Long Made me who i am Poems

Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
15 years ago..you breathed your last
and I still see you in dreams
and I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
in front of the screen 
wondering….what it would be like
to see your smile...

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There's a whirlwind inside 
Of my head
I'm like bread 
Without butter 
But instead, 
I am like no other
There's a monsoon inside
Of my wandering mindset
I'm like a young child 
That gets extremely upset
I'm far from mild…
I'm...

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Salvation has arrived, it happened with one look
surprising it was, that's all it took
The fear I had, gone, he stole my heart
A son, a new beginning, a fresh start
The uncertainty washed away with just one...

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As I write this, I start feeling emotional.
It was something that happened to me that
I will never forget.
  Growing up in the inner city in a part of
NY. It was very tough. You had...

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I can be your doctor the pills won’t hurt
Take a couple baby or you’ll get worse
I am the medicine queen come and hit me up 
I was only 13 getting called that in the traphouse...

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 "Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
                         ...

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Mama….it’s today
The chalendar shouts it
Today
13 years ago..you breathed your last
And I still see you in dreams
And I still miss you, Mama

I’m sitting here
In front of the screen 
Wondering….what it would be like
To see your smile...

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At times you made me laugh,
Most of the time you made me cry,
At times you made me feel,
As if i were to die,
I didn't want to cope with what was happening with me,

I thought you...

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Sometimes I wonder exactly how it is that you did it. To walk away and just let go u know I'll never forget it. The way I felt when I realized that u were gone....

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“It’s in there!” 
The frizzy haired woman insisted with mirth in her eye.
“But, how?”
I asked beseechingly.
She gave a mischievous laugh from impish lips in reply 
And then skipped merrily on her way.
The most precious thing...

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My poems are words with soul - Silent One.

 As a monotone morning sketches 
charcoal trees under 
smoke filled foggy skies,
rain casually falls,
sliding down slate roofs,
causing havoc for traffic
on bustling roads.
Red lights seem to shimmer,
shining...

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I was remembering my father,
just the other day.
It’s been a lotta years,
since Daddy passed away.

My name is not important.
My fathers name was Jim.
He never called me by my name!
I was always Butch to him!

Fishing was...

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I head you but I can't find you my mind is wondering in the dark storm,I am siting in this chair just staring at this big wall it seem like, I am being covered in...

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Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been going to the field for 52 years and still trying...

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You will never know,
                              When you...

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They say Jesus is our rock, our sword and shield
He is the shepherd of our green fields 
Our one and only
They say when you fall down, he’ll pick you up
The times I’ve fallen, I’ve had...

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I am part of the chaos that once found me, intricately woven together,
Each fragment of the soul with which I had the chance to communicate,
Every skin I touched randomly carried by dreams,
All of these have...

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I continue to try and convince myself
That by keeping the pictures from my past
I'm not still holding on to a love I once knew
But tonight sitting here all alone
I took one last look but to...

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Thoughts drifting
   through my mind
Memories
   that make me blind
To what I have
   in life today
They pull me in
   and I fade away

Back to a time
  ...

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There might be more to me that I haven't explored yet, but of what I know, here are the 10 poems that define me:

 I Am:  A non-exhaustive list of the elements of my...

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Is it fair to judge someone based on their experiences in life and write about them?

I've been told that I express too many feelings about my past...
How can that be? Why would someone say that?
My...

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My body is precious to me worth more than silver and gold it's meant to be touched, caressed, and held. My body which God has made a stranger came along and stole it away. ...

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Standing in this structure, that has long since, been demolished
Breathing lemon bleach, where the floor was freshly polished.
Taking photos in my mind, of this single, borrowed moment
 already the past, but I had one chance...

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I've stayed up thinking.
Working my mind around things,
What's happened to me,
What's shaped me,
What's made me who I am.

months ago.
He died,
Peacefully in his sleep.
We didn't know until the following morning
10 am.
I was getting ready for a...

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Looking back
It is beauty that is carved into
Every moment of our lives
Every moment of our near deaths,
Every moment of our death.

A song reached out to me
In my winter bed,
A simple song of simple love.
Transcending me...

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