Long Sharpener Poems

I smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags, and nonsense lived.

You stared me in the eyes, since the...

Read More

He studied and sought dreams to become a teacher
Sometime his days and plans are torn to pieces
Leaving place of learning without a backward glance
Onward to a School of not his choosing.
Area described as working class
Teenage...

Read More

what lurks behind the shadows takes refuge in the
places that one cannot speak without a lawyer and
a place to stay when the going gets rough in the
shadows right out there buried & bustling without
restraint without...

Read More

(10/25/12)

The black days of history that many do not know
And many refuse to accept - of how the black man
Helped AMERICA to be the greatest country yet.

They was brought here as slaves because the 
Color...

Read More

August 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 21-24

Key Verse – Ezekiel 21:9 … Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SWORD...

Read More

grandma had always been a magical offspring of nature

collected herbs images mushrooms psychedelic support

tattoo in her mind rebellion independence and freedom

mescal beans at stakes looking like witches’ broomsticks

cultivated night shade a belladonna of sorts in...

Read More

I glanced out my window watchin' kids plod along to school today.
I recalled my school days and how things have changed along the way
I watched the little fellers hunched over with their over-loaded packs.
'Tis a...

Read More

•BAD CHOICES•
 
In the dance of love, they chose amiss,
Partners whose embrace stung like a kiss.
It's a world of nuts thread and bolts, 
Also, a world of sharpeners and pencils.4

The sharpener is in a union...

Read More

They say education is the key. 
A key that can open all closed doors. 
A sharpener to our minds. 
Provider of brighter life and expectations.
	it's like a shining lamp in a dark world
	even better than...

Read More

I want to steal things, and take what is not mine
I want to leave this place, I think I’ve served my time

I must be good and make no fuss;then they will take the bars away
And...

Read More

When I was young I remember owning a box of 64 Crayola crayons…
It came with a sharpener on the back too…
I remember of all those 64 crayons…my favorite color was blue.

With my blue eyes I...

Read More

i won't hang around
for the furrows around your lips to point to the floor
i've had enough for tonight
so here you are
my final insult
i hope it tears as it kills

i'm taking my will along with me
i...

Read More

(In Tudu Hospital in the former Saigon,
several hundred dead babies have been
preserved in formaldehyde.  They are
hideously deformed as a result of their
mothers having been contaminated by
Agent Orange, a chemical diffused in
Vietnam as part of...

Read More

POET’S SPORTS 
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are magnets and sharpener,
We sharpens people,
We are poets,
We are happy,
We are great,
We are poets,
We cannot cover our faces,
For we are great,
We are behind the fall of great British,
But...

Read More

I am black and I have the ability to glorify the King
I am great and in believing in him, I have authority over all things
I am the Father and Mother of past, present and future
Peacemakers,...

Read More

sinking putt
kicking butt
sticking shut
humiliating hut
feeling gut
asking what
removing rut
dancing strut
having been cut
muttering mut
becoming nut

News reporter on MSNBC talked about
"Sinking putt" and I thought he had said,
"Kicking butt." Rest of words above also
came to mind.

Seems like cloth...

Read More

one day i know i will be only a mere memory to someone like i mirror in the water
i guess these days this is why i smile even though i do not get the same...

Read More

You don’t know what it feels like
So STOP your fake pretending
A life is much more difficult
Through the eyes of the depressing 

You seem so amused, you spoiled little princess
The world is so different, when you...

Read More

I, the sleeper and dreamer
Wish for your end
Is it wrong, blasphemer?
Should I break, should you bend?

I sharpen your demise on a pencil sharpener
Peeling you away….reaching your core of lead
Should I break or should you bend?
Or...

Read More

Everything is 'normal' - the balance has shifted,
even lady footballers have suddenly become gifted,
electric cars and now public trips to the stars,
it's said that certain sexual people may be banned from bars.

I'm not smoking in...

Read More

What a girl wish 

I keep her words as a sharpener into my art of 
Soul the blade of her beauty 
Scratch my wounds 

What a girl wish is as hard as hard like to...

Read More

To our Christian Public:
Anglican or Catholic 
But also to The Interested Muslim
Abdullah or Taslim,
Vacancies have we for A Cleaner,
Whose Sense of Hygiene is keener,
A Customer-Friendly Waiter,
Not wishing to be tipped later,
A Vibrant Security man,
Who would...

Read More

Blinking Like Ferrets


I've been too busy
the last two years to chat
with anyone in the office.
Today, however, I pause
at the pencil sharpener
while my co-workers
calculate and jot.
It makes no difference, you see,
if I remain silent until retirement
or...

Read More

I awaken, cold and groggy
Not sure if I'm dreaming 
It's dark, feel something in my mouth 
Words won't form, I cannot speak
Just muffled grunts
Wait, I'm gagged, blindfolded
Can feel feet and hands tied
I hear feet shuffling...

Read More

Why Do You Write? 
The sleepy poem asked me
Before it vanished in my shy pencil

Speechless were my boats 
On the waves of her eyes
When the sixth nail in my palm 
Rode the the pencil I...

Read More