Long Lila Poems

September finally came. Dolly 
Was in Labor but she stated 
That she would deliver her
Babies at home. Damian Tried 
Gentle discouragement. "Naw,
Babe we will be patients at
Magnum Medical Hospital 
Center. We ain't gonna discuss 
This...

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I love the element of surprise which the present offers liberally
I love putting one into uncertainty or making them marvel—
It makes me feel extra special…

For a moment, I will only be a vile monster in...

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Being sick with a snotty nose
A cough, fatigue, one of those colds???
For goodness sake's everyone knows
Grandmothers are too sophicated 
To wear anything but fancy clothes
Surely not a Kleenex box attached
To their chair, and looking unkempt
And...

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A Bad Man

The dark cowboy wears a black hat, 
to tell all those he comes across 
that he is a bad man, 
before he says anything to them, 
with his gun. 

It is a fine...

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I spread my toes wide in the sand,
tanned feet in stark contrast,
the white sand squeeked like cornstarch,
saw the shadows that we cast.

She sat forward, hunched, hands clasped,
her shoulders round and frail,
her clear blue eyes were...

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I
If we humans did not exist in eternity, before this experience that begins with a birth and ends at a funeral, why the desire for immortality? whence do thoughts of "eternity" arise?

II
Our science, even faith...

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 (with nudity optional)


Not another effort from The Lefts bleating masses, but the sparkily aristocracy of cerebral-celebritys; their binary-duality sweeping earth-wise. 

I don't object to the subject necessarily. All Hell Breaks-Loose sometimes For Heaven's Sake...

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I was reminiscing the other day about people I've known o'er the years,
And found it strange that their names corresponded with their careers.
For instance, Joseph Carpenter was handy with hammer, nails and saw.
Clyde Barrister, famed...

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Swahili verse

We, bwana
Kaw kweli
Kwa kweli
Hebu ngoma yaani HIM
Kwa kweli
Kwa keeli
Kuja juu sasa
Hebu kuimba, sifa
Kuimba kwa sauti nyimbo na
Sauti kwa mfalme
Mkuu mimi ni
Baba, Mungo wa Baba
Njoo sasa, njoo sasa
Hebu kuabudu kwanza hapa duniani
Silaha na mikono aliinua...

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A is for Annie Apple Blossom she buds in the Spring. 
B is Betty Baby Breath she's such a dainty thing.

C is for Miss Candy Tuft pink-cheeked with hair of gold.
D is Debbie Dandelion who...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXI

IF you pull a long Moon face
Watching our Earth clad in sparse swirling white sarée
Her aqua-marine waters cuddling her reddish brown body-surface
The dazzlingly rare Pearl now throttled...

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Lila had no Mom now to make her Halloween costume
Just her Communion dress, adorned by angel wings she’d made 
A halo of gold chrysanthemums she laid at Mom’s tomb
But dusk was falling as in the...

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Laughing, dancing, having the time of her life,
Faerie Fun went from mushroom house to toadstool cottage,
Spreading joy,
Playing with everyone
In a kind and pleasant way.
There was going to be no sadness
In Faerie Forest today if she...

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The semi dessert place of the beaten track,
a little oasis of orchards in the dirt cul de sac.
Where no one can find that man anymore,
stone walls full of herbs in bloom adore.
Walk through overgrown Granadilla,
Canna...

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Soon enough, 
In the makings of Lila,
And the growing happiness of the lamentable soul of Clementine,
I shall be utterly transformed once again

Imagine this!
Can I not dream to become one of you?
Can I not admire your...

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COPLA CUARENTA Y SIETE: This Bad Guy World

Could humans be thought intelligent
And gods dumb blind bloody heartless:
Might it look true

Or are humans made to relent
Higher design by gods no less:
More likely true

Supreme God uses toddler...

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I
If the Universe came into being Itself
As a quantum vacuum
Which is never totally empty
Never devoid of all particles and energy 
Then, one-actor is the Source
Of everything there is!
If all it takes is energy to gather
Then...

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The sun shining
The birds singing
It is another morning,
Bells of yesterday keep ringing
I hold my heart from sinking
I let my pen do the speaking
The pain my own I keep flowing
What I've got exposing
   ...

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I
At home with Shankara & Ramanuja
As with Spinoza, Kant, and Buber
Seventy years on earth, to 1950, heir
To Thought of East, West, 'Father Nature'
Fought for Independent India, from 'Raj'
Taught we must do spiritual evolution
Community and nation...

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Under the windowsill 
Ages dripped across the frosting wood
Now snow, the warm touch of a finger 
Aggravates the soul of a tiger
As the pyramids stand absolute amidst a sand storm
The Nile runs red with the...

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