Long Roach Poems
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Understand Where I Stood
Good boy gone bad enters the stage with a spotlight overhead, despite being misunderstood in my ghetto neighborhood
The lonely applause celebrates in my cracked, corrupted, and crazed cranium
I exaggerate too much and so too much,...
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Categories:
roach, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage, dedication, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Giant of Lisbellaw
Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
roach, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near Reality
Half a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
roach, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
A Place Not Meant To Be: Part II
A Place Not Meant To Be
PART: II (699 of 1487 words)
#9: Days of...
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Categories:
roach, analogy,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
JOY YVONNE JONES ONE OF MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND MISTRESS
SORRY JAMAICAN JOY Y JONES JOY JOHNSON TOWNSEND HENRY YOLANDA E KING TALISA SHAW FRAUD WASTE SEVERE ABUSE OF POWER CARRIED OUT BY JAMAICAN TALIBAN OBSEESED WITH MY LIFE HENCE MY DEATH YOU WAKE UP...
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Categories:
roach, allah,
Form:
Naat
Jazz Out
(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and...
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Categories:
roach, spoken word,
Form:
Spoken Word
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
Re: viewing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen
dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially
withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
one indigent Yahoo
groveled...
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Categories:
roach, abuse, america, angst, bereavement, children, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Rhyme
Deva Ossig, the landlady and property owner turned rogue
Deva Ossig, the landlady (and property owner) turned rogue
Just a couple weeks shy
and seven years ago to the day,
I still remember contractual obligations
our previous residential abode
724 West Railroad Avenue,
Bryn Mawr 19010 zip code
volatile...
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Categories:
roach, adventure, anger, animal, anniversary, community, conflict, house,
Form:
Rhyme
Do You Value Your Sanity
13 Things NEVER to Say to a Narcissist if You Value Your Sanity
1. "It's Not all about you"
Telling one that line puts them on defense
...
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Categories:
roach, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
Ruing the Emotionally Prosperous Papa Razz Zee Life I Did Not Live
Ruing the emotionally prosperous papa razz zee life I did not live
The following poetic account
written more'n a dozen dirty dancing decades ago,
while I (a socially withdrawn Homo Sapiens)
groveled along (on a secret...
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Categories:
roach, 10th grade, 6th grade, absence, abuse, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
Kaos In -Part 3-
Blanked out
Blanket bliss...
I pout and doubt
And all dat 'n diss
I'm not spic and span
I'm not fine and dandy
Rollercoaster my blues
I have some news...
scrambled with clues
Wearing diffarant (being arrogant and different) shoes
All I said
All...
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Categories:
roach, angst, cool, crazy, deep, depression, desire, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Entrepreneur
In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before you demur...
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Categories:
roach, books, change, culture, encouraging, inspiration, society, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
For the Birds, What In the Flock
Yardbirds are hopefully smug cockfully strutting,
cutting a rug?
Parked car birds are vigilant vigilantes?
...
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Categories:
roach, bird,
Form:
Rhyme
'n Anchor Roach Ment Inc
day and night Blattaria of various shapes and sizes
scuttle with incandescent
after glow as flashing blur rises
to fill every quarter of mine cerebral core, when asleep pries
me lids awake with shell...
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Categories:
roach, baptism, betrayal, crazy, environment, feelings, insect, scary,
Form:
Free verse
My Steamy Dream
As I walked holding my overnight bag,
towards the steam locomotive,
the air in the hot night so sultry and steamy,
my clothes clung to me as I boarded,
the train steward showed me
to my cabin which had a...
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Categories:
roach, adventure, dream, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Just Walk Away
...
My bed is comfortable, as I lay for wanted sleep.
I change positions from my mother's womb to the bum that lays on the sidewalk;
letting the rays of the sun warm his face.
The buzzer is yelling:
wake...
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Categories:
roach, life, peoplechange,
Form:
Blank verse
Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood
Scarcely the Dropper-- a roach antennae Felt,
Some Maudling exterminator of nakedly inhuman hands.
Boiled renunciation falling sick With life itself,
For Libido has and Always Will Be…. the most Impersonal of instrument.
Stepping out and through a purple...
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Categories:
roach, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend, life, love, passion, life,
Form:
Burlesque
Song: Let It Go Don'T Let Go
(verse 1)
Yo we'll let bygones be bygones though bygones bite on
blessed to have had the good times it’s life it all went wrong
though it hurts good memories
to the end you’ll always be
my friends and...
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Categories:
roach, appreciation, family, friendship, friendship love, happiness, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
AW 9 PEOPLE DIED IN THE FIRE
TODAY I'M STAYING IN MY FAITH WITNESSING CORRUPTION BULLY ME FOR WITNESSING THE PLOTTING OF AN ARSON RESULTING IN 9 PERSONS BEING BURNED ALIVE OTHERS FROM SMOKE INNERLATIION NO AIR PRAYING THEIR FAMILIES HAVE CLOSURE...
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Categories:
roach, allah,
Form:
Naat
Lame Name Game
Silly Billy had no fear, he drowned it in a case of beer.
Handy Andie so adept, kept so busy, she never slept.
Dirty Donna did what you wanna, she lived just down the street.
You didn't have...
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Categories:
roach,
Form:
Rhyme
Dance, Even If You Can'T
I once saw a man one early misty winter morning. He was crossing at the intersection as I was preparing to make a U turn. Upon seeing him, not in worn out shoes, but...
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Categories:
roach, dance, heartbreak, life, people,
Form:
Narrative
Chance
I sit here pondering the next move as I watch the hour slowly slips away, and chance standing in the horizon muse steadfast at me. It is that little nudge that you get when you...
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Categories:
roach, america, business, change, confidence, cool, courage, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Attack of the Roaches
I went to a friend's house just the other day. And
man, I tell you that place I would not rather stay.
The roaches are bad; they take over the place. Let me
tell you the story...it...
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Categories:
roach, funnyhouse, me, friend, house, me,
Form:
Rhyme
A Song Long Enough
I had just set my headphones
down when the intercom
buzzed and Ruben O’s
voice asked urgently:
“you ready man?”
I’m standing before the
multi-slide mixing board
in a studio dreamily
streaked in amber from
the track lights.
“Eagles Lyin’ Eyes...
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Categories:
roach, funny, work, summer, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Requiem for Elmer
*After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually...
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Categories:
roach, humor, murder,
Form:
Narrative