Long Levies Poems

childhood, creation, feelings, growing up, heaven, imagery, word play,

Awakening Teary-eyed Emotions  ©                      ...

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For so long I thought I knew your heart
Your mind, soul, and every part
My life felt safe in your gentle arms
Free from worry and any harm
So certain I was that you were the one
A love...

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In my little village, Nkporo,
We celebrate the Iza Afa Festival
And the Most Magnificent Igboto Nma Festival.
The two are more than four hundred years old,
Our forebears told us that it began with
Their ancestors who immigrated from...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY: LXXVIII

            for Suzanne DELANEY, in appreciation

(Prelude: CAN THE WRONG MAN BE RIGHT ? ABSOLUTELY ! 
If only he...

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This violin is so small but carries like the heaviest of weights,
these cascades of shapes and shades are typically a waste,
and their traces are replaced by the weight the levies take,
you brace for the impact...

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Poetry is much like a Great Photo,Capturing feelings and emotions of a single moment in 
time;then preserving it for future history books.Next generation learns.
Hurricane Katrina gives a lesson.For the next generation of Americans.
"TAKE CARE OF...

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Man wants life, too easy, as sweet as honey
But for that needs money.

Money he may though have
But not sufficient for him to behave.

Not sufficient for his needs and deeds
Like uncountable rosary beads.

For his satisfaction of...

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The Directorate of Criminal Investigations can attest
That none raised a claim against him, even in jest,
And reports on his environmental conduct all agree
That he never injured a sprouting tree,
And that all he did was to...

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Today was independence day in our country,
I dint know the exact date, I just woke up on it in the news,
Don’t call me unpatriotic, because of that.

I went to the shop, got a share of...

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Another year has come and gone,
but despite changes, I keep moving on.
I walk a little slower, take time to rest.
still work in the garden, is thought the best
vocation any man can enjoy.

My eyes might dim,...

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When I stare at Bomba, coughing aloud outside
When Mwami and family, chewed swallowing thunderously
He glares most in somber, so as to get a guide
How to enter and nearly, they hear ignoring unanimously

As I listen from...

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ancient ancestor's fervently sought
a truth , neither to be traded or bought
to discover , uncover , recover the mold
a beginning , spinning , facing sarcasm cold

learned men had to cypher , code their belief
undaunted critisisms...

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The Loud Cries, Brightest Depths Of Summer Hues

The loud cries, brightest depths of summer hues!
 Gold gleaming on broad fields of flashing grain;
 Numerous as if sands upon sea shore
 Nature wouldst this beauty never...

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The raging storms have come and gone;
But the sorrow still remains.
The levies gave way and much was lost.,
And all that was left was the pain.

Refugees, they were called
were left to their own devices
Please help us...

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when hunger howls & roars like lion
throwing rocks and pebbles at sun-drenched back
flipping its razor like fangs on helpless tummies
and striking with a devouring aplomb on defenceless intestines
i will thrust my head in between, recklessly
and...

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Hear Yee , Hear Yee

Elizabeth "The' Queen

Here she lie's dead in state entombed
in saintly grace

Her smile as is her likeness of she no more

Send her forth victorious in resplendent
elegance riding sidesaddle upon an 
equine train...

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Only a hero volunteers for war,
willing to battle and die for others.
And do things they'd typically abhor,
rallying into a band of brothers
defending their homes, sisters, and mothers.

While war levies its toll in flesh and bone
insidious...

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His breath I’ve felt in recent years,
Upon my neck, infusing fear.
Though when I turn to see who’s there,
Emptiness greets me, vacant, bare.

With menacing breath, dark and heavy
He penetrates my defensive levies,
Consuming my strength and vigor
He...

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Now it's almost half a millennium gone when it fell
The gigantic pen that colored England and the world.
The enigma of all times that no man can tell,
Nor had any sage of the long past foretold
That...

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Hours upon end
All we have arrived to is less then a final decision
Vengeful misconduct of our nation
Earth Mothers shriek as we rage along the freeways, disregarding ill conversation

Yes, we must have forgotten
Our lovers, friends, brothers,...

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There is a potential so pure in your nature
that it be nexus between diviner and rapture
where freedom finds the fire of Prime Creator
deep in the brain's interior, a glandular mind expander
crossfertilizer of electrochemical ego and...

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Nothing to prove an existance of Jehovah,
Relevant facts demonstrated on daily account,
Evolution brought men this far,
Scientific and ignorance underline after,
No God,no Jesus nor Holy Spirit amount,
Scriptures are forged and schemed in bar,
Bible is of no...

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A passionate dyed-in-the-wool dreamer,
you tread upon the erratic path of fate
blind to the route She's chosen for your soul.  

Memories are prisms focused on the past  
observing shadows that cannot be changed, ...

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Oh say can you see blood soaked 
Baltimore reeking of falsified documents 
blood soaked levies oh say can you see 
corruption over board Atta Mohammed 
and Bin Laden brought to trial on this land 
oh...

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March 2011 spring is on the way
The sea is Calm slight haze on the bay
The sea is our life the fishing is good
We depend on the ocean for our livelihood
Rumble in the distance buildings begin...

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