Long Foolish woman Poems

Upon this date he spoke no more of the preceding moments, 
Tearing and hurling insult upon insult
In several directions, his tongue whipped and scorched me,
And he waited relentlessly to see the spark in my eyes...

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My daughter - my love - my darkness - my only care.
Oh how I miss you dear, wish you were here.
But wishes cannot turn back what has been done;
can they - can they bring you...

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to spend their fathers treasures
on women and men.
This their father shall barest his new born son which
he had thought to have been his grandchild.
now he rallies to take back with pride
something he never knew he...

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Its draws its power from many things that we as human do. How we take for granted that which as human say and do to one another. Like lie and take one another goods, and...

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How can it be
You and I alone in a room yet it just feels like it's me
We came this far to continue to grieve
For I lost him and he lost me
We couldn't see
What it is...

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Do you want to know how the pomegranates tasted?
Oh mother dear, would you like to know how they felt?
Like freedom.
Oh mama, don’t you know?
He didn’t kidnap me.
He didn’t have to.
If we’re being honest here,
I stole...

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How can you say I was never there for you!!
When you needed someone to be by you doing the Lord's Work,
did I not try to give you support when there was no one.
When your feet...

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Fig tree fruit...fig tree fruit...fig tree fruit
Eaten by toddlers...fig tree fruit!
Gave elders stomach ulcers

Be careful for this is a fishing bridge
Elders warned...
Play not here lest you tumble into the river and drawn
Adamant!....the fig tree fruit

Birds...

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How could you invade my privacy?
The only thing I had left of me. 
You opened the door for the world to explore.
My young mind grew with hate so intense.
it consumed my very sense.
You who supposed...

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A mysterious man of wonder
lived in a village; anything he could do
to a villager or stranger who
stole his wealth

A man staggered in his kraal
a big bull he took away
“you’ll below like a bull
till you vomit...

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TO STAY or TO RUN

The woman lay bloodied on the floor,
Her false friend about to give her one
  more.
Should she remain or get up and run?
She contemplated, as the morning sun
  doth through rooster curtains...

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Angie’s blind eyes wander aimlessly in their sockets, 
one white as the belly of a snake, the other a pointless blue.
She has one dress she wears every day, and a cane that is
without tip and...

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Why, why would you lie to me?
Why, why would you pretend to care for me?
Why, why would you look at me and say "you are so smart", 
Why, why would you then laugh at me...

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A bosom friend, an old woman and spinster,
Is a god-mother of auntie and uncle;
Chosen as their god-parent two years ago,
On their wedding at church in San Francisco,
A famous nuptial…I do hope you all know.

They’ve also...

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i dont want you anywhere near my apple tree.
now soar.. high above 
but before you reside here
know that i died near              ...

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