Long Ill health Poems

WITHIN THE BRIGHTEST NIGHT (Part 01)

”Life?”

"Are you thinking what I think?" she said, nonchalantly. 
”Is this not the place for it, Young Light?”
"My young light." said I.
"Let's go in, then, Young Light." She had other...

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Again Brother Paul said that “I didn’t owe them anything, but to do someone a good turn one day.”I shook his hand and thanked him for everything that he had done, He said “God be...

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((  Tree))
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Happy, happy, let's be happy
No more tears, let's not feel crappy
Music blaring I'm in the zone
I feel the most safe here at home

Trying to not let darkness creep in
My darkest days get me in a...

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(Tidbit of trivia: associated with 
businessman from Troy, New York, 
Samuel Wilson, known affectionately 
as “Uncle Sam” Wilson. The barrels 
of beef that he supplied the army 
during  War of 1812 were stamped 
“U.S.”...

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He was old and haggard, in the year nineteen twenty something
A tall lanky old man, with a worn out hat and a rusty ring
His squint blues eyes pulled together the wrinkles upon his face
With an...

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What makes a child feel closer to one parent rather than to the other?
           Although love bound me to the heart of my mother,
 ...

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How regretful was I
To see my dead body from the sky
How regretful indeed
Why, with utmost sorrow, did my spirit bleed

In my early thirties was I still
Life, had I lived it according to my will
Yet, so...

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Johnny grew up on the hard side of town,
Every day he got up somehow life beat him down.
The people, in his eye, were not very kind,
He’d rather move on and leave them behind.
His mom and...

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She isn’t dormant, she moves through the dark in this new phase, 
as exact as a silver snowflake.  Despite her voicelessness, she speaks to me.
Her swollen body is idolized in the black that she...

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And I walked..

It was going to be a hot day,not unusual for this time of year.This is Jamaica.
But I could feel the intense heat as I set out that morning..
It was bright and as I...

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I fancy that I am competent  
To write on the theme of fear—
Only because I have spent much of my life in fear
 And thus seem to know the emotion inside out!

Now, coping with...

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The Waiting Room

The April weather shifted high to low,
Exposing those early clout casters
To the concluding bite of winter;
Footsteps full of foreboding
Trudge their last legs up the inclined driveway
To the Doctor’s old house.
A hotchpotch of chairs...

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My hero to me, was just a simple man
He was ill throughout his life, but he raised two sons
Two jobs he held down until he couldn't anymore
Then fate took it's turn, and turned his heart...

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We met on February the twelfth, (1998), smitten by her, that was I                      ...

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Mama held me close to her bosom
wouldn't let me go astray
she shook the cradle of civilization
and to her wayward offspring 
she paid attention.
 
She added a tinge of color to the cheeks of some
and tinted...

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Degradation of the soul is my lifeline. Burning flames suck out the sublime traits, of overlords stretching to take their turn in front of the lingering hatred of conformity. Your pitying powers of guilt spread...

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 One may think what a boon it is to be immortal
Defeating death may at first seem the greatest victory
When ill health plagues, striving for a cure, seems pivotal
No doubt, longevity of life in many...

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Oh, give me a home where everyone is free to roam,
sharing hugs and kisses with family and friends
Where there's nothing to fear 'neath the capitol dome
And my combatant countrymen have made amends

I want incivility to...

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The Bumblebee 

He grew up in a poor household, thought
sofa-beds were the norm, but his mother
an eager reader had many books that were
given and sometimes stolen, often from 
those who thought books were decorations
beside a...

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The past few weeks have been so tough
As you can clearly see
Four funerals for us to attend
But its not made me teary

The first was Aedan’s he was a lovely young man
I worked with him at...

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Father’s day…
That old familiar ache in my heart returns along with a lump in my throat. 
I become distant  as that day grows closer, not taking in much of anything
 anyone has to say...

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What is love if it is not the selfless,
Wholehearted joy in another’s fortune?
If it is not the thrill at another’s joy?

If it is not the longing for another’s happiness,
Then what is love at all?

Real love...

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Oh, give me a home where everyone is free to roam,
sharing hugs and kisses with family and friends
Where there's nothing to fear 'neath the capitol dome
And my combatant countrymen have made amends

I want incivility to...

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The ground was hard mud,
A lot of water and dung,
Had dried over it in suds,
It was cool in summers,
And shivered in winters,
Inner bones getting hammers,
Adults are thus,
They have seen a lot,
And cannot complain much,
It was...

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