Long Retrieves Poems

U can 2 was on the license plate of my 
store manager brown Benz where a dead man 
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore defense store 
manager at Fort Sheridan Army base Ronald Reagan...

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New draft Zimbabwe’s 




Tribute Documentary Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children


Mama will be left behind when I die
I’m too sick to survive
My education was put to an end
When papa had no more to spend
We walk over sewage water
And...

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As my old eyes search for the setting sun,
My mind is at work,
Mending the million fragmented memories.
The long arm of my mind,
Retrieves the first dusty diary,
from the tallest of shelves.
Now ninety years have passed,
My ...

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One Step from the Fire

Martha lounges in her rocking chair book in knotted hand in her studio

On the wall a poster of Chipperfield Circus whom she had wanted to join

Just above a small marble statue...

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I met her on a towering cruise ship,
the Benthic Princess, a vacation trip.
Her platinum hair shimmered in waves,
a beckoning smile that asked me to stay…
That first dinner was quite magnificent,
we talked and talked, like life-long...

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He devastated foreign pastures

As a cog in a well oiled evil wheel 

A nameless legalized conqueror


They praised his endless courage

Reckless bravery under command

Following orders no questions asked


The contest was rigged in his favour

A mega machine...

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Packed like sardines
inside a jeepney*—
Too full,
with a jeepney strike going on.

Rushing, 
mother and child ride along.

Greasy, dirty, malnourished…
The woman holds a can—
a makeshift drum.
Little boy hands out envelopes,
he looks like he's 3 years old,
he's most...

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A little Faith.
Is what He's yearned.
But it's gone like a wraith.
Had a glimpse before it turned.

Gone and disappeared.
Without ash or a scent.
Like an extinction it mirrored.
It came, saw, and went.

He's Left wanting more.
Confused and riddled.
His...

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Noticing his neighbor’s young child
has laid a ladder against a tree,
determined to rescue a pet kitty stuck up there,
a middle-aged man crosses the street
and offers to help.
He STEPS UP the ladder
and retrieves the cat for...

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The drought had swept throughout the land
But under Pharoah’s dream-led reign
Joseph foresaw, provisions planned

So Jacob sent his sons for grain
And down to Egypt, down they went
But youngest Benjamin remained

Then Joseph, hearing they’d been sent
Then called...

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Shadow Play

While Freud sits at the mind end of the couch phallus in hand
shapes others’ dreams in unspoken imposition ‘must-abation’
analyses abuses his daughter in metaphorical incest projects
his own aggressive sexual drives and neurotic megalomania

Jung after...

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She has high hopes with lo expectations.  Broken dreams shattered by failed aspirations. 
Wanting to remain prayerful, but has finally run out of patience.

You ask, "Where has your faith gone?" 
She replies, "I can't...

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Lord God I'm falling hard on my face
I feel so disregarded now low and misplaced
How and where and now will you come into my space
Help me Lord Jesus help me God I've been disgraced

I have...

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From Fiction to Fact ( A Twisted Fairy Tale) 

Fairy tales of giants and trolls.
Goblins in the holes 
Elves living in golden glades 
High in the trees singing musical retrieves 

Dragons flying with human magicians...

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I waited in the foam, alone on the coast.
You were who I waited for. Give
me songs in every key,
pining and desire; be a messenger
bringing love, and I will empty
my heart of everything but you. Skies...

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I shall finish this letter to granddaddy tonight, 
I just cannot find the words that are right.
I wish to thank him for fighting in the war, 
on the front line he stood, straight in sight....

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for you, m
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pale horse led by shrouded spectre through foggy thicket
dark days behind them illuminated by soaring ember skies
saturated soil slick under their feet impeding their ascent
leafy shelter their only escape from the rainy elements

their...

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Dogs barking loud,
sirens blaring, 
barreling down the street
Arguments are catching steam,
as confusion breaks forth everywhere
Locomotive disagreements,
everybody got an opinion tonight
Facts are being kept from the public,
crisis is high-wire balancing on razor-thin innuendo
Did they or didn’t...

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The moon reflects softly
On the ocean’s surface tonight.
I’m a master of intelligence
With the C.I.A. codename: Night Surfer.

I secretly...spy my surroundings,
I text...coded messages to the target.
To rendezvous in the heart of the sand.
For an ambiguous adventure.

The...

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"Howdy Amos”, “Howdy Seth” as Amos points to the empty seat 
Next to him on the bench by the Limerick Town Bandstand.
Amos t’aint much for words but he’s a pretty good pointer.
“Whatcha doing, Amos?” “Sittin’”.
Did...

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Sensually 
    Two beings 
      Compete
 They swiftly enter
   A race of sorts
      To love
     ...

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Recoiled from birth—always snapping
Clawing his way through the frustration of failure
Empty tremors dare to break her stance
But like some light, unseen object
She is never fully on ground
But floating just above his lowered head

Critical in all...

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An orphan girl-a rugged child
Abandoned in the streets
Made a slave-abused, tormented-
Without hope, desire-in chains

Compassionate King –heart of mercy
Saw the daughter of sin lay dying
Drew her forth-paid her debt
Brought her home-set her free

Made a bride-in elegant...

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My dog is not a manly dog,
she’s my dog just the same
A manly dog rides in a truck
and retrieves the hunted game

My dog, she is a lady dog…
when we got her she was small
A little...

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CLOSE YOUR EYES AND OPEN UP THE CHAMBERS OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL HEART. THEY ARE THE PRIVATE ROOMS IN WHICH ALL YOUR MEMORIES, DREAMS,...

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