Long Handout Poems

“Forever”



When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the 
labyrinthine trail 
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...

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The Flood
It was springtime in the foothills, the air was fresh and clean
The snow pack in the mountains was the most there’d ever been
It was summer in the valleys but above was freezing cold
With every...

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Unquotable quotes: Beggars - XXX

Who said beggars cannot be choosers?

Who chooses for them the place, the moment or the people they choose to beg from; the hours of the begging day; the alms they refuse;...

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Who would believe an old hat could change the lives of so many people. 

Outside the coffee shop I frequent sits a homeless man with a sign like we see in so many cities asking...

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“ Did I ever tell you, you are my hero? 
  Did I ever tell you, you are everything 
  I wanted to be?
  For, I can fly higher than an eagle,
...

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your belief system is the major indication
of what you can accomplish with positive validation
if you can see it, you can achieve
if you can perceive it, you can believe it

underachievers are always underestimating themselves
non-achievers are always...

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Just a vet'ran - Cobwebs turning into dust

       He's a teen out of the 60's - now wrinkled on his brow.
 Did not need to be drafted -- ...

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to dirt poor anonymous guerillas G.I. Jane or G.I. Joe
   who cross paths with each other, 
   even those one doth not know

when ordinary biases, callousness, 
   denigration...doth full...

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It is cold and I am here alone, or am I 
I fought for their freedom, I am not a bad guy
Not wanting this life and never thought it would be me
Most are here by...

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Prune juice as effective emetic

Brainstorming yields casting 
the following plumbline 
netting genetic, italic, kinetic, 
magnetic, opportunistic, quixotic,
synchronistic, and universalistic result.

Ofttimes I experience constipation bout,
and thus the missus pours me a class
of natural laxative with clout
nursing...

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This is only the beginning i say 
as i lay stone to build a 
foundation
To rise our empire
And lift our entire nation
Turn off the world and use your 
imagination
And listen to the shadowy voice 
of...

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Being Black is a race. 
A race against time
A race from the police 
A race from racism
A race from ourselves
A race from poverty, drugs and abuse
A race within our race against our own kind, to...

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It was when I paused a moment from my workload’s pressing call 
that I gazed upon the picture frames which lined my office wall 
and I sensed a strange sensation and was soon to be...

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a social commentary

Among the vast of sea and land
Where a nation is born
Where a nation arises from the ashes to stand
Upon other large shoulders.

And coming from out of this very land we live,
A mass of...

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Attention!  Attention!  Read all about it, and don't you dare doubt it.  You know me. I 
thrive in controversy!  When it comes to poetry, some of you is showing mercy! ...

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Poem by Jorn Boor '' In the eye of the beholder ''

 

The path of life I will walk, slowly I will grow old

Along this road I stumble, throughout the years in which I unfold

...

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ONE:
At three in the morning the Internet calls out.
Come to the computer; visit friends round about.
All of a sudden, soon pulling hair out,
The lights go off, a total blackout…shutout!

TWO:
Dressed for the country, a total knockout,
In...

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What is the purpose of your visit young man?
	
        I heard that you have the best marmalade in the world

Well we do import oranges but you look a...

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After about fifty years as married wife
the last three fraught with strife
obvious telltale signs of terminal illness rife
hysterectomy irrevocably didst jackknife
at the least severely incapacitated
think pitted, riddled,
and rounced her tortured life.

Ovarian cancer affliction
on par with...

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There will be a better place for this information 
when it prints as a small ad
there is a right to know 
baits are nothing but
half of all of you
blink at heartfelt applause
behind no cause 
hidden...

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Through Others Eyes

I often see him sitting there as I wander through the park. Always on the same bench, staring at the scene before him.  His face mostly without expression, never smiling or acknowledging...

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What splendid creatures God has formed.
I think of whales who swim above the silt,
giants of the sea that are cruelly harmed,
harpooned from life by men without guilt.

An industrious creature God has made
in the miniscule form...

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It's vanity for Rich to tell themselves they’ve earned their wealth,
It's vain as well for Poor to think such fools might help them out,
For rich deserving ‘gain’ just proves the starving don't need ‘health,’
God’s Justice,...

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Cotton Bootie Enlistment
             by Odin Roark

How innocent the booties of birth
If only their cast remembrance
Might remain but nostalgia
 
Instead

Their bronze symbolism
Merely encases a...

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Don’t look for happiness in a bottle you won’t find it
Do the little things for her, they mean the world to her, she deserves it
Don’t take people for granted, they may not always be there...

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