Long Set the record straight Poems

Lonely & hurt 
Broken I remain
Can't shake the guilt
Living in shame
Put on fake smile
I slowly fade away
The nightmare of your death 
We live with every day
The meaning of it all this
to which my mind attends
Has...

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 As My Life Goes On

The past is gaining on me 
There's nowhere else to go
I'm tired of running
Ready or not it's time to face my foes

The ghosts the demons the skeletons the scheming
The lies...

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"He was a brave, resourceful and honest boy. He would have been a successful man under 
other circumstances. I loved the youngster in the old days and can say now after the passing 
fifty years...

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One day this old earth shall pass,
When the cosmic gods unleash their last damning curse.
Everything will be digested, into the bellies of a billion skies,
The black smoke will paint hands, waving a billion goodbyes.
It will...

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sweet decadent belly
how ever will you forgive me
i didn’t know
couldn’t know 
how to love you

i didn’t see that you were more than a belly
you were an entire person
an easy breezy lover girl committed to the...

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8 mile Road

Date: Mon, Dec 21 2015 at 1:50 AM

I hear the train coming
An I'm chasing the train humming
I see the smoke puffing
I see the light in the dungeon
I see fight Tussling
I see might Hustling
I...

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It’s Not About You

I got something to say to you
And I hope you Understand
I hope to get the message through
To interrupt your plan
You walk around with your nose
In the air looking down on me
You walk...

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I'm at work in the village market, sky of lapis, lawn of jade, 
Near the stump of the ancient chestnut where my grandpa learned his trade. 
I could close my eyes and still enjoy the...

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The reason why I gamble,
I ought to tell the truth.
Those squalid tales I spun before…
Well, don’t go seeking proof.

The one about the heart op
And my desperate plight for cash -
A pack of lies, I’m fit...

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The struggle within
Everyday I fight with self 
Everyday I hate something I have or have not done yet
Mad at the mistakes I have made
Yet becoming a woman by my mistakes
Mad at the world
Walking with out...

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Waste not want not.

 Oh the rabbit went and died. 
You should have seen us all. 
The news was  like a car, 
smashed into a wall! 

The feeling it was shock, 
i felt like...

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affectionate
passionate
considerate
thoughtful


Bend over backwards
get ya pilates on so you can be more flexible
play ya position break ya neck
know ya place Always hungry 
never full always hungry 
never willing to cook
drunk off 
i like you don't get...

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Today's racist is not your hate racist of the past.
Today's racist are just ignorant people, both good and bad.
Most see humanity,
as akin to the feline family.
There are lions and tigers, cougars and bobcats,
jaguars, leopards, cheetahs...

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Puzzled are the recipients of a fruit cake from Santa Claus this year!
Seems that Yuletide ain't complete 'less you git one to bring you cheer!

Fruit cakes are much maligned and I'm here to set the...

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I've crossed over life's next great divide
Joining others from near as well as far and wide
A new world where memories are king
And one knows not what each day may bring
Seems only yesterday that I was...

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You wake up one morning and suddenly you’re past your prime
You sit there and ask yourself, What happened to all the time?
What have I accomplished?  What contributions have I made?
Have I made the world...

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"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…"

Every time I hear a kid recite this twisted rhyme,
I'm 'minded how 'gainst Mother Nature it's a crime.
What that peck of peppers was no one can tell,
Perhaps banana,...

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I watch the neighborhood light up their houses
   in colorful displays
   of white and multicolor marvels.

Decorations blink and glow
   brightening the night
   and illuminating the darkness.

For some,...

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WHAT’S IN A NAME

My Name? 
I'll set the record straight, right now for what it's worth
Wordancer was not the name my mother gave me at my birth.
My avatar can be Emu, Fairy, Frog, or a...

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I hear, you ask about me?
        I will tell you exactly.
       All these years I was a fool.
    ...

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Humpty Dumpty had no yolk
As oft implied to younger folk.
This hatched idea in oviform
Should never have become the norm.
And so, before it is too late
I mean to set the record straight.

For Humpty was a tortoise...

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I heard the tale of Humpty Dumpty who sat on a wall,
and how he managed  to have a terrible and fatal fall.

But let me be the first to set the record straight,
everything that happened...

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My name is heard in certain circles,
and its not the best of news;
There's tales of things I've never done,
even things I'd never choose.

But they like to paint their own picture,
of who I'm supposed to be;
Is...

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For my very last poem
  I'd like you all to know
I used to live on wanderlust
  Though now it doesn't show

For my very last poem
  I'd like here to confess
That for too...

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