Long Sourness Poems

If I can say it,
but not sing it,
or even hum a resonant melody
that feels like it,
then perhaps my greater gift
is silence,
at least for now,
until toxic seeds
ripen into our healthiest
resilient,
harmonious,
fertile wealth.

So, sing to me,
divinely doctrined Missionaries
and...

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Thy scalp thoroughly massaged during hair washing, 
after showering (frequently tapping the cold water faucet – 
in an effort to ramp up brisk temperature tolerance), 
an immediate process to shake out matted down hairs 
follows...

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The Scroll of Sorceress:
I do dark arts,
I do allure men to beat drums,
I cast spell through evil eye beads,
My dirty tricks no one reads,
I am someone who never cheats.
I am dark art goddess,
I am wise...

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The Greeks have three words for love, and the English has only one.
They are: Agape(Godly), Eros(Romantic), and Phileo(Friendship).                 ...

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My Lord
By: Aidan Gilbert

My Lord gave me feeling
My Lord come to my healing
Should have never looked down 
Should have never made that loud of a sound
But when you see your shadow as darkness
And dropping your...

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The world today is changing for the worst
Right before our very eyes 
With crimes, war, and destruction
 every day so many people die

we look on tv
and we shake our heads
 in this modern society
children are...

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"Absence makes the love grow"
    Absence grows love?
                      grows love??

Okay but...

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"Breaking the Lonely Rewind"
 


Hysteria ensues a small death
on a funeral pyre pushed
into a sealed and soiled
heart shaped box sunk
to swallow stone tears 
reversing reflections 
in the coldest mirrors
Tsunami waves flood
all that was green

On the...

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like a charisma or fathomless desire
that angel eve soars in this very land
begins her journey for sagacity
in awe for her love for Adam
though far but still close 
their love profound
heart lost within that sight
heartstrings has...

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Life most certainly has its ups and downs.
Sometimes life may be as breathtaking as a Galaxy of whimsical Starburst. 
Heroes and adored Lifesavers protect our most beloved towns. 
The pessimistic Goobers in life are the...

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I know I must take the long old road
Where we Skiid on the ice cold
It was the only thing I remembered about seventh grade

Our hearts were getting easier to hold on
Although it was never hard
We...

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Back to this dark, cold, 
vacuumed
space,
With no air, life,
No sort of soothe to the 
senses
You have given me.

My eyes,
Beg to see light,
But only darkness is in 
view.

My ears yearn to hear 
some sort
of,
Soothing word, 
statement,...

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Sunrise is nearing but everything has remained
still, not even the birds have burst into song.
The sky is a mixture of colours but most are 
slowly fading into the well-known blue.
A slight breeze has been born,...

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It tastes like a cold soup
prepared in love but left to sit and cool alone
on empty counter tops

It is lonely pyramids and forgotten sands
that whisper secrets with dry mouths and parched lips
that go unheard and...

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It all sparks off
With the mention of the park
Her white tail twirling
Relishing the renewal 
Of her communion with nature
Her contact with her ancestral past

Then off to the park in the car
Where ,after taking her ease,
She...

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Mommy, you carry me in your womb,
not knowing that it'll become my tomb;
mommy, on a cigarette you constantly puff,
and I, too, inhale the smoke that makes you cough...


I sense much loneliness, even though
I can't see...

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With a silence that cut through the laughter
She entered the room, bitterness
Edged around her features, portraying
Cruelty with an unfeeling sword of darkest
Gloom, dread so dismal it feels, almost,
Like grief sinking into the bones
Sullenness coughing up...

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Memories of those nights at Ekpoma
Cling on to my dreams like bees to raffia palm
Seeking for food to be produced

The Muse said we left many issues unresolved
While we sat around the well at my abode
Pondering...

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A simple pickle is the essence of life’s journey,
The recipe of a very experienced granny,
Who has put for the test of our taste bud,
emotions we all taste from cradle to mud!

Have you ever tried a...

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A cloud for every time
I reminisce, plenty enough to stir a storm;
Yet never enough to uproot the pink-apple tree 
That stood tall in my neighbour's backyard .
A shadow of one- 
you, me and the pink...

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Life,
Need Not Be
"All Briars & Half Ripe Berries"
by
Tom Wright

Much time
we spend wandering among the briars of life,
being rewarded with tart berries,
in our quest for the full and sweet.
Often resting, but never at rest,
seeking nectar for...

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I am caged in depression.
A mind in haze, prostrate in grief.
The radiance of your candlelit dinner..
I can only decimate in sourness of sad light.
I can only feel nothing,
but would you still love me?

I am helpless...

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In this land I have the will to stand free
Once lying to faith of that of wretched kings and wench queens
Walking the earth against the hot blistering winds
Life has always tried to take my breath...

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In this land I have the will to stand free
Once lying to faith of that of wretched kings and wench queens
Walking the earth against the hot blistering winds
Life has always tried to take my breath...

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Think of me as the eyes of late nightfall
crawling through a wafting sill
where lone moon cuddles dimmed glow
before she quietly slowly lays
herself on a cradle of clouds
as whistle of barn owl and incantations groans.

When dusk...

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