Long Peasy Poems

NDIDI (PATIENCE IS GOLDEN)

Patience said:
"Whatever my old man says."
So,
I saw the wise, bald, old man
In his thatched mud hut
Loin cloth knotted 
Around his shoulders 
The whiff of utaba (snuff)
Saturating the atmosphere

He googled me
Between the rims...

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A poet's work [like journalists] is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, to shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie

Don’t think...

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I had to be a people pleaser cus nothing pleased my mum 
I never got approval she made me feel so numb
So I needed TLC and to hear the words “well done” 
It made me...

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When I listen to Eminem I purr at his work,
it perks me up. 
I'm then lured to write some words 
and create a new verse, 
that's rife without purpose. 
No clichés are surplus, 
and I've...

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She sewed all day and she sewed all night then gave her daughter a red cape, some bread and a brave warning,  "Grandma needs you so remember, don't dilly dally in the forest Ruby....

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Spree three quite legal vehicles at a four-way intersection by selection,

suddenly, 
abundantly,

glaring, 
blaring, 

crashing, 
smashing,

cooperating,
accommodating, 

persistence, 
assistance, 

fender, 
bender, 

easy, 
peasy, 

surely, 
truly, ... 

"You had not responded, so sad God bless, *sonder."

*sonder: special (mindless...

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As a young teen,
she never liked parrots and bosses
Nah, never liked them at all
A parrot is always telling on you,
and a boss be always ordering you what to do
Rebellious hearts don't like none of that,
and...

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Politics is a cat-and-mouse poker game,
	     Some play it well,
others not so much
Amateurs show their hidden hand,
they got an easy-to-spot tell
But the old pros are the best cons,
selling you wet dreams...

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I

The depth of steep, hellish ascent
darkness abides, the peak obscene.
cliffhanger of sweat, the creature bent
attempting to climb, make a dent.
No wind brushes away the hair in her eyes.
She recalls nothing of birdsong or sunrise.
A hunchback...

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Dorothy and Toto went skipping
the Yellow Brick Road(she was tripping).
She had just smoked a joint--
getting high was the point--
and now she was bent on some stripping.

She thought that old scarecrow looked easy
(he'd be a good...

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Oh my, seems I’ve lost my height!
Doc, please tell me, “What is the source of my plight?”

“Tis true, you’ve lost three inches,” she said to me.
But doc, “How could this be?” 

“It happens after menopause,...

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Hello Daisy,
What worries ye?
Take it easy,
Oh, let's see what is it that engages your eye!

Oh Daisy, my sweet and charming Daisy,
Black, White, Green, And...I know how choosy are ye!
Perusing all those fifty different shades, so...

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part 2 of 2

“How’s school going?” Annick asked later, moving some of my fly-away hair out of my face - a trace of the maternal in her solicitous fussing - but I liked it.
“Easy peasy,”...

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“Welcome to Kansas Sofa Mart. How are you today? Looking for anything in particular?”
They look like an odd couple. He is old and ugly; she is young and cute. Too cute.

Husband glares. Wife runs toward...

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 Some with copper 
Some with silver
And obvious 
Some with gold
This is how the world is mould 

Achieving copper is bit easy;
Need some zeal for silver
And one with gold is sedulous.

Once I noticed judgement;
And by...

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Must get on with that poet-ry
while it’s still fresh in me mem-o-ry
where’s the paper, where’s the pen
must do a rough draft before I begin
oh, cuppa tea, cuppa tea, calling for  me
What’s happening on facebook?...

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(A COLLABORATION WITH ROBERT LIGUORI ) 

When the sun goes down on this hillbilly town 
I will meet you there where the stars never frown 
Down in the valley where the trees breathe easy 
you...

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By Mystic Rose and Robert James Liguori

When the sun goes down on this hillbilly town
I will meet you there where the stars never frown
Down in the valley where the trees breathe easy
you and I will...

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i say 
                                ...

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When I'm old...
I'm gonna have a tree house cave
When I'm old...
I'm going to be  a lazy margarita lizard
playing with little baby sea serpents
And writing poems and verses on chalkboard
Oh, and when I'm old...
Aquarius my...

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Abacus yacht boats pleasy
Banana boats are queazy
Catamaran boats squeezy
Dinghy boats all out easy
Eagle Craft boats too cheesy
Fishing boats yet so breezy
Game boats crazy uneasy
Houseboats creepy sneezy
Inflatable boats fizzy
Jet boats so smokeeasy
Kayak boats much so creasy
Lifeboats...

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Hindi, English, maths are mine
Science so boring from my sight 
I wanna fight with social science
Maths: my passion,
English: love
Hindi, you an Indian law
All you Britishers meet me once 
I will show you in just a...

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Sitting alone pondering of times I was down and out. Thinking how I saw and Conquered my life back from the fiery of the fire that I rouse up from sitting back in all my...

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Step right up and have a lick of this 
it will make you smack your lips 
with sweet vavoom that you can't miss  
its will cure your all, plus its got zip  

Common...

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Pastimes in summertime linger longer.
For the warmth of the sun is much stronger,
Creating sheer moments of bliss that last
And become such an enjoyable blast.

I stroll bare-foot along the sandy shore,
Feeling the caress of waves I...

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