Long Complicates Poems

Where can I trace this finite feeling,
So that you may see it in its true form?
Upon your heart I would wish it would land,
Yet could my silly hands possibly reach there?
Such an affecting grasp it...

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Warning: Barely Closeted Monsters Lurk Here!

Religious freedom’s what’s at stake! True monsters wage this war!
God’s told THEM (1) just when life begins (so faith that differs SIN)!
My Bible does not say, does yours? Raise hands...

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I wake to the sounds of laughter and lively music (jazz, I think) flowing free from the empty tenement down the hall. The smooth harmonies and upbeat tempos expand to fill every corner within me....

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*Image of What Happens When I Put ... by UMC.

The Collection Plate,

'Tis a simple sacred place of worship bearing no weight, whereto, one's faith unchallenged, accepted universally.

A complement of thrice their numbers, religious qualities as...

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Legendary compositions that made
the world learn to like music
people studied and bought
instrument to play
his songs.
he filed an alias document
to use an alte name when he performed
he spoke of music by the great
composer.
Millions never knew it...

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African sun

African sun African sun,
The sun that differed
from any sun in the world.
You kill and scorch all the disable
Creatures in African world.
You're a paradigm during all
arid complicates.
You torture and wallop 
By your excess heat because
We're...

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When I’m with her everything changes and I start to notice life in different phases, like the man on the moon

Her beauty is written about in praises

Even though she sees nothing but imperfection as the...

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I lie on my now made bed
at a total loss for words and hope
And holding myself upright
Trying to block any thought 
From escaping me
More especially the one that bothers me the most
Which would constitute the...

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Darkness peeks beneath the shadows
	Melancholic doubt, dread
From silent sensation, built by depression
	Falling down from up on high
Where there is grace, where there is chance

Darkness drives away the intense hope
	Prepares dreams for loss
Erases the innocence from...

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Trauma
It is something not a lot of people can empathize with. It is as if it was the victim's fault for turning out like this. The victims' fault for letting their fragile hearts get shattered...

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It seems the roots of our humanity
    Began its civilized nature upon land.
As much as nearby waters flowed & nourished,
    Firm ground was needed as most would stand.

Like the...

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When I’m with her everything changes and I notice life in different phases
Her beauty is written about in praises
Even though she sees nothing but imperfection as the mirror gazes
But all her imperfections are the definition...

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Misplacing my soul,
Drenching it in more misery,
Life has put me in places
That I don’t want to be,

Confusing the unsolved problems,
The web complicates itself,
Concealing all the answers,
That I desperately seek,

The pain,
That swims in my flesh,
Tearing me...

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As the wind blows outside my open door,
I sit and watch the waves dance on the shore
I isolate myself into beautiful illusions,
Those have been created by my confusions,

Abandoning myself,
I forsaken my feelings on the shelf
Trying...

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Can I be as strong as you say I am?
I know I have strength after all I've made it through
But to let other's in, I don't know if I can
They always abuse me or use...

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Ambiguous Loss**
(a paradox of presence and absence )
(coined by researcher educationist Pauline Boss)


You disappeared.. without a last goodbye   
a story ends incomplete, holding on to hope
beneath frozen tears, an ambiguous sigh
an uncertain mystery,...

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while dreaming one afternoon about perfection
what else
the notion erupted that wakefulness is not
it's that simple
but what complicates matters
is the mania to compensate
for the perceived unperceived or vice versa
during which time the totality
is left abandoned on...

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while dreaming one afternoon about perfection
what else
the notion erupted that wakefulness is not
it's that simple
but what complicates matters
is the mania to compensate
for the perceived unperceived or vice versa
during which time the totality
is left abandoned on...

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Give me love that I've worked for, no more, but no less,
For no man is deserving, I freely confess!
I don't need understanding, that complicates things,
And seeds fool expectations out home on the range.

Truth is not...

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It feels like a permanent hangover.
The pain only stings once I have become sober.
I come to terms with life and realize the game is over. 

Sometimes it's hard to grasp realities.
The rough times in life...

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Your presence is requested.

Sometimes giving presents is complicated.

When giving presents your presence is usually expected.

But sometimes you can´t be present when giving presents.

So when giving presents, presents such a problem,

it is always better to be...

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Death of a friend brings sorrow, 
one that doesn’t last for tomorrow,
Question’s if friendship built on lies,
As we call a friend that dies,
Not from life, but just from yours,
Doors that once were open, are now...

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its an old tale
covered by its own fate
must have encountered in life
by adjusting or by compromising
is what one has to decide
whom you meet in life
but your heart decides whom you want in life
chaos starts there...
ever...

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His collection of frayed, stained, flannel shirts is a library of memories.  His granddaughter once asked him: “Papa, why’d you wear that shirt?”.  He told her: “Because it was on top.”  He...

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Once again we’re wedged in a wrinkle
of time in our lives; a wrinkle that can’t
be so easily ironed out and pressed away.
Yet the ironing board of solutions remain up
and challenging steam continues to gush out;
however,...

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