Long Ob Poems

Plant the seeds you wish to reap.
I have planted my seed in the soil of my people.
I have no home, no earthly land,
I have no food sometimes, sometimes,
I must find the white spot in my...

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May  2051

Dear diary I think I'll try for a part
Time job which I just know beyond
Anything I'm gonna hate! So I'll work
It out um. Without a doubt. I just
Don't wanna sit at home to...

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Double Set Up


The first lump was the scariest in 1983.
 I had found it in the shower.
 Two other major surgeries I've already had that very year.
 I was thirty three.
 A mammogram back then...

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(note: written for a challenge using Beatle song titles)

Honey Pie,you're just not Another Girl,
Because, You Really Got A Hold On Me.
When I Get Home, I Want To Hold Your Hand,
I Wanna Be Your Man, Wild...

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Tho you have gone now
And many came and viewed your remains
The numbers were great as we walked by
And paid our final respect.

I for one, as I know many others felt the same,
wanted to say "Robert...

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LC

I bought an eighty-inch TV,
just for the box—
set it up like a teepee.
Jump in like tee-hee!
Throw the screen out the window.
Let it crash.
Now there’s an 80” stuck in my lawn,
and people slow down just to...

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Time spells 
out a harsh 
reflection, 
sometimes.


Lifeless, pale... 
holes under your-
knees... on your ankles, 
up and down your arms.


Hate fills him now, oh, his-
rage, my Brother Ronnie, 
says, 

"It isn't so!"


Dad, He knows.


I have no...

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Finally got home in the dead of a cold night 
With the Gators starting to pull away in this holiday fight 
It seems like this is the end to the day full of games 
That...

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Faint stillness of the night falls swiftly down 
and masked raccoons now pillage darkest night. 
Fluffed owls with sparkling eyes are flying free 
and rabbits, gently moving, sniff the air... 
The hounds - from hunter...

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A vast ,babbling vast of green lush grass, 
 spread out on rocky mountains. 
Rays of sun light ,awaking slumbering buds, from a sleeping beauty.
Winds of tranquility shifting the images of the spring sky.
Ob-east Caterpillars...

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She asked her daughter to explain fully
How she became the target of a female bully

“The bully said I have an odd, long face
The kids cried, ‘Disgrace, disgrace, disgrace!’”

“Oh Mom, please, is it true?
Is my face...

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He walked up from the lake
Throwing open the door of the glorious day
Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves
With a toolbox in hand
Delivered to my dad the good news.

“I’m certain this new ignition will...

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Amid the deafening ruins
in the viral era
in my final years as a career bibliocrat
in the autumn of a broken life...

I
became
a born-again poet

I create
 malleable/mutating
  meaningful/less
   texts that 
    flow...

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Flow mighty rivers, what all have you seen
Rise and fall of empires, string of storied kings
As veins carry blood, you give Earth its life
Carving the landscape as if done by a knife
Ancient, so ancient, much...

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I've always been one who struggles in life have often been associated and often times 
been frustrated by the causes of life. Cause's I choose to alleviate in my mind, but
my addiction made me realize...

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Though the trail has grown cold,
this never deters
Clues are always left behind ...
connections of a most human kind
Desperate souls feel a compulsive need
to leave cyber cadaver traces of a living memory
Holographic scrapbooks hidden in encrypted...

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She came in through the bathroom window
Because it was something that Paul once said
She changed her name to Lucy, in search of diamonds
But the night sky was way above her head

There is something in the...

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Memories are like visitors coming to pay us an august visit
Sitting on my veranda I reminisce about my childhood
I feel reawakened by the sweet sounds of okpotumtum
I am refreshed by the serene breeze from the...

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Beach Blanket Bingo (The Fab Five)

B etty Lou, beautiful Katherine, and
E leanor, Nellie Sue and Bethany
A ll playing Bingo, on blankets in sand,
C hatted away, happy girls by the sea,
H eaven-sent sun beaming high in...

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husband was at the wheel that night
driving back home from vacation
I was trying hard to be awake
legs folded on the passenger seat

what was that—
a half broken traffic light?
I rubbed my eyes and blinked ten times
but...

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klaus says humanity has lost its trust' so i guess to regain
It is his new must??
trump has won and now presides.' As many people are
Opening their eyes.?]
Many Americans phoned and texted when a new bill...

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I roning clothes – I love that job. Oh, my gosh!

L aundering them first is another one
O f numerous chores that let me wash
V arious things. Wash this or that. How fun!
E ven pots and...

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AN   ASTROLOGER;S SAY

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It is the corner of the village with a tree

There is a man with stick and mat

He is calling and shouting for his bread

his profession is giving predictions  of his...

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I close my eyes and now I can see,
my past floating in front of me,
beckoning me to come in,
my life will start again,
before my soul dies,
I can revise,
in my prime,
roll back 
time…

I have changed the...

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