Long Streetwise Poems

The Antics Of A Yoyo Thief

Potential life of as juvenile delinquent
(ala bam mean future streetwise thug)
stopped dead in the tracks – manacles
the above two lines hopefully gives hint
nearly changing changing life of one boy
an undersized...

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I was a kid in love, in deep adoration, oh the worship,
    The longing affection that I breathed a thousand times;
I wrote his name in my notebook, David, Dave, Mrs. David,
 ...

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There is a scar
                          On my face
   ...

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The flush of spring has bought new life to romp in greening feed,
along the border with the forest where domestic flocks do breed.
Managed through the daylight by the fear of being seen,
the sentinels of death...

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Up in Colorado, in the forests of Pikes Peak
A cranky critters conference was held just this week
It was led by a mouse, 3 legs, whiskerless & without tail
"Against a common foe!" He said "We must...

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Some children growing up in towns,
    Wear sallow faces, sullen frowns.
    Streetwise urchins, Jack the lads,
    Reminiscent of their dads.
    Guttersnipes roam nine...

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Rollin' thru the 'hood
in his signature gangsta lean
Ridin' dirty with a Mag clip,
blowin' out his favorite Tupac scheme

Poetic justice he never liked,
his 9-mil wrote his Caesar Palace demise own
Raised on a rough road ---
Hell was...

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In Hip City/Tony Adamo
where rhythms collide, and no jive is spoken/
Guru laid down the truth, a fusion of jazz and rap/ no holds barred streetwise rap talk/ Just as Herbie’s touch on keys/ his Headhunters...

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4/7/22


When push comes to shove 
On and on I trudge
Never reyling on anything below or above
People still judge
Always giving a fudge
And out for blood
At one point I was looking for love
Now I turn to the...

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A angels rebirth/ A fallen star crashing to earth/ Just a small dent in a huge planet/  Find 
the devil now!  He's the baby-bandit?  He snatched up the babe and ran./ ...

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She endured trauma as a child, that shut down her mind
Without safe adults, there was no security to find
She played outside and pretended to run away
She prayed and God answered, he heard what she had...

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Her Majesty met a Wolf and she presumed
                           ...

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Pretty adorned in scarlet Red
from head to toe undergarment
included

She goes by the name I believe
of those who know her affectionately
as

Roxanne 

With matching lipstick and eyeshadow

She has no need for blush as her cheeks
always seem plentiful...

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The chorus, a cacophony, 
as gulls exploded
from the mudflats, on the estuary,
sleet, brain-numbing,
pelted a grey curtain;
with hands thrust deep, pocket jammed,
I felt like Richard Burton,
selling his soul to Hollywood,
not quite the same, though,
when all I...

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Never met this guy, he's a facebook friend,
He reads the posts I sometimes send,
From my old neck of the woods,
From stories he tells he has done the goods.
Older than me by a mere ten years,
But...

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The kids today have a lot more responsibility,
therefore, some are quite precocious before they are
three,
They refuse to be told what to wear, and have an affinity
for designer gear,
The young ones are quite competent in taking...

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Cigarettes and alcohol 
had washed her youth away.
The fresh faced girl, with the wayward curl, 
that I knew from 'yesterday'
had now been replaced, 
by something hard faced,
playing the oldest game in town.
Her painted on smile...

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Wild Leafs flutter in a hue-laden town,
windows creak open, spritely faces gleam,
cheerful air burgeoning, no need to frown,
sweet fragrant coffee dock, a gust of hot steam,
just rejoice as the heavens don their gown

Bus stop close...

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She lately hears lyric nightingale at the sole window,
And through its bars witnesses a melancholy moon,
And her heart longs for the freedom of velvety flight,
But lessons she now knows weren't learned too soon!
An innocent victim...

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the wind was roaring
an open road forever-
           trees a blur of green

My brother brought him home for supper one day,
I recall it was a beautiful...

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Atypically,  she was alone
and silent,
wig askew,
all the muzak shut away
behind her half-closed door.
I knew that she had also  drawn
the blinds within her mind,
to soften the impetuosity
of joy.

She struggled
to pull back the thoughts
that like...

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In the tangled jungle of my mind
creepies and crawlies
bite and suck.
They feast on your blood
and fill you with venom.
Howls of the night
keep you from rest,
and contorted vines
grab at your feet.

Oh, and the poisons
that turn your...

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the girls who stand streetwise in tights,
beneath the sparkling city lights
displaying wares on summer nights
attempt to sell their own delights
 
young men and old they will entreat
and turn down none in all they meet
they pinky...

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Burning twisted battered cells
A thousand needles a thousand hell's
Addiction...affliction... crucifixion...
Who cries for their demons...they do

Empty spaces with empty faces a heart is torn
All the while in denial a new crack baby is born
Come inside...my genocide......

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I don’t want to see
Unpleasant sights like
Unfortunate folk in
Hospital beds clinging
On to hope when the 
Outcome is inevitable
And I don’t want to 
Witness poorer folk
Pleading for a penny on
The street when most 
Other folk just...

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