Long Enemy(a) Poems

The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...

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Pay heed to those deeds from whence the heart must confess...
You're far from Rome Proconsul Caesar...
As they say, "All roads lead to Rome" Ariovistus
and all tresspasses are treated as threats of war...
My recent conquest of...

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In a land far away was a family with two boys
The oldest loved sports the youngest only toys.
You should be like your big brother the father would always say
It’s time for you to toughen up...

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(spotlight hits center stage. A figure approaches, casual, confident. He grabs the mic, James Brown’s defiant anthem “Say It Loud- I’m Black and I’m Proud” 
fades into the background.) The crowd goes silent, the stage...

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Beyond what’s said and be done,
Lies the hideous Black Sun,
Whose aim is to run a’ground,
To tear and destroy all around,

Plan in the years passed away,
Silent this Dragon appeared to stay,
But behind this stillness insidious lay,
When...

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When in Paris do as Romans do where pardon me I lost my Latin there                 
What is love truly...

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The scorpion and the turtle? Have you heard this story?
They are mortal enemies in natures scheme of things it can be gory’
Anyway this is a message about different creature’s nature.
So they’ll see this story and...

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To you this Poet writes away,
To caution ‘My People’ of today,
That what is wrong is never out’s,
But lies within the hearts of doubts,

Where O’ Where these thoughts be born?
In the darkness ore’ the dawn,
Of minds...

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I want to feel hurt
I seem to seek pain, 
and am broken in such a way I seem whole. 
The smile on my face does falter,
as my happiness dwindles down to naught but ash and...

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There is an ominous report in our land,
A shroud of disease heavy looms over us,
We’ve been anaesthetized and limp hangs our hands,
No one can escape by plane, train, car or bus.

Do not leave your rural...

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From Riches to Rags


Most human beings are living like ghosts,
Not really knowing what the future holds.
Whilst we wash in the slime, 
In our own cardboard homes.


There is a building, that is your home.
Once picture perfect;...

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I sneak around my enemy’s encampment 
Like a fox surveying a coop
Upon my heart lies a heavy weight called revenge
Pressing ever the more upon my chest
Festered with boils of vindication 
To burst forth and spew...

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Bleeding the power of a savage redcoat
Breaking the bones of weak allies.
I had hurt her for your love
As much as you loved to hurt.
By biting the face who cherished your gaze
By bleeding the blood who...

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Masked and disguised, my first grade teacher, Miss  Chark, kept her true identity under wraps one hundred and ninety-two days a year.  

She liked sunlit naps, the smell of catnip, but most of...

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I follow my warrior princess through country sides 
that would scare other foxes.
She is known as the butterfly princess to my kits, 
but they keep it quiet.

No one wants to upset her, 
not wanting to...

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It's perspective that sees a reflection so distorted
Where onced resided innocence, reality thieves away
Awakening resentment, serving only a barrier;
The echoes resonate, even in sound's isolation
A heart to forgive, time has had its way.

Consciousness tempts latent...

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Amidst the Snowflakes

Like thousands of soldiers in parachutes
they come out of the winter sky

One by one hitting the pavement
to claim victory for the season now unfolding

At first they are vanquished almost instantly
a price paid for...

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In the world of fallen angels
The other kind of daredevils
Seeking the world’s attention
Competing for world domination

This is the moment to believe
In something more, to be brave
When life is a misty blair
Uncertainty stifles the air
Under such...

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Educate me people
Can you hear me from the steopel?
How can you learn from the streets?
I know hip-hop can teach you different beats
Music can teach you a lot I'm sure
Reggae, hip-hop, r&b, and etc. are so...

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"I'll kill everyone in your family, all your friends, everyone you've ever cared about,"
 My formidable enemy now facing me boasts and shouts.
 "Walk now away from me and I'll let you and yours be,"
...

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I feel the tears come as I half close my eyes


A familiar old song plays in the background as my personal 
torment grinds down the old bones of wounds not yet healed


I carry the burden...

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The walls of this beautiful world are breaking by the day
Raining shards of glass down like the suns rays
Society is at a standstill, time ticking away
An invisible enemy is fiercely at play.

A virus so small...

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THE   GREAT    ESCAPE

Responded to a scream from the kitchen in our house,
Got there to find daughter imprisoned by a mouse:
On a chair she was  hand-to-mouth scared of the ...

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I, a small feeble man boasted with joy
over the deceased body of the enemy, a young boy.
Days had passed since the soldier had see his own men,
his thick beard slightly decayed to grey,
shadowing his entire...

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There is always forward for outings,
Always a reverse if it is missed at all,
But forward in things conjugal ever.

I have been associated with a woman,
She has an in-built, reverse-forward button.
When in good humour the forward...

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