Long Costed Poems

Reality strikes
Almost in a dreamlike state
Slow motion
However sudden
Indifferent to any other
Dreams turned to nightmare  
instantly 

I feel so worthless 
For some time now
A whore
A slut
Good for nothing
Ruined.
Not easy to acknowledge 
But this is how you...

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LIBERATION
I am still in chains
Slavery, colonialize and apartheid 
Are words you do not want to associate yourself with..
I know you have been emotionally stimulated that you are free
Just illusions, you are still in handcuffs, shackles...

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Soul, slow down your flight
A kindred soul dare to delight
In  your tryst when you hold her tight
 
Savouring every breath, every moment
Shunting aside pain and torment
Shutting out a callous comment
 
When your priorities say...

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My mind is always running like an overflowing faucet
Like a never ending bouncing ball that someone took and tossed it
Paid for with attention that I forgot how much it costed
As my mind will sometimes lose...

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Don't ask me how I got here
But I know it was a struggle 
You never knew you were pregnant with tomorrow
I ate what you ate
I drank what you drank 
I went everywhere you went 
When...

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10/23/22
"Knock It"

What I smoke is frosted
Money and time it costed
Has yet to turn out how I've wanted
Remaining undaunted
Going in and out of areas that are haunted
People continually taunted
So worried about what the cat brought in

Doggone...

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If you told me 6 months ago I'll breath
just fine without you I laugh and proclaim
you kidding

My eyes are as dry as the desert my heart
learnt hardly to partially live without you
Before time passed by...

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From time to time I find myself staring into the heavens lit by our stars
The elders spoke of each star having its name, and how God knew the all by it
  At a very...

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This man was suited,
booted,scented,
and flew luxury class,
he was high ranking official
of a bureaucracy,
on one flight back,
I followed him in his life,
second by second,
he was called to a far off city,
to lecture on human resources,
he talked...

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Listen to me the best you can
As I whisper hopeless words to you
I lay here strong yet so broken
Alone in this bed, so dead in this room
All I would say is one more, ONE MORE
But...

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Ramblin' Bob Dylan Blues
(For Bob Dylan)



Why does the sun dry up so many scattered tears

slipping down the coarse cheek of a million hushed fears

where no one is scalded though the searing fog clears

while prayers are...

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needing attention
we sought reason not
to be at the will
of it's need
we evaluated the variables
and sorted through
the risks
it made better sense to understand
what we had found
and respect it as it was than created
by our togetherness
but it's...

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I stood before the mirror, one last check,
a quick inspection, then head off to town,
silver kipper tie around the neck,
shirt of green, sports jacket of light brown.
Platform shoes on, I boogie down the street,
a first...

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8/30/16


Plotted
Lines connected no longer dotted

I got it 
Took so much more than logic
And being honest
Hard work, pain, sweat, blood and tears is what it costed

From here to beyond the tropics
Near and far from ore deposits

When...

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I dance with the Devil while the choir sing gospels.
The heavenly bliss of Hell holds me mentally hostage. 
I payed too much attention to the negative temptation. 
Never knew how much the price in Heaven...

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If you judge food with the quantity put before you
Then my first choice will be the Victoria Hotel*.
On Sunday lunch, food is too plentiful, makes you blue.
There we will eat so much it will make...

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Stories, tales...More truth!
More cozy boots; Its winter: super cold
Doctor prescribed me with meds: syrups too popping pills and no love potions, learned the hard way that life leans on you when everything seems hazy!
Falling down...

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There was a legend in the world of cricket,
For whom fans rushed to buy the tickets.
Who started  getting run out on 1st wicket 
And like a poem, got run-out as well in his last...

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I'm waking up rubbing my winking eyes
so sensitive to the burst of the first sunrays;
I open wide the off-whilte Venetian blinds of older days,
to get a better view of a sun never hiding its surprises.


I...

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7/5/21

Chopsticks
Lockpicks
And exotics
Continually the clock ticks
Certain situations required antibiotics
Or the use of narcotics
For some it angered and others it was hypnotic
Near and far from lifeforms that are aquatic
There is peace or conflict
In a world that can...

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2 Cups of cooked seasoned mustard greens or spinach
if with rabbit and chicken would prefer mustard greens
with fish and chicken would prefer spinach
drained and cooked greens .
1 tablespoon of lemon zest
1/2 cup of cooked chopped...

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He flashed a smile on his way out,
Giving his co-workers a wide wave,
And he had absolutely no doubt, 
That he was better than his friend Dave.

He struts past all the buildings and shops,
Straightens his tie...

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A piece of clay spinning around,
Molded by hands of fire and ice,
Shaped into form; tied and bound
By experiences through this vice.

Round and round upon a spin wheel,
Born into centre going fast and slow,
Pieces of clay...

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Some tides are small, and some are bigger than our thoughts
Some create the problem only a few provide a solution
My little princess, building mud castle in these tides
With her tiny, tiny footprints walking along in...

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Going around in shorts is considerable crime,
Oh now you can't even play with slime,
It's outrageous to talk about PeePee in public,
Do you remember now when country became republic? 

Swings and slides are day dreams of...

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