Long Fire in the belly Poems

Lets talk about love

Love is meant to be an opportunity
To share a place in time,
And an open heart for a person, 
That God has designed, just for you.
Love is to be our now,
Our everlasting and...

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"Have you ever got carried away by a butterfly?"
"What?"
"Have you ever got carried away by a butterfly?"
"What do you mean?"
"Have you ever got carried away by a butterfly?"
"How does a butterfly ever carry anyone away?"
‘Well,...

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I feel my spirit burning inside me
And years of fatigue draining out me
My heart is racing, my spirit is swelling
And my heart is singing a wonderful song.

I can still feel my heart beat and I...

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On a bitter cold snowy, snowy day
She entered the world her own way
My sweet courageous daughter 'Shelly
Beautiful blue eyes and a Fire in her belly

Bubble gum stuck in her curly blonde hair
With a heart full...

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What was I hoping for in this life...

a true story in a positive category, in a beautiful setting of things to inspire, a loving tale of Passion, to be able to strengthening my thoughts for...

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Compassion flows, flows like a river
Flowing through hearts, making us quiver
We feel the pain, the pain of another
Feeling our way to love one another

Confidence rises, rises like the sun
Rising above doubts, doubts come undone
We stand...

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Hear the lonesome whistle blow, it echoes across the vast
Continental divide, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic
Coastal shores, by the steel rails iron horse.
It raged in blazing thunder, leaving a storm cloud of white
Smoke in it's...

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There was a time when despite regular bun fights,
Sexist attitudes,
Unrealistic demands by key players,
Money problems,
Drunkenness, 
And petty squabbles,
The end product,
That flashed across Cinema and TV screens
Lifted our spirits,
Made us cry, 
Made us believe,
Gave us hope,...

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KEEPING UP WITH THE DOW JONESES 

These here are the indisputable facts
I was born on the right side of the tracks
WITH People who only smiled if their stocks or equity increased
If not they wouldn’t have...

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I'm looking back again over my shoulder
And parts of my history are still unsolved
And even though that I am now allot older
Still it remains a mystery have I evolved

Perhaps a case for scully and moulder
Got...

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...iii.
What would the ballot box say, if the ballot box spoke? 
What would the ballot box relay if the ballot box wrote?

Would it, scream blue murder, and expunge the air from its lungs.
In honor of all of the injustices, and all of the wrongs.
Would it collapse weak, and weep?
Then release details of murders it had had to secretly keep.
The murders at the ballot box.
Or would it be a witness that's been silenced, with signs of bruises and knocks.
Or maybe a freedom fighter fearlessly exposing the lies,
Fighting with such fire in its belly, and just truth in its eyes. 
Shining light in the dark places of electoral fraud,
Where the electorate is owed a deficit when an election is flawed.
Where against an orchestral background of human progress, you can hear the odd struck dissonant notes of dissent and discord.

What would the ballot box say; would the ballot box bawl?
Would any of this be any different if this could even happen at all?
But because the ballot box is silent, even when democracy stalls.
The ballot box, same as ever will continue to take the fall. 

*Extract from poem - Murder at the Ballot Box

Mike Concise © 2015
www.mikeconcise.com...

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Cunningly swinging
On the trees of life
Playing his pranks
Winding up the wife

Enjoying every challenge
Using his brain
Owning it. Bossing it
Playing the game

He's a Chinese Monkey 
- a little bit spunky
A little bit of attitude
A little bit of...

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I wanna retire but I’m barely hanging on.
Lost the fire in my belly but I still log on.
Working hard every day, dreaming to be free,
But can’t afford it in this economy.

Slaving in a sweat shop...

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Your Day Has Arrived

With fire in my belly;
And ice in my veins.
I lift up my voice to say;
We Shall Remain!

Never to surrender;
To another's dismay.
Which is why my peoples shout;
We Live To Fight Another Day!

Rise up...

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my friends, I feel your presence 
but I cannot see you where are you?
 my friends your songs soothe my wounds, 
Wounds that scar my body, your fire my mind your hungers that feed upon...

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Have you met my Merry,
My lover with the big blue eyes,
With beauty and personality
As sunny as God’s open skies?

My Merry girl is one of a kind
For God won’t make another.
It’s just too easy to fall...

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MY TEENAGE CRUSH

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Ere half a score and three in this sapien space
Eyed a destination that would take me there
Very noble and widely embraced by the numbers
I set out well in the name of getting there.

The...

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Mission Impossible :
Yes … That was Me …
A Mission Impossible
For God, The Almighty

That is until, I found His Super Words …
‘ Nothing, is Impossible for Me … ‘ Haven’t you Heard?    ...

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Fire in my belly
Confidence in my mind
I confront challenges that I tackle daily
In a determined and concerted onslaught to find

Solutions I appreciate
Among several alternatives I explore
To root out hypocrites who ingratiate
Themselves to exploit my generosity...

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he sits in his well worn ragged shirt
head resting against the wire fence that surrounds him
dreaming of times when life was good.
when food was plentiful and clean warm clothes to wear,
when being free was the...

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The scent of wood smoke in the chilly wind
 almost brings the remembrance of warmth.
My extremities no longer feel the bite of Icy air, 
numb, asleep, even as the fire in my belly burns. 

Each...

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Quote me Rumi .   


             My silence is NOT NOISE,but more volt
         ...

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The beauty of graceful sunsets lost,
the price of non rewind deep wound cost,
addict blows the opium itching & bleeding,
losing cardboard parts to a child laying
in the sun as the needle stings & pierces.

Lost a deep...

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My first chemo ended yesterday
I’ve 11 more to go
And so far I am glad to say
I’m none the worst for show
But
Tuesday of the next week
My belly starts to ache
My colon starts to back up
My insides...

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A single note
Just starting with a single note. 
Drawn to the vibration 
Then another, ally, companion. 
These two becoming firm friends
As others come to join the fray. 
Repeating and finding new meaning,
Never quite knowing their...

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