Long Luckier Poems

1.
God, how I hate (when I can't go to sleep),
HATE the feeling sleep never will come.
In moments like this, I wonder if my death
Might be a lover with real potential,
Though the possibility of soul being...

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Perhaps it's my theory; or is it my unwritten hypothesis?                         ...

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Resolutions

Repentance of things past and present, and anticipated misdoings shall be of utmost importance. I shall be more open and vulnerable, being more willing to “Be Wrong”.

Evils that are both subtle and also blatant shall...

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A lonely rider traversed the sand upon his sturdy mount, 
Beneath a sky so filled with stars that no man might ever count. 

A dangerous dash across open land on a night without a moon,...

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This day out of all days speaks words of realism and shame.
The world you've made hides the shadows that lingers to this day.
Unnoticed.
Unnecessary.
The darkness within holds the secret to your surroundings.
You've ignored the fact that...

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I try to tell you what an amazing man I think you are
The best I’ve ever had in my life by far
I do what I can to show
Though sometimes I know
You don’t always think it’s...

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It is not fair, it is not just,
That you have things that I don't!

Do I suffer with envy and jealousy,
Coiling like a noose in my chest?

Or do I strive to improve myself?
Or do I accept...

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prosaic prologues bewitch 
   feeble minded scribe doth undertakes 
tend toward lugubriousness ring tone 
   for goodness sake

echoing across, 
   a figurative lake woebegone, where quake
shutters latched storm windows,...

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Last year I thought I’d start something new…a new custom…a new tradition…
It never caught on but I’m bringing it back…this year…with a few revisions…

My idea is to celebrate December 26th! 
like Christmas, it’s filled with...

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today when we went to visit you 
we saw a little leprachaun visiting with you 
He was there at the gravesite sitting with you 
he greeted us so happily 
" so very pleased to meet...

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More beauteous than Helen of Troy! 
More beauteous than all beauty queens! 
More beauteous than the foggy eves:
More beauteous than the starry beams;
Was it thou angels Who beguiled?
With thy unearthly beauty sheen! 
In far off,...

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My Daddy was a  miner 
Way back in 69
He left home at the crack of dawn 
Left us to walk the line

On Sundays we’d go to church
Then home to do our chores
While Mama cooked...

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Dear Puff the Magic Dragon
It’s been so long a while
I heard your friend has left you
And that you no longer smile

Soup is that really you?
Yes, it’s been for ages
How come you’ve just remembered me?
How come...

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Whenever I feel like just giving up 
Whenever my dreams just fade away 
I just return to my heart 
Because I know that I'll find comfort there 
And when the world is closing in 
Hope...

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She is a MONSTER.
She attacks me with her viscous words.
Makes sure I know I am unwanted.
She hides under a pretty face, and attacks when you least expect it.

She is a MONSTER.

She is wicked.
Making her whispers...

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Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the way
All have a story to tell
Hidden away
.
Some people I’ve known...

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In our Asian-cum-Eastern land
No one prefers or admires
the dark-skinned or tanned

Gosh, as if the fair-skinned alone
belonged to the so-called fairer sex
And here, 'black is beauty' a phrase unheard
All falling for the light skinned almost in...

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Dignity is Something that Can Not be Compromised
 
Dignity is a value that applicable to both individual and a collective of people on the Global.
The value of connection between individual and social environment is highly...

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I sing a song of three.
There’s Larry, Curly, Moe;
the Ego and the Id
and the Super Ego.

Three Kings of the Orient
are known as three wise men.
Showing up at Christmas too
in song are three French hens.

Rock, paper,...

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I have loved and been loved
Luckier than most I guess
Someone said that "We learn from our mistakes"
Perhaps, but what do you do when you are
making them?

Everyone has an opinion on this subject
and with great respect...

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the poor, the sick, the infirm, the abused
not one, but plenty of them, all over
a vacant sadness on each face, waiting to be enthused
the poor, the sick, the infirm, the abused
wait for a kindness from...

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People often ask me where my smile comes from.  
Where do I find my happiness…my joy…my pluck…
When I ponder on it for a while…I think…perhaps…it’s just my luck!

It was just my luck to grow...

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Pock marked

Bert was cooking in a bucket,
Knew his hide at any rate
Pock marks on his thighs an biceps,
Shot that day by a sniper, mate,

Sniper chopped by Aussie Bren gun,
Fell from palm in many pieces,
Driven back...

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I dreamed I was a bird and could fly through the sky.
As I soar through the clouds and watch them pass by.
The world below seems small when viewed from above.
All the sights I take in...

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Dance tonightl at the all girls Catholic high school.
Come on join us tonight, we are all looking cool,

New leather saddle shoes, bright, white ankle socks.
Hair high in a pony tails with satin ribbons, we were...

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