Long Mclain Poems

There are moments when the world seems too vast, and our hearts too small to hold it all.

Yet here I am, sitting by the window as the sun stretches its golden arms across the sky,...

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I write to you
from a quiet place within,
where words
gather like wind through the leaves,
a murmur of truths
that neither time nor fear can erase.

You speak to me
like the tide to the moon,
a silent and inexorable pull.

I...

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My dearest friend,


What an ache it is to write to you, knowing my pain, knowing how my mortal body falters beneath the weight of its trials.

My words, though steeped in suffering, ring like a low...

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When i was a young boy - ink stained test once with the girl
and the ink was sweet he 'said';
it made us unclean this test, from the man for he was the tester;
And that picture...

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Dear Citizens,

Our justice system is founded on the principle that every individual, regardless of wealth or status, deserves fair representation in a court of law.

This principle is enshrined in the Sixth Amendment of our Constitution,...

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Dear, Attorney Ambrose

What Caroline has been forced to indure has at the very least been detrimental to her brain development? 
Her frontal lobes being at best seventy five percent if that developed.
Having been since I've...

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Dear One,

How often I sit by the window, listening to the wind as it weaves through the trees, its voice like a whisper carried across time. In every gust, I hear echoes of those we...

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The autumn winds rise soft around me, rustling the pages of my soul as I sit beneath a sky as tender as the heart you seem to carry. 

I look upon the beauty of this...

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My only friend,

The night is full of stars, scattered like lost prayers upon the velvet dark.
I stand beneath them, adrift in my own unknowing, whispering words of kindness, into the legal wind, hoping they may...

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Ozzie Smith, Yazstremski,

Dave Stieb and Robin Yount

these men were of a special group

It's one I'm proud to count

There's players who achieve a goal

While others just achieve

They set a standard for the rest

In their heart they...

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Dear Attorney Mollow,

The autumn winds rise soft around me, rustling the pages of my soul as I sit beneath a sky as tender as the heart you seem to carry. 

I look upon the beauty...

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There is a tenderness in hard work, a calling not easily dismissed, and I sense you feel this deeply. 
--
You’ve taken an oath, a promise to remain steady amidst the currents that swell around you....

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Though I am not of this modern age,
Permit me to address you from my humble page,
For I have walked among the stars and seas,
And Florida's plight now calls out to not only me.

The swelling tides...

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When at last you have become aware deep down yourself
and of the people whom require at last some mental health
be serviced, come to services
and you have at least one personality disorder
characterized by abnormal
and maladaptive inner...

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I hope this letter finds you in a quiet moment,
for I fear it carries the weight of my own heart laid bare. Forgive me, for I have let you down. 

You were there when I...

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Dear Reader,

How does one pen the unspeakable? 
To endure injustice not once, but repeatedly—like a cruel wind that circles back to shred what little is left of a tattered soul.

The echoes of a manipulated trial,...

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I  I suspected I had contracted
sure death,
where would I go, where
death would not follow me?

Pandemics
like water they would
take the path
of least resistance
O' death how it followed
Me.

Preparations
concerning pure death
and death
is my name, not Duncan
being black
turned...

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To come and go
and not be afraid of the light.
Again I'm a child and my secrets
I have chosen can you love me?
Death will come this I know
slowly I grow you remember.

The bottles were colored when...

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Bill Haley gave us 'Rock Around The Clock'
showed us music in a different way,
Chuck Berry sang 'Johnny B. Goode'
and Buddy Holly said 'That'll Be The Day'.

Elvis went to 'Heartbreak Hotel'
and came back as the king...

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There are the few, then there are the
Rest of them.
Chatter boxes, bipolar manic woman, that men
Try to escape from.
Those that are men over here are of course put,
Into jails or prisons.

The magic of silence,
For the...

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'Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what
he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will
do twice as much...

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It is so blind, it saw eyes, mouths, bodies, feet
imploring it's paint, it's beggars land, stroked
by hand.
It's can, faceted as one gem, drips only you.

The brush peels back, stroke by stroke, layer
by layer, new always...

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A week away from Ground Hog Day
And my water heater’s sore.
It spat at my clumsy plumbing,
Took a leak on the basement floor.
That triggered my elderly sump pump
To noisily heave up its guts.
My cat on the...

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In those fearful time's by memories clear,
James McLain, a soul once gripped by fear.
Within the labyrinth of my own mind,
The Mandela effect, a twist defined.

Through unfairly, I faced a daunting fate,
Unjustly convicted by the state.

Mental...

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The sun dies hard over the western hills,
Leaving red streaks like blood on the sea,
And I, with half a bottle of whiskey,
Wonder what’s left, what’s still waiting for me.

I said goodbye to a thousand faces,
Left...

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