Long Spreading like wildfire Poems

First Version   -    (Posted 5/11/14)

Towards the end of late morning,
As noon was approaching,
And people went about their usual chores
A mighty rush of water
Swept them right off their feet.

No one knew...

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“Sunflowers”



She planted the seeds
in their minds 
that perhaps 
something of beauty
could come from the bad time

could grow there
in their dead pockets
spreading like wildfire 
futile men in their beds of disarray
across the battlefields of Magog

Sunflowers

faces turned...

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breeding frenzied jawboning 
nastiness, rock'm sock'm vermin 
zealously, dizzying hordes kickstart 
outrageous trampling, xMen busting

displays, heralding luminary 
pastoral times, Xing Bethlehem
figurine Jesus observes sacrilegious 
wackiness anarchy.

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Prayers
Make prayers a way of life
My mom would often say
Being a headstrong young girl
Disinclined to obey
Would swiftly turn my back
And hurriedly get away..

A brilliant student with excellent grades
Scored  without much struggle
Had a reputation all...

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THE  UNFORTUNATE  ARRIVAL
 "Dedicated to VICKIE MACKEY a true warrior on the battlefield for this fight against cancer "    It arrives at your front door,uninvited too rude,too fast,too Detrimental
 ...

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Towards the end of late morning,
As noon was approaching,
And people went about their usual chores
A mighty rush of water
Swept them right off their feet.

No one knew what was happening,
Innocent children drowned
Into the deep depths of...

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Pain, four letters is all it takes.

Such a small word that has such meaning,

It can drive into the most innocent teething,

As we grow old and our bodies break down,

Hidden in the depths of our minds...

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Social Commentary 


Injustices in the land 

Spreading like wildfire 

Burning, burning down the wires 

Of discrimination and bias at hand 

While quick fixes are a way to go--- 

All this and more in the American...

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Many years, I’ve seen a lot
Many things, I’ve stood and fought
Evil was there, then and now
Spreading like wildfire, somehow
I sought other kind people along the way
One worked hard and was killed one day
The corrupt organize...

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Miles....cross rivers oceans and seas
mankind bleeds
our own....caught up
placed in bodybags
 " somebody is overlooking us "
tears flooding our streets
screams echoing
 " That's Enough "
 " somebody is overlooking us "
Abomination, destruction, poverty
madness leaking into our...

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Spreading like wildfire
through a kerosene soaked forest,
infecting the mind with
its inky black threads.
She’s too fat,
he’s too skinny,
her hair isn’t perfect,
his face is full of pimples.
No matter how they try
no one is able to reach perfection,...

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Like many other viruses, they came and they went
But this one is different on so many levels
It mutates, it breeds amidst cultural surrounds
Spreading like wildfire infused in it's revel

Once it hits you, there's simply no...

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Daily we check our blood,
Interested in our score,
Another day of lancing,
Better not ignore,
Eating used to be such a pleasure,
Tomorrow could be taking insulin shots,
Earnestly trying to eat good,
So I can help my irregular pancreas.

This disease...

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There’s a panic breeding inside of me, uneasiness spreading like wildfire.
I don’t know who I am anymore, that’s because everyone else is a liar.

I feel like I’ve been picked up from nowhere and dropped into...

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In whispered darkness, pillows hold our words,
Love's deception dances, tangled, unheard.
Silent confessions, veiled in satin sheets,
A clandestine tango where gossip meets.

Promises whispered, secrets tightly kept,
Yet shadows dance on whispers never properly kept.
For love's deception thrives...

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it's devastating
painful... terminal... deadly
spreading like wildfire
taking the young and old with
zero discrimination

it's a death sentence
if caught too late...early grave
may be the sad  fate
of those souls who never knew
they had the deadly disease

Chemotherapy
helps to prolong...

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