Long Jem Poems

TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting, 
Finally a nurse...

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#1
"It is a sin to kill a Mockingbird.
While playing games with rocks or guns, defray,
them, please, ...shoot old tin cans.  Each whispered song 
from Mockingbirds, can heal the wounds  of the day"

Virtues are...

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To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and evil can coexist within a particular...

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I was a young mother of three darling little girls in the 1980’s, but thanks to TV, and a new invention called a video recorder, these are things that stand out in my mind:

Thriller by...

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Dear Pam, Curt, and Jem.

Pam, my father, your grandfather, died when I was 13 years of age.
When I was 36, I had been fatherless for 23 years.  So many times,
 I would have loved...

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Don’t stay mad at the setting sun 
We did a lot but the day is done 
Run so fast but get no where 
Worlds and worlds hold my blank stare 
In my heart I try...

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Don’t stay mad at the setting sun 
We did a lot but the day is done 
Run so fast but get no where 
Worlds and worlds hold my blank stare 
In my heart I try...

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Like a sudden gust of wind, my words were too strong
And in no time at all, I knew that I was wrong
My words were few but hurtful and insensitive
And forever sealed in my mind are...

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Trinkets and Triangles 
Tokens given of all her affection. 
My living has erupted because I met ewe. 
My life began the day it started was 
so innocent and never seemed to end. 
The warning sign...

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What's most inportant in life?.... today
not tomorow but now,
Now is for living, loving, giving...today
yesterday has memories good and bad
but today is for you and Dad.
You see people rushing, pushing, shoving
everyone in a hurry,
wishing the time...

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A season of giving,
frienship and love,
that can only come from the 
heavens above.
A starting murmur of the heart.
a rushing throb of excitement,
as children wait for the jolley ole
man with the long white beard and 
wears...

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Barbie, Atari, He-man 
Batman, She-Ra, Ronald Reagan
Indiana Jones, and landline phones
The Dark Crystal and around 5.2 billion people 
Andre the Giant’s Honeycomb commercial 
Rainbow Brite, Jem, and Rose Petal 
Welcome to the Jungle, Cheers! Metal...

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A-ll eyes of Jem truly love you, 
I-n the sincerity of her face; 
Y-ou shall now understand
E-verything's in proper place.
S-weet eyes of Jem truly love you, 
S-ee the glad sparkling glow; 
H-appiness is really brought,...

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My children are a beautiful rose
I am the thorny stem.

I was a young bride
with no home of my own
mistreated and forced to abide
I left my children behind....

Their fate was to be with out
always longing for...

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I look for you in the stars,
and in the streets,
and all the people I greet.
I look for you in books of poetry.

Such a place to find,
yet unaware that I'm
lost, like a button. 

Arrive home from...

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I have my doubt and I hate it.
 To doubt is a sin,
 a sin of which is the worst of them all.
 You own my heart and you treasure it like a precious Jem...

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She alone must face the truth.
She alone must be strong, 
for she's the one that bare a child.
A child wonted, yet not.
she loved the man so it seemed.
Blonde and beautiful was he.
A stone in disguise...

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1.Tehreeke Taliban Pakistan.
2.Al-Shabab Africa. 
3.Al Murabitun Africa. 
4.Hamas Palestine.
5.Hizbullah Lebanon.
6.ISIS Iraq.
7.ISIS Syria.
8.Jund al-Sham Syria. 
9.Al-Mourabitoun Africa.
10.Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Somalia .
11.Ansar-Al-Sharia Libya.
12.Boko Haram Nigeria.
13.Jamat-ul-Mujahideen India.
14.Ansar al-Islam Iraq.
15.Harkat ul Mujahideen Kashmir.
16.JEM Jammu & Kashmir.
17.Lashkare Taiba Pakistan.
18.Lashkare Jhangvi Pakistan.
19.Jamaat...

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Reading by the light of a flashlight
With the covers pulled over my head
Captain Nemo battled an octopus
Robinson Crusoe was thought to be dead

Gulliver went on his travels
Charlotte spun a new web
Jem wouldn’t kill a mockingbird
Oliver...

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You were a rainbow but they were all colourblind.
If only they could see you through my eyes.
The vast shade of grey will turn into blue,
Red and many more colours too.

They'll loose themselves at your dazzling...

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