Long Dady Poems

silent issues

humanity
and the hypocrisy
of soft tissues

openly
running out of paper rolls
secretly
disgrace on humanity's cheeks silently rolls

there's a monument
on earth
to the unknown soldier

there's a monument
in the firmaments
to the unknown child 

a well known secret

a hood by night...

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(the so-called "texted" poem is below the translated one shown here on top. btw, not for the contest. I messed up & didn't know there was a line limit. did I even come close with...

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Frances

Twas the night before Thanksgiving
An’ all through the tenement
Mama was sleeping
When Big Dady came in again
And there in the night sweet Frances lost her innocence

Hopscotch in Harlem Summer 1944

"If I don’t win this time
I aint...

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3years ago, I see you on train
You were looking at me, I looked away back then
2years later, I see you again in the hospital and i keep looking at you
You look at me then turn...

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I spent my day shopping for rubies

for my Mommy who wished to mate

misheard though because I was small

asked for boobies instead for her date


the vendour asked me how many

I replied I only had money for...

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THIS POEM WRITHED OUT OF THE HEART;
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 
AS PEOPLE OF THAT GREAT CITY
ARE TORN APART..

I AM A NEW YORKER 

I was in a quarantine when my dady died 
That night. 
I...

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Her consistancy finally persuaded you to stay,
it still upsets me sometimes that she convinced you to treat your only daughter this way,
i know her addiction must be very tough, and i know crystal is her...

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inside her love 
i saw joy for life 
for her i saw bright destiny 
i thought everything will make a change
i thought she will be my  family i don't have
dady and mom'' parents and...

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deer mister god: momy said i coud rite a leter by mysef to you
i'd lik to talk on the fone with you but this wil half to do
id reely lik to set on yur lap,...

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She's coming 
I better hide
She trembles her way inside
Drunk I can see
fear runs inside of me
hidden in a small dark closet 
where I was not to be caught, aleast I thought
I am found
now I lye...

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( Contest name : Beautiful scars)

The day dady departed,
Promises were winged locusts.
Uncle pledged heaven on earth.
Aunt vowed I would be a prince.
No sooner daddy was intered
Than I knew khaki was not a leather.

Soon it was...

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Tonight was supposed to be one of the biggest nights of my life.
Happy to entertain my fans.
I just got the worst phone call of all.
My father died.
I didn't think I can get on stage like...

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You have no-idea how many times over the years
(after I ran away from home , to stop my dad trying to kill me again)
that I wondered what was so wrong with me that he hated
me...

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I love him because...

-he loves me more than i expected him.

-i am happy whenever we wEre together.

-there are lots of reasons, can't type them all...




Or Maybe because....




My dady ryan is a coward.

He lies. 

He falls.

He...

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This plumly;yield of temperent night,sirs and ladies
Esoterick flooms,buded;tyrant pees_shy faces?
This plain;ungraph of seremic light,ties and lads
Egoscentric moons,burreld;silent tears_passionate likes?

                ...

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