Long Shadow boxing Poems

Father?
Have You looked at us lately?
We're so far away
And so full of hate, for each other.
Father?
Have You listened much lately?
The things that we say
Make my head hang in shame and disgrace.
Father?
Are You reading the papers?
The...

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Greek mythological
drama flourishes,
nee thrives within
noggin of yours truly
gods and goddesses
sporting Hellenic origins

purportedly cavort
higgledy-piggledy
rampantly running ragged
ruminative raconteur
resultant rueful end product
wreckage of present day me

chafing amidst yesteryear's adversities
shadow boxing doppelganger nemesis
fetus in fetu maintaining stranglehold
choking ability to...

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Lord I'm trying to design lines to give sight to the blind
that Chuk D fight the power 1989

that Brand Nubian/BDP scriptures
trying to tell them slow down or loves gonna get cha

the whole games been infected...

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The first time I lost my mind,
I was standing in the rain.
The second time the song remained the same.
My brother told me all you’ll ever need is family,
Then he walked away and was never seen...

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whispers...
 in the night send quite a bit of fright
 yesterday dreams of eating vanilla ice ceam
 outside in the street hearing people scream

 going shadow boxing & I'm not lying
 getting busy in my...

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‘When did you last see me’?

It was a Tuesday
I changed your diaper.....I can still smell your poop.

‘And then’?

You at four, your little hand tugging me into love.
At six, finger-painting;
my garish face splashed onto blank paper,
eye’s...

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Shadows  9-22-23
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Shadows

Living in ethereal shadows of compassion,
In profiles of grace,
Mercy overshadows stumbling stones
Revealed in a lens of benevolent focus
To eclipse blisters of ebony shades 
With wispy balms of healing from raining penumbras,
No longer shadow...

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You want them to be as yourself, morally depraved ever reaching 
Towards the darkness; to further these covert, self-serving agendas ?
Sprinkling a bit of powdered sugar atop of Phi Beta Kappa's nose; scholastic
Piranhas aspiring to...

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My will is ill, sick, sick, sick
    with gut-full of menace and bile.
Tongue-tied, anger locked-up inside
   I stayed on the high-side.
   and let my vicious stinging reply slide.
My...

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while shadow boxing
sometimes 
i kept on
moving dancing and
a prancing
just bouncing
off the ropes 
in my imagination and
suddenly i caught
my opponent shadow off guard
standing flat footed
so i use
the sweet science of boxing
with some 
stiff jabs plus
some body...

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Each moment grows
Birth and death
Shedding what was left

The chrome piece of time
Dangles like a wooden cross
neck lace, passionate for death
The stolen widow
Her extensions outstretched

From a windowless perspective
The universe encircles in captive dance
We are caught in...

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drifting upon this groovy scene
could this be a movie theme
you putting me here on earth
the needle tracks in both arms hurt
Lord, my knees are touching dirt
wearing this cross and this bible, first
all I need is...

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