Long Scoffs Poems

I have a lot to write and say, buddy, so hear me out some more
Don’t make me feel lower than I have ever felt before…
Listen, understand and stay quiet until I say no more…sorry if...

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Mary was a virgin girl:
With big dreams and aspirations!
An angel came to visit her:
With honor and salutations!
Troubled by his sayings:
She did not know what to think!
The angel said to Mary:
My dear, no need to shrink!

Mary...

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Prelude to what…..

I see you,  /  you / yes, come into my…… 
laboratory of alchemist mystical languaging.
where arsenic spills into the whirlpool of thought 
and savage syntax shatter like glass on concrete.

Where Titans...

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Good mother, bad mother, locked in a war,                           ...

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That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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My wife and I are members of - religious stamps association -
that was formed some years ago from our church’s congregation.
We don’t drink and never smoke; and drugs leave us in despair,
but recently one Sunday...

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A lad is stopped by roving cops, who shoot in disregard.

His face is black, he’s on his back, a breeze is breathing hard,

he bleeds and dies, his mama cries, the screaming sky is scarred,

the sheriff...

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>I looked through the list of Form I should chose but there was not one for  

medical mystery so I chose free verse as you are not paying to see it in my 

Book...

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In the weeping crack of dawn, a battleground unfurls,
Reflected in the mirror’s gaze, a storm behind two girls
One, a wisp of tattered light, eyes shimmering with tears
The other, a vicious shadow, barbed smile and pointed...

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The Monarch Who Thought He Was King

Once there was a butterfly
	who fluttered by a gate. 
The gate was closed, that’s when he said, 
	“O shucks, now I’ll be late!” 
He danced and pranced and shouted...

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It is funny! 
Very funny how
A masked preacher can preach honesty; 
And even points at the wrongs with his
Fingers of hypocritical righteousness…

We stare with grim satisfaction
Because the black winged Angel 
Ridding a flaming chariot tells...

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~Body
A Debilitating cage I’m not permitted to escape,

Thoughts of blades, craving the slice and scrape.

Jokes and giggles echo from friendly and unknown lips,

I stop eating and lay down the chips.

Everything I do from breathing to...

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College? Who needs it? Shut the front door!
I’m head’n out west to be a movie star in a bit.
Keep look’n at fan magazines; I’ll be on the cover.
I’m gonna’ be famous, I guarantee it!

A relationship...

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When I was at the Hilton 
And I didn’t feel strong 
You jumped a bandwagon
Yeah you were real wrong
And it’s taken many years to carry on
So I’m gonna tell it and put you where you...

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What Jesus Would Do Today 

What would Jesus do,
What would Jesus say.
How would He feel politically, 
What exactly would He do today. 

Would He be for right or left, 
For the Republican or Democrat, 
Would...

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                 Never apologize for being exactly  
           ...

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Big Billy and his dog named Sog were walking around the Forest of Fog 
When all of a sudden The Devil appears from behind a tree
The Devil says “OK which one of you is coming...

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If I were immortal,
             What would life look like to me?
            ...

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Northside of Chi-Town is full of emotion.
In the ‘45 Series Cubs and Tigers are battling.
Sianis buys two tickets to show his devotion.
Is booted ‘cause his billy goat won’t stop bahbling.
He curses the Cubbies and causes...

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"300"
But this won't suffice..
"It isn't exotic to pay such a price"
How my sleepless nights and joy forgotten 
If this isn't sold my family shall be trodden 
The society seems correct when they say
This "mere hobby"...

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Sh!
Don’t tell anyone; it’s a secret.
Suddenly the hidden Poetry Market became desirable to share.
Only real poets are invited, I confide. 
 I wrote a poem once, she whispers, when I was eight.
Another poet who was...

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When everything seems too dark
to live your day through doubts that linger,
invent a peace never imagined...
something you have dreamed of doing!
Calm waters never anticipate storms,
troubled waters do and shake your ark,
all the passion you put...

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Oh, Kate comes from a broken home 
Where life’s just not that good.
She wants so much to make it work 
If she only thought she could.
And several times, it’s crossed her mind 
The thought of...

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Sandwiches perched on plate, remote control in one hand,
he settles heavily on comfy couch as the TV goes alive.
A sweet and sexy voice cuts in the heavy atmosphere;

“Weather forecast: Now we move to the tropical...

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In youth, I lived in gray
Gathering pearls, blood, and dust of those before me,
Straying beyond lines of black and white
Testing-Detesting- Spoonfed sweet lilac by society.

My roots twine deeply into the soil
Spreading different directions like a
Child's...

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