Long Lense Poems

We got to the Hotel and settled in. I had bought a Cannon 
 35 mm camera with a 100/300 lense. I figure that would be
enough to capture any images that we would see. With...

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DAUGHTERS

Opposites presented by Goddess
In talons of Eagle
         On wings of Dove
Equally loved

A torrent from a fierce black cloud
  yang frothing waves in a storm
  ...

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Black Men deserve to grow old 
Now they getting shot down in the street 
Bodies cold 
Everyday seems like a black man passes away 
Do you remember when we use to say 
I pray I...

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Master piece

A masterpiece 
A work of Art 
Created from our fathers heart 
Unique and wonderfully made 
He mastered and completed 
Yet some defeated 
They left you out 
Mastering a piece 
Don't come easy 
It comes...

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Pills and potions instrumental by Nicki Minaj

Mixed emotions 
They feel like the ocean 
The waves  come and I run from them 
(Repeat 1x)
I still run I still run I still run 
I still run
(Repeat...

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Wandering the roads.  It has me under a spell even at this juncture in my life.
Even when spiked brambles
 scrape my eyelids or those tender foot soles are  being  twisted by tooth-like...

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There is a hole,
In my Ozone,
The layer I keep all to myself,
For selfish needs,
The tendencies and statistics will alarm.
But say once,
And say a million times,
That I am wrong for sleeping inside...
I am aware of such...

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I had not smelled their breath.

With my request to please refrain from smoking on the train, 
his sudden question came while pinning to the door, "Have you ever had", 
as forehead smashed my face, "a...

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His name was Timothy Treadwell, aka The Grizzly man.
He was a naturalist who had a very strong love for the grizzly bears of our land.
He alone at times would chase off poachers to protect his...

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Leaving at midnight on a Greyhound, I'm excited I'll be seeing my baby sister's family for two days and watch my nephew perform in CATS. In my small safari travel bag, these things I have...

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It's official 

It's official 
Officially, it is 
It's time for me to give 
Give myself 
Everything that's attached 
It's time to patch up the patch
Heal wounds 
Life is of the essence 
It's precious 
Be great,...

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    'in the blink of an eye"



the camera lense inside my eye decided to take flight
upon an adventurous love affair intending to ignite
while in the midst of viewing landscapes beautiful symmetry
capturing on...

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The air surrounds me brisk.
Sounds from the city evoke me. 

People are nearby but in this moment; 
I am alone. 

The chimera close by secure me a halfer.
Smoke is now gone but I do not...

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No, it wasn’t my intention,
Neither part of the agenda,
Was suppose to be a dance
and part...
Too bad the song was intense
and got me stuck!
Tried to clear my lense
In case its a prank!

But the dose of ecstasy...

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Reward silence with gifts of the like for
attention is precious
& know tunnel vision can be a blessing for your
focused expression
This method is a form of madness showing your
commitment to sanity
so be blind to all distractions...

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I'm dyin' inside
And I don't know if
I was ever alive
On these streets

It's all too much
Lookin' at myself
It's all too much
Thinkin' these thoughts

One day is a day too many
But one less day
Is one day too few
Thinkin'...

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A familiar scene to all who walk this lovely 
Spot, as into view close by the river path 
Comes something which is not 
The usual day-to-day. All who pass her pause, 

Then stop to gaze...

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Covering your face with strokes of color and gold/, but as Hatshepsut your inside is dead, cold/
Likes or dislikes thats all that pops up/, yeah your soul disappeared, went cloud up/

Contouring overdone, below a crop...

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She jumped the cables of this earth and landed on their stratosphere 
not much was interlocked inside that interstated space except a high   
the coded silence telegraphed in tetrotonic voice was plugged in...

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Big Deal 

Own it , control it 
Don't hold it 
Hold it all in 
You were meant to win ?? 
Life throws all kinds of challenges 
Know that you can manage 
Manage 
Take control 
Don't...

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How did I get caught up in the middle of this mess?
I thought that you all knew that love comes first-
Before money, before power, before having the last word-
My heart is filled with pain enough...

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I'm just lying down here, immersed in New York Fall, watching the trees whispering through the wind, telling the winter not to come, begging the cold to leave me alone, to set me free.

Fall do...

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Don't let me end this life
Teardrops furnish my dreams as I sleep at night
Stress keeps a writer pasting his life
Blessed to weep, wasting his night
Look only to suspended glory
This is my end story
Awakened buried in...

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bitter crackling of seashells,
the sand sinking beneath her feet, the tide
boiling with screaming lobsters,
nettled nightmares,
even as the calm umbrella’d shore
teases sanity.

a white dress believes all it’s told.
the groom grips a broomstick.
measures years with red and...

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The overlapping of me and us three
Of who I was and who I turned out to be
I never ever felt I was good enough 
Or tuff enough to deal with that stuff

Gentleness inside grew like...

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