Long Slacked Poems

Oh how wonderful it is to be alive. Oh how wonderful it is to be able to grow; mentally and maybe even physically. But what kind of happiness do you extract from the success you...

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Degenerative issues for the gunshop owner
are also regenerative opportunities from the gardener.

Lack of civil civics lessons slacked 
for small persons made of evil
is also opportunity to learn love's live,
is evil respelled backward.

Please stand as you...

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(Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand)
POEM 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
POEM 3. Yet A Cure Within Light's Truth,...

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Far from the surging crowd,the aesthetic mass ever loved
For,some fascinated to drilling mud,more satiated with coconut ground
Most elated admiring flowering buds,all hailed for herbs, spices,Salmon or squid
But there came the most tyrannous deluge with a...

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"Oh, hi",said an old granny, 
Her ashen face lit up with a wide smile, 
I greeted her back but with melancholy, 
As I was feeling low for quite a while. 


She instantly asked, "What's wrong,...

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I don't  believe this­ how could it be?
The love of my life ­just walked out on me
Now is when the hear­tbreak comes to call
Unbelievably In an i­nstant I just lost it­ All

Unsure whether to scr­eam...

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I see the broken smile, the frown hidden so good
Depression hitting it's hardest, who know that it would
Who knew that it could, destroy somebody's life so quick
Wreck a family, it stabbed like a knife so...

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Part 3:          AT HEAVEN’S GATES

To set Her free from destiny was far from my design,
but, though unplanned, I touched Her hand to give Her peace of...

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The pages laid beneath her
With imprints of her shed smiles
Cause they are still laughing in the grey flashes
But nobody halts the time ,it just dashes.

Now, the flickering candles dry up her wet lashes
And The womb...

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Life has been normal and strange, exciting and lame
Fought, begged, pleaded. Just to play the game
Wished and dreamed of fortune and fame
Searched for an escape from all the pain
I’ve been good, I’ve been bad, everything...

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Ponder life lost. Ponder gain tossed away as stranger unwelcomed news disturbs slumber. Ponder hope dropped at final moment. Ponder sweet steam rise from tinted windows wild festival in back seat. Ponder terrifying dreams. Ponder...

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Knee high to a grasshopper
Not an ounce of grace
In a split second he would swap her
For a pretty face

She asked him to play
And drown a worm
Not today, he would say
As he'd fidget and squirm

Swimming in...

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A Poem by Gideon Idudje.O

blood eyes

Though my eyes are pouring
Yet I see very c l e a r l y.
Though thought make me heart scream
Still am full of strength,
Like the relay just began.

It seems my...

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Last night I was drinking and watching Hard Rain
I went outside for a smoke and saw a real hard rain
plowing down on the ground surrounding me
My first reaction was to take a walk,
same as always
This...

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When I was young, I had a dream
and saw life in a different perspective.
I saw life as a park,
where I could just come, play and go.
I thought time was slow
so I slacked and relaxed.
I had...

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The sky blackened in the west about sundown
Bringing a sudden specter of terror, to my surprise,
Like the chill that grips you when you hear gunshots
Up the block.  Slacked mouth and wide-opened eyes
Need calm assurance...

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when solitude is sought,
on a rthynmic angle,in low note,
resonance is caught,and inspiration is bundled.

When voices 're heard as acapella,
and the throat stretches like an orchestra,
behold,its love that pours and sprinkles
 what every youthful heart 'll...

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If sunlight always beat darkness,
and good always triumpheted over sin.

If happiness glazed every frown,
and when it comes to fights the hero always wins.

If every apple was round,
and white purified black.

If people were never poor,
and in...

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Are you saying after I just spent over twenty dollars
On something that doesn’t work I can’t get my money back?
.
And my jaw is slacked open and it’s hard to believe;
And I’ve already paid them so...

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A time-tested spiritual banking,
Higher and higher one goes in ranking,
Slammed doors sweetly unlocking,
Hindering barriers unblocking…

From the wall one has been flung
And like a bag on a peg hung,
One beautifully bounces off,
Once more cooking better-off
Your trifle...

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Please" A Big No!"to contract 
That would Shaolin kicks attract,
From a modest aim detract;
Flow of air slow down in tract.

"No"to cheques you never checked;
Much like grains hens never pecked,
Post-dated cheques quick dreams wrecked
And issuer's good...

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Wide-eyed and nerves clenching,
I await the vacancy that fills the page
As eraser smudges and blackened lead
Sear through stanzas left for dead

Leering on the verge of lines,
I hear the symphony come to a halt
Captive sounds unravel...

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"Wart you laughing at"

There once was a witch with a wart
Who liked to tell jokes and hold court
She had all the bats laughin'
Then the vamp in his coffin
Surprised everyone with a snort

"Lackadaisical"

There once was a...

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O! Grim reaper 
I know of your essence
Instrument of fate
But your bones should be weary and leaden
Your scythe should have slacked it's thirst for gore 
For numberless souls have you shuffed their mortal coil 
Yet,...

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