Long Evers Poems

There was no easy day going under cover 
with four kids riding along with the FBI supervisor 
I was just a young mother of four actually expecting 
again seven months pregnant the FBI installed wires...

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Landlord-Tenant Relationship Protection: Available Help Hot-Lines!

Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...

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Li Na Tennis Champion

Asians in general sat up to take notice when from the vastness of China arose a tennis great…
Never mind it was a she, and at an advanced chronological ripe old age of...

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often in the grand scheme of God's desires
He will use mankind to do what He requires
His providential purposes God's master plans
will utilize any and all types of man

the Pharoah declared a most horrendous decree
of infanticide...

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Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Freedom
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: March/2013


I grew up 
in the 
south,
where
spanish
moss 
hanged
heavy 
from 
oak tree's -

Where
hound dogs 
roamed 
dirt roads
tracking
down
a race
of  people,....

Black people,
America
said
were free -

We were 
not free -

America,
was 
"Segregated
America,"

Whites
on one side
and
Blacks
on the other -

Signs
posted
told us
where 
we could 
sit 
and eat -

And
"For Colored
Only"
signs
pointed,

to 
restrooms
that we
could use -

Water 
fountains
were 
prohibited,
except
the...

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ain't it a shame

when hate lynches 
a 14 year old Colored boy
in 1955 Mississippi
and blows away the dreams of
four innocent little Negro girls 
in 1963 Birmingham, Alabama

yeah 
bus that to your segregated thoughts
as I interracially...

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*** NOMAD ***
(For Ian and Bryan)

The gifts just out of reach…Always?
Scoping the search?  
With the contentments 
Of peace to be found, 	
Buried like treasure…And
Hunted?

Beloved nomad
Seeking place
Among the ridges
Of the lost caves your eagles 
Scan...

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My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer who gave me permission to speak! It was a war...

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Social injustice and economic inequality 
have always been practiced in our Nation's working industry
Irish need not apply, Hispanics we don't want your kind
and Blacks don't even show your face
this was the typical response to ethnic...

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Life is ups and it's downs, 
                it's shorts and it's longs
It's crooks and it's straights, 
   ...

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Begins with an appreciation of ledgers,
Clear, true and definite in appearance,
While a long journey through the never evers,
Finding fallacy in every reverence.

As much As I can I try to never,
Subdue that darkness within, such pain...

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Life like from a fish bowl, really!
Way ... encapsulated like above and behind, you know?
All those like gilded dado's of peachy-pink, gnarly puff, sweet aye?
All those awesome totally rad houses of
flannel-gray San Fran's Victorian Ladies,...

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The Pride of a Black Man…
is evident from birth
from day one he’s the strongest on earth
It grows in him like a planted seed
giving him the will and fortitude he’ll need

The Pride of a Black Man…
is...

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what if one man died to stop world starvation?
what if one died to end racial segregation?
what if one man died for social justification?
what if one man died so we could have eternal salvation?
what would you...

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I pick a crumpled page,
from a basket of memories,
tucked in the corner of my old house,
they remind me of my bygone years,
sketched in crayons and rainbow colours!
a purple river with a yellow boat,
a green duck...

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Light borrowed from a beginning’s shine
From the opening of a shut eye with a seal
A vision of the new never before seen
The flash of a truth once hidden to reveal

We make these journeys with our...

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Trying to forget about loving him,
knowing the chances that we'll get back together are pretty slim.
Can't stop no matter what i do,
want to pretend that i'm over you.
Knowing that its a lie.
Trying to feel happy,
...

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Did you say you want to know me?
Which me could that be ...
which of the what-evers that were me when?
The one from way back then
with pigtails flying behind
already learning to hide pain
to become another Me
that...

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A porcupine, an owl and a beautiful iguana
Were among the creatures that I got to see;
And no, I wasn’t dreaming it or smoking marijuana – 
Every animal was real as it could be.

For my grandkids...

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Me, Myself and I


One day Me, Myself, and I thought about conquering 
the world.
Me, wanted to get a map and start immediately.
Myself,  wondered if we should go to a Travel Agent.
I, thought he'd think...

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your still beter off then me even if
your heart borken
cause if your heartbrokren
atleast you know your hearts open 
and i swear to who evers above me 
saying you fell out is just as good 
as...

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tumble, little tumbleweed
come play ‘round my feet
I’ll dote my cares upon you
midst tenderness, replete

tumble, little tumbleweed
until you've found a place
devote time to appreciate
the treasures you embrace

tumble, little tumbleweed
dance your wonders, wild
tho’ I call you tumbleweed
you’re...

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We fell like hips, into the sea
 Rustle forth, and come to me
 You are land. I'm coming dry
 You caught my lips. You catch my eyes. 

Words into fire
 Throw forth the light
 Embers...

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tell me babe 
how the hell u make me feel this way 
happy as a high clown cuz u make me feel so blown away
is it okay... if i hang out with u today?
spendin time...

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Crimson lace and black tie bows; afore this moonlits reflectless stained glass....

Laboring breath while untying yesteryears negligee to reveal; their vanilla lips 

Rubies reaching for my palms; with trembling hands; placed atop times heart

As wanton...

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