Long Outlives Poems

Under the cadence of footsteps on worn cobblestones,
At the café where steaming cups held time hostage,
Eyes met and lingered, a glance stretched into an eternity.
A young American, as if sculpted from sunshine itself,
And she, like...

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Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...

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She’s dead
But will always stay alive
A beacon for everyone with a gripe

Thatcher snatcher was their war cry
When with apparent vigour
She tore asunder all society held dear

A divisive strong willed fighter
With femininity covering a steely frame
She...

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Life shows its frills if ye dwell on fair side, 
Perceive it with a poet’s perspective—
Life’s negatives seen with eyes positive, 
Let not life’s dangling duals take a free ride. 

If sin there be, it...

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Magnus Annas

Summer's sensuality
New leaves green with love
Mark the ritual's beginning
A ritual old as the unmarked time
That passed before us all,
In which we were called to spring, to dance
Butterflies and mindless acrobats
Like flowers silently chanting Carpe...

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God's God's only Love,
Be it separate, integral,
More than idea
Can Holiness be who He is?
Or perhaps who God wants to be?
Dream somehow bigger than He is?

As only my purpose
Has chance to outlive me,
If God does exist...

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In the shower I start to cry
Tears of joy, 
All the sad ones have dried

Feels amazing to feel loose ends sewing together
Imagine in a few years, my blanket will be jammed pack
Unattainable dreams I had...

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Feel the silence therein
The stillness of a scent that permeates 
The scant wave that reverberates 
in what once faithful people called by name a soul
when shaking palsy— tremors the spotted head 
the mottled hand
That held once...

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Woodland dells, giant trees
Swallows swoop, defying breeze
Jump to sailors and tattoos
What part of time is a ruse
The fact a tree, outlives a man
But cannot hope or devise a plan
Has no say on where it stands
Can...

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In a town where the whispers grew sharp as a blade..
Where anger took root in the words people made.
A boy flung a stone made of slander and spite..
And a girl threw it back in the...

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The year had started bravely,
	With assurances anew
	With life and hope anew
O, but the knave – he played me,
	With assurances untrue!
To contemplate it slays me -
	His promises untrue!

Yet years drone on like drumbeats,
	The monotony of years
	The...

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For Ojemakinde Blessing Oluwapelumi

Our father
Let her days go farther

Who art 
Enriching Thy words in her heart

In heaven
To fulfilling her career's dream work in Devon

Hallow be
Grace to caress this decree

Thy name
Bring her and her destiny out...

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Shower me not with 
Such sweet sour emptiness 
From your wagging tongue of lies
For this earth beneath my foot
Could be a sinking land for loot.

Like you did told our fathers
To drop their brains back home
And...

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The year 2000 about to done with,
and only the Atlantic Ocean divides us.
Now around me the snow falls.
If I could see you in months,
I shall turn the months in snowballs.

All January will sever me,
A step...

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Do you trust in the future enough to have kids,
Or is family - flailing of heart split in two?
Is it  more symptomatic of life on the skids
Could it be that a child's an extension...

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The Secret of Emotional Mist

Evincing nothing, she remained mute
To nuanced intimations of intimacy.
There was nothing left to conclude but that
The greatest prison is boredom,
The greatest torture --- betrayal.

Thus we parted in the concrete now
Leaving behind...

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Many plan to live for ever
But can only try
Death always visits
No matter how hard we cry

Faith in longevity is ill-judged
Life spans vary
Time rolls by
One day we are welcomed 
Another we have to say goodbye

To be...

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All the praises you pick along the streets
Go confirm before a new-bought mirror,
And if those rare glories you all find true
Then know she’s near that beauty shearer.

Who’s time, the unerring author of loss and decay.
And...

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The time has arrived so soon,
When I am eighty-year-old,
When I am bald with shining head,
When I have nice smile with new dentures,
When I have new hearing aide and new pair of glasses,
Will you still love...

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"Precepts of the Aegis-Holder" 

no gorgons here
but 3 of one, yes?
shields raise 
back the dead 
to life 

and phoenix 
from the ashes
spreads its burning wings
feathers of blue 
now gold, tra-la notes,

messages burning
rising upwards, it sings

and...

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There was a man a man in the box 											        do not mime the selfish meme touching things  									 he can not see in his own cage...

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SCORNED    ELEPHANT


Squat and stuck
On the flat wetted
Skid-streaked take-off strip
Snub-nosed Jumbo sprawls about dissipated
Under  the beery stares of uncouth deriding youth.
Swine scorn a pearl, greedily grubbing for acorns.
How can they know lustre...

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Set your sights well on goodness here,
Thoughts that you dwell spark fiery cheer.


Begin fond quest with a bold heart,
Focus your zest on fancy art.


Know that full store of good and grand,
Seize ever more life's spice...

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When time escapes the confines of my mind,
This sullied birdcage (though touchstone),
I stretched to breakpoint on some days,
(Confining yes, but not outgrown).
Will I remember earthly realm,
My animus to pain be blind,
Accept my homeless overwhelm,
Will Rose...

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As the dark pursues the light to gobble it up
So do new lies chase old truths to obliterate them
In a government that lives on lies 
their truth will always be suspect

Repeating lies over and over
to...

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