Long Oh brother Poems

Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the realization 
Of you
Almighty in heart
Power
Awareness

Giving life to light
To energy
To oceans...

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I was on a swing
Bring us peace in mind
In the end, I had to get off of it
I was dancing for hours
I found my place above the city
My eyes begin to water…
Life’s a bother –...

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FOX NEWS article rhymed 

When Donald Trump lost the presidency, Fox News lost too
“We’re bleeding eyeballs,” a Fox producer remarked “And we’re scared of blue”
But unlike Trump, Fox was never in denial about its loss...

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Aftermath of war: onerous task...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold flesh
forced sacrifice appeasing
vengeance usurped quarterage
tendered for countless generations
predominantly innocent victims
hostages held...

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...Ideally Primed To Write...

Fallow wing on figurative
     awk kill lees heal
of: "My on call (Uncle)
     Muse Never Sleeps"-
     which hoop fully

  ...

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Mountains never reach (money)
Count the sands 
And tell me if 
Numbers have an end
Sorry you base happiness 
To just numbers
a mountain never reach
As your needs are full of 
holes
Like a water pull into a basket
The...

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The option is depressing
 Legal actions so arrested
 the Mann 
In the office was placed there by an all white caucus 
Political ups and downs
 Little children and small ghetto towns
 the Mann 
People have...

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He was cold, and, suffering bad...
She was far too hot,
A cooling breeze...
She wished that she had...
So he turned up his temp,
And her's, she turned down,
And it's more than hard to believe,
Just how fast one can...

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let me take thee dear reader rabbit alas and alack 
on an imaginary carpet ride whisk king ye dis family back 
rheumy eyes started to water from nostalgic clack
until reverse time warp registered 

 ...

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Franny & Angie

          went out walking
                   after midnight

In...

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“There is a new Norm!”
A Queen proclaimed in the desert after the political storm 
“What was that?” The peasants shouted back. 
“We have a new Norm he filled out a form to be the new...

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Oh Brother of mine
I am sorry we didn't have a chance to speak again
Time is the greatest silencer of speech
you think that you have so much of it
and then it's gone.
How foolish we are to...

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Irreplaceable
Success is written all over me 
My progressive attitude makes it obvious 
Am not trying to say am perfect
Yet honestly I give
Gratitude to life I won't go down so bad 
How can you wish for...

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Sometimes I wonder what will be best
If I decide to write a poem for a Souper's contest.

Everyone wants theirs a certain way
Nixing any ideas I may have had in play.

Trying to create a written piece...

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(tales from the viral lock-down)

Brice (my brother) is cutting through what smells like a stack of cinnamon french toast.
My stomach growls at the aroma like a hunting cat. 
I jump out of bed, grab my...

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There once was a girl named Snow White,
Of a poisoned apple she took a bite.
Seven dwarves found her sleeping,
And they began weeping.
Who would fix their supper tonight?

Only one thing could save this fair miss,
A prince...

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Alone


There are only so many times you can go to a dry well,
Begging for water when you are dying of thirst.
I have exchanged my last token, so no words will be spoken;
No thoughts can be...

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As kids we would lay in bed wondering,
Wondering what the next morning could be filled with,
filled with family or food or presents or candle lighting,
lighting of candles to lighting others hearts,
hearts beating when first family...

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During their courting days into her limpid eyes he would gaze.
When in his arms his many charms set her very soul ablaze!
The sweet nothings once whispered when they would bill and coo,
Became table-thumping screaming matches...

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plus Doctor Kaunda also says family names
in tandem should not determine,
who to associate with, any more than nap
pulled lying flat hair, but rather character of hearts,
viz each one of every Zambian availing their lap
necessarily if...

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Seem So Sickening 

Suppose you were a flower who electrified and enchanted
Exactly where would you want to sometime soon be planted
And what I discovered after having almost dying trying
Fragrant flower was with breasts that were...

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Today this morning as the sun begins to rise
Deep in thought my soul opens and I realize
Life isnt brought to us for our own goal or purpose
We, each one, spinning with solid dedication
Begins anothers endless...

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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? By Kenny Davis

Oh Brother, my dear brother
For where art thou?
Never thought it was you in my life
That I would have to go on living without

In the news of your passing
My...

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Stop South Africa  now  
The mirror never lie
In your reflection 
Right in front of your eyes
All you see speaks 
that face right in front of your view
Shows who it is you see
So when...

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Oh colorfilled smoke, fill my lungs. 
Sweetness of taste lingering on my lips. 
Soft, I float - upon gentle clouds I sit. 
I wish my sweet brother, know thy, of this.

Confess to him I would...

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