Long Haynes Poems

This is the story of Jeni Haynes, whose father inflicted horrific physical and sexual abuse on her from the age of four years old. As a result she created over 2000 alter egos to get...

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She reminded me of my Sister Tina... She had been adopted by a Christian Minister and her 
family, as we all eventually were, each separately adopted... who lived life to the fullest of 
faith. As...

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Things are all slow motion like I'm Neo in the grid, 
just layin here and thinkin back to when I was a kid,

with plasma gushin out my lid, my lashes flutter 
tight, my 16th birthday...

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My Sister when I was about 8 1/2, I am 38 now, passed away but before she did, she told 
everyone this... "I am going to be Ok, and will be with God... I will...

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You meant so much to all of us.
You were so special and that's no lie.
You brightened up the darkest and cloudiest sky.
Not a second passes when your not on our minds.
Your love, we'll never forget.
The...

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It has been many years and I have had many struggles, and though I was sad when my Sister 
passed... because I love her, and missed her so. I always knew that it was going...

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If you only knew the love I have for you ,
than your know why I really call you my 
boo. 

My love for you have always been true, 
even when I was mad & screamed...

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I was born into a family that had their own struggle, and struggled through my early years and 
the majority, of my adulthood... My mom, loving but fighting her own conditions passed away 
when I...

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What happen with going to church to 
praise & pray?

stay for afternoon services to seek what 
the pastor have to say. 

Have dinner as a family, like please pass 
the tray. 

We always respected what...

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I wake to a beautiful day 
As the sun shine in a very brightly way
I fall to my knees so I can pray 
Help me though my strategies 
As I face new challenges everyday.

Stay in...

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Let it be known that Arthur Sly
Was caught red handed and sentenced to die

For he trespassed and stole fine things
Like loaves of bread, diamonds, and rings

This urchin of Satan horded all
And the others to answer...

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Long Long Ago*
(revised)

“Tell me the tales
 that to me were so dear
long, long ago,
 long long ago.”

My fingers played 
in simplified rendition,
prescient I suppose
of the life that lay ahead;

that flooding, someday,
would come my own memories,
my...

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Suntanned fields tower along your breast.
Rusty gripping whips rip ripened veins.
Dancing black silhouette, shipped to the west,
In a barbed necklace of embroidered chains.

Singing in patois, you yield by wrest.
Like moribund gales your spirit wanes.
Suntanned fields...

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Classic T V 

William Tell, Robin Hood,
Ena Sharples in the snug,
Gibbs SR whiter teeth,
Billy Bunter getting grief,
Hawkeye, Ivanhoe,
Twelve-inch screen full of snow.

Range rider, Wagon Train,
Dragnet, the Army game,
Francis Drake pirate ships,
Seventy-seven sunset strip,
Palladium on Sunday...

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