Long Rougher Poems

The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
    as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a mere passing thing
    and must choose another...

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1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound

Subjectively a bit odd to myself
A jangled, disconnected kind of...

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Sun Gods! Sun Gods!
I require your assistance
I come before you, humbly, without resistance
Hear me! Hear me! Please hear my plea!
Honorably - I come before you on bended knee
I come before you on this day and...

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Innocent Love
The 10th grade-I was hurt, had a lot of pain I wore, thought that everyone could see it on my shirt, I felt incomplete, tried to be neat and do all the things I...

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The sign actually said ‘Universal Disposal’ but the haggard squalid creature 

Had no time for such ephemeral discourse he could just about spell his name

Kanja meaning water born and his parents had hoped he would...

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What do we know about the Coronavirus
The real risks behind the panic and human bias
Now let’s look at the facts that we have to date.
It not great news, its spreading at an alarming rate. 

Corvid...

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The Dickens
                     Authored by Chuck Keys

Hot thickly sliced juicy turkey
sandwiched a mid fresh bread
tastier than...

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I'm Heavier than the walls of a writers block
Hotter than a favelas summers clock 
I'm Rougher than sand paper, hanging on a carpenters sock 
Distanced like lands separated at sea
step in these 11 and a...

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I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. "Richard Peck"


Each living being has a birth-to-death cycle,
Existence is steered by pulses above our feeble,
Despite our tries, time neither ceases...

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Some people give the illusion
    there is widespread confusion
        as to what constitutes the meaning of life.
But I was taught by my brother...
  ...

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I lie - what wife mine’d been saying (our solidarity betraying)
Was in fact much more dismaying: “Why have you not come before?
From our lives you’ve been absented – with your coming, I’m contented.”
Would I could...

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At five years old, starting out in kindergarten
I went to school with my favorite best friends
Girls and boys I’d known as my local hearten
The ones I loved so I had no need for amends

We lived...

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Fierce winds blow across the Atlantic tide,
Colder she gets the rougher she'll ride,
In matt'r minutes a chill to the bone,
Few dare sail her northern zone,
Far north the whaling be done,
Colder in account for the miss'n...

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I decided to drive through the city today 
Instead of the freeway.  And,

I still remember when we first met.  
It was like receiving my little red bike under the tree
so long ago. The...

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Follow a long path and it will get rougher as you go, don't let that stop you,
Daffodils will be thick and yellow on both sides, let golden colours guide you,
The daffodils will disappear at the...

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To forgive is to love.
Forgiving someone is as hard as it is to love them.
At this point, I can testify that it is a narrow path to tread,
You look on, while the best opportunities to...

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We start the ride fresh and feeling good.
Slowly the first bumps appear.
As we start to climb, the bumps become rougher and quicker.

The doubt creeps in.
I second guess my decision.
Should I have been so quick to...

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Back and Forth
Back and Forth
My cruel mind goes
Like the deadly pendulum
It swings some more
Entrapping those that come around
Back and Forth
Back and Forth
Like the tides of the frozen ocean
Anger
Love
Sadness
Hatred
Back and Forth
Back and Forth
Unable to stop
Continually altering...

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Just two sheets of paper
Neatly detailed all I have accomplished
A name, a birth right and a school qualification,
And years of which i have toiled that I called experiences,
Experiences borne out of exploitation
In my quest to...

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When your night seems longer than others
The cloud looks thicker than ever
The storm sounds stronger than others
When your way turns narrower than ever
The tides tends tedious than others
Remember He who calms the storm
Wait don't murmur

When...

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They say my duty is to protect the lands
Defend it! Even with your bare hands
I train so hard in the sun and rain
To become stronger, something to gain
Task after task it gets tougher
My heart and...

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She stood at the edge
Gazing into the abyss
Brought to the brink,
And not for the first time,
By the weight of her experience
By her angst and desperation
By her suffering
From rough hands
And violent tongues

Even in her torment
She always...

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I walked from the office with a newfound vigor;
it was around 2:15 PM and my guts were at ease.
I'd had a good night's sleep, a good morning's work,
and a brief but vigorous workout right before...

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If you see father Ken Saro Wiwa
Tell him about me as a mouth to his songs,
Tell him that they have removed the meat
He gave to us and gave us grasses;
Dirty grasses to replace our milky...

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The story of this life is a sad one. 

It describes so many losses and hurts. 

Its about a boy that had to be raised 

not knowing what he was worth. 



As this boy got...

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