Long Prouder Poems

Anything can change in the blink of an eye.
You could win the lottery and the next day you die.
These thoughts and feelings make it very hard to even try.
But if I said, I was giving...

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As soon as I heard 
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...

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If you’ve read any of my delicious, hand-crafted vignettes and listened to us talk, you’ll know that my roommates and I are critical thinking swifties who spend hour after hour talking about anything and everything,...

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I HEARD THE WISE WORDS

The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...

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I HEARD THE WISE WORDS

The day wise words were spoken
It was over near the beaten path;
Where I first heard them uttered.
“Beware of the fool in his folly
Who may be clever in presenting his story;
Only for...

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ALPHA TO OMEGA 

A is for Arturo and Alexis two great Poets,
Who make us all cry and laugh
B is for Besma a great philosopher
And soul sister On Poetry Soup’s graph,
And Beata,and Gordon who 
With their...

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The fires rage thought out the bush
yet still we do not listen
The ozone layers depleted
rising heat in play 

Teach the people saving 
teach a better way
create a solar planet
clean air now everyday

Venice it is sinking...

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When my son was small he and his friends loved to play marines
A brown eyed soldier dressed up in his helmet and his jeans
I asked him why he always died whenever they would play
He just...

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“And I remember Muscatine -still more pleasantly  - for its summer sunset. I have never seen any on either side of the ocean that equaled them.”  Samuel Clemens in his younger years when...

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Soccer was the thing for all young men to play.
And my little love wanted to join desperately in the game.
So he got to be the goalie… to wear that special crown.
He was so excited as...

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A PROUD AMERICAN

I see the flag that’s flying high, I hear our anthem sung,
I see a soldier dressed so fine, I hear a bell that’s rung.
I hear applause and see them stand as a man...

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I was sleeping and dreaming, silently screaming, while violently weeping And mildly feeling that I was honestly grieving I was quitely greeting my anxiety's breathing It was wildy eating at who I was... I could...

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Underneath our sins/  they call us sinners
Underneath our pride???underneath our happiness? Buried within society? We heard them shout?
We heard them shout at the top of their lungs. We heard them shout where we were...

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We will read like our lives depended on it
Because to many of us, we assumed it did 
And then we will pass, or fail or sit on the fence 
Regardless, we will graduate 
What happens...

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I left a world darkened by injustice and human absurdities
That caused in the hearts of so many so many uncertainties.
I heard “Never again” so many times, so much in vain.
Will we ever be able to...

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Destiny determined that I do not forget that first Tuesday                         ...

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Another holiday has come to pass and I am no prouder to be an American than when it started.

What are these holidays for I ask myself?

Are they designed for the little man to feel like...

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My father is now pitching the bottom of the ninth inning.
We need a few more tests to determine just how many outs he has left.
I had the opportunity this past weekend to visit him on...

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I couldn't be prouder
than the day you were born
my beautiful little miracle 

your tiny fingers curled over mine
your pretty eyes captured me
and melted me
I loved you then
and every day 
since your 
arrival from heaven

we won't...

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Do you ever wonder why old people cry?
reasons unknown to you and I 
here are some thoughts that come to mind
there are many more I'm sure you will find.

A well loved son killed in the...

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I am searching for a real Hero
Not a virtual or an actual zero
I am searching for many Heroes
And I want to earn many zeros
After any number greater than one
I want to go beyond the Heaven
But...

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He said he called it Ian’s game and that the rules were pretty easy,
It wouldn’t take too long to learn not unlike the game Parcheesi.

You could roll the dice or spin the wheel and move...

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It’s a crinkle, twinkle day,
So live in the now and laugh a bit louder.
That’s the crinkle, twinkle way,
Making everyone around you feel prouder.
Living your dreams without fear and plough on
Plough on
Making sure that the lighthouse...

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Word battles rage in war and peace
 tweet and twitter with no retreat,
  people in protest taking the heat;
there is a lack of unity spawned
 some face eagerly right on wrong,
others turn to the...

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Success in my hand
The power and the glory

On top of the world
I am invincible; me

The little ones left 
by the wayside without care

I take what I want
and to hell with their despair

for my life is...

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