Long Hard headed Poems

"Oak" 

The guardians
stood around and 
shook their heads

great thoughts 
quivering 
from the ground, roots up, 

as if to walk 
confidently 
with great armies

yet hesitation 
was witnessed
in their waving gestures

perplexed 
and touching 
green crowns, 

there they...

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I was born to be a survivor and a fighter.
That's why I became a writer.
As a child the physical abuse I endured.
Being a baby it was pretty absurd.

The child of recovering addicts.
Even one that still...

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Noise ,Noise, Noise
Bickering and ''whoremongering''
Dirty money for campaigning
repudiation and gallivanting
mudslinging and maligning
Brainwashing and false promises

How did you get on this bloodstained road 
Who advice you to  follow Uncle Pan's  path
A path that is...

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I walked up to the church
(And I swallowed my pride) 
and asked the lady 
can she please step aside 
That my children are hungry 
 and can you please sacrifice
anything for them to eat 
She...

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The little stall stands behind the black dilapidated wall whose bricks have been showing years of stained motion welled up inside the folly of man. The destiny of the wall speaks to the nature of...

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ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered beaten hands and a sun etched face
How are...

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Negotiation is a tool and those who reject it is a fool, you must go back to the negotiation table to find out if the proposal is able. You must read every detail of it...

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Now I don't know it all, so you can correct me if I'm wrong. But they say you don't know what you've got, until what you've got is gone. And right now you've got me,...

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The loud fastest growing 
non-thinking hand-it-over
flowers are abrasive
to some who feel they are truly weeds, 
just messing up us real flowers 

Their gnarly appearance is
off putting  because they
are not the approved people, they are...

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I can still feel autumn lingering in the clouds and the birds are flying restlessly about, the leaves are still hanging on the tree holding court with the squirrels in dugout boat as they wait...

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A father is a special person in a young child's life,
He shows Him basically things he needs to make his life full and bright'
Being their for his children in sickness, in social values, and of...

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At times of solitude, I reflect back on my past transgressions.
Pondering the errors, in retrospect, to maintain an ongoing progression.
Daily, I remind myself of who all I have failed.
Ignorantly, I did things my way, to...

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Suicide: I laughed at it like a clown then a clown turned around and laughed at my life; disgusted, so i decided to grab the gun and cocked it... bullets penetrated like dribbling to the...

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Seriousness settles in, like an old friend
Seriousness spreads like a disease
Infecting us, accelerating, our aging process 
Our youthfulness, our playfulness, slowly slipping away
Our wonder in life, diminishing
Seriousness leading to rigidness, pathway to small mindedness!

Days and...

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Another birthday, another year gone by
As I come ever closer to my ultimate end
I've been trodden under foot and held up high
Made many an enemy, experienced true friends
I've made mistakes, oh mistakes I've made
But lessons...

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I can’t breathe
Mon on tony 
is suff ocat ing me
Drowning in my own medi oc rity

Something’s gotta give.
Something’s gotta give!

I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof 

Gotta get the  out of...

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March 29 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 11-14

Key Verse – 1Samuel 11:7 …And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent. 

PRAISE BE TO...

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A Kentucky woman born and raised,
Country through and through.
And though you left your roots behind,
Kentucky never let go of you.

A red-haired spit-fire in your younger days,
Life of the party, you lived for fun.
Country music and...

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What if I whatever obstacles in life.
Chronicles on replay so stir it right.
I been careless but I'm alright, 
now i'm carefree but paid a fine.
Wonder if  forever comes after time. 
Number eight is always...

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At the place, been the ruins imperial,
In the ominous midnight we`re lost-
Not belongings, but some immaterial.
Been so long, broken straight — it`s a trust.

Searing beams flared up everywhere instantly
And disclosed all the horrible truth:
This area...

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Whose fault is it
Who's to blame
must it all be ME
only me...

Yes, I have my mistakes
I admitted, didn't I?

Childish ways
Decision sways
Unplanned mistakes
Consequences shake

Didn't mean to, 
don't you believe?
consecutive days
dotted months
yearlong vents..

I made you cry
 and so...

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We begin at the beginning: a clove of garlic, too hard-headed
for its own good, combined with two large onions, their first denuding 
revealing fallow gold: the second layer, a pale green puberty,
then, the heartless blade...

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when You told me You loved me
i signed the peace treaty,
then i sadly saw
that my name stood alone;

there were no other takers --
all who watched were fakers;
i knew in an instant
i couldn't go home.

it soon...

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if you were to ask
 me why i love you, 

i would say
i love you, 
Good days and bad days alike. 
I love you when you are brisk and unforgiving, like midnight in january,
and when...

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