Long Rummages Poems

Original poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com: 

"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn...

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I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...

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MY CONDITION

Earlier the snow fell sideways slowly in gigantic flakes
but now their weight is too great; they descend straight down hard.
For her everything is constantly changing…a mind in flux, ebbing and flowing,
a wavelength on a...

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What my eyes dont see...
  Anguishes me, to this harsh society.
As I look to the majestic sky
  I see darkness & destruction in its light.  

How can one, be truly happy??

As we...

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In the zodiac of poets with furrowed brows, born from the shadow of the world devouring the moment,
I am tired of narrow verses, of word sculptures without soul and echo.
Poems that whisper, halt - they...

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Death is a whisper
Like a dog’s whimper
Joy awakens in our head
Happiness needs to be expanded instead, instead

Death is a whisper
Life is but a blur, but a blur
Joy awakens in our head
Cheerfulness wants to make our...

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~ (~) Same way you learn-you abide if when able first you are given-the chance, I know this 
one here coming today knows, as the rains fall moments slip on by the poor and wealthy......

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though she tells herself she trusts him
the minute he is out the door for an extended trip of business
she finds her way to his desk &
with suspicious fingers, she rummages through his things
looking for evidence...

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ISALE EKO  (LAGOS)

A rooster of discrete tongues
Culture, tradition
Where,
Zillion specters resonate
Quantum croak.
Cock crow,
Erupts whirl, barge at Alaba
Descry of sea of soul cases
Kibbling in, out as Emmet over nectar,
As husky ell of murk drench dawning,
Eviscerate NEPA's...

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You are an enchanting cynosure
Beyond my naked eyes could see;
An unbounded briny exposure
Where tiny drops assemble sea;
Unpretentious blustery waves
Evolve from phenomenal ripples;
Flowing endless murmur cripples
Heart deep embedded peeves.

Tuneless prayers by lonely seamen
Resonate in salty humid...

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My mind is stripped of crippling inhibitions
It rummages, unfettered with mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges of a distorted mirror
as though it sees inside my sutured heart
In its scarred reflection is a sanguine painting
An original piece...

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As night falls, a dark melody
fills the air with a feeling so deep
it is the song of a dark rose
tweeting near a corner fence.

Dahlia, a withered pale woman
lies on a granite slab, still and serene
The...

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She crushes the discolored leaves,
And drops them in the water, and stirs.
Over the fire, the water begins to heat,
And she stirs.

The bedimmed room is enveloped in its potency,
As she brings the boiling liquid to the...

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"Today I will climb to the attic and raise the blind,
Where narrow heat lies thick and stale, confined
In that closed room; and I will jar the window loose
And pitch what is no use
Among those random...

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I slowly come to 
as light creeps across the floor
and dissolves what I thought
had fallen through
the torn sides of a dream.
Nothing is there but
the scuff marks left 
by fleeing ghosts.

Unalterable facts assemble 
and lock shut...

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Once wholly stripped 
of its crippling inhibitions
a mind rummages, unfettered
beyond mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges
of a pensively distorted mirror
as though it sees inside a heart
reflections in purest pigments 
the genuine acumen of art

In deep translucent...

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Like a rose lacking its pedals,
My tranquility disregards its fascinating smells
Like a tree shaking off dashes of its mangled leaves 
The switch of seasons interweaves... 
You infuriate me with petrifying peace
You unlocked the gate... unsealing...

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In the hot desert night he sat all alone
holding a letter in his trembling fist.
A lone tear rolled down his cheek as he read;
her reasons so neatly declared on a list.

She claimed that the love...

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Hammered glue striking blue in moods
she lay there in pool of her own 
working hard and fast she had got that
thoughts were full and act was a pull
validation lay in thoughts she vowed by that
disarming...

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every day she will go 
shopping trolley in tow
in sleet or rain or snow

she lives by foraging
in every litter bin
she rummages within

what gem in there may hide
digging down deep inside
and in her work takes pride

inspecting...

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