Long Gloominess Poems

Skin of Terror
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

(The stage lights come up slowly on Michael's face, which is crisscrossed with wrinkles from his fuming anxiety. He peers out into the gloominess at the wheel and tightly clutches...

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I walked pass the neighborhood restaurants and saw Americans
browsing on their laptops and having their Saturday evening meals
Some were having a serious chat over dinner
I could see angry faces filled with disappointments and resentments
There is...

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"To live is to suffer; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Some say life is a mirror..

Whenever he whistled his eerie tune,
he would always tell me,

'It's my death hymn.'

But, then a...

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Dry as a desert and thirsty like a coyote…
Hunting for its prey with strength and envy
My coat of fur is shivering from the cold
My growl in the dead of night is so bold

I'm changing bit...

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I wander away into the wilderness of woe
I let the wistful winds blow 
The sun is all aglow
Glide into me, happiness from afar
Am I still your ever-glistening star?
I am still left with this unmerciful scar…

I...

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They say that a tree is known by its fruit
But there are many trees whose fruits are unknown
Apple bearing pear and pear bearing apple
And a cherry blossom tree cannot bear sunflowers
"Keep out of trouble now"...

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HOPE BY N3
Slashed at the throat a blow aimed not at the esophagus but at the vocal cords
Paralyzed by something worst than fear,
Speech grows limp even as silent screams are constrained by shame’s chord.
Tethered like...

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I knew you were troublesome from the start
You stole my heart and I fell apart...take heart,,,
Wake me up from this dream I’m in 
Wondering where you’ve been...again…

Keep this a little secret -
I loved you for...

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The Lord created us humans to be a three-fold being.
We mortals are made to consist of body, soul, and spirit.
The body is essentially a conduit through which soul and spirit
operate. Our finest hour is when...

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Lamenting life lost before mine untimely death

Last rays of wicked flickering candlelight
even to this present day 
(October 4th, 2023)
lxiv anniversaries marking birth
emotions of ambivalence self directed at me,
and family of origin diatribes still career,
within psyche...

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In my blooming brokenness,
        I seek for a 
    clue of something meaningful,
but what if nothing    of velvety value
   ...

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"Never been this eager to earn 
Even a single layer of ahead expectations
Murmurs between excellence and failures
Impels me to be bordered with lots of agitation,
Mind clouded of disparate thoughts
Never wanted to casted me off
People might...

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January 10 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 28-30

Key Verse – Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people.

FAITH...

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Written: February 22, 2024
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Divine dole of daytime, distinct as it came.
Fetch forward in finding your felicity flame. 
A gap in...

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The glossy lamp-posts,
like the tremulous stars and awakening stars,
light up one by one with a click;
and with incredible manifestation
they announce a spectacular sunset
to impatient and eager lovers...
lost in profound contemplation,
feeling the urge of improvisation!
Serenity descends...

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We could cure all man's diseases,
but we couldn`t cure humanities sickness.
So I`ll bring back history's greatest minds,
to rescue ourselves from these dark, dark days
the gloominess caused by the mistrust of today.
As life crumbled, it was...

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November 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Thessalonians 4-5

Key Verse– 1Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how...

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Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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Lamenting Life Lost Before...
Last Rays Of Flickr Ring Candlelight

Approximately a dozen
orbitz around the Earth
(since mcmlix), the year
of my birth, an aversion
(stayin alive) constricted self worth

gripped (strong as strangling
choke hold), where 
even to this day 
(January...

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August 26 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Jonah 1-4

Key Verse – Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation...

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Oh my dear dearest diary, listen
Today I'll recite a love that glisten.
Never had I believed in love stories.
But maybe mine holds a billion memories.

Yeah! I was a simple, easy girl.
With a dream of my complicated...

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January 23 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 16-18
 
Key Verse – Exodus 16:10 … They looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

FAITH IN GOD...

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August 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joel 1-3

Key Verse – Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the...

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May 10 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 1-2

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and...

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June 1 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Job 1-4
 
Key Verse –  Job 1:21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD...

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