Long Schemers Poems

A dream of a Rainbow coloured family

In the ocean there is a raging storm 
And a lot of boats 
With rudders that are shattered,
Compasses lost, sails that are torn.
And dreams that are faded or tattered
With...

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Among PermaCulture Designers,
planners and cooperative schemers,
choreographers and mappers,
therapeutic lyricists and historical poets,
and probably comedians,
there is a saying,
a principle of experiential truth:
For every healthy function
we discover many nutritional elements.

This has to do with commitment,
most resonantly shared...

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By dint of a right in tatters
impinging on terrestrial sight
that urged me to worldly matters,
I was struck with a parallel quite

unforeseen, in a Hubble view
which drew my fancy out of the blue,
a galaxy wreathed with...

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I have learned the hard way that people aren't always what they seem,
They look you in the eye, shake your hand, then take you to the cleaners.
It's been many a year that I have thought...

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There is a hidden story here,
 wordings in the lines of a book that openly appear
   well-worn images cleared 
along paths and byways out of stagnation,
 birth life experiences out of the shadows...

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How long will I have to write rhymes? 
Till the time I accept the logic?
Watch it! You’re caught and fastened by fossils, 
No Entry, Kill Bill, with ease as ya see!
With Illmatic words, overheard by...

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Over worked imaginations of a fine tuned mind of several misunderstanding thoughts that were dreams that changes daily like the seasons.  I can't explain it; Its an emotional dreamer with shared thoughts that is...

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Planners plan and dreamers dream,
plotters plot and schemers scheme,
but I can tell you with utmost certainty:
not everything can be explained that easily.

Let me tell you a tale to drive home my point.

There was this bookworm...

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They say crime don't pay, we just left ST. Regis, in a two seater  Battista,  got rich off Coke cut with ether & a ton of reefer, now they get rich selling magazines...

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Unquotable quotes – VI

(Note : A good many of the « epigrams » in this sequence of quotes are a take off on other well-known short poems, proverbs, sayings or expressions faites, etc . The...

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Some worship gods of gold as their goodness turns to greed
Like saviors made of silver keeping weak ones on their knees
Some appetites are angry like werewolves full of want
Sin is never satisfied...it's a monster screaming...

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Fig tree fruit...fig tree fruit...fig tree fruit
Eaten by toddlers...fig tree fruit!
Gave elders stomach ulcers

Be careful for this is a fishing bridge
Elders warned...
Play not here lest you tumble into the river and drawn
Adamant!....the fig tree fruit

Birds...

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The Craven
(with apologies to EAP)


Yesterday at my bail hearing, suddenly what I was fearing
Came with force of pounding gavel causing me to near unravel
Causing weakness in the knees, dreading future lawyer’s fees
Then I heard the...

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My Eyes Are The Seers Of  Treasure,
Among The Limbs When I Dream Of Leisure,
The Brain Is Wealth,
As A Thieve Is To Stealth,
The Future Is For The Dreamers,
For As Far As I Recall, I’m Among...

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The end is near o parrots and prophets
who peck and pick my people's pockets.
Shameless shepherds who neglect the needy
and tremble at the table of the greedy.
Many are called by money-milking gods...
but few chosen to rescue...

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Because I see deeply into the living
With their energies always giving 
Our world a mixture of these vibes
That create our civilizations and our tribes.
I sit and ponder their intentions
Of their technologies and their inventions.
Is it...

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Revived to pop out as an empty nester 
To accompany a newfangled life
Maneuvered all the way for a change of state
I dropped my bags and willed at country’s metropolis. 

The heirloom edifices occupying moiety of...

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PRESENT PERFECT in SUMMER SCHOOL

CONJUGATION
I have yearned
Thou hast returned
He has departed
She has kissed faint hearted
We have voiced warm greetings
They’ve had timid meetings

The young ones the old ones
The joiners and the out-in-the-cold ones
The sad boys the...

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Raven Wing Faerie resting against the inside of earth’s silvery moon
Floating pixie dust dreams toward the planet, without any swoon.
Relaxed and easy, she gives confidence and hope to the dreamers.
And inspires the artists, poets, singers,...

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We are whimsical and wonderful, wild in some ways.
Our out-of-this world imaginations are keen and mercurial.
We are the Gemini babies and watch out world for we are on our way.

We are always busy, with our...

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Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
       by Odin Roark

Corners to peer around
The harlequin of angles
Where peeking
Reveals
Where being stuck
Confines
Where feeling trapped
Separates

Our remembered child stands
Eyes squeezed shut
Face buried where two walls meet
Counting to...

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We are dishwashers and bill payers, we have day jobs and night jobs.
Some of us are retired, I am not, because I know too many 
who died after they did that.
They lost their purpose, and...

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There once was a bus trip to taken
two groups was trouble in the making
All women, need I say more
whose beauty men could not ignore

Brunettes thought to be smarter
blondes needed to try harder
To this they were...

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The child of a certain perception,
Among your kinfolks poor reception,
You just can’t endure irritation:
It could make you leave your own nation, 
White men’s world declare your new station,
Face the challenge of imitation…

Then, it’s all yours:...

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Shadows in dark corners, silhouetted figures
Floating down corridors of protected power,
Sanctuary for schemers and hungry vultures
Circling impoverished prey for them to devour,

grey suits that compliments their complexion
Their dark thoughts, intentions flow through their head
egoistical aims...

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