Long Self reproach Poems

Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.

While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...

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 Continued from Part 1 

The forgery of Multitudes between the Silhouettes
(and discarded cigarettes,
neath the haunted parapets)
mock my lonely echoed steps
         – mock my lonely echoed steps...

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Two faithful souls stand listless in the great big tower 
overlooking the stranded city that once stood tall
yearning for a quiet place to lay their heads 
while far beyond the deserted land 
a soft blue...

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Feeling the saltiness of his sweat
Mingling with her broken flesh to torment her,
Tears of humiliation, tears of anger,
Of bitterness,Self reproach and tears of revenge ran down from her eyes.
Words died in her throat then there...

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Growing my hair down below my knees...

stimulated courtesy follicles,
where Coconut, Olive, Grapeseed,
Jojoba, Amla and Vitamin E oils
allowed, enabled,
and provided head start
germinating peach fuzz into brown strands
after Flaxseeds, Pumpkin seeds and Fenugreek
being sprinkled on my scalp
yielded...

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At times we should not be afraid
to roundly call a spade a spade.
I shrink not from a reference
to a fearful pestilence.
From Leo the king to a lowly vole,
the fear of death held all in thrall.
Even...

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He was caught in a mine of a mind in reprisals admonitions and self-reproach 

Had been looking for diamonds and gold but then the escape shaft caved in

Gotten shafted and the stake stuck like an...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose when others choose by a chance.
And hold your strength too.

You...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose when others choose by a chance.
And hold your strength too.

You...

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A Vow

Can you keep your head up while others put themselves down?
Since, you must raise when there is no loss of true pride.
Learn to choose when others choose by a chance.
And hold your strength too.

You...

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Look away
You never knew this face
I painted you a picture of something real
Dressed in ash
I hid my naked form
Believing all my lies until I couldn’t feel

But now I see
I was washed with fuel
Though everyone is...

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chakra shot, aura ignored
inner peace left unexplored
feelings sans a sounding board
blest I’ve left the mindless horde

friends, none that lie to me
or neighbors that like to see
a banshee wailing jamboree 
self-reproach is absentee

no dogs, cats, or...

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Another year will end with cheer
one more shall soon arrive, no fear
But how they make such a fine din
as one falls out and t’other in 
while I will wince, holding my head and festive beer

Not...

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Sometimes I fall, and it seems easier just to fall than to climb back up.
 Because when I fall, I feel free.
 I feel as though I can fly, but I can't.
 I simply fall...

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I always thought I’d hold that baby boy to adore, 
but it looks like having a son just wasn’t in store. 
The one that I lost, I wish to be back in my arms, 
for...

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You ask: who has the voice of peace?
He who goes through the crash of thunder and
the murmur of the moon, earful of war and
short-lived souls. who has filled graves with tears
and touched the tombs of...

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An offensive mirror
produces my face,
and ears listen to a
hackneyed heart beat

The stench of stagnant 
breath confirms my 
identity and smoker’s 
status. Sixty a day

The cold floor held
by blood drained feet,
a razor held in hand
at mannequin...

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In it not much of a meal,
A half dozen not a big deal,
My regular canteen I still approach
And for trying the stuff self reproach;
At the canteen appeasing A Fooled Tank
And having God to truly thank...

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Occasionally in the eyes of a student 
I see the ghostly look of a much younger me
Those troubled and painful looks of despair and hurt

The reminders of adolescent self-reproach
I felt while dancing from the puppet-master’s...

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Shards of oblivion
Life in a dice
Annoying nudges
Approaching self reproach

Bent on levity
Head on a plate
Empurpling serenity
Instigating the triumph

Sigh for a sigh
A poke in the rib
Brows and gestures
Counting colours and calories

Back in harmony
Five thousand light years from...

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just as inter-stellar objects shine brightest 
at the event horizon of a black hole
so a person's spirit flares 
shortly before his passing

searching for Mother’s number 
on my new cellphone

I’m lost in limbo 
in a foreign...

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Last winter's resolution gone by spring
So I never did the bikini thing

  The same five pounds
  Still hanging around

I sigh and stare at that suit made of string



Perhaps I should take a different...

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