Long Girt Poems

Jesus didn’t leave us 
Without hope, faith or grace
He gave us so much love
Shining down from His home above
He whispered joy into us
Who live our lives as gifts 
From the One who created us
And gave...

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Upmteenth (re:) inspection revisited...

I experience dread-nought
until April 19th, 2022 becomes yesterday
when troubles with management
here at Highland Manor
hoop fully temporarily alleviated.

Yours truly and the missus
personal living space
otherwise known as Unit B44
encroached, obtruded, and violated
predicated upon fruit...

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Old and new
Dust and dawn
Stars and light

A force not to change.
A pasting of the times.
A guide of the hours.

These only seem to grasp the beauty that I can see.
But if you look they also grasp...

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You have been walking on that ground since you were a child and you still have not examined the broken lines, you have been playing on that field since you start crawling on your knees...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
for impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft...

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I was up on deck of the USS Arizona doing the morning chores, 
When another plane came along, so I just passed it by, gores, 
Because they landed at Ford Island all the time, but...

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Tired, exhausted working 2, 3 sometimes 4 jobs 
 Is what mama had to do to keep a roof over our heads 
Raised by brothers and sisters never seen mothers face 
 Was what i...

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The American Library Association
      implores cognoscenti tubby alert
impersonators, who
     call themselves Ernie and Bert

     took a page from Sesame Street Playbook
oft times...

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Relief courtesy dreaded (re:) inspection not revisited until May 2022

Anticipatory anxiety put on high alert
when the warden gave less than a week
courtesy spluttering tone of voice
she did angrily blurt
nsync with her usual persona
being wickedly curt
treating...

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Here they are standing aloof on the backside of town
Here they are sitting on the bare, stricken ground
with strange smells filtering all around.

Smells that fill the atmosphere with an awful stench.
disgusting smells, horrible smells coalesce...

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( Hebrews 4:11 )

They say free man,
Aren’t you dreaming,
When I reveal,
My soul’s request,
For it’s rest,

They say in this present life,
There is only trouble and strife,
There is no narrow way,
For if even I can’t find it,
No...

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Ta pime yaah ta pime yaah bam
Rata tata rata tata bam
Ta pime yaah ta pimi yaah bam
Tears drip from the face of the weeping drum. 
The drum the drum the drum
Screaming and shouting
Crackling and rackling...

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FOR THE NEW TORCH BEARERS
		    (APROPOS MLK: 2)

I have voyaged over many tempestuous oceans and seas;
I have been pursued in woods by vicious dogs,
Salivating stale slave smells left in hanging trees; 
Been...

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HEARTBEAT
I can feel my heart beating
Standing like a deer caught in the headlights
Still and wary, waiting, watching
The air is still, the mist is thick and swirling
Evil lurks on every corner
I pull my cloak around me,...

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There are rules, one must follow
For any event, to maintain decorum
Religion and Politics are forbidden
No matter the event, venue or forum

You may, however, invite a representative
One in the know, but no passion allowed
No one mousy,...

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MY HEART IN YOUR HOMELAND


Cupid must have been busy he forgot my heart,
And so instead of a man I've fallen in love,
it is in the mountain ranges my eyes dart.
Sweet, the giddy puffy white clouds...

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Deep in the woods of central Maine, 
Schoodic Lake lies placid and pristine,
Its limpid, pure waters lapping against 
Shores of boulders crowned with cedars,
Whose grey, writhen trunks and roots, 
Clinging doggedly to the lichen-streaked stone,...

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Dear love, you are a snow-girt swan who glides
    Along the pearly traces of a lake
For in your breast, unearthly grace resides:
    A power, like morn’s bud, wide and...

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how hard to see the border
when surrounded by water
a land that is girt by sea

in fear they come
avoiding a gun
that says to here you can’t flee

this land abounds in nature’s gift
in beauty rich and rare
but...

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Who am I, one person in so many,
That God hears me when I call?
So many billions
Still, He hears one voice
Out of them all.
Sea of soul, some great, some mighty, some small,
Who am I that He...

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Universe I'm part your girt;
I'm part of energies worth;
Sent down through creation:
From Father Elohim;

Lightening strikes;
Thunder voiced;
Seldom sparks;
Father speaks, it is so light, life;

Father Elohim, from the beginning;
You never end, such as so you're mine friend;
You...

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There is a boy called Rick
 who who took to hurling; with bricks'
He let loose with a low'un,
 It looked like it was throw'un
And knocked pastor down into the c'rick.'

The pastor fell backward right in'
He...

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Dawn draws her line along mother earths face
And she turns to bask in her lovers light
And so Dawn comes in turn to every place
She brings us forth from the long dark night

Here is where the...

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