Long Greener pastures Poems

(alternately titled: idolizing childhood's end
today April 25th, 2021
generates elusive warm treasured memories).

Akin to significance my eldest sister
felt toward her “Willies” –
(totally tubular fuzzy bendable contrivances
analogous to an outsize pipe cleaner)
until she became a tweener
my Matty...

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As ev’ry flower wilts and ev’ry youngster				11
Must age, so manifests each stage of living,				11
All wisdom blossoms too and ev’ry virtue				11
Enjoys its time, and cannot last forever.				11
At ev’ry call of life, the heart of man should,				11
(Without...

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Every child that is born gets a slice of God's heart,
But a fetus can't have one; You sure you're so smart?
Though some folks disagree (do quote Bible verse too),
Are they liars and frauds who call...

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I
At the marketplace
by sunrise
when the serenity of the dawn is ravished by unknown
voices…

When the Sun passes through the merry-go-round
beyond the horizon
when the turbulent wind is silenced,
and the voice of the cicadas
is no longer heard…

From a...

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Don't give it up yet,
no not tonight
double negatives
there will be plenty of time
to put it on him and make his afro grow
and create foggy windows
Just not now
I don't care he is a football star
and may...

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Greener Pastures For Little Girl

Good Morning! Here’s some latest development on the homefront….
It is the latest  interesting reading about some juvenile outcome…..

What do you know, that promising little girl you and I both well...

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Tension personified:that's me.
Apart, my world soon would fall:
Family, friends, work, life.
Was that the grim reaper's call?

I was feeling so down on luck
that sadness would look at me, & smile.
Why can't my miseries just leave,
leave me...

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same same
we pray everyday 
for change 
we voted for it 
we dreamed as we 
believe we are in 
change 
whenever there is 
a change of power
we rejoice for change
yet it same same 
same thing after...

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SAVE MY MOTHER, AFRICA

Poor Africa, why have you allowed your ancient precious priceless beads taken away frm you while coveting after a common coated carved stones from the foreign land?
Where were you when your artifacts...

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(Quintin Horatius Flaccus, Roman Poet, 65 B.C.-8 A.D.)


Yes, yes, I know what they say about me – know it well,
		too damn well, in fact: that I am short,
squat, and overweight with a face even ugly...

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To this scene we have gathered on September’s eve
Under darkening sky, where a storm may conceive
Not a sight better is that face I’ve hardly known
So frail and aged in years past he had grown
A tragedy...

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The wind blew through my soul at a vary young age                        ...

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After papa succumbed
to congestive heart failure
October 7th, 2020 yours truly
neglected fulfilling promised score.

I did shirk maintaining bond
with youngest sister
who when a boy especially fond
regarding said sibling
whereat myself and and Shari Todd
played cat and mouse
chasing each...

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```Laughing at the situation ain't mockery but tranquility.
They told me I was cold hearted because I laughed at that situation...
Rather they were cold hearted to fill my head with worry, bitterness and anxiety.
As though today's...

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In the name of God,
myriads of innocents have been slain.
In a time of war, 
God takes sides, they enthusiastically proclaim.
But,
What effect does this teaching have,
on all the masses?
Those pawns in the game,
found among all the...

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Adam from and by his side Eve blessed to replenish                         ...

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On a ranch in Arizona Big Daddy was the horse
He beat all the other steeds, on this, his home course

He wasn’t bigger or better, determination was his game
He ran for the love of the stable...

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My brain is pounding
My head is aching
Thoughts exploding
Pulse beating
Heart racing
Anger steering
Jesus are you hearing.

Tears are flowing
Pain growing
No one's listening
Fear calling 
Death knocking
Salvation are you waiting.

Satan's laughing
No one's watching
War approaching
Hatered escalating
Jesus are you whispering.

I am listening
Faith...

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Darkness Falls

A Story: by Debbie_Philly 

" This started out as a metaphor for a state of mind.. but some wanted me to make it into more... so well see..lol "
 
    ...

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I am born to hassle
Grown to live with hustlers
I am born in the street and raised in the waves of nowhere
I am the daughter of the cage
Under the bridge is where I lay my head
I...

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You say you dislike me because my political party is different.
I say the American way is the freedom to choose, even if I lose.
I say the American way is that every American should have their...

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Entry to John Lawless 
Dead End Street 
Poetry Contest
7th November 2023


At the bottom of this here 

Dead End Street

Appropriately named

Limbo Purgatory No Mans Land

Resides a cemetery

In whom one side live and exist in perfect harmony...

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Once upon a fairy tale,
Lived a colony of tiny folk
Who decided to set sail,
Because across the pool 
Lay greener pastures
Of which they wanted
To become masters.
For tiny folk to cross this pool
Took courage, had to be...

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Rolled about a bit I’d say
Since Nell and I first met
Denver down to Old Fort Lauderdale

Flatland fever hit one day and
Drowning in our sweat
Mountains pulled us up a dusty trail

Cut down trees and nested in
The...

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Somewhere between the molecules
and neurons in my brain,
lies latent creativity, 
between miracles and mundane.  

Although of late, still sleeping,
wandering, adrift,
as if in need like watering seeds
to bloom its innate gift.  

Itself to heights...

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