Long Heavy as lead Poems

Your contingency plan is dead from the minute it rolls off the bed. Your contingency plan is dead and it is not going to spread; it is packed with corruption and it is as heavy...

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rain hitting the asphalt, the cracking concrete, water weaving
its way down the overpass. Residents cover up with plastic,
a conflagration of yellow light on garbage bags
hitting tree tops, branches, leaves old and new. Boughs
sagging with the...

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On nights when sleep flees from me like a shadow scared of its own existence,
I wonder if we are cursed or blessed, we who think beyond the edges of reason,
For "bad" is too simple a...

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I spotted an object from afar it was drifting towards the east
And the ocean current was flowing towards me and I could feel the pull of something bigger than me extracting  my energy, and...

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Solitude
Away from life's attitude
Not seeking gratitude
Not wishing  anyone to be around
Nor do I want found 
Rather watch as life drives on by
Get along I try
Usually I cry
Walking alone through life
A heart full of strife
Try...

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I wish to break through, to heal my soul with the whiteness of words,
But they hide in my shadow like shy animals.
My story is a forest where the echo of footsteps has been lost,
And my...

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As night falls swiftly; no respite for a heart can be found 
She dares not invoke sleep, so she paces the floor in silence 
For to fall asleep would mean, a revisit of that dreadful...

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This poem still mine
Heavy as lead they say
For me alone too weighty
You too have to share it
So take and keep
The piece of your choice.
It is the birth of my baby:
Labour pain in deserted oasis.


I scamper...

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The nation is thrown into grief.
Our national flag is flying at half mast.
Everyone is wearing a sack cloth.
The dangling axe fell on us.
And the mighty has fallen.
Our hearts are filled with dread,
And our eyes as...

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When wracked with suff'ring even more,
     I all alone bemoan my fate,
as one who drowns in sorrows sore
     which harm, harass, and maul his state.

Aggrieved for what...

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I will stand here until she passes, a woman in white, shining purity,
With half a voice, I'll tell her that memories never wear such garments,
And I'll lose myself in the stream of thoughts, in the...

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It Slithered
By Linda Hays-Gibbs

Darkness caressed it. I heard it before 
I saw a piece of it, a bit?
Black & shinny
But so, so cold
It froze the air 
my thoughts said it Exquisitely tiny but
It was unafraid,...

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Could the air we breathe be seeds of anxiety?
Winter flowers bloom in diamond breeze. 
Watery eyes searching for handout charity.
To form a habit with the cold and sneeze. 

Bittersweet social scene for this moment,
when we...

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Liverpool

When night ends, the fog begins
Heavy as lead!
Shrouding the town:
Once grand
And home of grandeur.
The grand mansions
of old times!
Now in ruins: off white!
Harboring the ghosts of 
The grandeur!
Who would have lived in a house 
Like this?
My...

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Life lost meaning. She had hated that war since it first begun,
Now the worst thing of all, disbelieving that it had taken her son.

She wore his dog tags and his medal for the valour they...

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I wore his dog tags and his medal for the valor they implied.
My heart was aching, sorrow engulfed me, I felt torment inside.
Life lost meaning. I had hated that war since it first begun.
Now the...

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There's a pounding in my head
My feet feel as heavy as lead
There's no point in explaining 
I just keep on contemplating... complaining...

This throbbing in my heart 
Might just tear me apart
This horrid feeling in my...

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I've got a lot of things to do, 
But I'd rather sit and think about you 
The saddest thing is, 
It's not like you do so too
 
A weight of emotion sitting in my chest,
The...

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I find sometimes no matter how hard i try,
i can never find my way out ..
Even when my intentions are holy set 
I fall right back down and out of my nest
Nothing do i find...

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Strolling down a bustling road full smiling of people
A vast array of hues bursting forth to greet the eye of the beholder;
Music cascades from the various shops and one of the passing cars
Laughter pleasantly warms...

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I recall writing checks in my spidery crawl.
The TV then was a humming spaceship
with glowing innards that deep-scanned 
all who glued their flickering, bug-eyed minds to it;
it abducted whole families at a time.
That same television
materialized...

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Why wait for a muse to get inspiration
When the words are there in your head
If not in the brain, perhaps in the heart
As seat of emotion and passionate drive
Where all feelings must escape...

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Hole in the Wall…

I feel like crawling back into the hole
Back in time, back in space
Into realms of no emotion
When feeling is lost on an expressionless face
I want to run, just never stop running
Away from...

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Rein in those opportunities to criticize
Think of all the good things to be said
Remember to see through others’ eyes.

Or sometimes simply resort to sighs.
In disagreement, merely shake your head
Rein in those opportunities to criticize.

Be a...

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I thought I was dreaming when my wife said
"Darling a monkey you've got on your head"
I laughed and I said" Have you had a tot"
"I'm not joking" she said "And no I have not". 

We...

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