Long Lick your wounds Poems

Date  October 2040

The children were in the dining 
Room and having a meeting of
Their own. Amadeus spoke 
"We need to be honest with 
Ma Auntiema and Dad and tell
Them when we don't like 
Something...

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I loved you.

Quite simply put, I loved you.

If you were blind to the weight and need of it,
that simply put, was your willingness 
to ignore the inconvenient.

You were honest in your expectations,
as honest to yourself
as...

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Black Americans, Listen Up!

The morning after, November 6, 2024
Many are deeply hurt to the core
Don’t allow a result to spoil your joy
The Devil will always destroy

The normal emotion is disgust
Don’t lick your wounds, simply adjust
As...

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The journey of the inner soul is an adventure of the mind
The fear of failure dominates the path you cannot find
You start rebelling as a youth to soothe your sorted past
Surrendering to lethal ways, emotions...

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Take efforts, then, success, you make,
Fake comforts bring surely only ache,
Mistake none please for Heaven's sake,
Break enmity by putting a firm brake!

Today you very sincerely pray,
Stay in a highly confident way,
Obey truth and positively play,
Delay...

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I can see your eyes are trained somewhere beyond my face,
though I can't bring myself to find their target. 
They passed over me once, for a day, or a week, 
and I was garbed in...

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You are mean and opportunist
what that may probably mean?
there is an opportunity standing right in front of you
you run and so do others(like you) for it
to get it,grab it and bag it
you stumble and fall...

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I am the salt of the dearth

tease your taste buds and

drape sweat for discomfort


You need not know how

I came to be in the ocean

not have to walk on water

but why wait for the Ark

instead start...

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  I know you so well now
   that I can instantly 
        capture your moods. 
  Watching 
      ...

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I have been told by some that this poem is very angry and a slap in the face. Please understand that is the point. It is meant to be from another persons point of view....

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Fathers Day 2006
By: Tom Wright
6/19/2006

Why would I want to see you play?
You broke what!
We don’t have money to spend on Doctors,
You hear me boy!

School is to learn,
Not to play football
Do your homework and get to...

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once was twenty of age and not a dime in my pocket
exile in a silence of foreign i was called an alien

want to see UFO I show you my basket
naive you call it but make...

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You figure you know the purpose of your existence,
why, I tell you, what you think is only in your mind
and what you see as parts of that whole square
are nothing but edges and corners of...

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