Long Got beat like a drum Poems

- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -     

By ten years old, no weekends off, 
Or Saturday cartoons, 
Although I did have cash to spend, 
I felt my...

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Excuse me operator, 

I think I’ve been disconnected,

To a neurotic world that's seemed to lose its senses,

A ceaseless quest of life questions,

Where are all of these transcending fairytales and esoteric answers?

I am feeling like it’s...

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Inevitable death defines afterlife - deux

Flinty stones figuratively rolling inside
whooping out that primal 
binaural beat of your drum
ma mind haphazardly 
ricocheting axon to neuron
inducing inxs of chaos 
wreaking entropy beheld 
by beauty and the beast
enveloping...

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While we walked home from the movies, one moonlit starry night,
My friends and I talked and laughed, enjoying summer's delights.

The streets were quite silent, as trees swayed in warm breezes,
And night blooms graced the walks,...

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I was aspiring to be a professional dancer, which had long been my dream,
As rogue planets head out on their own, from the stars that reign supreme.

I was awash in unbounded enthusiasm, like yellow sunshine's...

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Have I done something wrong..8 long years..regretted being forsaken not feted..more pong than gong it appears

Charismatic Selectors mistaken..phlegmatic..enigmatic or erratic

Dramatic not pragmatic nor didactic tactic

Despite the fans throng that he does belong

After an en song...

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Some will never understand how I find light in the shadowy corners of existence,
how a melody that flows slowly through my room becomes a river of comfort,
how a few piano notes struck with tenderness can...

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We Are The Ghost Dance Poets
  by David Lee Herring (The Powwow Poet)

  
We come together from near and far
Like wise men following the star
from the sweet Grass Hills, We come to be...

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He danced on the decks of tossing ships, danced only for dimes
He danced to the lash and sound of whips, hip moving like dream
And when he reasoned, his words sublime brought heavenly climes
Dance from plantation...

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Aristotle, who once said, “A flatterer is a friend,
Who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
Magician or not, the appraisal we try to defend,
Veneer covered ready, prepare for the overthrow.

And a splint named psychology...

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It started with an apple in paradise or was it a date they consumed

Had they kept their clothes off laundry day would have been easier

	The smell of seduction and no fake news

Honestly who cares whether...

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Kathryn's Love
Part One

Come one and all
And hear a tale
Of love and loyalty.
Kathryn's Saga,
Our ancient
Princess
And her man 
Of war.

A great Vikings Hall,
Feasting and laughter
Fires burning,
 Smoke filled the air.
Gundar Nills, the Viking King
Stands and speaks.

My son,
Our...

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Take a look what’s before you, a look all around,
this city of people with lives crumbling down.
Take a moment to listen, a moment to stare,
a moment in silence and see if you care.

From the window...

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I'm growing up father I know you're looking down at me or next to me.
Telling me wise things in code,
While I live my life to be a better men,
Til the day death comes to me...

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They call me Brave Heart
Not because of my courage but because it is my last name
And not because I "like" Mel Gibson that much but because it is 
how I was raised.
Half black and native...

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As I walked down Mulberry Street, my pack and the shoes on my feet.
I see a nickel, penny a dime an empty bottle of wine.
Fletcher the old drunk, smelling a bit of a skunk still...

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Please take the pain of my youth and turn it into
peace everlasting.

Please replace my fears with serene solitude and the
security of your arms.

Please cast your revealing light upon the dark
corners of my deceit.

Please help me...

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If I Go Before Farewell

I was the harvest of the black hooded Specter of Death
Caught by surprise He stole my last breath
His Scythe cut me down mechanically with dispassion
My heart lost it's rhythm, my color...

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megalomaniac 
wakes up one early morn
with a brand new personal plausible 
excuse &
this will be the answer of all
answers for
her/him, so that s/he may
beat upon the drum
a new web of madness &
stir the masses like...

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She its in her gallery in Trinidad
 On a rocking chair all alone
 So many children she has
 But now it’s just an empty home
 
 She remembers when it wasn’t
 But that was a...

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This is the story of the rainmaker who came to our town.
    Promising he would make it rain as everybody gathered round.
For the price of two hundred dollars you’ll see rain this...

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A place with real healthy green grass, trees, and flowers
variety of wild life free range; all things appreciated
A place with clean air, water, soil and organic foods
eco-system that thrives with smidgen human interferences
A place where...

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Confoundly forward marches the soldiers bravely twords the war
 On going is the beat of the drum that leads these men 
To where the single trumpet plays a rebeling score 
 A battle ground where...

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Love is not simple, yet a complex emotion,
                           ...

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Written: July 6th, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker

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Line of inquiry: fact or fiction? what does it mean...

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