Long Not a problem Poems

A cool February evening Damian was
Asleep. He felt somebody rubbing 
His chest. "Leave me girl." Polly
Rolled out of bed and announced 
"Damian, you should move in with me!
I want you to move in! Wake up...

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Date:   April  2050

Same day:  
Damian walked with 
Godfrey Barrington Shadir and Matthias 
Isiah the others across to the
Other side of The estate to visit Desharah 
Damali and Sedanah. Arrival was
Swift. Damali...

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Date: April  1,   2051

  air planes departed in flight
 1 hour and 15 minutes
Between them. The trip was 7 hours
And approximately 30 minutes in
Duration. The first plane touched down 
On the...

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There are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.

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This is my minute
my moment
Oops, gone!

Anything can happen
if you don’t resist
Resist!

		*			*			*

But who am I? You think bullets won’t
kill?...

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Date: April   2051

Dolly was beginning a slow panic.
"Alright this can not fail! "Where are
They now? The wedding is tomorrow!"
I wanna call Virginia make sure their
On the up side at home. I I can...

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Date  February 17,  2014

Today is the day that Damian 
Will not ever forget. 12 years-old Damian 
Was asleep in bed. When he Heard 
His father's voice calling and his
Mother screaming. Damian awoke 
Thinking...

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Bee-Real


As I flew up, into the air, 
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud to see me go; some were still crying.
As they held...

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I was a happy housewife and mother, and family was my world,
Like stars peeping at purple twilight, to see moonlight pearled.

My small children were in school, and my husband was a doctor,
As gold sunshine on...

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I was interviewing the Head Poobah
of our Norwick Public Utility CoOperative
and asked him
Where did the 22 percent goal come from
for acquiring renewable energy?
As compared to 78 percent from nonrenewable
and guaranteed increasingly costly electricity sources
like burned-out...

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     We boarded the Carnival Cruise in Miami with excitement,
our destination was Montego Bay-   with a promise of great fun;
         ...

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      POEM:

		ADVENTURE TO THE UNKNOWN

Going to a place – never been
Packed my bags for a vacation – 
Train leaves at 11:35 AM – get there in 8-1/2 hours.
Hope no catastrophe...

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III. Ecological Awareness 

In this fragile eggshell
I will call life
for security's a mirage
I chase.
Existence is a gamble I take
a wild and
desperate gamble.
Not a problem –
to dissect, I say
but an eagle’s call
heard.
A life joy-filled
sorrow
I feel every...

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They say love yourself,
As if it were that simple,
As if I could just flip a switch
And suddenly see what they see.

But every mirror I pass
Reflects back their whispers instead of my face,
Their judgments carved into...

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This is the ending New beginning its over children daddy did it, It is finished so 
father into thy hands I commit my spirit I feel it its coming closer the sun is just 
growing...

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My child, a baby Ziger, or a zigoid, introverted when I asked him how many apple’s he’d had to eat today, since it was nearly his birthday and we Ziger’s enjoy a plentiful fruit harvest...

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New Handcuffs
We had taken our boys out to a theme park one day
They could run around wild and burn some energy away
On the return trip from the gift shop they did ask to buy
A plastic...

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The Voice

I was sitting in my room on my bed, then called me a nice voice
A very deep and so distant grave, but a very friendly man's voice
I was very sad about my life. Sadness,...

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Honesty will Always be Appreciated
 
We all live in a time now when crime happened to most of the people.
Doesn’t care about the unnecessary needs of life and having the different lifestyles with alcohol and...

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I am putting a sign in my window for a position available.  The position is soul mate,
(friend and lover) this is not a temporary job but a forever thing. Apply within to see
what I...

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Am dark and obvious 
I take love to every place I go 
I have the blood of my ancestors
Their ways still flow in my system 
I never intended no violence
I love peace 
I don't need...

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SUNDAY AFTERNOONS
By Curtis Johnson

Mom had a sister not far away, and dad had three sisters,                    ...

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There is a forgotten me in me
The sound of rain in the gutter

The satisfied passion that is obvious in me
It is the desire of life and the thought of death

A drunken song that was in...

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life is a mystery to be lived and not a problem to be solved
for life as we experience it moves from easy to hard
if you look back to your younger days you will discover
that as...

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A rage disorder she says
a blessing I tell her as I admire how white her doctor coat is. Stupid color for people who work with blood.
 Anger issues and compliance- complications she diagnosis me with.
...

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Sandpiper Pausing...Again

What times are these
where hearts run hot and cold
ceaseless conscience alerts
remind us of steel girders fallen prone
entombments sealed
their distant voice remembered well

Compassion's lens peers through
this fallen metropolis of micro-flesh
this glass transparency
engulfed by forsaken smoke
knowing...

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