Long Local government Poems

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The Nigerian youths have agreed together in love and oneness that in 2023 presidential election and in every other elections, whether state or local government. We will not vote for anyone who...

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Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the...

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Of course on this night we are supposed to be asleep so Santa 
could come, but we hadn't been home from Midnight Mass very long, and the 
invigorating cold was not conducive to sleep. ...

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The Coat Hanger

Let's travel back in time to 1928, the place is Sydney (Australia)
The local government wanted to create a harbour crossing from 
the North to South of Sydney, architects were brought in to 
draw...

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What a World!


By Izunna Okafor

Tears roll down my cheeks
Beholding the palm tree I tapped 
From his knowledge of blue ink
With a bow, lofting off a huge gap

What a World !

Our intellectuals have all died
And the...

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Friendship: Just Like a Palm Tree 


By Izunna Okafor


From the crusts of lonely loams
It gently roots inner and outer
And softly pullulates harder and taller
To register its purpose to mankind.

Like the trunk, the bond glues harder
To...

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The trainings and drills were rigorous,
Most of the recruits came out victorious.
The khaki, boot, helmet and rifle were given,
Soldiers. Ready to defend the country for a reason,
With their fists and guns - they believe to...

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I am Married. He's a Prince. Stole my heart at sixteen.
We bought a house. Two dogs, three cats. 
We created two beautiful sons and the American dream.
I'm from nothing, he grew in stability. 
I work...

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...I think the counterbalance is
our craving for community,
and not the local government,
no, the things we enter freely.
I’m talking about your neighbors,
your churches and your civic clubs,
things we build in the private space,
where you hang out...

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I'm old this is how the world treats me
I've worked for more than 49 years
Some of that time for only one dollar fifteen cents an hour
Now when it come down to giving me what's mine
You...

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They close the brothe
This is good it be not awful
Those single and married men
Misbehaving 
What, what on their knees preying 
utmost wedding night delaying 
Does a single man need a marriage bed l
No no way...

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Indian Girl
The next train is to India to a big crowded city, Calcutta. I am a Desi girl called Prittima Desmona. I am thirty two and live near a small town called Kajoy. 

You may...

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Embodied

By David J Walker

 

As if I were a Ford or Chevy

Or an Old’s 88

Classified by year and make and

Model, registered and taxed and

Licensed with the local government

 

A product of an assembly line from...

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I would never forget that ancient call
The cry of the babies , the smiles of the toddlers
singing of the birds and the melodiously chipping of the insects
In a beautiful land filled with milk and honey.
A...

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Nature comes to my rescue, and yours. I'm certain
When trash and plastics fly and float on land
Across this township called Newtown, a curtain
Of pollution from burning what trash workers will rake
I look toward the neglected...

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My Personal Opinion
Miracle Man
8/18/2023

Some radical activists
financed by foreign wealth,
Spread socialistic values
destroying America’s health.
First infiltrate local government
then invade our schools,
Knowing that young minds
 are any country’s crown jewels.
Our children are being indoctrinated 
at much too early...

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