Long In no way Poems

I’ve sat here questioning myself numerous times do I want to open this Pandora’s Box? Am I ready to experience the backlash that will come after all of the pain I will have dropped?
Dropped into...

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My heart failed a few times again today, but each time it came back to life.
This is no time for poets and philosophers.
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It is strange that in such a short time a person can come...

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       Hay un dia feliz by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan

      To come by a happy day

(In this poem, Parra maintains lines of...

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“Now, I would like to make you aware of my guests.”
     “Your guests?  Are they here?”  Seileach seemed very curious.
     “I'm sorry, but no. ...

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I often think  back to that care free age and those wondrous six weeks of school holidays, 
The Prison was out , 
nothing more to learn and with any luck the place would burn .

It...

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Translation of Marcel Moreau's " A Paris " by T. Wignesan

IN PARIS

Paris bores me no end without you
My heart weighted down with melancholia
The spleen given over to asthenia
Empties its own sense of loss on to...

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(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)

I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).

I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if they’d opened up...

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Achab*, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Achab by T. Wignesan

One man alone stands erect before the king, and speaks
A man
Alone

The king is not accustomed to being confronted face to 
      ...

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(His Version of Darkness and Lightness)

Oh, before you I never dreamed of venturing into the light, but you intrigued me with your celestial colors always shining out of your soul so bright 
I always knew...

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.... And I was walking in a field of golden wheat and just then, 
I was caught up in the spirit, that is the holy ghost of God,
and it carried me through the clouds, up...

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"The Arrows"


                            The arrows found their mark as...

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Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a...

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Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine

This is Spinal tap 
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared 
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fated fiasco, 
now peppering my life and hard times
causing quite...

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One single dish with one single pea

The sign on the door said, 
Come one and come all
We welcome the short
and we welcome the tall

From the east or the west
or some place in between
Whether yellow or...

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“Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in...

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*letters and numbers tearing at my mind,
Words decending upon my curled body.
Sentences wrap around my neck.
Paragraphs drown my lungs
withering, and wailing, laying upon the floor. 
Music pounding in my ears,
I cant hear.
But they still speak.
HELP...

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It's been ten long years now since that awful tragedy
When a stranger I didn't know, gave his life to save me
I was on the edge of the platform, when I had a heart attack
I clutched...

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Let no one despise your youth
May all disciples tell you the truth 
In Word,
Not just the first, second, or third, let your thoughts be heard
And your feelings unstirred
Your heart Misguided and Misheard
Let no lesson go...

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Hey! What are you doing in the sacred-hole? So dark, no light at all!
Is it that same ‘you’, who used to yell at us for keeping all lights off?
You used to roam around all rooms...

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III.
Do you know of naïve Martin
who saw a report on the news
of how a young, black man was killed,
that the police had shot the dude!
Now protestors were raising hell,
he saw a large mob on TV,
and...

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Predestination is a fundamentalist Christian doctrine which says that god helps, or helped, you think when deciding whether or not to believe in him through his son Jesus. Basically, the statement made by believers is...

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*Friend Application*
*Please Read Disclaimer At Bottom*
*Full Time Position*
1-5 Yes or No.
1. Do you enjoy laughing, bullshitting around, and other fun shenannigans? 
2. Do you enjoy cooking? Ok well eating often? (Example... pizza, tacos, and other...

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Track Through The Desert
                         
The place is Arabia in the early...

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I doubt that he had ever heard a sound like that WHISPER*.                       ...

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These are the things i remember the most,
My dad kept moving from coast to coast.

For a minute i thought he was running from me,
 in the end i knew it was his destiny.

The woman he...

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