Long Ridged Poems

My hair has always 
had a mind of its own
Stays doing whatever
it wants whenever 
it pleases
Just never bothers to do 
any of it, at my convenience
Will take its sweet time 
to grow 
When I'm most...

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I Held Mary’s Hand 

I held Mary’s hand as John covered his face,
So still,
At Peace,
Faded are the slapping sounds of the whip against his flesh,
Gone now are the shrieks as his crown was pegged into...

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life is a chessboard,
                              with kings,...

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If your love was like the Namib;
Mountainous and bare,
Would you dig deep for water?
Would you scour the ridged crevasses there?
For something that moved,
Within and without,
Trying to remove, any and all doubt.

If your love was a...

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The softest gossamer gown is never welcomed
Where vodka jumps from tiny glasses
Jilted by sweaty grasps.
I am a flower that blooms morality, 
A sober weed in a lush garden.

This penthouse party 
Is a collage of mesh...

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To my future boyfriend I do not want a “price charming”. I do not need to be rescued from this ivory tower that I have built around myself to protect myself-worth and esteem that so...

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A Dark Fairytale

As I was chained, I breathe in.
As I was burned, I breathe out.
As I was cut, I looked down.
As I was broken, I looked up.
As I was destroyed, I closed away.
I had killed...

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#YOU Awake! Time to Partake! 
What's at Stake? What's your Perspective?
What's your Objective? Never Be Ridged...
Choose Another Elective, You Can BE Selective! 
AHH YES! NOTHING LESS! 
BE YOUR BEST!!! "SHINE DEVINE!!!"

SEE THAT SUN...
FEEL THAT SUN...
THEN...

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Who are you? What do you want, (the rabbit winks), his silence explodes my dream,(the rabbit thinks).
Not a movement, he continues to taunt, (into his skull his eyes sink), this cant be what it seems,
(as...

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It's because of the bacon.

Yeah, it looks good on the menu, sitting there at the rim of the plate. Glistening. Archetypally ridged and ruffled. Positioned perfectly next to the eggs over easy, the pancakes, buxom...

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Earth is sad
Flesh is sand
Shadow is black
My skin is dark.

Black man down
White man's town
Tweets and Hashtags
Protests and Blackcards, 

But the system is Prejudiced
Jury men in white ridged caps and black cape cloaks-
take sides with the...

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“Well now,
I’ve enough dirty knickers to be washin’,
That’s why I never got married”.

Now listen to them talk
For it’s hard not to.
He never got married 
or any of that other nonsense
That people bother with.
This friendly meeting...

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I sit, staring out my window.
This wonderous world surrounding me,
the snow that falls and the stars that sparkle.
I look around wondering if I've fallen into a dream.
Each individual flake, an own personality.
I stand slowly to...

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So in the blinding light of times
A blushing sense of blinking occurs
Small, ridged glass shards
Engorge my view
And paint my soul scarlet, 
always 

Soaked in the scarlet ashes I grieved, 
And to those ends,
the loss of...

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Carved and hued In solid bed rock are locked the voices
Echoes of the ancient past, blood shavings of symbolic
Expressions, that whispers ever so softly within the desert
Winds, beneath our cryptic dons lay the tombs of...

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Yup, just like this. This is how dad told us about the wonders of life. No eye contact at all.

One day my father told his four sons to climb into the car,
He wouldn’t tell us...

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HEALING RUNES
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Of all the stones that are stately mesmerizing
None can heal like my combined, energized hues
How through my iridescent rock I work wonders abating
Stress and strife clear muddy clouds of hardened blues,
Take my carnelian streaks,...

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Usher me by, the power of the tidal wave, for beneath
You’ve crushed my heart and soul, washed away is resistance.
I’m a vanquished current, swept within your riptide.
A hurricane survivor dashed against your coral reef,
Rough, ridged...

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Let me be the first 
 to have the audacity to translate, 
This piece of mystery molded 
         in a magical meadow of mistakes,
The reckless subject, there,
...

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hard, cold ...

with weight to crush
impervious to all, save the elemental
burdenous, and dense with unfeeling matter
oh, it shines in its own way

it is indeed a rare gem
fit for only the most hospitable of environments
and it...

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Wandering down the murky tunnel,
 
I count the cracks along the cavern walls.
 
Further and further they spread like veins.
 
To my avid blood, their secrets call.
 
 
 
They promise understanding and hope.
 
All...

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Recover


I  have no clear  recollection at all 
That time rescued me from any pain
I know it wasn’t yesterday or a week ago
Because ridged shards of it still remain

They pierce my heart with a...

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Wisdom so rare but fluid perched on African man
damming the waterfalls of a rapid river he did
his choice of materials was not cement and wires
iron bars and ridges he did not want to use
engineers and...

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Searching this mirror before me my heart question’s questions I am capable of seeing truth, understanding the eyes through which I see are surly colored with flavor of bias and self-justification. My mind in calling...

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The little trickle, that ran through our street,
Was a place we much liked to place our feet,
In summer months, filled with such hot days,
We paddled through its many water ways.

Tiny silver fish would dart around...

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