Long Made a point Poems

Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...

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One seat back from where I sat in almost every class was where this wimpy, red-haired nerd, I’d hated from the start,
Made a point of sitting, thinking - if he played it right - because...

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The Sun had risen to greet the day
    and marveled at such a range of wondrous things.
Where below the warmth it brought to bare
    was causing a Thrasher's heart...

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I am still holding my belly and rocking from side to side as if my mother had just died. Reality is mumbling between my teeth and tension is crawling up and down my stomach. The...

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There has been much about being on a stage 
Since I started dealing with that adult style wage 
The Orange one used to welcome the new year 
With an evening date filled with cheer 

Now...

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"Saddo...Saddo...",she kept calling me,
Yeah,I was sad,
So I was named Saddo,
Flowers fell from highest branches, 
Fruits fell from tall branches,
My days were full of worries and  mess,
Series of bad occurrence,
Many that laughed with me,
Same see...

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Yesterday, turned out,
To be, a magical day...
I got a great new drummer,
Totally excellent, I must say,
And he took the band,
To his amazing studio...
With every bit of exotic equipment...
A musician could know...
He mixed in like magic...
Making...

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Pinkerton's mortician is the richest man in town...despite the fact, the story goes, despite the day he'd came
Ridin' in from Badger Holler - dressed in filthy rags - lookin' for a meal without a penny...

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Freedom foremost, and the will to fight
to keep and protect our natural rights.
Nightclubs, jello shots, disco balls
mechanical bulls, beers cold and tall!
Baseball, football, and basketball games,
crazy rodeo riders on horses untamed.
Books by the millions, more...

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I remember,
in the early 60s,
our thirty mile drive
from our historic family farm,
in all White rural Michigan,
not counting the Mexican migrant workers
which adults made a point of discounting,
on the first of several shopping trips to Thrifty...

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The sun peeks over the distant land, the glowing red, the violence creeps.
As stir the eyelids of a certain man. One drifting through his final sleep.
What thinks he of such innocent slumber, the ironic cackles...

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When I was young I’d pick dandelions…pick them with aplomb
I’d make a little bouquet and take it home to Mom.

I never thought much about it…never saw the need…
after all they weren’t really flowers…just a bunch...

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Let's think this over as if there's anything to say
Push me to the level that makes you feel superior
God forbid you realize how low you really are

Let's be careful, don't want to offend your delicate...

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My girlfriend telling me
That my love talk is useless
So I throw away all the love poems
I write for her while feeling depress

That same day it start snowing
The place was cold as ice
She calling next to...

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My girlfriend telling me
That my love talk is useless
So I throw away all the love poems
I write for her while feeling depress

That same day it start snowing
The place was cold as ice
She calling next to...

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she had enough curiosity to kill a thousand cats but not about sex

she awoke to him on top of her AGAIN then a quick blow to the head

she had been stricken temporarily dumb

suddenly she had...

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I jumped through hoops 
Landing in your abyss
I heard the snap crackle pop of my inner ear
My ossicular chain breaking in three
As I relinquished the best of me

You stood above me
In silent laughter
Tossing your dagger
Thinking...

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THE DAY I VISITED GIORGIO V.
The day I visited Giorgio V.
It was poetry that received me :
Poems lined after poems
Like the military in morning parade ;
I saw words command words
I saw words send words on...

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A student wrote an essay for my class,
explaining how he felt about the school.
“The rules are dumb,” was followed by one point:
“Y’all tell us how to dress. That’s SO un-cool!”

The next word made me seethe:...

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Dust to death of a mind of many.

"I'm so tired of pleasing others, from the front of faces of the fake, that they do not understand that my mind is open minded, than seeing the...

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Wisdom is for whom?
Everyone, there’s enough for all to consume.
Where is this wisdom of which you speak?
Wisdom is everything & everywhere one seeks.
Seriously, I want to find this wisdom but to search I know not...

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I saw her sitting alone 
At a corner table 
Of a poorly lit inn 

Her blouse pink 
The color of 
Sweet smelling roses 

She had no clue 
Who else was in the 
Tavern and did...

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They had the mashed, stuffing, string beans and of course the turkey
Obviously they had the means for the food was far as the eye could see
And the whole entire family was there and several others...

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today his pickup has made its point,
  seems no place and time, no weather
    can be more apt for that purpose
      than this wet, sloping dirt-road...

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Hark

The captain spoke to the sick and starving
As he bobbled on the bow
And began
We will go there
Pointing his crooked finger as his dark, salty body dropped 
But with each upsurge he made another point
You are...

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