Long Put 2 and 2 together Poems

When I stopped Dancing
(new edit, 2022)


I stopped dancing first 
when the screeching screaming voice, 
cut into my small, happy, care-free body 
like a sharp knife cuts into warm butter, 
the accusing words freezing my bones,...

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The girl child

I am standing here on her behalf 
Her story might be your story or my story or our story
THE GIRL CHILD

It was an endless journey I thought
The same man who talked to me...

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I hope you make it by yourself. 
I’m at a point whereby pointing fingers won’t help anymore
A point whereby this vodka won’t help anymore
Sleeping pills won’t help anymore
I can’t fight anymore
Can’t start any war.

I can’t...

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THE CLICHE SUBJECT MATTER
I tried to study you best way I could without weighing my infatuation
And before I knew it I was knee deep in a classless obsession
I added you to my thinking pattern, all...

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This World 

The world we live in 
Has become so cruel
Children are now afraid to go to school
No longer there for an education 
They're fearing for their lives
Being robbed of their future 
By a person...

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I can hear you calling me to join you for a cup of tea.I can hear you calling me to sample your homemade coffee .I have not had breakfast in years and I have missed...

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I am trying to compose a rhythm that everyone can sing, I am trying to compose a rhythm that everyone can join in. You did not go to school and you don’t know the golden...

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Broken Pieces

There is a rare and beautiful vessel of pottery
Moulded and shaped to an exquisite piece of work
The potter’s loving hands have taken great care
To bring it to perfection.
It is smooth and colourful with just...

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part 25

there is enough pretense to deal with
when the future delivers
disappointment after disappointment
and the roles you play become stale
and you cling to the trend in the graph line
breathing without permission
and noticing that what goes in...

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Part 18

it helps to see the spectrum of behaviors
as a spectrum first of all
not disorganized not random
not to the degree the clergy would have it
which makes them ridiculous
as well as dangerous
to anyone standing outside the...

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Sometimes we can go all our lives seeing something without really having any insight into what we are seeing. For instance, hands in prayer position.  Because they are praying we assume people will put...

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Sometimes I just wish I could stop time,were what we do and say,won't end up making each other cry, in this pass few days I been digging out the love you buried deep in my...

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All this time I thought that if I continued to pour my love into you, you'd eventually love me just as much. 
I thought that my love could save you. 
That my love could mend...

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It was an illicit affair, you'd think, they wouldn't dare, they believed, if we handle it with care no one would be aware. Bur they made a grave err and it became a very heavy...

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LOVE’S APPLE RED LIPS

At night the horse appeared dark.
It stared like a dead man -
perhaps into the pit itself.

During the day - -
Up and down, he would go,
and children would hang on.

Mysteriously, the devil himself
unassembled...

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The ex wife and husband 


A man comes to me
Last Saturday early
He said some tells him
That you write poetry

I was surprise so I said
 I put a few words together
Bout green eyes and ice-cream
 Love...

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we all have our ups and downs
enjoyed in lesser detail on the upswing
and greater granularity on the corresponding
and subsequent regress to various terrors
the trick is to not obsess and get conned
into the notion of a...

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I'm a combustible element, a raging whirlwind doomed to a small space
I need some air, something to calm my agitated nerves
but the illness to my symptoms won't leave me be
Her persistance is strong although the...

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his guitar is raunchy and moody and his singing voice raspy
and if I close my eyes I am in a rundown jazz bar
down and out on luck and drinking alone
drowning my sorrows in the booze...

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Pareidolia is when we see familiar faces where they’re not supposed to be…
Like Abe Lincoln in a cloud, the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast 
or Albert Einstein in a tree.

Because our mind has...

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I’m here but I’m gone 
Mouth open but no words drawn 
A smile with no truth 
People lie yet have no proof
I post on Snapchat 
I’m public but I’m private 
this anit no rhyme
But as...

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The light that once shone in my eyes is no longer there
It left me when you did
The child that lived inside me, the innocence I once possessed
Exists now only in a dream 

I put all...

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Life's a snake
And im surrounded by grass
They say grass is greener on the other side, 
Grass is always green just that you need to water it, 
don't go to the other side as  
You...

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Spotless mind 
“Your prettier when you don’t think cause that’s when you don’t try to be pretty” 
Time to stop overthinking tryna break down pieces 
Time to put em back to together, nothing is complete...

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A CHRISTMAS AGO

My Christmas present list 
Every year
Got longer and longer,
What to buy
Whether far or near
I certainly have always got joy
Out of giving,  
Just two months ago, I thought
Things are getting out of hand,
What...

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