Long Pedestals Poems

BROWNED-CENTS

One of the true ways 
to remain in captivity is to keep silent to avoid your captor’s 
hostility and confusion

A penny for my 
thoughts has provided me with the ammunition 
To fight for what I...

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lot of things on my mind filled with deepness, so when you read this- I hope you let me release this- inner theory in my thesis- seems that, there’s a lot of people on the...

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In searching for a heart of gold, 
with standards higher than I deserve.
I lost my way.
Lost sight of the truth, what would truly make me happy.
I imagined- the mold, the form she should take and...

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Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rational mind words rearranged reason

Analyses...

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Fair Game
I am The All-Mighty, The Ever-Exalted, The Supremely-Eternal.
To me belongeth the universes, the heavens, the earths, what dwells in-between.
Jinn and Men, I have created, for a sole purpose; duties internal and external.
Worship, glorify, bow,...

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The Godliness of Adoption is...
Or is it not?
 …A beautiful spring sprung floret of rose. A rose brought home from humanity's colorful garden of trust? Yet, it was not all that long ago when each...

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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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You made my childhood scary,
I feared you when I was bad.
Trying so hard to make you happy,
The tyrant, the man, my dad.

I waited patiently everyday,
To hear those three little words.
“I love you” was all you...

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We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock,
amid the shattered stained glass of desolate factories, where the echo of emptiness reverberates,
in taverns where silence bears the...

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A little over a year ago, I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk in front of our house. The fall resulted in a badly torn rotator cuff that ended in surgery. After surgery, I...

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I will not hold your golden trophy high above MY head
Or wear your name engraved with cheap polyester thread
I’m so sorry you can’t decide what to wear today,
Will it be the Christian Dior or the...

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when you walk through and reshaping melts the binding glue 
nothing in my heart will remember you
not the hardest blow to my soul, the grief of my newfound total
you'll have to imprint again
slide under my...

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Take Heed

It was said unto the elders that their homes would be secure
Had they only known what their children would endure

Take heed of all the decades of residential schools
Believe it if you will, the elders...

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Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves,
Finding in condemnation a kind of sacred and dignified sport.
An inert paradigm, where blame is like a talisman
That people wear proudly, believing in the honorable artifices of justice.
We...

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I'm tired of being weighed down by depression 
I like to speak from my heart rather than keep them guessing 
I've been strong for so long, Could you forgive me for being weak? 
I need...

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Magnetic attraction, enchanting dream of a lifetime -
	majestic pyramid attracts my eye, 
	mystique draws me in
	
O, your architecture! Pavilions, colonnades; art enclosing art,
	every square inch deliberately designed,
	ceilings pour forth scintillating splendor
	
Antiquities from Rome, Egypt, the...

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I danced with death for a moment,
Dressed in a sheik metallic guise.
In the absence of life's petty presence,
Death spoke freely for a while.

In daily struggles, humanity forgets
The joke of life in his mirthless glee;
Bending low,...

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We found each other in a roadside bar in some desolate place,

she saw me from the other side,

the band that was playing wasn't carrying, 
so I decided to let her come approach me...


I carry with...

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It's thought quite excellent for humankind 
eyes closed, to pause and stretch the mind;
The seahorse gambols off into the skies
and disappears.  The scholar sighs,
then smiles, picks up his book and pen
and turns to the...

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~  For Dad - some heroes don't wear a cape - I miss you dearly.  ~


     there stood upon a trodden sod
 a knight-in-armor, steed and rod
devoted, whole, to...

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Do You ever just get tired of Being You?
Up there on The Highest of pedestals as You rule...
Is It You feeling selfish or alone as an unhinged fool?
I care of Your most inner thoughts and...

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Inspired by Machinehead – Darkness Within (Acoustic version) & members of society who refuse to embrace the kiss of silence…

As great intentions
Wither upon invalidated declarations,
Serenity’s crowd holds teary-eyed candles
Making silent wishes
For the venom to be...

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Fallen heroes 
By Michelle Morris
02/10/2021 

It's so sad, the fallen heroes;
Those we once looked up to, so high;
From pedestals, they topple down
To the hell created storms... 

No use trying to justify 
Political gains and greed...

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The seashore is a wondrous stage, for in the sun's delight,
I sit and watch a play unfold- it's there within my sight!

Those beauties, young with golden tans, demurely sashay by
In search of those admiring eyes...

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