Long Leaned on Poems

Heavy storm was sweeping dark Paris streets
Lit with dim lights that dreary November night 
With ghostly shadows lurking in the corners
Cold wind dancing with dirty wet leaves fallen 
In the water pools in the middle...

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Marcus marrow beaten into a coma after a gang initiation was allowed 17 gang members to visit him in the hospital past midnight crowd of gang members atleast 9 women 8 men or vice verse...

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Days passed, and became weeks.
Weeks became months. Soon it
Was June. "Everybody in the pool!"
All the kids communed. Molly and 
Dolly joined, in the cool blue zest.
The children answered the heat
With all day swimming relays.
Dolly and...

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I HEARD THE WISE WORDS

The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...

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She stares at the paper not a word comes to write
Surrounded by peace on a dark rainy night.
Like the page in her notebook her mind remains clear.
Not a word to be written, her pen she...

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I HEARD THE WISE WORDS

The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...

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ELLY MAY


poem by: Maria Williams

T'was the night before her birthday and Elly May
Still in the office putting stuff away
In her horn rimmed glasses and grey flannel suit
She was the epitome of perfection, the essence of...

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The first time I saw her, I just wanted to stare 
I'm in love, who heard this, were just my ears 
It's real, i fell in love for the first time 
I reached home, and...

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DIDACT:
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
Leaned on words of kind,
Nailed all thoughts of mind,
So well do I train it to bright.
A shackled bone screwed to be tight. 
Positioned keenly through a line.
Strapped without sight....

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We grew together in the womb, no knowledge of the world just one another
I leaned on you for protection as you looked to me for comfort and grace
And when our momma died and our dad...

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On one bright and sunny morning, verses a dark and stormy night, of course!
Dragon stood at ‘The Dragon and Sheriff Statue’, in the Mayhem Falls Park.
Dragon pondered, should he put a mustache on the Sheriff...

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My two neighbors' homes view my full yard in the back. 
The younger man has a dog and the elder man has a cat.

They knew all ought to be,  || Dog was first, ok'd...

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“Only girls cry!…Oh, boo hoo!” laughed my brother, (as big brothers often do)
 He had been taunting me, teasing me, heckling me, as I whined, complained.
 Neither of us would have won a prize, for...

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Marvellous things did He in the sight
of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan ...
How He had wrought His signs in
Egypt, and His wonders 
in the field of Zoan ...
For, lo,...

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Sitting working in my private room a grandfather clock ticks and tocks so very loudly,
Like a metronome tuned into my mind my eyes become heavy my lids slowly begin to close,
My mind drifts into very...

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...But I heard a crack in the distance,
then came a man’s shrill, painful yell,
I saw Tak go down in the plants,
his ankle was bent, none-to-well,
I could see it must hurt like hell.

We were up in...

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WELL ME AND BOYS WE’RE SITTING AROUND THE FIRE,
AS ALL GOOD GEORGIA BOYS DO.
WE WERE DRINKING AND LAUGHING AND CUTTING THE FOOL,
AND COOKING SOME GOOD OLD BRUNSWICK STEW.
WELL THE NEXT THING I KNOW AND IT...

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I was just a young boy when I began to think,
I thought about many different things.
And I always seemed to be going to school.
With my pens and books and a small toy
They packed me off...

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"Do what you have to do the lame police officer
Uttered to the abusive man standing beside me
"Speak to your JP she said to the man who has abused me. I still cannot get over the...

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In seventeen seventy-seven,
amidst the deep summer’s August heat,
Barry St. Leger, loyalist milita,
and the Iroquois walked on sore feet.

Their mission was clear: move down the Mohawk,
meet Burgoyne and split the rebel states,
except the Americans in Fort...

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“Only girls cry!…Boo hoo!” 
"Look at you"  he taunted me, (as big brothers often do)
Making a mockery. He kept teasing me, heckling me, 
as I whined, and cried, and planned revenge 
Neither of us...

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She sat beside the waterfall
where gushing thoughts cascade,
like tears that flowed along her cheeks,
her heart set to invade.

He left alone for pastures new.
A scribbled note in haste
he wrote then fled, as cowards do,
her heart a...

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Little adobe house on 160 acres
She grows flowers. I grow corn
Tomatoes, watermelon, etc.
Peace, love, hope, and joy
Grow themselves

Porch faces orange blazes
Draped over the rugged Mules
And a barn owl hoovers over
An old water tank with a...

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A little red fox 
Entered the forest one night
The moon failed to pass through the canopy
A dark crunch he felt, as he walked each time
 
He wasn’t scared though
He didn’t have a reason to be...

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Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream, only to give up after giving all to failures’ torturous...

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