Long Finish out Poems

The Tyrant

Was born ginger
and learned WhiteRacist
from Dad
dead now about a year.

Possibly opioid addiction
but certainly something
in growing families
of yin-suppressed
self-medicating
LeftBrain too dominant
addictions
to chemical acclimations.

Dad left by death
Tyrant's also addicted
and chronically depressed mother
And his only white racist
twelve year...

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My father died prematurely while away on 
a business trip from a rogue blood clot to the heart  
I never doubted he loved me, would have liked me, 
(not the same thing), adult to...

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One of America’s most treasured holiday and tradition is known as the celebration of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving a plentiful feast of food and a gathering of friends and family a holiday began as a feast in...

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Misshapen limbs of the Palo Verde trees add an artistic touch to the landscape. While 
Honeysuckle twine about the old rail fence and the spiny Ocotillo flash scarlet plumes. 

Mesquite trees, older than the homestead,...

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I used to be into politics,
I would shout loud, and chant, and march,
believed we could change everything
if only we could be in charge.

Get new blood into hallowed halls,
the old paradigms we’d wreck,
but neither me nor...

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I had just reached the summit of the mountain;
The final reward for my four hour hike up the steep terrain.
There was still snow in abundance at the peak
Even though the summer sun bathed me in...

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Digits can be numbers, and our numbers mean a lot!
But digits I rate highest are the digits that I’ve got:
those literally a part of me; the five upon each hand
comprise my top ten digits, and...

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Hello, It's me again.
I was wondering if your doing better.
I'm wondering how you've been.
I hope you don't mind my letter.
I heard that you have said,
That you want me dead.
Your own sister?
You should take your meds.
Really,...

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So…
King Jr. died at 39...and I wonder if my confusion with gender identity issues is supposed to be his gift of my birth as I close in on 40...but the disabling pressures that pack down...

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Written In Iambic Heptameter utilizing an aabb rhyme scheme throughout the entire six stanza poem. thank you. easyeverett


Just sittin' in my touring bus, alone, throughout the day,
Then found my little plastic pic so I began...

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Now on with my yarn
About living in a barn
Paying rent
While living in a tent
A wood stove I ordered and got
Hopefully it keeps this barn nice and hot
Gathered my brother
Another son of my mother
Has special needs
Not...

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Future tense
I think I need a wife 
to finish out my life
 I have one life to give
 for Christ God and me

 before I leave this plane 
agreed i'm about to love again
 the...

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The winds are blowing
blowing briskly in my ear

Thoughts of starting over
somewhere far from here

though this pains my heart...
is it something I should do?

Could this be why my feet itch?
is it now the time to move?

Just...

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We had a new art sub yesterday.
No surprise.
We have had nineteen art subs since March.
It is the last week of school.

Mr. G the new art sub was positive.
Energetic.
Glad to be here.
Told me he would finish...

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When we loose a person to the heaven's above

It is so hard to accept even though we know they are loved,

Why does this have to be

The life cycle isn't long enough for us to see,

All...

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When you give up 
Look up to the stars 
They will keep you company
You may not see them every night
But they will soon reunite
And they will never abandon you whenever you see moonlight
It may even...

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With V.P.'s picked, the candidates
Are on the campaign trail,
Each hoping that the other's choice
Will make some voters bail.

But really, no one cares that much
If running mates seem weak.
For most of them, the limelight
Isn't something that...

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