Long Subtracts Poems

Lovely Roses

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I. Early Childhood’s Gifts

Gift 1:
Is love felt from our parents, our friends a true gift
or more something we earn bit by bit over time,
(a child adds to, subtracts from, as days turn to years)?
This is...

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A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
U - - U || U UUt U U - || U - X
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
U U - || U UUt -...

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Somedays I feel like I'm surrounded by bars and bricks
encaged on a stage in tar that sticks.
There's an agonisingly unfamiliar reflection in the mirror,
as my eyes detect an unrecognisable inferior figure.

I can't see the stars...

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When you were little,
we wandered the sunlit shore—
your laughter a bright echo
mingling with the rush of waves.
I watched as the sea snatched your red ball,
a tiny planet swallowed by surging tides,
whispering, “Hold fast to hope;
the...

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Note - Dear readers this poem is NOT written intentionally about someone.

My apology(sorry ) is so expensive , everyone can't afford.
My apology is actually very expensive everyone can't afford.
If a person wants to listen sorry...

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Written By:  D. Collins 7/14/23


Karma is nothing but how we choose to live.
Whether we take from, or have the heart to give.
Things we have done, may creep up 10 years later.
Like a person we...

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Focus on His faithfulness,
Especially His past acts.
Respond with your faithfulness,
For disloyalty subtracts.

When lion and lioness
Surround for deadly attacks,
Determine to praise and bless,
For His strength counteracts.

Don't forfeit His loyal love.
It's greater than life itself.
Fellowship with Him...

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Don’t cause the problems, give them a solution. 
The workers were hanging on electric boxes,
And diving in the heaps,
To search the words where files were burning,
And stretching off the mentality.

Nerves were tightening,
Muscles were pulled forward...

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mirrors refract of blue, grays and greens
molded together, patchwork of leans
drowning withouts more than floating withins
mindsided promises, neglectful of ends
dripdry conundrums in, neat stagnant rows
labias monotonous, pink ugliness grows
necrofeelya coagulants, defy deadbeat hearts
knooseful riddance, mattressinal...

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A stretched gloaming tethers creation in a 
daystar's wake ... askew parts The Old Guitarist 
ebbing lambent stars strung to a yarn of spring ...

'Tis the volley of calendrical crasis 
poised to a youthful Einstein...

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Sometimes I think if we had paid better attention to basic math 
it would be easier to follow our hearts….
and the Earth would be one whole…
instead of broken into parts.

I imagine in elementary school we...

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FATAL ATTRACTION
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His lucent light illumines her eyes
His face outshines the sun
His ethereal beauty unveils the skies
Her vibrant vision swiftly succumbs

Her silenced tongue, his intimate touch
His intangible hands sliding/slithering
Spiraling down with a gentle glide
Her body cold...

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Sometimes I sit and wonder: 
Would our world be on a better path
if in elementary school we paid more attention
to the lessons we learned in math.

I imagine back then we didn’t understand
how those lessons would...

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Tenebrous night steals autumn days,
Invading ink subtracts the breath of light,
With tarnished mingling edge,
With dusty dusk’s laments.

Tenebrous night of immutable grave,
Infiltrating melanin loots the golden glow,
Where criminal and crucifix sink,
Where dream and delirium drown.

We are...

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sharpening our pencils, mending our shoes
a man of many a shade and trade
dressing our wounds,piercing our ears
squeezing glasses of fresh lemonade

to instill in us values and principles
never-ending lore, anecdote and fable
always radiant in the light...

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Digital age, digital technology, digital people
Digital adds to life
Digital subtracts from life
But why?
Because:
People make things
People change things
People use things
People abuse things
So:
Digital education for everyone
Then:
Digital technology for everyone
Young and old, rich and poor, here and there
Reboot...

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What is the indication of the rise?
Is rise wanted to say something?
Rise say you inspire the rise
Is this truth is this fact
I want to do a journey of your heart
Give me permission for this search
I...

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Color

Gazing out of  my window 
at delightful verdant scene,
I might declare my favorite 
is springtime’s vibrant green.

Then looking at the bright sky,
I might change to azure blue,
for I wouldn’t want a green sky
as I’m...

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Open sky
 The blue lake has numerous 
 waves Is evolving with.
 In the fog frenzy
 The hills around
  Unclean existence proves;
 On this side the green is on the hill
 A  gentle, sweet,...

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Her time ensures Summer’s erased slate for winter.
Fall subtracts while she distracts with earth-toned glitter.

Autumn kisses summer from our skin her first day.
She flirts us into her crispy, sun-somber way.

See vibrant leaves now fall in...

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