Long Defray Poems

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"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds  of the day"

Virtues are...

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For life and death were caught within a race
to destiny – and all the world awaits.
His despot realm would falter from the pace
and thus, awaited fire from Heaven’s gates.
As mighty legions faded on the fields
of...

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DOWNFALL OF "YE" & RESURRECTION OF KANYE WEST
 
Recreation is here to stay. So who made "Ye"? 
Like a chain reaction, Hov' created "Riri" and "Ye". 
Kanye's the creation made out of heavenly dew &...

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Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi
              ...

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Our severe pain is unforgivable at eternal night.
I twist over, my brain hustling with mystic insight.
Cries made me exuberantly sad, letting my sting.
I felt bound that could never be fit of stirring.

Your gloomy yell penetrates...

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Shopping at Wal-Mart

By Elton Camp

Worse economic woes could be in store
So I watch what I spend as never before
And that is now the principal reason why
That our Wal-Mart is where I usually buy

At that place,...

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There’s a high-class hobo drifter
bumming rides throughout the land
Grip the Grifter ... 
watch it society women, don’t shake his hand!
If Grip get a hold of your purse money,
he ain’t letting go
Grip talks fast
Grip remembers slow
Yesterday...

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In a public washroom, can Kings ever be DEthroned?
When a cowboy moves to the city, is he DEranged?
Do photographers wishes sometimes DEvelop?
Are former famous models ever DEposed?
When a ship leave for the Caribbean, is it...

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Throughout my life the bridges crossed
so many times I’ve loved and lost
as hopes and dreams were used and tossed;
my hardened heart had paid the cost.

I felt as though I couldn’t go on;
a darkness loomed at...

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The old page has been crammed, used up and torn
Its million pieces scattered, tossed out in the wind
Each beautiful memory reserved; errors, I rescind 
Not worthy of preservation, keenly I did burn

Memories of a few...

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'Twas the night before Christmas, and insomnia befell,
No creature was stirring, but my thoughts are pell-mell.
Would the family squabbles and feuds come with the cheer?
Would I have to drown them out, with too much beer?

The...

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`They say if a good deed you do every day
`It will in deed repay for love will pave the way
`Some say and do not a famous prophet did say
`Hoping to beat the system, but there...

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The colour emitting flowers blowing on the delicate bough 
The music of the chirping of birds floating in the air
 The nightingale’s eulogy of roses melting hearts tough 
The perfume of love illuminating minds and...

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What lies between the ticks of time?
The pause between heart beats pulse?
The eye sight missed when you blink?
The still moments when you are breathing neither in nor out?
Our body's attempt to keep pace is flawed
by...

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I have mountains of debts to repay
With my feeble, shrunk resources
Will I ever be competent to defray?
My will to settle incessantly forces

I repent today why did I borrow?
Why did I take kindness of friends?
Why I...

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Today here
Absolutely no fear
Gone tomorrow
We must now borrow

Expenses unforeseen
Ceremonies and meetings in between
Funeral Directors need money like candy
That life insurance not taken, would have come in handy

We troop in to contribute 
Tea and bread to...

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Imagine there's nought to do today
In the gentlest, 'let it be' kinda way.
No clock's insistent hands to allay,
No hurried 'to do' demands to obey,
When the peace of stillness has sway,
When 'what does it matter' to...

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I'm hungry, feed me, what you say?
You've had your can of food today.
Now I've got to go work for pay.
Won't get your way! won't get your way!

Around the house you romp and spray
and make a...

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THE WILLOW, THE ALDER (& We)

The Willow and the Alder choose to stay 
By river bank and margin of the lake
Their roots, content, submersed, will thus defray
A thirst, to take libation and to slake

The Alder...

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4-8-11 @8:23am

i only do what needs doin
and try not ruin
anything along the way
it aint always easy
and sometimes it’s sleazy
but at the end of the day
when my work is done
till tomorrows sun comes
in my dreams i...

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Can we work to be busy? May we do it till dizzy'
Up until 70.' Against a scene of inflation and wage freeze'
To be punished by care home costs.! 
Homes sold, still can't defray' all lost?)
Work...

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Today is just a day; I cannot ever change.
In the midst of change, so out of range.
Today has no affect upon days of past.
It may only effect tomorrows forecast.

I always say, I am just having...

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O Moon, full moon I gaze upon your face
and ponder the many secrets you keep
of things you have seen throughout time and space
while the rest of the world was fast asleep.

The secrets of love’s infatuation
as...

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SACRED FLAME

Let others speak in praise as well they may
Of nature green, untouched by human hand
A perfect Eden, God, sole would defray
That we should tend unchanged, this virgin land

When He incarnate made that brief outreach
In...

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Work warm wonder
Observe offer
Rouse richer realms
Dream dazzle dreamt


Welcome wise way
Outline obey
Reach restive room
Defer death's doom


Weary words wane
Ordain obtain
Restore refrain
Denounce detain


Willing works wrest
Obscure obsess
Rescue real rest
Describe depress


Winsome words win
Obvious obscene
Ripe random rates
Denounce deflate


Willing worth weaves
Oozing offers
Reaping...

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