Long Should have known better Poems

“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to burrow 
bleed out Life’s dreams 
rust crumbles to dust

Virulent apathy spreads 
Betrayal’s destruction 
hand...

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She was always so insecure, as far back as I can remember she never realized her true worth, she let people use her, and never cared about getting hurt
If everyone else was happy and smiling,...

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I am playing with my dollies
And my princess pram all pink
I'm nearly 5
A big girl now
No more nappies
Or plastic pants
I think

I outgrew the potty
When I was only three
My mum says it's because I am brave
Now...

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Godot has arrived
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Alive and well thanks!

...said the haiku poster
Crudely pasted to the fence
Who was too busy selling stolen goods
To notice he was a notice
Announcing a brand new play
A fusion of two classics

Waiting for...

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Where Were You Daddy
where were you when I was all alone
why weren't you here after I begged you to come home
how could you leave me here with her, you were all I had
I had enough...

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 Oh, friend of mine
I am doing quite fine
I am sorry for being a burden
I am aware that I am still hurting

Fall into my arms 
Give me your charms
Betrayal beats me to the finish line
Yet,...

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A legend dwells in the polar biosphere of isolation,
In the frigid nomadic country of Siberia,
Within the forests of mighty Russia, this is the realm
Of the Manimal.
It waits in the night, lurking amongst the shadows
Of the...

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“Get Up.”
I don’t remember hitting the floor. Just the sharp cut between feeling dizzy and suddenly being on the ground. My body felt far away, like I was watching myself from outside my own skin....

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One would think that I should have known BETTER.                          ...

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She heard them loud and clear
that was the night, her life changed,
deep down inside her heart and soul
she thinks they had it prearranged.

Music played softly in the background
but she could hear it so clear,
"Let me know,...

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In the bitterest of the cold polar north shadows of illusions dwell,
Reflections of light on ice, maybe so or is there more to these
Optical delusions, the natives say creatures hide amongst these
Rocky snow covered hills,...

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I was newly hired at her place of employment. My office was not yet prepared for occupancy, so I shared an office with my superior. It happened 30 years ago and although I was a...

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Alphabet poems are sometimes called, “a,b,c” poems.
But that is incorrect because a.b.c. poems only have 25 words in them.
Commonly, that mistake is made because the lines are written in alphabetical order.
Despite a clear definition of...

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Standing on a tower, more than three hundred feet
She was watching a movie of her life,
in her head, as tears fall, and she tries to smile
She spread her arms like wings
Tears still falling, but she...

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How did I let myself get to this point
the point of no return 
of knowing who I am
or where it is I belong in this world
I was too blind not to see 
that  he...

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Uncertainty consumed
An undeniable sense
Knowing there's no you in my tomorrow. 
Feels like I'm a million miles away from you, 
In absence of person
Passing through days of agonizing longing.
Your choice, 
Not mine. 
I chose to fight...

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By morning, I could feel the first hints of warm air,
Relieved I took my bath and dressed for work.
There was no music in the block of flats,
But in my head rumbled a hundred old time...

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I was swimming in sin like a bottle in the ocean going any which way the current took me 
I was lost and turned out caught up in the so-called glamour of the streets
Having not...

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Your shoulders are broad and strong, 
Like you’ve been carrying boxes of experience, 
Like you should have known better. 

You block my way and–A signal 
for me to move–you shrug 
Shoulders lifting half an inch...

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IV

A soul was broken to make room
For dusty halls and labyrinths.
A gossamer, nylon bed-sheet shroud
Enwraps the remnants of that mind.
And no excuses can be made; 
This disease does not justify that one.
I do not sleep...

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Smacked the shalliwag’s hand good and clear
He might be my cousin, but not really dear
He was getting too close to my golden pot
He should have known better, he really ought

Hey! The Clurichaun yelled as I...

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If I wrote a suicide note,
It would go a little like this.
I would start it off addressed,
To all of those I would miss

I would say that I was sorry,
That it's none of their faults.
I'd just...

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Buried Alive, 2010
V. Ortiz Vazquez


House play with a neighbor friend
Older than I is he, yet not old enough
Husband and wife, house wife
Bread winner comes home
Home, field between houses
Time for bed, naked from the waist down...

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Oh how we've been gone wrong lately
This disc is scratched, it ain't lovely, baby
Trying my best to hear your voice
But you left me without a choice
My brain can't understand anymore
Our hearts can't take no more

Wait....

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Sandi Yak with a Monkey on Her Back 

Once in a land that is super cold, lived a Yak that is super old. 

She had a monkey that lived on her back, and his name...

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