Long Sugarless Poems

THE FACE OF DEATH

   On Monday March 14th 2011, at 1:05 PM, I believe I was looking into the face and eyes of Death, as we drove to Her, school .

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I JUST CAN’T HELP IT, YA KNOW?

Elderly Lady: Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
First Alert: Duly noted, will there be anything else?
Elderly Lady: Are you going to call an ambulance?
First Alert: Ambulance? ...

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No matter how much you make yourself believe, 
That you have a baby, 
That your drawing for somebody is more than someone else's life, 
That your visions on the other side of the earth 
Are...

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This new age technology
Have me confuse I must confess
Cause while I spending more money
Everything else is getting less

I will give you some example
Hope you don’t get depress
But if I’m telling the truth 
Just answer and...

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When I knew no healing elixir and no cure
I never wanted to give you hopes
Yet, I lied, beautifully lied, giving hopeless hopes
Promising everything will be fine, soon 
But inside, a part of me was dying	

When...

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Today there was no electricity
So I slept off the day
Most of the nights past had been so long

Soon it was as usual
Went into my past
It wasn’t as enticing
Still a lot of mediocrity
Met a few friends...

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AT  FIFTY-TWO  CARRYING  MILK  TOOTH.
Oh  Nigeria
I  speck  as  a  barren  sister
Mirage  that  darkness  glitters,
Oh  Nigeria
Principals  with  voiceless  whispers
Ministers...

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You left me broken, left me torn and lying on the ground. These sheets were dirty, never 
cleaned the spot where you tied me down. Your scent still lingers, feel your fingers, 
tell me when...

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Now for warm oatmeal with honey and her sugarless tea
To this chrysoberyl dawn rescue from chuted linen bedlam,
For here's a bedside tale to whispered promise and plea.

She sits on her hands and shuffles her ugg...

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His Discarded Love Letter To Her

His love letter to her,
quickly
discarded
didn't fill her envelope
or her heart
for his
dying flame
that never grew.
And a match to candle
brought little light.
For a caricature of us,
eleven months later,
drawn by his voice
brought
shades darken,
shapes...

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Long, slim, chocolate, and divine
Most men, and even some women pine... feign over this birthday suit of mine
Smooth layers with no assistance from oil of olay
I sport my suit proudly as if everyday were my...

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TWO COUPLETS ON  “ FLAWLESS  vs  FLAWS “

POEM    1

I had no idea what he meant :
We bought a small  one-roomed unfinished apartment.
He said I was too critical, always...

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A SHANGRI-LA  IN  HELL.

I feel at peace with the roll at hand.
At a place of bliss, whenever I take a puff.
My mum call it beast.
My wife call it monster.
My sweet cigar.

At a tender...

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Business in my head … it won't stop
When it starts it can't end
Where it ends nobody knows
Decisions, decisions - always, never ending.

With the wind in my face, wheels turning around and around
I hear the YellowJackets;...

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AT 60
 
For 60 summers, I am
With memories wrinkled
As age has conceived
What time had committed. 

And mark the day with a chiffon cake
One sturdy candle at the center
A wish to whisper only once
But no one...

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SOMETHING NEW

          Born with sweet tooth
          Most lovely great truth.
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My bears' beard came in when I turned eighteen.
I dipped my audacity in manhood
and it spit me out like sugarless tea.
The trenches near sent me back to curfews.

A man must talk and bear his own...

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Only one of the haiku poems below is serious. The others are frivolous. Can you spot the serious poem?

zero, one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve

Do four out of five
dentists really prefer
sugarless...

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