Long Mb Poems

Are We To Believe Lies Dark World Has Told

When I hope for goodness to always win,
Ride my old horse well before break of dawn,
While nature gifts its beauty of a fawn
Am I to be chastised...

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Chuka Nnabuife: Nwoke Na Mma


(Ab? p?r? iche maka mmemme ncheta ?gb?gba ah? iri ise nke Sa Chuka Nnab?ife)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a


A s? na mma nwoke b? mpempe akw?kw?
Mana nke ah? b? maka nd? ?j?...

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Tick-tock winter's coming


Thrust from the sanctuary of the blessed womb
spring is sprung on a new destiny not without charm
from cradle to crawl, to walking and talking and nurtured by the soul that bore
education, kindred spirits...

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The Stages Set for Grief

"What you sow, I reap --
after I fu*k it over."
-- a grossly obese Grim Reaper
yet of an appetite
greedy

*   *   *

Close listen to the tick-tock of thy biologic...

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Bubbletown  Blews


Whilst sitting and lying by a babbling brook
for once through the water I took a deeper look
then I saw into Bubbletown, bubbles popping with glee
for that is what they are meant to be
Down...

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Dike Alaa Mm?? (Maka Chukwuemeka Ike)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a

Gém gém gém gém!
Dùm dùm dùm dùm
Tìkó tìkó tìkó tìkó
Gbám gbám dùm dùm.

Ùgbòrò ab?? ka òkù na-akp? dike
? kp?? ya na nd?, ? kp?? ya n'?nw?
Ihe...

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Possession,s


Even in sanctity of brilliance past and forlorn
the dead  scholars would grieve the notes they adorn
why lesser a note is given to me
for measured by wealth everyone has to be
you need it ! I...

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>center>NO HARMFUL WILDLIFE

A spell in the country would do you good,
Said Doctor Rogers MB sternly,
Wagging a finger to emphasise the point.
Get away from the diesel fumes
And millions spreading germs.
Trust me, I’m a doctor.
I trusted him,...

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Seeking The Refuge Of Great And Airy Dreams

Slumbrous my mind glides off into another place
seeking the refuge of great and airy dreams.
Yet always, always appears my darling your face
shining sweetly your bright smile that always...

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("Morphogenesis Merit Badge" - MB #37, 2011, original oil)

A Good Day to Die
(for Bill – 07/10/1925-10/14/2023)

Another day dawns
To the recognition
It is both the beginning of
The rest of your life
And as good a day as any
To...

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i hate holidays
you see  cousin Ralph comes over
and my days of fun
are over before they are even begun

      his tousled hair,
      his cutesy ...

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"for you"
                
              for you I set...

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Watt,s in a name


A surname a parent cannot attain
yet every thought should be given to the same
Poor old  Andrew Pratt, or Thomas Watt come to that
pratty or watty, more likely pratt or twatt

For the...

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Grandad's sticks ,Albert and Me

Grandad walks slowly and uses two sticks !
He and Nanny came to see us today
thats me, mummy, daddy and baby scustin ok
grandad still lets me jump and play round him so...

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Therefore as my heart beats for you and you only..(he's thinking)
(She knows assuming?) as she smirks while her fire-red hair ignites more than her surrounding
Yet the room is ready for a bong fire as her...

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State of mind


Where do I start
where does me end
I can only ask you, for you are my friend
kindred spirits always meet in the end
what am I if not me
what if I cant be what I...

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The player inside


As one stands on the first tee
a straightforward start with pumping heart
should be easy enough for me he he
with an arch of the back
a thundering crack 
a look from my eye up through...

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SEA TO SHINNING SEA,
 
...this is so intimate of time, as a first kiss of time is...so close of soul, so near, so dear of heart beat, so precious a rhyme that flows so intimately,
...

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Tears, yes tears, I know them well.
Their purpose, Their function, Their salty smell.
Tears, yes tears, in my eyes swell.
Like water on the fires of my own hell.

Tears from cheeks, myself to knees.
Together in pain we...

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I'm tired. I want this feeling to go away, I want to feel nothing. "If you want this, then  do something to make it go away" I say to myself. Tears burn my eyes...

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What does this mean? 
Could it be from within
your soul relaxin 
as you read the line
that flow from my pen? 

Oh to have the gift
to give all comfort
and joy as I write
I am a calgon...

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Oh the day I came to soup
back in the fall my poem drop 
Into the eyes for all look up.

My first poem was lost herd
and the destroyer was first to land
and comments of praise send.
Next...

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