Long Imitator Poems

“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...

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This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who are you to question 
I agree to disagree
With all your...

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You could never be me,
For I am not you,	
You could never do what I do,
 For my life’s path is not yours.

You are you and I am me,
We need each other,
 But still you can...

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What is this period, which illustrates the weak motions 
of dull blades, and misguided swings?

I am an unfortunate imitator, as the fearless edge I once 
owned, has faded prominently among the flock as well. 
It...

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Do I trespass if I knock at your door
Would you be frightened to see I also have a full cup
And call the cop because I am black and you are white
You were none of this...

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For all the weighted years of empires
Stockpiled with human grief
For all the fallen towers of desires 
From which love has no relief
For all the cargo of the heart and ships
Tossed and turned where water whips
Across...

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Father's Day ushered in cooler air
So nice out on the porch
Sun rising in clear luminous glow
Not a red flaming torch

A hummingbird seeks food at blooms
The scent of petunias draws
The first one heard or seen this...

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Remember that commercial tool,
that fool Ja Rule.
The miniature 2Pac image imitator,
packaged and bought up but in no way similar.

Was Suge or the Illuminati really behind Pac's murder?
Suge, a dangerous man with many enemies,
while east and...

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I looked off
Into great distance…
Little things
No longer distinguishable-
Those subtle differences
I could never name
Anyway,
Could never paint,
Stubbornly refusing
The prime of my colors,
Shapes and strokes
Of my pithy brush-
My mind a sieve
Of contours
And dripping questions
Muddied
In rivers of endless
Flowing debate…

It...

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Poetry is watching the sail boats go drifting by 
on Port Gardiner's Bay.
Poetry is the happy laughter of children playing
at Forrest Park
Poetry is free out door music concerts
at the Everett's Marina.
Poetry is watching free outdoor...

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The powers that be
love keeping vital things hidden from view,
necessary things we need to know
Survival is up for sell
on the lottery auction block
But the bids are rigged
Who should be granted favor to live,
and who deserves...

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Creator V Imitator


God created a bee
giving honey for free
Devil, housefly
cholera an' dysentery.

God bestows rain
to sprout the grain
Devil, drought
giving people naught.

God made all rivers
an' aquatic divers
Devil, desert
Thirst an' no dessert.

God made the Sky
so that we can...

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You are an Altruist.
You: ‘selfless because you give”
 You Put others in front of you.
Agree with all else’s point of view? You are better than me because of this? 
You shun me and call me...

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I
The LORD revealed to my pastor, and friend, now mentor
That Jerusalem and Babylon aren't mere "places"
They are People Groups, too: some of us will love Babylon ever!
Thus spake Rev. Kevin Sparrow. The Spirit set our...

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Absorbing sunset colors as I sat,
I heard the soft mews of a mournful cat,
Lost somewhere in the garden near the lane.
For its forlorn owner I sought in vain.

Suddenly there came the sounds of quail calls
Though...

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After God's own heart I ran the race 
Focusing on enduring to the end 
With the eyes of my heart opened seeing God high and lifted up
For the prize of the Crown not a trophy...

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Author Dana Redricks
November 21, 2019

I was created to be a masterpiece.
I am an original creation from 
God and there is none like me in
all the universe.
Who am I? I am a child of the 
most...

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What smug pseudomorph 
inhabits my reflection,

adroitly mimicking my 
every manner and expression,

mercilessly mocking me 
with flawless simulation?
 
She is the great pretender;
a master counterfeiter;
a furtive opportunist;
a thieving imitator.
 
She is a soul-sucking demon 
of the...

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When I let one loose in the elevator,
I was totally alone at the time;
so, I started singing but I was no imitator,
my squeaky voice just seemed to climb and climb !

It was not singing...

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God's anointed are chosen to stand against 
the children of darkness; those devoid of light.  

They become the prey, none-the-less, they 
choose to stay. 

Surrounded by the enemy day and night; 
stuck in the...

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(  *  \EP-uh-gohn\, noun:
An inferior imitator, especially of some distinguished writer, artist, musician, or philosopher  )




Put these tears to bed,
each grand, eloquent, emptiness;

god has fallen from the tumbling sky,
and the moon is...

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Malefactor of our mighty land
Guile do they practice from them, beat
Skank do they drop on our prior rand

Their soul's the people reprimand
Like flies rejecting a rust feet
Malefactor of our mighty land

Drive them from our inunct...

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 I'm no greater than Jesus, and they insulted Him;
I am persecuted like Him JESUS and...
I'm no better than HIM;
You falsely say things about me I'm a imitator of Jesus;
I am not moved by what...

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In life's' living gutter
I stutter and mutter
Eventually i falter
And did alter 
The very life's' meter
That controls the matter
A bitter - like better
That butters the fighter
And makes him go higher

I needed a master
Who'll help my desire
And...

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Explosive and intimidating, only the well to do can bargain
Xenon’s imitator-rare in the mixture of its like
Peacocks so classy in comparison to Turkeys
Evaluation of worth raises the wings of pride, but
New necessarily does not translate...

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