Long Left too soon Poems

Judge Daniele Saggio

This year of our salvation, sixteen twelve.
Now.  Gentileschi? Don Orazio?
This suit is yours.  You’d press it?  Drop it?  Shelve

it?  Very good.  And you are Tazzio?
Beg pardon, Tassi....

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JOHN MICHAEL MACMILLAN

What do they call you in heaven, John Michael MacMillan?
Are you still the "Baby-Baby", that player from the past?
Sometimes I try to catch you, somehow to hold you
Long enough to know that your...

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We lived in a small room
Near the river
Ammi and I
She said she wasn’t pretty
I can’t imagine of anything
More graceful than her
She would devote hours 
peering at the door 
writing something 
in her dialect
I never met my Abba 
Ammi said...

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The heat was high and rising
A shower came, but left too soon
   The temp was quite surprising
It wasn't even noon

   They thought it was a mirage 
As they stumbled upon a...

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I say things like "never let some a**hole ruin your day",
But regardless of the facade, people get to me. 
I have emotions bottled up inside me decades old,  
I spent too long walking around...

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This is a true story about an old Wise Woman who lived in the wilds of
West Ireland in the late 1800's.

She was a Seer, Healer. The stories about her are legendary. People
used to come to...

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You left us John, yet life goes on
                        
   ...

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THE PRICE OF BLOOD FOR A NEW NIGERIA

Fist outstretched towards the sky,
Flags lifted high to reveal my course.
Ask your mothers why your fathers died,
why their sisters and brothers levelled on the streets;
They'll recount how the...

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i don't really understand
and i cannot comprehend
what you're saying isn't coming through
why won't you take my hand?
 
but no,
you're too good for that anyway.
why are you still trying to play?
why can't you just go away?
i...

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Southside Sunset
Poverty stricken pink, purple, orange incognito 
After chasing down the poor paleta man and taking his stock of Paletas de Limon
The Fantastic Four, always together
grabbed up their baseball bats and mitts
And left me,
“Stupid Girl”
To...

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She sat at the edge of the bed and she said it’s some news I must share
So she grabbed the remote control pressed mute so I could hear
She had a sad look on her face...

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My Best Friend
Poem by: Flor Ramirez
 
To busy worrying about me
So depressed I had to flee
I ignored you when you said you were sad
I didn’t know your life was that bad
Wishing I could see you,...

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Huh, I am filled
Full of Gods love and blessing in my life
I found you Lord at the most uncertain time
When pain was still filled with wonder
And wonder was of amazement
Amazement turned to Grace
And your blessing...

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Mother where are you,
Can you see what is happening?
The world has gone crazy
The world has turned upside down
Men live in their heads now,
Feet barely touching the ground,
And don’t know where they’re going!
Nobody seems to know!
...

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It was a gorgeous summers day today,
not a cloud to grace the skies,
the cobalt blue that held my gaze,
while I envisioned my lovers eyes.

A radiance warmed my hair and skin,
from the ochre sun above,
my heart...

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I wasn't ready to let go of you, no not yet...
I'll hold your memory I promise , I won't forget...
I swear that I'll pray - every little single day...
I'll always remember you , so pretty...

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Time is fragile, time is thin
Strings of white pearls
Hang and seek for equilibrium
Distant cries, unheard callings
For so much I've wondered 
Lost and alone.

Your ship left too soon
Yet the anchor was still aboard,
It kept pulling you...

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My little fella
I held you softly against me 
For only a few minutes 
Staring into the horrified eyes of a nurse
Who saw death
Where I saw love in an ocean of bitter sadness 

My little fella
I...

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Take me deep into the night
Give your soul felt feelings sight
Comfort me, make my heart light
As I embrace your vocal plight

Sitting alone in my bedroom chair
Forgetting all of my worldly cares
Close my eyes, you're standing...

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I had a little friend who left too soon.
Acute leukemia struck at age five.
His mind was so blindingly bright.
This earth could not give it room.

He had questions in endless supply.
Every answer quickened another query
About stars,...

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FAREWELL 
To my dear friend Peter

You left too soon, a life cut short,
Leaving me to navigate a new sort, 
In my heart, you'll always remain, 
A cherished memory that will sustain

You were time capsules of...

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Particles borne
from the entropic; the eventual.
The inevitable death
brings life.

Annihilation is not death,
death rides a continuum.
A wave always knows it is the water,
it rises and then ceases; continuation.

The loss of life can be 
such pain, such...

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 Looking back to what has come and passed
 taking what was to forge this moment, You Are The Sun Alas
 and Blazing Beyond the perils of time
 to Rise like the Phoenix from Ashes...

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Topsy-turvy seems so
well, it seems so cute
relentlessly cute
saccharin cute.

Until and unless you're in it
and then, well then the 
belly comes to regard
its place in you as
something less than
...certain.

Topsy-turvy, ugh
abounding now
injured this, and angry he
fractured that,...

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You died too young

Your angels’ voice

Your deep deep sorrow

Don’t you know how I need you?


You left too soon
Your wicked heart
Your drunk drunk love
Don’t you know how I need you?

You are from the black gold era
Black...

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