Long Stammers Poems

Climbing from the sands, velociraptors turn as one
Triceratops and stegosaurs arise to share the fun
And then they march en masse toward that briny maelstrom
And Adam Adams yells, “They’re heading back where they came from!”

Suddenly, so...

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The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but four years of age
Birthdays were such magical moments
The cake was...

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It’s Friday afternoon. Anna, Lisa, Leong and I are sitting around our common room - sagging actually - after a long day.
“I need a break,” I said, “now’s the time - today, this day -...

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05/13/14

What I Gave

Why sleep when
dreams of her only
cause me to spiral
deeper?
What once woke me up
smiling now jolts my
body awake in cold
sweats.

No more are the
nights where my mind
drifts away into the
peaceful happiness
of her arms before
easing into...

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Plastic Vodka



Cheap vodka from a plastic bottle
Burns my throat
Stops the pounding in my heart beat
Slack dream the heady wishings
Of a million burning kisses
Stammers on a single glass rim
Ah… why should we be apart

And the air...

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POEM: ‘STOP DISCRIMINATION!’

By JAQUIN MOOGI MOKAYA
(July 7th 2018 8.57pm East African Time)

	Group 1: Assertion	              Group 2: Response

1.	Look at you!	   ...

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I love you so much, that
you can only disgust me now
All your flaws and red flags spark 
crimson, like a seductive rose.

Gross and yet longing for your
body to seek for every blemish there
To point, prod...

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The river smells like damp cotton this morning,
the weather has been so complimentary to our exertions
frost invades the nights nicely and soft sunshine comforts our faces in daytime,
we have been averaging 26 miles per day...

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Conscious extends out a hand
"Are you alright?" it gently asks subconscious
.
A garbled mutter is heard, and conscious looks on concerned

"I know we haven't seen eye to eye as of recent" he stammers forth, "but you...

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The following verse is the result of an email exchange I had with Rabbi Tovia Singer. He admitted, in an email to me, that he knew he was telling a false tale. But he never...

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She stares lost, into the distance
far removed from the sounds of life.
Her book, she ignores, as she ponders
soft are her eyes as memories surface.

She starts as her hand hits the keys
then plays a few notes...

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Stammering Keir Starmer.... 

This Keir Starmer,
He's a Grandma harmer,
Not a ganja farmer.
He's a Bit of a dahmer,
Here in Britain,
Nothings calmer,
Like this Man,
Is a body embalmer.
Where's his charm-a,
A political armor,
In the House of Commons,
He’s a drama...

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Pushed up from stomach's abyssmal pit
Choked off cries, constraint deformed
Packed with panic's punches
Right here where words are formed
Throat cords tightly gripped
Resistance rules my holding back
While mouth stammers mind blown shock
Fear sped thoughts fly blindly
Wild-eyed in...

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Blood Curdled at The Chilling Quill

Sanctuary I prayed
Feet stumbling at a wet dank alter
Crumbled brick the skeletal shell
Of ancient cathedral 
Safety

Mausoleum in the gloom of battered drips
Their ghostly quill of written blood
And zombie skins of...

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Living within this one body 
is a person able to speak 
but also one who is not 
stammering making one so weak 

Many a disability is plain to see 
but this one is not so...

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A raw quiet
stretches like a membrane
across the night.
Pulled tight it waits to amplify
the slightest sound.
Each passing minute dials up
the volume of a nerve
strung to snare
the powdery whispers of a moth
or the faint ticking wheezed
out of...

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She stammers, losing some words that her years cheat
while her sunken eyes gleam, beads in velvet sheet.

She stops gaping blankly as her brain tries journeying back,
to pick out bits from the remnants of history, in...

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I've been jealous of Time,
sharing it with the foot steps of Days
feeding it to the appetite of Age,

Possessive of unbuyable beauty
that roams reckless within a creation fenceless,
senseless ownership, owning only the yawns of yesterdays,
jealous of...

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She stood amidst the crowd
Cleared her throat,
Her mind as well.
Her fingers sweat, her knees shake,
Opened the question she earlier picked.
She read, her voice trembling,
"Do you believe in fairies? Kindly explain."
A laughter broke from the audience,
Cachinnated...

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I noticed her two weeks ago.
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her
and tripped as she sat down.
She's always late for classes,
stammers her apologies,
flustered and myopic, her glasses 
primly perched upon...

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I noticed her two weeks ago.
She flew into my physics lab 
like hell itself was after her
and tripped as she sat down.
She's always late for classes,
stammers her apologies,
flustered and myopic, her glasses 
primly perched upon...

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He hides his wisdom
beneath his thick glasses
He uses his pen
to say what he knows

He conceal himself
with his infamous words
of what he understands
nobody could comprehend

He barely speaks
For he stammers a lot
But he read so much
So he...

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Very soon marmosets and moose
will get their vaccines.

A lone gnome fishes in a Koi pond.

The light of the moon
has been dimmed by a Chinese switch.

Elite bands of cockatoos
fight for free speech, but just for themselves.

Preening...

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Looking inside yourself is no east task
things found there aren't too nice
but you can't ignore for ever
ignorance will eventually charge a price

One so alone so often
even in crowds an only one
but have accepted this years...

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 Cognitive simplicities reveled in each line
Nothing is impeccably right, nothing is fine
I reach the path where a lie is justified by words
By the time it is finished they flee like birds
Into a path where...

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