Long Misbehaves Poems

If we,
especially in China, Russia, and USA,
were more cooperatively in charge
among our EarthSouled selves,
and less about competitively charging at,
shooting at each other
and our homes
and gardens,
less rapacious supremacy 
against formerly extended cooperative family farmlands
and forests;

Punishing each...

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That which is neutral,
no big deal,
normal,
not noticed,
enjoys an intimate mirror effect,
behaves and misbehaves
with the logic of eternity.

Time steers virally clockwise,
eastern dawn toward west's setting sun,
birth through death,
with day's completion duskly hoping
for red skies at night.

Time...

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Who knows if magic exists,
if dreams come true
and whether miracles take place
(all of these things we thought we knew)

... buried in our haste
to dig childhood's grave...

And though something gets lost
along the way,
it's never very far...

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Mother Africa,
Gather your sheep like a good shepherd.
Teach them morals and guide them rightly,
Educate them on African Values and culture.
Protect your sheep from the hynas and lions
That parade more in the forest of life to...

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Loud your voice high,
And repeat after me,
Al Quds! Jerusalem!
Nay Urshalim,
It’s free but not for sale or hire!

Al Quds, capital of all Palestine
From north to south,
From east to west,
The eternal city, the mighty city,
The whole and...

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Eight bells.
Starboard watch.
Tightened up another notch.
Holy upheaval rages ‘neath a cathedral sky.
Losing way as the wind whips up the spray.
Stormy tormentors rubbed salt in my one good eye.

Felt the tension in the rigging.
Sensed the strain...

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The harbour rests from the rolling waves			
Of a windswept and tempestuous sea			
Beyond the breakwater lay sailors graves		
Where shipwrecks in eternal sleep rest free		
Once lured upon the rocks they didn’t see		
Now ghosts of sailors take their...

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Dusty


He meets with elusive witches
Spanning deep gullies and ditches
Cracked faces to suture stitches-

The whimpering teething child
With body seething hot and wild
Soon he sleeps with pain mild.

With ease he digs out sore tooth
That fouls the wretch’s...

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"O summer wants to know just why
You're oft' to chase me off the sky,"
Said Moon to Sun, with teary eye,
"For it's quite up to me ...
To dance the silver sea!"

"Well, Summer winked at me at...

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I thank the heavens for this darling boy 
who's given my life new purpose, joy. 
This little scrap of humanity, who sits 
on my knee and expounds my vanity 
and completely disarms me with his...

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POEM "THE BLACK BLIZZARD" by martin gedge

Wind behind the wheels back that calls the devil storm
evil are the eyes that wake to take its deadly form
to throw the hammer to the ground and dig a...

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I got a part-time job 
of which i"m very fond. 
It is down at the South Inch 
at the local boating pond. 

I help to sell the tickets 
and call out when they"re done, 
and...

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I have a sassy little Chihuahua,
  she can be a nut
  and sometimes she misbehaves
  and I spank her little butt.


  Sometimes she's such a "Diva"
  and thinks she is...

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I voiced my question to the sea
          and watched the buoy nod at me
            ...

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Rain’s riot banishes peace of mind day,
Deluge damning dumps devious rage wet.
Storm, summer rain's wild child pours on display;
Lightning fierce, firing fitful since sunset,
Bass booming thundercracks dishing dismay,
Reverb atmospheric quaking dire threat.

Tantrum, summer's sobs throbs...

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The Writer in Me, Wants You to Know

I watched you, I even took some notes
I wrote them all down in my black book
I wrote poetically about you, you evoke
Your beauty, sure does have me shook

Your...

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my car sits there like a silver brick lying on the asphalt and here at the top of the street the gargoyles of the building know me and they know that at night I smoke...

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my car is parked there 
like a silver brick on the asphalt
here at the top of the street 
the gargoyles of the building know me
they know that at night I smoke 
in the dark corners...

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A sapphire blue sea, with dancing waves,
Showing off as the one who misbehaves.

Each time they come to kiss the earth,
They then exist no more and meet their death.

But it was just one kiss,
That could not...

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I am knowing

I am of this and this alone

I am of want and hurry

Of bitterness chilled to its bone

Waiting and watching 

Luring till peeked

This frenzy that bares soul naked

That leaves no trace of human seed

I...

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OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 011
CONSCIENCE
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:LOSS

The  uncorruptible judge of universe
Voice of mans spirit
The breaker of the stone heart

He pounds the accused heart to confess
A mortal pessile
The road that punishes
The accuse mind

He chastises...

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Dark clouds billow overhead,
creating a landscape of gray.
A veil shadows slowly spread,
in the air, a misty sea spray.

Hazy dim light filters through,
adding no color to the day.
The sea and sky, no trace of blue,
leaving only...

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My Demons

My demons I feel them creeping in
I can’t let them take over and win
The anger inside, the violence it craves
I hate when my body misbehaves
It’s all a blur, I just let go and everything...

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Blue on ocean blue
  dance rippled shaded hues
Indigo  casting blended shades
  as violet muses misbehaves
 
Waltz in between 
 the Azure cyan scenes;

The island of Capri's breast
 remains icy arctic blue skies...

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How's the future
                                ...

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