Long Sickles Poems

Written: November 27, 2024, For Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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Whimsical...

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Moments are not the retinue of time. There is one which

decides the turning point of mankind. I can’t hand over to sighs

that time which stands and beckons me. To hell with the shades

to recline and...

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Looming way up high in the sky, holds a friendly, but shy star; which posses the caring, and strong-willed 
determination, which controls the poor star at every waking moment.
The determination to fit in and be...

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Part Two

Do you remember your run-up to the crease
      your Lindwall-delivery dragging the clasping flannel round hobbled boots
your anger
           ...

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behold now everything on this earth;
    the fields with abundance of grain,
    palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
    the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that...

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Listen no more to these words I speak

Whenever they have been preceived to be

Dipped into the tissues cup, of bitten agains tainted truths....

Hear me sigh this breath of deepened remorse

Within these pangs of fleshes amissful...

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UNBEARABLE DARKNESS OF  
NEAR VOID

Unbearable darkness of near 
Void
when my Heart sits indigo 
at the back of my throat  
I see no endearing 
vacant eyes of guides
grit in joints scream 
generational curse 
which...

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More than a vacation, a vocation
In the field of tranquility you
Search the Caribbean blue
Sensation or mental refuge

White sandy beaches wet
Peaches in drinks collect
Making the experience perfectly
Sweet, worthy as a bodily

Treat. Club nights, escapes
In lantern light...

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You walked those savage streets
Without a clue
Without a care
You could not see the dangers or sense that death was everywhere
Predators and prowlers...they all look for parts to play
They saw you as a playground
Your heart and...

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A continuation of Rick Keeble's "The day innocence died"  

The two sides locked eyes, neither wanting to blink, both ready to fight. The villagers though not out manned, their crude weaponry was no match...

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We loved the lollipops, cracker jacks, and Holloway candy sticks.                         ...

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The Tear Collector


Tears they fall, sometimes bless-ed
In their burning
Watered reminders of a hearts capacity
To connect emotions
Soft welling they sting
And find their language of wet lashes
Run their courses
As ancient rivers carve their way
Through stone barriers 

Tears...

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In the dirty hands of poverty,
 Scavengers of the Republic of Enlightenment
 Quench their thirst under the eyelids of the proletarians.
 A sinecure of hard drugs
 To silence the lamentations of these birds of ill...

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lunatics and liars...werewolves and warlords all conspire...
striking the match and setting the fire
with dark desire bringing terror to the task...with synthetic souls they wear the lambsmask

predators posing as prophets puttin on the lambsmask take off...

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The summer men are standing, alone upon a wretched stone,
Contorted, bent and torn. Dressed in paper-like ragged clothing,
The ashes of the universe, they are brother less bone,
Forming declarations from hearts made barren by their loathing.

The...

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In the dream my nightmare strikes,
With human faces like zombies,
Hairy and teeth like vampires,  
Deep in the jungle beneath the caves.
I tried to run but my feet were stuck,
Something holding them down,
The scream wouldn’t...

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Early on, exhilarating dreams were born deep within my soul.                         ...

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My life is as the waterfall 
No matter the effort I put forth
I continue to fall into the canyon

With strength of hope and prayers 
I climb against forces with  my head raise to the heavens
As water gushes...

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?There were fireflies like genies with lamps
 And the wind that played harps
 For the forest's slow dance.
 Did we ever return without new songs?

 There were battles to vanquish sleep
 We yearned the fields...

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May we be saluted as we stand brave and tall. 
For we do not smile into the face of danger, though we brace ready for the brawl.

What is that, that that I see, it's the...

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Two wheeled commuters with heads booted with helmets, dotted the highway;
The four wheeled rich hooted at pedestrians daring to cross their path,
While rental three wheelers heated them all, filling even places like foot path; 
Traffic...

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Fragile fragments lachrymose, sanctified sapphire rivulets, lamentable malevolence of my fetters, is there a sanctuary from this tableau to which I am shackled as you cascade down the window pane?
Exorcise this spectral phantom hovering above,...

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Gone are the days when Blissful Power wandered
The world and people were blessed with miracles.
The sufferings of the mankind now echo unheard,
As hands of Humanity are tied with wicked sickles.

Hunger of the Deprived, Clothing of...

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Those monsters creep into my bed.
Each sleeping snuggly in my head,
Until alas in dreams they wake.
To make me shiver, cry, and quake.

Those huge white teeth reflecting light,
And eyes that sparkle in the night,
Attack my soul...

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When the present is a hollow shadow of the future past

And the wild reaper casts his spell on stagnant aspirations

The harvest flooded in crushing tears at midwinter pain


He decides to live the courageous fantasy of...

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