Long Handpicked Poems

“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.”  Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of...

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True love is unquestionable. 
What is true love?
To me; it is more feeling based rather than definitively worded. 
Emotional attached, formed mentalities that are equally paired with an immaculate physical connection. 
Collected bi-gender, shared love—
She’s...

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“Get out my house!” I screamed,

My face turning red.

I was sad, you were drunk,

Our relationship was dead.

You were out partying,

Whilst your family was at home.

Is it any wonder,

I felt so alone?

Your dinner was on the...

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They leave us

But do they really leave us?

They leave the world
but
They don’t leave our hearts
They leave their bodies
but
Not the characters they embodied

Push the button, it all starts 
to end
They returned the gifts they were blessed...

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I seem to fall in love constantly; 
Seem to find it everywhere I go, 
Half buried in the sand, like pieces of fallen moon 
Waiting me to pick it up and devour it – 
To...

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Elder sister initiated the process always,
I could see her, like a finch or sparrow, restless for days;
Hay she collected; prepared pretty painted paper rocks,
To cover up the cattle shed made brick-like hard-board blocks;
Handpicked grass and...

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The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night 
Shredded for an aspiration 
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank

Then comes the arrival of time...

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Turning the pages of God's coloring book
Beauty everywhere we look
Human minds cannot comprehend
The Greatest of artists and His pen

Each season, paints a different scene
Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring
The sun in summer, so yellow and bright
Forests...

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It tastes like a cold soup
prepared in love but left to sit and cool alone
on empty counter tops

It is lonely pyramids and forgotten sands
that whisper secrets with dry mouths and parched lips
that go unheard and...

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My name is Son of the most High God
Also known as a Chosen one
I was handpicked by God

Also Forgiven
I am redeemed and accepted
My name also Love, I am love


I am first and foremost people who...

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Home Is In My Heart
 
Home is in my heart;
I carry it with me wherever I go.
	
My home is the smile of the angels that look down on me from heaven above.
	
Home is sinking deep...

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She sits on her throne with a fixed smile on her ebony face
staring into the crowd, she sees the peasants all grim and dull
But the smiles on their faces tell her they have love, strength,...

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Late summer
and the barefoot boys are scrumping.
They have scrunched-up themselves
into the green sap of leaf and branch,
as trees to be climbed, branches to fall from.

In the village shop
an ample lady sells apple pies,
she has apple...

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Alone I roam the dreamland wood
sombre and empty, dark my mood
vain hope to meet my love denied
a throbbing, pumping ache inside 
afar a gleaming stream of blue:
mauve, purple, lilac mixed in hue
‘longside the one in...

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Dearly beloved,
On that day, my love
We will be one forever 
A connection no god can sever

Deep down, I know 
There is one for all 
And so of course for me 
You breathe the same air...

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Handpicked, like coffee seeds or strawberries, ten eggs I kept
Like a tensed insomniac, for a long time I'd not slept
I found a change in the bloom of the dermis as days passed
There came out surprise-filled...

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The reflection of what you see
To me, it deflects the purities that my spectral lenses catch
Matching with every insecurity of
Impurities overflowing as water through a gutter
Cluttering me from seeing my self-worth
Birthed from times of weakness...

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Subtle shapes of imaginations that craved on the fierce,
Merged colors of hopes that brushed on the dreams,
Hidden words that uttered on the sheets,
Melodies of nightingales and dances of peacocks;

Man is an art, who's breaking art;
Subtle...

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It may sound incredible to the modern
The intelligent man may deride it often
Nevertheless, it is sensible to concede
That the heaven above ties nuptial knots. 

Facts are stranger than fiction indeed
For believers no stout logic is...

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Fragile paper, white and quite a shaper rolled into a round
On a rod of plastic, tumbled gently draping to no abound
In the toilet room; a violet bloomed where stray peddles were found
Upon the windowsill the...

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There won't be much room on the rocket ship,
only two will go. 
They'll be handpicked, to introduce our DNA into the next galaxy.
They'll probably be born into wealth and royalty...
The press will nickname them Atom...

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It’s cruel to ask us about our past.
Do we interrogate you? Do we probe
you to reveal the long buried,
demand to know each dirty secret?

We (by which I mean everyone
old enough to own their own wrong...

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God’s elect are chosen few,
Handpicked by the divine,
Their path is set straight and true,
By the Lord’s holy sign.

Bathed in love and righteousness,
They shine like stars above,
Their hearts aglow with godliness,
Guided by the Father’s love.

Their lives...

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The night air crisply flows
 Brushing past my sill with a caress
The final blooms of the magnolia's
 Upon her skin, fragrantly confess

 
Autumn’s wildflowers
Sit upon the boudoir ledge
Handpicked this morning
To their beauty she makes her
...

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The deck of cards dealt us reaps forged worship 
Proboscis snorts caution to the phlegm leaked
Slowly from prestidigitation
Is the hand quicker than the all seen eye?

A question in a sense sentences speak
Causing our grief to...

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