Long Ligament Poems

The early hours of a Wednesday morning in a small country town.
An 18-year-old boy struggles to sleep
He had pain so bad 
all he could do was weep 
he, knee was so painful
he had to go...

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I was an irrepressible and happy young woman, and graceful ballet dancer,
Who lived for twirling on a world stage, as red berries are shrub laughter!

I had practiced for so many years, striving to become the...

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Don’t let the color red get into your head, don’t let the color red force you to bury the dead, red is strong,   red is high, red is powerful, it is touching the...

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That keeps repeating over and over again
For twenty two years your face is all I have seen
did medication and therapy for all the emotional swings but nothing helped me

Because all the anger and rage is...

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September has come and gone leaving a trail of damage behind it, the weather created havoc, the guns create sorrows and the knife took many innocent lives away. 

It was hard to stop the steal...

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I tasted the breath of death, just the other day
Please bow your heads with me, let us all pray

There was the darkness all curled up in my mind
Looking for something that was not there to...

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As you know, dear one
I border emotions that perhaps are an enigma to you
You look up to me at times with the highest respect
When you and I both know we are leveled 
I dedicate to...

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Muscles locked in agony
Every ligament burning 
Pain flooding nerve endings
Labor
Heavy panting of breath
Heart pumping trying to keep up

Behind the canopy of human perception 
Life and Death dance
  
On her knees pushing
Two women holding her
A...

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Flowers and plants have language, they speak to us in different ways, they come in many shapes and forms, and they will meet with you just before Dawn. 

They have smells that can be traced...

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Walkin around head down
Praying I'll soon be casket bed bound
Whether it's from a gun when it spreads rounds
Or catch a disease that causes me to shed
pounds
And I pass away alone no tear drop sounds
Come to...

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You stare at it from the outside wondering what is on the inside
You read the forward and the acknowledgement, the first and last page and leave out the devil’s details; it has been sitting on...

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Lines reign rectangular beyond widely 
sombre dour density of inhabitants 
Living rendered responsible behind wisely 
secure doors definitely insure us

Neighbours harbour unfamiliar stories
Measureless textures hold untapped instruction
Sectioned protected fences forbode inquiry 
Composite dismissed in driveway's...

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Having taught GCSE’s, A-level’s and degrees, 
Sue switched to primary teaching with a PGCE, 
And won the Yorkshire/Lincs Sportsperson twice,
Was given the MBE for her services to charity.

She’s a patron of Rainbow House, disabled kids,...

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Zenith from a telescope 
Chose this device at times to view the slightest hope
Fractured elements of my past seem to have their grip
For a brief time to reflect on struggle as rain starts to drip

Having...

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Time slips away
In a brisk flow,
Ooze of nine days
Where writes don't show.


A spinal pain
From a wound old,
Comes yet again
As hurt unfolds.


A pain so deep
As backache sheers,
To disturb sleep
In moments clear.


A fatal step
In awkward turn,
Can set...

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JERKS OF JEALOUSY


Two thick n' lovely friends, friends forever type
Ugly poverty had its brutal curse on both of them
Thick n' thin of life,  equally did they share...
Both good at sports, budding athletes of their...

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It was my first yoga lesson (after coaxing)
I was stretching every muscle in my body
Our leader was encouraging us, saying "Breathe!"
Frankly, I thought I was not doing so shoddy.

My sissified murmur turned into a loud...

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Remote from the equator, remote from all light
Lie victims in the hands of an angry man
Who sees law as wet clay, who sees the will of the people not at all
And the spring rainshower of...

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The light, this enlighten definition of facing thyself
As a warm aura floating on your skin
The light of your mind.
Suddenly, there is a voice leading you
To an inner path, forgotten yet carved
The voice of dominance.
Like an...

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When I was in high school, 
I had a fall, 
It was from a cycle, 
but changed my all;

I had ligament tear
in my right foot, 
Could not go to school, got
typhoid to boot;

Weak in my...

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What does it take to stop a beating heart?
To freeze the blood circling each organ?
To stop the music a steady rhythm makes?
What does it take to stop the changeless  process of one’s lungs?
To cause...

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FIRE OPERATIE.      (operatie is Dutch word for operation in English)


F ine matter in combustion with oxygen too luculent,
I ncandescent fire's poise flares up its ligament.
R esourceful if used with a...

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  Roses are red, violets are blue, pain in my sleep, sick like the flu. Double down on the love, can we have less hate? Everyone spread, everyone initiate. 

  Play the role...

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FOR YOU

This is for you, because I cannot reach you
For you because my heart is filled with you
You overflow me, every corner
Of me, every fragile bone
every elastic ligament
All of me is you

I write for you...

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I give her free play
Up in the sky
Holding the tension in my thread
I feel every fiber and ligament
In her being
Throb to neuron impulses of wind
She has something to say
And nerve and fiber
Throbbing to tell
I hear...

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