Long Quotable Poems

I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalists once asked
before the polarizing days and nights
of fake right/wrong answer questions
and their...

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"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door". ~ Milton Berle

When demoted from                       ...

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What happened to Hip-Hop, how did it end up like this? 
the biggest song on the radio is by a rapper who didn't write it
And the ones who do write they repeat the same 8...

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What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...

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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad...

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Feeling very trapped 
Dungeon canary getting ready to be zapped 
Proceed down a level 
Only giving a quotable shovel 
Building a winning case 
In a better place 
Riding in a vehicle to transfer 
Something in...

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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself ~ Octavia E. Butler


                    ...

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"But love's a malady without a cure."
-"John Dryden"

Forbidden Song

The jury sits, pallid and grave,
well versed in the ways of "society" and "correctness",
he appears, drowned in confusion and numb to all else,
convicted of the dreary charge...

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Don't count your days, make your days count for lost time is never again found.
If you want to see rainbows don't stare at the ground.

When everyone else walks out a friend will be first to...

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ERE WE FORGET
******
to be at one with nature... why we should...
it's what sustains all life... for our own good...
we... the minority... have begged humans...
to abide by mother natures demands...
to think she has rules... no... there...

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A name became famous and so did attention it brought to a race, 
A quotable slogan was formed speaking of political changes at haste.

From opposing sides as running mates they developed a relationship speaking of...

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Jigsaw puzzle patchwork:
Verses that I love —
Bound by a stern code;


Quotable quotes saved:
In mellow memory —
A quilt of earthly scents;


Rhyme and time and chime:
Flavours of seasons past —
Chronicles of tales unfurl;


Espresso moments divine:
Double, triple, many...

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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle

I needed a job-money and more,                    ...

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I am a dignified woman in my opinion
Heralded as a well-being icon
A lady of substance paragon
Who deserves a "SuperEve" medallion.

Listen to my advocacy platforms…
Reflect on the essence of my 'miracle reforms'
Can you say, “She lawfully...

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"Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself."
 ~ Octovia E. Butler
____________________________

since young I have been writing . . . 

I felt like a child in a concrete garden
frozen and forlorn,...

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"But love's a malady without a cure. ~ John Dryden"

Love is indeed a malady, greatest malady of all
Since birth we all whine for love
And exclusive love we want from others.
All for love wars have been...

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~ Kin Hubbard


You bring the hatchet
          each time
   and you bury it deep.
Your friend is still...

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"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet." 
                          ...

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Features relaxed into a pleased, kind or
gently skeptical expression; with the lips
parted and corners of mouth are turned up.
          
The food of Love, the whisper of...

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IF VIOLENCE BE HER CREED…

IF violence be her creed  I would care not live in India….
Bullets of violence ,Ripped my ribs to dumb me 
To live like a portrait …
With eyes but no tears,...

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'If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door' 
                      Milton Berle

Outstretched clever Macadamia tree
Bears talents...

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~ Kin Hubbard 

Riley was a control freak
barking orders at his wife
who'd scurry like a timid mouse
knowing if she didn't conform
a barrage of blows would rain down...

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You haven’t found among notable faces
Or even quotable phrases
Any bankable aces
Even as your appetite chases

Though the teaching remains taught
The pursuits remain unsought
For many hearts resist being wrought
By the Blood of Christ, by which we are...

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Sitting on a stone my hands brushing against the cold water
I gaze upon the night sky searching my reason in the heavenly bodies 
floating up in the universe...
The secluded life which I had chosen away...

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend - 
Martin Luther King Jr.

In your eyes I see you burn inside in the fire of anger,
the tongue spitting out the dirt...

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