Long Loitering Poems
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Where the Four Roads MeetWhere the four roads meet there is lots of concrete
Where the four roads meet there is much deceit
Here I am at the crossroads, wondering which way to go
Here I am at the cross roads...
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Categories:
loitering, blessing, break up, endurance, environment, forgiveness, good
Form:
Narrative
Hard TimesI bow down to the great Dickens
Whose name has touched every soil,
And whose art has touched every soul,
His art "Hard Times" has travelled far and wide
When at last built it's castle at Sherubtse college,
Fortuitous...
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Categories:
loitering, abuse, high school, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
GraveyardAll on a sudden getting awake in the morning, I got stunned seeing, the whole earth had become a great graveyard. Each house was, as it were, a grave. In that grave, all were whispering...
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Categories:
loitering, allegory,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ready To GoPeople are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs
Are walking about the park
Harassing the women in the boiling...
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Categories:
loitering, confidence, endurance, england, environment, friendship, journey, meaningful,
Form:
Narrative
A Cry In the NightYour voice kisses the breath of the morning wind
Snapping in the solemnity that bears a cry unto God.
Angels have come to earth; that in slumber seemed,
Like the wind creaking among the faith we once had.
Life...
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Categories:
loitering, anxiety, dark, death, evil, fear, feelings, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Up Soup Creek Without a Paddle[Every good story needs a sub plot, so…]
He watched from his vantage point on the bank’s roof
And looked out for folk that he knew were uncouth
His years on the run had made him aloof
But soon...
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Categories:
loitering, western,
Form:
Narrative
Life On the StreetDried up like a reservoir
In the mid summer heat
The cracks in the ground
Are like
The life lines, upon my face
I have weathered many a storm
As if
I have lived a 100 lifetimes,
Instead of one!
Bare, rough, dirty...
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Categories:
loitering, adventure, confusion, courage, dark, depression, faith, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Recollections From the Golden Cree II know of a river of more than average
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods
By which...
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Categories:
loitering, growing up,
Form:
Rhyme
I Was Always Looking Over My Shoulder At Her BaggageI was always looking over my shoulder at her baggage
little did i know at the time
but her baggage
was within my sight
on our first few dates
what ever the circumstance
she wasn't at liberty
to...
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Categories:
loitering, father daughter, mystery, relationship, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Homelands====================
Homelands
Arabic poem by: Adel Said*
Translated into English by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_N_Silk)
=====================
At the end of the line I stand
As should a professional homeless do
Exactly at the end of the line
Before the committee on homelands distribution
Among...
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Categories:
loitering, arabic, deep, depression, international, lost, metaphor, sad,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Suicide NoteTo whom it may concern
Don’t be shocked what you are about to learn
In any case, this is a suicide note
The last thing on this earth I wrote
Just listen, I don’t need you to reply
As I...
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Categories:
loitering, death, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
The Short JourneyThey are running from camp to camp, carrying all that they have, big bundles mounted on their head with an appointment to meet the dead.
A few weeks ago, they had a fortified home with maid...
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Categories:
loitering, caregiving, change, community, confidence, conflict, confusion, earth,
Form:
Narrative
Enchantress (Let Me Chisel Talk You) Part Three(Continued from part two)
O! enslaver beware, you are sprouting horns.
Kher, poor thing, you should try to be fair,
Nimble mares, could tongue-tie you there.
The bulls are rearing in their thrills, at bay.
K.S. the lion chaste-tied in...
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Categories:
loitering, lifetime,
Form:
Free verse
We, You, I : a Rap Song"I ain't gonna be nothing,
Cos it seem like f'ever I've been longing."
Tears in the eyes, phlegm in the nose,
Skin so sore, malady of the toes.
Helter-skelter, yet, nothing to show for,
Studied chemistry and...
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Categories:
loitering, depression, evil,
Form:
Lyric
Sobering a Happy AddictI was born married to the master of subservience,
fell in love with the master of somnolence.
I dissolved Reality,...
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Categories:
loitering, death, imagination, life, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
The Village On the Water IiGradually the crystalizing dawn -- more hardened
Than folded steel --- more sharper than
The blade that cuts!
Wisps of thin vapour, once loitering insidiously...
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Categories:
loitering, appreciation, creation, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Before You Go a Little Way, Prospectingfor F. A.
You, in going a little way from yourself
Have gone a long way from my gullible ilk.
« I’m trying hard not to like you, » you said
The breaths of several men surging in your...
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Categories:
loitering, girlfriend-boyfriend, words, me, me,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Never Again, To Regain the Past, I Thunder WhyYesterday, was an adolescent,
while we where the innocuous fluorescence that lighted up the floral hopes of the sun and transformed it's smile, into a cheerful full moon.
The sky was always brightly dressed up with...
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Categories:
loitering, timemoney,
Form:
Free verse
An Open Letter To a TraffickerDear trafficker,I am on the run
With face emitting fear
Worn in clothe surged into rag
By the scissors of rape
linen scars
With the screech from angry nails;
narrow escape.
Do not ask why I run
Like a prey dodging the hunters’...
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Categories:
loitering, angst,
Form:
Lyric
The Last TwilightTwilight, oh beautiful twilight,
the foreboding before the dawn;
that such beauty can exist in such ill air-
is beyond me to understand,
as the first rays of light caress the darkness,
I cannot help but feel ashamed-
that I can't...
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Categories:
loitering, sadbeautiful, beautiful, hope, me,
Form:
I do not know?
At Six O'Clock In the Morning Upon the Sixth of JuneAt six o’clock in the morning
Upon the sixth of June
Came Michael-Paul O’Higgins
Into this bustling world.
At school he was but middling,
He never cut much ice
In English, Maths, Geography,
In Scripture, Sport or Art.
In early adolescence
On the back...
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Categories:
loitering, faith, psychological, success,
Form:
Verse
The Morning AfterThe morning after
I wake up to my pillows talking to me
Your are gone but they say you were here
You left some time in the night after I said you couldn't stay
Even after all that...
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Categories:
loitering, anger, bereavement, change,
Form:
I do not know?
UnfinishedUNFINISHED
These streets mistreat
one hundred degrees in the heat
rode past said a prayer
lying on the pavement
was the new wretched
of the earth, so caste down
nothing left but death.
All them with nowhere to be.
Not allowed at bus-stops
or on...
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Categories:
loitering, abuse, america, class, emotions, sad, social,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unshackle My Verse: the People V PoetryUnshackle my verse: The People V. Poetry
The judge says,
“Will the defendant please rise”
Intently, I stare into his eyes,
was once the apple, but now despised.
“Poetry, you have been charged with multiple counts of...
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Categories:
loitering, judgement, poetry, words, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Liminal Space-SurrealityClassical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy
Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
Blends of subversive elements and anxious acoustic
Solution to loitering the bodega doo dropping
Spicy Shiitake broth smelling...
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Categories:
loitering, confusion, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme