Long Get the picture Poems

Instead of building your house on the sand,
You should build your house on a rock
I can hardly make out if you truly understand
That you are making it difficult for me to express my feelings to...

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TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting, 
Finally a nurse...

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A Magical Journey Poetry Contest
Constance La France

"When we were hit by the magic wand's spell we suddenly became swans"
Quote by author

I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this...

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Are You Waiting On HIM?

You who have been given a vision or a promise from the LORD that you are truly looking forward to its fulfillment, have you asked HIM LORD, when is this coming...

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I love you he said
I love you so much I'm never letting go 
You can't share a love you haven't given to yourself yet
So, I dug up the dead pieces of my heart and replanted...

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Pound to the rhythm of my heart…my heart…   (oooh…oooh…x3)

We’re lost, but never found – I hope you don’t mind 
That I’m a boy that’s frankly blind
Do you even care to see the sorrow...

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There’s something wrong…
Something’s missing…
I long to know the answers to my prayers
I’m sorry for being those “disobeyers”
There’s something wrong with this picture
You make me feel slightly unsure
Our upcoming future is quite a blur
Quite a blur
There’s...

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Time and again he flashes those images before me;
The sin that so easily besets me
You should think that by now I get the picture
That I now understand his whims
That I can say “get behind me,...

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"I am black but comely ", it states in the Holy Scriptures
I am black but beautiful, so why can't people get the picture
she was darkened by the sun which shined upon her skin
she was a...

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Free Verse Rhyme

The mind’s dilemma for sure,...a cure... for the nation’s... health care
There is a simple cure.. that the mind doesn’t want to hear
The healthy cure.. neither doth the mind...of  the wealthy... want to...

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Read what sayeth the scriptures                              ...

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Bluebird Cafe off of music row and all they ever told him was no no and no      
He was outta time and outta dough cause they never played his songs...

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Elena is a visiting nurse, she's
also my sister in law.
She shared a story with me,
that practically dropped my jaw.

She didn't mention this couple's
name, there are privacy laws.
But she shared a story about,
this oriental man that...

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I hate goodbye. One more try, one more cry, one more lie…. to my self.

F-it!! Goodbye!

Ish should have been in the shelf!

So long, farewell, sayonara MotherF-Er

Mother’s. F-ing. Tired. Tried and true but now she’s through.

Ready...

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We are pet sitting our neighbor’s cat and dog…which means we’re wearing two hats
one for Betty (she’s the dog) and one for Doctor (he’s the cat).

Dogs and cats are different…we know this to be true…
so...

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he parlayed a condom full of nouns
in bold thrusts of the quill
for the para structuralist cadres
many of them freeway orphans
who won't even read a stoplight
on the other hand
there's a lot of other hand
upon hearing the...

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After a hard day, I relaxed in the shower.
I bent over and let the warm water run.
As it began to penetrate my body I turned
it to very hot.  The pleasure rose immensely. 

AFTER a...

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My roses shoot bullets and my poems never miss like they're shooting blanks
Even though the expression on their face is sometimes blank
Me, I prefer my expressions stank
Faces from the crowd 
Metaphors got you high every...

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Nostalgia setting in as I look back
Nothing seems worthwhile any more
Once we seemed to be on the right track
Does a better world lie in store.
We had moral standards on TV
The National Anthem every night
A love...

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Destroyer vs' Gareth # 2

Gareth oh Gareth.
How have you been?
I took a look at your last hit
We both know your not gonna win
Although you are good, I admit
You have the honor to remove my gloves.
They...

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Scene one
Why do we continuously watch this show?
When we've already seen the ending many a times before
I may be repeating the lines to my script
somehow you easially can get me all unfocused 
and upset once...

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Our family is a blended family…two families blended into one…
I brought a son and a daughter into ours…Deborah brought a son.

When we blended our families together…
I gained a son and Deborah gained a daughter.
We tried...

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The mythical fates had a dubious task
Sewing the cloth of life for men
“How did that work?” you ask
Well, get three sisters who sew
Give each one a specific job.
When done, down the tubes you go.
Anyway get...

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The Pollee

I guess now I have seen it all
A urinal for girls without the stall
General design? – a four prong unit
You back up girls and kind of spoon it
Don’t get the picture, here’s a teaser
It...

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I finished high school and graduated college…I read books both large and small…but I am not an expert on anything at all.

Not being an expert on parenting although three children I helped raise means all...

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