Long Face up to reality Poems

The red-bellied woodpeckers
and wood thrushes of Central Park ...
hanging in majestic oaks
and shady dogwood trees,
woke up early to greet
the glowing sun from the East,
and unable to speak 
in the human voice...
they used their melodies
to send...

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cold
physically, emotionally, spiritually
hollowed out like a two hundred year old redwood 
ravaged by fire, i didn’t care
my sense of purpose had long lost its relevance
spiraling out of control and letting it happen.
i had to admit,...

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Retrospective 
By Laura Dee Battle
January 14, 2015

Looking back at the Crimson shades of hell
The days where I couldn't bear to face my own reality
Showroom shines of smiles concealing secrets I would never tell
Not that I...

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1. You walk around all day trying to think of unusual words that rhyme and new things to say.

2. You spend too much time online or in bookstores looking for poetry and other books that...

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My Gorgeous Lotus Blossom !!!

There is not a day - glorious or gloomy - that goes by
where visions bloom, of your beauty, fill my eye.

After these empty, four years, my heart still burns.
After these empty,...

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WHY DO I CALL THIS POEM I'M FREE YOU'LL KNOW SOON ENOUGH

IT TIME FOR ME TO FACE THE COLD REALITY EVEN THOUGH ITS TOUGH.

MY LIFE IS SAD I ADMIT

BUT IT TIME TO KILL MY DEMONS...

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Is it a crime
To feel for you as I do
When it won’t do me or you any good
We can’t be together
Like opposing magnets
We clash
Impossible, yes
But it is true that I’m desperate for what I cant...

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At such times of discontentment
I complain, murmur and fret
with sincere admission, I confess to God* 
Who remains attentive to my qualms
offering to me His sufficient grace.

In my fear, my heart yearns for comfort
midst fight-flight pursuit
thus,...

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Time is ticking like a bomb about to blow up into smoke and flame
It alarms me to say this, but how DARE you waste my precious time

Your words could be as sweet as honey or...

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I call your name in the midst of heat 
Wish I could feel your skin, 
feel your skin touching me. 
Warm, moist tongue remembered by me..
I still wonder if I even peek your memory. 
Finger...

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I look like everyday
I told the world am the competition 
Yes I don’t want to be 
better than no one 
I just want to be better 
than the man in the mirror 
Yes that man...

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand." 
                           ...

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In the labyrinth of my mind, thoughts swirl like shadows dancing on walls of mist,
Unanswered questions whisper in my ear, like autumn wind through dried leaves.
Am I a splash of color in the universe's painting,...

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I watched happily as he stepped foot on my terrace,
All night we talked and he made my heart race.
But every time the night ends we had to part,
Bid our goodbyes, as the day will now...

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When I say peace, what comes into your mind?
Some fantasy, a world where there's no wars
No soldiers setting foot on foreign shores
Where weapons of destruction aren't designed

My thoughts on peace are vastly more refined
I think...

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My eyes watch as thoughts swirl onto parchment;
I live now yet know that I lived back then,
When honor was not just a dictionary word.
This time traveler mind which has witnessed centuries.

Never having needed an alibi...

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Turn off your youthlight
and say farewell to the child
embrace the gist of it
WE ARE NO LONGER FUN AND WILD
Face the fact 
accept the fear
Examine thy cracks
between the front and the rear
Fun is no more
OLD AGE...

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I sweepingly meet the slope to face with utmost reality.
There are a lot of glorious deeds for which we are careless. 
It's viable to espy, as often as you sense fraternity.
While the rest of the...

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God its hot
Is it not?
Or am I losing the plot

As climate change has again reappeared, not that it actually went anywhere
So, it’s time we again faced our fears, as its not getting any better my...

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" Why Oh Why "

Why mom and dad why?

Was I destined and born into this life to die
this terrorist war makes many american’s hurt and cry.

our awesome super power america may be going to war
and...

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Everybody has experienced a turning point
It’s a natural part of life; it’s part of growing up
Life is a sleek roller coaster that goes down and up
There’s a Carrefour which we must turn to a point
To...

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Its too late your words are not enough,
to justify your actions, so call your bluff.
I knew you where the type, You said you had changed,
i was obviously not enough for you when you felt the...

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AGAIN-ST

Just to face the cruel reality and pain of life,
The mind decided to live the life, the wrong way.
Decided to go sleepless at night,
Does your body accept this without a fight?
May be, “NO”,

A lot of...

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So much stunned at man's alienation 
even in the man-made world.
Stunned at the human folly to lust for relations
carrying the signboard "Strictly Prohibited".
Wisdom nullified at the foolish acts
and relationships ruined by the misunderstandings
and egocentric behavior.
Consistent...

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Nothing on this moment did Dasein feels just today
Anxiety crawling in his spine
Caught in between
Two contradictory lines

Free to choose, free to hide
Whether to chase his love, his lady
Or face his present reality

His heart dictates his...

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