Long Promissory Poems

Daylight dies
Blackout the sky
Does anyone care
Is anyone there 
Enjoy this life 
Pop open a Sprite 
Roll over to the right and kiss my wife 
She's fast asleep
Daylight is trynna come 
It's trynna creep 
When she...

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Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show 
	what was done to...

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"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the lucid flow

you can taste the blood
as you turn them 
twist...

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I can’t afford for this one to fail

She was just a stranger

And somehow we ended up in the same 

Space and time

Now, mother nature is taking over once more

And I am admiring your attributes

The strands...

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I thank all Participants in my endeavor to create a POETRYSOUP Dictionary I f YOU do not 
see Your word yet Please be Patient I was not expecting such a Great response You may 
send...

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Are we like the mythical Adam and Eve?

(A lone voice whispers to his true love as Mother Moon, watches)

My Sophia

Are we are like the mythical
Adam and Eve

Walking upon the grey shores
Of a lost planet
Hidden in...

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                        A Few
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We were told at a young age,
capitalism is long-term better
Got the short end of the slave trade,
now everyday I’m feeling fetter

Working the industrial fields,
come rain or shine
Breathing factory fumes that kill,
half-life expectancy 
	was the pyramid...

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Abyss my sorrows lies beneath the deep ocean
I am anxious and frustrated, swing that is intolerable beyond my span
tremor that produce fear in the mind
love loses its way remains sick behind
the earth is now trembling...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed eternal ... plus righteousness,
escapism from existence ... edges evacuation,

Birth ere...

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                        A Few
         ...

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I.

I don't observe
the day between 
the summer solstice 
and a midsummer's eve

anymore

I've abandoned the rituals
that commemorate
a shift in season,
my over-ripening years

and celebrate
my sickening sense 
of hope.


II.

By day, I could apply 
a defensive membrane,
an anti-cancer cocoon
to...

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I raced to the hand of beneficial friendships,
pledged myself to artful reasoning
and aspired to harness
freights of honor.

I took long drafts of audacity
and impetuously ingested
every molecule of opportunity
while the road was wealthy
and the track fertile with
smooth...

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.
A sinking feeling
In the City of Djinns

...Pollution is down by 20 % this year
One reason given is economic slowdown

Happy souls-  worlds second most populous 
A free liberal atmosphere diversity of cultures

Ancient history worlds largest...

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Victory means the greatness of mother and sister
Victory means endangered shame and dignity and its vast chapter.
Victory means dwelling in moon, in the blessed motherland
Victory means Sohag in gold and its glory grand.


Victory means the...

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Francis Scott Key ...
a song provocateur, who spoke
most ungentlemanly

Scott “Don’t set ‘em Free” 
had to be 
the most rabid racist
you never wanted to meet

Francis the Talking Mule
wrote a rousing anthem of war
Liberty for poor black...

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Unseen 
vanishing, 
thin-skinned, blood-bone, 
broken-token people 
pokin' while invokin' 
spoken and unspoken words 
that slap at fat-back pimps 
gone insane on cocaine rain; 
bendin' over, slippin in, 
pasty, wasted, 
hurtin' urchins of the street: 
The...

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Once upon a time, Billy's wife, Betty, had a boat
that she owned before they were married.
To dock the boat was costing too much money.
So, they brought it home and parked it out back.
I'd say their...

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Unseen 
vanishing, thin-skinned, blood-bone, 
broken-token people
pokin' while invokin'
spoken and unspoken words 
that slap at fat-back pimps 
gone insane on cocaine rain; 
bendin' over, slippin in,
pasty, wasted,
hurtin' urchins of the street:
The spawn of dawn's humanity
in feral...

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Holding out my unchained hand,
light as evaporated air
is the emancipation accrued debt equity

By making reparation demands,
this long overdue affair
has a short tabled legislation probability

Many moons of unpaid slave wages owed me,
fills my bosom with hollow...

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two graying doves make music


they were sitting at a bar, 
two graying doves
she kept looking, 
he kept looking
she then asked him, 
what's he looking at
what's cooking hon?
he had to think fast, real fast
he had to...

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We Must Make Good Use of Our Riches
LK 16:1-13
Then he also said to his disciples"A rich man had a steward who was reported to him for squandering his property. 

He summoned him and said, 'What...

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With a wallet full of plastic ... 

     credit cards to shape my social classification 
     phone cards so I can stay informed 
   ...

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Option #5 Poem Written for “Half Past Summer, Two Months 'Till Fall Poetry Contest,” Andrea Dietrich, sponsor.
SUMMER'S PROMISSORY NOTE
Summer: I relish its tastes, smells, and sounds:
     the sweet tartness of wild...

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I am the potato every  pig covets,
The circus every Woolf dream to perform in, and
The toddler  every phidophile crave to live with
But non will ever have

I am the uncut gem that will ever...

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