Long Ousts Poems

In the heart of vibrant Africa, where democracy should reign,
Two shadows lurk, two specters haunt, two faces of the same pain.
One a soldier, gun in hand, the other clothed in suit,
Both rob the people of...

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No Vanity Set For This Chap, No Way
(in praise of immortality)

Modesty an understatement,
when eyes chance
to look askew at looking glass,
mine reflection caught at a glance,
an old man's piercing dart

mirrors my blinkered acquaintance
faint recognition communicates 
immediate...

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Written: May 18, 2024, For Unseeking Seeker Contest

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Languid breath dwindles, scrounging panacea air
quiddity remorse core...

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Foremost apex bird leading the flock flight 
United to run the race and fight the fight 
Apache, Comanche, Samurai, knight
Choosing to keep victory in mind and sight
Tearing through the darkness till we behold light
March by...

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That day has arrived
 The one I thought will never come
 Oh! Not for him at list
 For he’s the greater one of all,
 Oh! The black dark cloud fell

I used to sit outside the...

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I'm drawing plans for a fictional realm, 
Insightful brinks and a sacrifice-themed helm. 
Smoothness clings to a grip, then rots away,
Her ruby eyes are shadowed by a torn sky.

Cold, harsh hands of time cement reality, 
Consider a wild...

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Cold is the night and dark and long
though with the gloom bleak humour comes 
we'll make it through, our love is strong

North wind howls under midnight's gong
and buries all neath ice and snow
cold is the...

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In tears that feign to be a slave with deeds
That mourn my life and ousts the face of peace
These sad bells ring with cries for now I grieve
And bow my head because I cannot cease

I...

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The song that feigns to be a slave in deed
To mourn the life that ousts the face of peace
That sad bells peal with tears of those who grieve
And bow their heads to those who fear...

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Reborn here now without baggage
No haunting beast or evil wraith
I come, sans illicit luggage
with a heightened belief in faith

I'll not give in to temptation
Reborn here now without baggage
I am worthy of salvation
Cleansed, in a new...

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J-ust after the rain has gone, 
E-vening shadows fade away; 
S-un slowly starts rising, 
T-hird month fifth day.
O-ne early morn has broken, 
N-ew dawn ousts the twilight; 
I-nclement weather drifts into the deep dark of...

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Like a persistent pest
it is an uninvited guest 
it ousts me from cozy nest
only to snap my sweet rest

My Monday morning alarm
takes a slap on him with no harm
the day stares at my tantrum
after the...

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