Long Hadn Poems

[me]
When the music starts it possess my mind my heart my actions
i get more ****** up then the jackson 5 
i feel alive I breathe in and out to live to to die
when the demons...

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It was 15 billion years ago, a nothing but green paradise you could see, no matter where you walked. A beautiful landscape without a name, no noice, no pollution, not anything but the big blue...

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The day I heard I had HIV

The letter from the health department read like this in so many words: “Your lifestyle has caught up with you and you have been a naughty girl. You have...

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On the Road.

The coach from Lisbon to Madrid took about eight hours 
it left at eleven at night; it was full and I had the misfortune 
sitting beside a huge, black Arab who sat talking...

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Love, is a long way home

We worked together in the same hotel at a coastal town, 
I was a cook; she was doing the washing up…Her name 
was Ella one of the few names I...

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Syria, my lovely 

 Asma al-Assad, the wife of the president in Syria
  her crime is to be married to Bashir al- Assad.
 Since the president of Syria is sitting pretty, they had to...

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Conversation in a Lift. 
An elderly lady and I was in the lift she was going to
the eight floor and I to the seventh. We stood there 
looking at the dial, to avoid eye contact,...

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Christmas at Sea. 

Once I was kicked by a mule, as I was remonstrating, 
a dog interfered and bit my ankle. There is something 
deeply embarrassing to lose arguments to animals.
Guayaquil, Colombia, I hadn´t gone...

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The ghost and a Child

I have a recurring dream I hadn´t been to my house for a long time, remember I had been happy 
there with my little dog, 
we used to walk in the...

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Hospital workers

It has been another busy day a lot of driving
the destination is yet another hospital that smells of despair.
Busy fat auxiliary nurse, you can hear the friction of sweaty thighs
and the smell of their...

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When it rains

I look through my window at the star on the night sky
without them, it would have been like being blind
and I would have to look at the petrol station up the road
it is...

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For the love I wish,  hadn' t  ever failed
For the oceans, that we never sailed
For the mornings, that we never shared
For the memories, of how you had cared
For the dreams, that we never...

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My Twin Brother 
It was a curious case on how the mind can play tricks
on the innocent and preoccupied. I was working when
my twin brother came in, stood in front of my desk,
said he was...

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I'd be lyin' if I said I wasn't terrified, said I wasn't scared.
I'd be lyin' if I said dreams don't come true,to heights I hadn't dared.
I'd be lyin' if I said that I was perfect,...

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The Misunderstanding 

The doctor at the hospital told him grim news,
he hadn´t long to live. Outside the day looked
brighter than before what he had noticed 
he now saw and deeply regretted his blindness. 
Bought a...

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You've lied too many times,
and i've done it too,
I hope yesturday was your last time,
mine too because I'm just acting like a fool.

I've broken your heart,
but you've destoyed mine,
I knew that fixing it would be...

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Sand in your eyes

Full moon tonight, a supernova to sound educated
last time was in 1948 when the catastrophe hit the Palestine people.
I was twenty at the time and believed what the papers wrote.
Even the killing...

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