bridge stood tall beneath a sky
Of colour shining bright
Darkness and light both amplified 
And beautified the night
The stars, they danced in rainbow gleam
Kissing the velvet base
The gentle heavenliness of the dream
Renewed my ugly face

It...

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Crank Me Baby 


Baby, burn my heart with each little moan
crank my blasting motor with every inch shown
You know, that see thru lovers gown so teases 
just like this afternoon delight so pleases

Baby, come on...

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Arrogant- wise - domineering - intimidating - stunning - to anyone
Young at 27, but incredibly brilliant and wealthy, that's who I am...

Yet, who could ever think that I have been through black and blues
This bossy...

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The Nam!
Why is it we are here?
This place holds no danger
To those that we hold dear,

The Nam!
Two days on patrol,
Today, I was point man
And I had no control

The Nam!
My best friend died last night,
By a...

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Mithila’s Descent

Mithila walks, sleepless,
Across the hills of grief.
The burning fire of memory trails her...
A shadow of mist,
Uncrossable,
Like an uncertain, fleeing cloud.
Time ignites in envy’s blaze.

She floats on sweat water,
Her sixteen-year youth
Nurtured in fatigue.
Bones,
Muscles,
Tremble in the...

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She called her Daddy and said she needed a twenty
He did not think this was enough, so he sent her plenty
She then called her mother and tried to work her too.
Mommy sent her a Valentine,...

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I met my wife at the very end of college. About 24 years ago.

She is still smokin' hot beautiful...

_________________________

When you hold my hand
I cannot even stand
How I feel so grand

Look at you, Baby
You make me...

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When the sun shines no more and gives way to rain
It's time to close the windows and bask in dark pain
Here, here, they come the memories
Floating in with the cold winter vagaries

Down memory lane, I...

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What do I do?
Where do I go?
Will there ever be a day
When I'm certain of what I know?
I compare myself to others far too easily
Hoping to become a person I'm never meant to be
Does anyone...

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