Long Shea Poems

My auntie winter's icy breath wacked my bare face hard, when I step out earlier on
She gave me the cold shoulder and iced me out with a frosty glare for no reason at all 
it's...

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Black Messiahs live never to cause war,
Their ambitions even surround every other person behind their city wall.
All dwellers in the world hails their friendly law,
Black Messiahs are just humans, but their beauty makes oceans roar.
Powerfully...

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I spent my senior year saying I was full 
when all I did was discreetly place food
in the napkin on my lap
A bowl of corn, every other week feed my body
A friend asked me once...

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realising the world is built on dreams
everything that has been written
and dreampt up eventually gets a chance to exist
in some way or another
even if it only dwells in our souls

Realising that not everyone is going...

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Motherland
             Journeying into the unknown
             Journeying into a deep soil
 ...

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(In 1964, Paul McCartney was staying at 
57, Wimpole Street, the home of Jane Asher.  
McCartney was allowed to use the basement 
for writing (Margaret Asher, mother of Jane,
was a professor of music, and...

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Two National League teams departed New York City
when the Dodgers and Giants left the vicinity.
Both teams went to California out on the West Coast.
The Big Apple was without a National League host.
An expansion four years...

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Dua
You know my needs, wants, and desires way better than I could possibly articulate. Yet, I feel like being expressive on this platform, for the sake of the audience. 

Please remove the veil between she...

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Let Not Your Soul Be Burdened

The soul is where the mind doth dwell,
Always somewhere
 it's never in limbo -
Your soul is filled, never void. 
So, think of life abundantly; 

“May I enjoy you today"?

So, that...

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Love they said was a music and you were its composer 
I remember you and all I ever knew was nothing but you 

I lost my heart when our eyes met and since then I...

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Destiny conspired and planned our intersection
So she came my way
And I crossed her path
Spontaneous love
Not hastened, not rushed
Her name, Peace
 My sweet angel.
 
Down the “apian” way we walked the walk and did the talk.
The...

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New York baseball fans had to face reality.
Coast to coast travel attained practicality.
Jet planes carried us west within a day.
As a result, the Giants and Dodgers both went away.
The Giants headed for San Francisco, and...

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Soul knowledge grown thru emotional searches
Eclipses vain ego perches attempts to take charge.
Living should be large from our soul’s core will,
Feeling joy thrill and pain spill, gilds soul’s sheaf.

Allow belief to trigger your spiritual agenda.
Cite...

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We rode beyond the flip
Of Walter and his friends,
On this homo steady slip
In the cabin to the west,
Where the pride of lions sleep
All night till the end.

On the hillside of west,
The corns are left for...

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We rode beyond the flip
Of Walter and his friends,
On this homo steady slip
In the cabin to the west,
Where the pride of lions sleep
All night till the end.

On the hillside of west,
The corns are left for...

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I was born
in October of 
   1955
One could hear 
  the World Series 
from the hospital room 
The famous series where
     the "Brooklyn Bums"
    ...

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-Coming our to the parking lot
-A girl runs up to me
-I've seen her talking to others,
-Before they drove off
-Thinking she's just trying to play them
-And before she says anything
-i can already tell her story is...

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First Steps
by Michael R. Burch

for Caitlin Shea Murphy

To her a year is like infinity,
each day—an adventure never-ending.
She has no concept of time,
but already has begun the climb—
from childhood to womanhood recklessly ascending.

I would caution her,...

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Love sweet Boundaries


Emotions rolls past the boundaries of our
heart, not knowing why everything
has to end in strange unseen ways.

Love does not just hang around till you tell
it to leave, it crawls deep within the soul
of...

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HER HEARTS ACHING
FOR SOMEONE SHE DON’T WANT TO SAY,
THE ONE PERSON WHO WOULDN’T STAY.
SHE’S BREAKING,
OVER A LOVE THAT WENT AWAY.
ONE THAT WILL HAUNT HER FOR THE REST OF HER DAYS.
SHE’S JUST A LONELY FIGHTER
IN LOVE...

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Today is a hurting day for all of us since Robert Anthony
Dollar was taken away before his time five years ago today
our love shall never die for him, he is family and had many
friends in...

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What a world you've made for me sweetheart
 a world filled with brilliance and sunlight
 to make me smile.

 Your eyes glowed like stars, you lifted
 me to heaven without trying the day
 you entered...

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Now I see 
    that 
World Series time 
  has arrived 
Seems to me that something 
   is missing there
      The NY Mets 
aren't...

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Joy rued another Friday night
of re-runs. What a sorry plight!
"No more!" she cried. "I'll head for town,
where I'll lose this pathetic frown."

Why would a loner feeling blue
take in a movie meant for two?
Before the show,...

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Having been converted the year before
Dr Graham came over the following year
to preach at Mission England in the UK
Sunderland was the nearest venue I could hear

I decided to spend a week down there
an opportunity to...

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