Long Here today gone tomorrow Poems

One of life's greatest challenge is learning to live with loss.  The loss of those 
who are close to us, whether through death or divorce.  No other thing in life 
brings such pain...

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darkness, like Jonah 
held in the belly of the whale,
the end of a world;
closed-in time in dark spaces -
gives one, a hell of a time to think 

in the belly of the whale 
grew a...

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What should I write on Thanksgiving Day?
I don't think I will write about Thanksgiving
But I will write about a heart not be thankful
When you look around you 
And you don't see what you should be...

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Temptations allure influenced only by the physical.  Then further made curious by a simple comment of “you smell good” or an undeniable look of “I want you”! 
With that your voice seems to change...

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it consumes me and turns me into a Z   O   M    B   I   E
          ...

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I took my students outside
Told them to be still
They looked at me in wonder
Outside of the classroom
What was teacher up to this time?
I whispered….
“What do you hear?”
The booming of the cicadas
In the pine trees on...

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“A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”

“America— fill me in on your new vision
Wake me up from indecision
Help me trust your mighty wisdom
Show me how to question questions, and lead the way to contemplation

Uncertainty about your...

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"O Yellow Lily! You smilingly bloom
   Early in the morning in my terrace garden,
In a jiffy, you take away all gloom,
   Tell me, in front of you, can any heart harden?"
"O...

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There's a beach ball stuck in the rafters of the pool, 
Its position unchanged 
               for the 7 years I've been...

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YOU'VE GOT TO BE MISTAKEN, YOU MUST BE WRONG!!!
I cried so hard, for so long
Only seven, 
I’m too young to be an orphan
I remember it, as if it were like yesterday
When they took me down...

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Love me now
Love me today

Wait not, 
for tomorrow
Tomorrow waits, 
today waits not!

Let me know, today,
you love me
show me, today,
you will love me, tomorrow

Let today be the beginning,
of tomorrow, 
let it be the beginning,
of always and...

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Mi have a serious problem with you young people that have no clue about our history or our culture. 

"Mi nuh wear tablecloth like Miss Lou".... Dear Lord help the clueless... Send help father God...

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Shape Of The Nation (an oval precaution)

News outlets draw the line at racism
Pencil gray, color blind and crayons ready
Fantasies replace triangles, circles and square deals

Pentagons, hexagons, octagons where born to serve
Here today gone tomorrow with...

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In the absence of romance,
poetic soul succumbed to slumber,
within an eternal cocoon.

In dreams, heart searched for a place
where love had a meaning.
Where you would love me,
like the words of Rumi.

Eremetic eyes,
gazed through a billion solitary...

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Alive today, gone tomorrow
Tenants of time
Rejoicing one moment, recoiling unexpectedly in sorrow
When dark times come calling to climb 

The steep slope
Death steers into the trajectory
Crafted with hope
In a rectory whose directory

Leaves us baffled
Seeking clear cut...

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Nothing shall save you from the flames. Sizzling, you’ll flee to and fro,
Remorseful of your former greed which bought you that rue and woe.
Your faiths and sciences, arts, or crafts shall not avail. You’ll excrete
All...

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To love and claim something that doesn't belong to you
Happens a lot in this world, so what's a girl to do?
You approached me with your lies and all of your charm
Telling me I'm your one...

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Longing for love is like hoping for rain in a recurring drought. 

Tis the reason most people never choose love over doubt. 

Whats that about? 

Whats life without oxygen to breathe or blood to bleed?...

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Raindrop falls from God's eye and runs off the cheek of the child 
cowering behind a dumpster for warmth

It stings the face of the roofer struggling to finish the job
to buy shoes for his children

The...

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adversity the road well travelled... 

we did not take the societal route... 

there is no conclusion to your illusion... 
married today-gone tomorrow 
too many woman weep regretful sorrow... 

self preservation, or divorce... 
"no thanks, we...

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Here today gone tomorrow                               ...

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adversity the road well travelled... 

we did not take the societal route... 

there is no conclusion to your illusion... 
married today-gone tomorrow 
too many woman weep regretful sorrow... 

self preservation, or divorce... 
"no thanks, we...

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a man of means and meager will 
perched upon his window sill  
playing vague for the promise of power
sings a song of a beg for the borrow 
last chance, take the lead or follow...

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Author Dana Redricks
April 2, 2020

Today I received the worst news I thought 
I ever could hear. The words of my aunt 
telling me, you passed away. Today you 
died and went home to be with...

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What do I want to write?
I will write about forever
Forever You will live in our lives
Forever You will come when we least expect it
Forever You will say and do anything You please
And forever we will...

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