Long Stretchers Poems

This is my story,  
It is a sad story to tell, 
Open ears and eyes,   
The bloodbath of more than 500 people , 

"Some burried alive... Yooh!
I continue crying  while writting this story to you...

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Morning came alive with rockets and missile pounding over my head and screams and shouts crying out like bleating sheep and empty vessels coming from the cemetery and everyone was in a hurry to bury...

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From the heart of green naïve village
surrounded by corps field, mosque, ponds, 
ancestral grave yard, school, college, 
madrasah (islamic school) etc he is

brothers, sisters with parents, a beautiful family 
with relatives, neighbors he had

learned person...

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A quick pre-Halloween poem to capture a creepy funeral home scene. 
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T’was the night before Halloween, the funeral home quiet.
All the tables were taken, like a frightening, dark Hyatt.
Stretchers were full of our customers too,
Varying...

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What a name called? 
Football a game called, 
To known arena called stadium, 
Played eleven to eleven side to side each, 
Formations of it kinds, 
Aims of a two goal post net, 
Aims of a...

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The Grief of Gaziantep.

Hotter than a Dragon’s kiss, 
the seas boil under saffron sun.
Tiny thrumming mosquitoes zone on sweating, caramac skin,
Customer entertainment...hanging from shop fronts,
nine carat gold cages lure buyers in,
imprisoned, flush-red faced finches,
wings of...

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I was Second Lieutenant of the Army Nurse Corps, 
At Pearl Harbour when it was attacked and bombed;
I was in my room at the nurses’ quarters, a store, 
Near Tripler Army Hospital, six miles from...

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In the Darkened Foyer


There you are again.
Walking this darkened foyer, and that carpeted hallway,
Eyeing the sunken-eyed dancer who forgets she’s not alive;
She’s just passing by all the sickness of dissipated humanity, 
Wrapped in a single...

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So this be the day after
  nineteen forty-one
    Be December the eighth, the
      nightmare has begun.
        Pearl Harbor still...

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Her heart is located in every part of her being
and bones, calcified with the vitamins of meekness.
Peace begins and ends her collection of any intention
and her reaction, irrespective of situation
always avoids its rights of being...

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DREAMTIME: STATE FAIR OF MIND 

the barren vendor 
 sold wishes 
 to those 

 hoping 
 to 
 forget 

 at the back of the room 
 wizened old men 
 sat together on...

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[September: we mourn the existence of death that stroll 
towards father's eyes, but we'll keep outstriding this storm]

My beloved drew nectars from the stretchers
of my smile & was lifted.
in my ship,
she sails through the raging...

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Shards of glass catch the sun's fluid rays,
reflecting tiny rainbows into human eyes.
Twisted shells of metal vehicles
lie bleeding in the midst of human flies.

Anguished cries haunt the fragile ears,
while the pavement drinks the juice of...

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Look out you might see them
scuttling down your street
patting the neighbour’s dog 
nodding to people they meet

They lurk on hospital corridors
wearing their black shiny shoes
then scour obituary columns
for all their latest news

They follow people on...

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Returned...no home and shaken by the past
Awaken lonely and reduced to quick sand
I try to stand up facing Fate once more
Indifferent audience then... Now? a silent, curious watch...

I feel my arms again against a stronger...

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A long neck giraffe,
I saw at the zoo.
And I wished my head
could be up high, too!


Daddy, I asked,
Why is my neck so small?
I want a giraffe's neck,
long and tall.

Then I could touch
the sky so blue,
just...

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How wisdom of a young king flourishing
 like  watered flowers. 
         Quote by poet.

Sometimes some people praise their leaders 
After winning some great battles.  
When King Mndala Chimbalanga
Won the war  against King Kalonga 

All the Yao...

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