Long Imo Poems

To this brokeness of women, the world flopped and flipped out.
How life flawed and tampered the ice of the girlchild!
How green became red images to their eyes is still a misery to our flammable fable...

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ang bidlisiw sa adlaw adunay buot nga ipasabot,
     ug ang mga isda nagpatim-aw aron mo saksi sa bag-ong adlaw,
     nangamuyo sa kahitas-an, nanghinaot nga mawagtang kining katalagman,
...

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The sun shall rise again but
not in our season of songs this time, 
because we are strange to it glamouring light. 
We sparkle and shine not among its  Galaxy of hope, 
an unformidable corrupt...

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'Twas 
bit
of a joke
for most
of the folk
that had
rallied round
the town
'twas
the first
I heard
a bit absurd
so I
went and
asked around
'twas
up the
hill and
down again
until
I found
my friend
'twas
then I
learned
he too
not heard
what rallied
round the town
'twas 
curious
tad furious
that
neither
him nor I
heard not
a thing
about this...

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Ask your mother how your father
Was sold yesterday to the hands of 
righteous death, curling in fearful fist.
His stomach was empty with a widened
wild hunger and she left him to die. 
Ask her of your...

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The Burning bridge of trust 
What is your value 
oh man of power 
If you must kill to rule 
Must we die cos you 
Are on the staff of power 
I thought we are suppose
To...

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I'm not as present as I used to be
Nor as distant
Middle ground is not my area
If I were weather, what might I be?
I have a love of rolling fog but I'm not that
Hopefully not fine...

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If martial law were to be established, I would not respect its curfew.
I'd continue walking the streets past curfew as I have and will always do,
and I would hope that behind me,
would be followers of...

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IMO EX PECTORE NOSTRAM EXPRESSIO (My Heartfelt Expression)

We're one, heart to heart, soul to soul,
Reeling from exclaiming set-go,
Our heart cry echoes roll,
Get cuddled in many arms flow,
Whimsically fostering you like the surviving bigbro;
Be my circus...

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Carolyn wrote these words in her Father's Day poem
for my contest in 2021, in which her poem was selected
one of the top ten submitted:

"Dad, this Father’s Day I stare at your portrait
And a few teardrops...

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Aniay USA ka lamok nga miduol kanako
Naghinayhinay ang iyang tingog
Apan ako lang kining gepasagdian
Nagpuyo ra kini tapad kanako

Sa dihang nakita ko ang akong gihigugma
Siya nga wa ma ako og ako nga wa ma iya
Pero siya...

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When I was a teenager I felt like I was a POW
and when I got some freedom I went MIA
and Dad would be waiting to ground me OMG
but when the chain was off I...

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*Image IMO; hairstylist Jay Sebring, 8-1/2 month pregnant actress Sharon Tate, a friend of the property caretaker Steven Parent, screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and coffee heiress Abigail Folgers by LATimes.

The Manson's at Cielo Drive

first seen
eighteen

shot died
outside

java...

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