Long Leccese Poems

He sat down with a pen and paper,
   to write a letter in the heats vapor.

His wife at home tending to the kids,
   fighting a war the UN forbids.

His convoy was...

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Thank you fellow poets  in poetry soup

For leaving all your kind thoughts and critiques

You have given me the inspiration to  continue on

And for that I am humbled and grateful

May twenty ten be filled...

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Driving home one afternoon from school,
It was raining and the air was nice and cool.

Less than a mile from home in my little S-10,
Traveling the same road again and again.

It was a freshly paved road...

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As she sits alone on the beach she thinks of things to come in her life. She wonders if
she will be a good mother, a good wife, sister, daughter, friend, and companion.  All she
really...

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Trust is an issue that is dear to my heart,
   It can’t be given or taken from the start.

It must be earned, it is the only way,
   Head my words, there...

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He asked his wife for sex one night,
   hoping for pleasure and delight.

She claimed she wasn’t in the mood,
   to strip down to her beautiful nude.

Persistent and not giving up,
 ...

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What is a true friend in your mind?
Is it someone that sticks with you to the end of time?

Someone that’s honest and true to your face?
Someone that is your saving grace?

Or maybe the person that...

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Across the fields I stare into the night,
Waiting for a grand and glorious site.

For the site that I was about to see,
Was worth the wait, and patience was the key.

A storm was brewing towards the...

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Mounted on his noble steed,
   No taller than the tallest weed.

Prepared and ready for the plunge,
   Protected from any type of grunge.

Staring down a darkened cave,
   Deep inside him...

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Sitting in the dark with my computer.
Only light from the screen.
I find my self not looking at it.
It's at these times that I notice everything else. 

Like the drink sitting on my desk.
Thousands of little...

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Such a wonderful stage of maturing,
   that every parent goes though enduring.

Terrible two’s is the name of this phase,
   makes parents pull their hair in amaze.

You end up sounding like a...

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I have a passion, a passion to write.
   Sometimes it’s hard and turns into fights.

With everything starving for my precious time,
   Sitting down is hard, let alone a rhyme.

But the poetry...

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Hanging on for dear life wind blowing him too and fro,
Already changed colors but not wanting to let go.

The time is right the season is here,
The time to let go and try again next year.

But...

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The sun beaming in through the windows of my room,
Causing my conscious mind to wake from the gloom.

Rub the sleepy out of my eyes and look to see,
The love of my life laying next to...

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Alone in the dark
a place without limits
mind begins to attack    
just like Nimitz.

Alone in the dark
where fear is known
no place to hide 
chills to the bone.

Alone in the dark
something makes a noise
jumping...

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Here I stand on top of a fence,
   can’t make up my mind in my defense.

Looking left then looking right,
   wondering if staying would cause blight.

Maybe I can just stay where...

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Where have you been my dear old friend?
   I’ve been cast aside and blown by the wind.

But who could do such a thing to you?
   Look in the mirror for the...

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Memories come and memories go,
Just like summer gives way to snow. 

I try so hard to not forget,
to remember events and time well spent.

But sometimes in life things go wrong,
and it pushes us to move...

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I can still remember to the day,
   the moment my son begin to convey.

He told me he loved me in a child’s voice,
   my heart filled with joy as I rejoiced.

It...

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This a test I see?
My skills on the line this time,
The “King” has chosen.
New kid on the block,
Now called the prince of Haiku,
I accept and kneel.

The day almost done,
As light surrenders to night,
The pressure rises.
Palms...

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Sweaty palms grasp face,
   slowly dive till lips are met.
Succulent, tender,
   embracement of flesh.
Exploring tongue reaching out,
   gracing teeth with tease.

Smiles develop, as
   chills run down spines,...

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Talk is easy, talk is cheep.
Everyone believes in freedom of speech.

We have our freedom up to a point,
Until we offend someone at a local joint.

Then the word spreads from town to town.
It’s this talk that...

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Sitting here at work day in day out,
Running my machine mind filled with doubt.

Wondering, pondering about what I’ve become,
Have I done things right? All my task overcome?

Am I happy where I am? Is this what...

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Tears streaming inside,
   emotions, trying to hide.
Hurt can’t be explained,
   in words that are plane.
Feelings hidden from eye site,
   fake smile brings delight.

Sacrificing self,
   displace feeling on...

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Rhyming, chiming, keeping in time,
   Mind of a poet line after line.

Creative, clever, twisting of words,
   Sometimes the rhymes come only in thirds.

Struggle, problems, writers block here,
   Pondering subjects...

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