Long Swell up Poems

                      I
 Remember when days were long
   and all de children do...

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At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago

Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a StraightWhiteMale
born-again
wanna be choir director

Because I could sing with gospel appeal
and...

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I always was one to be passionate about things life has in store. You know, the kind of passionate fury that brings others frustration and pretty much disappointment in you? I think that passion can...

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molten times, volcanising immensity, vast plateau
  belly-belching landform
  oceans, shallow seas and lakes swell up and down
  land-bridging, submerging
  any one place moving astride, stutter-shifting
  continental drifting world
  climate...

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W.T.H
(Welcome To Heartbreak)
	
My world envelops me into a state of darkness and misery. What happened to us, in my heart and mind remains a mystery. I thought our love would go down in history. But...

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How am I supposed to feel, how should I feel?
Should this not hurt, should this be filled with joy?
A warm place is all I long for

Comfort & understanding

There's just something about it...when skin touches
Behind my...

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I have spent my whole life loving others, 
but receiving very little love in return. 
There were a few times when I thought that the person 
I was with loved me, but time always had...

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‘Twas the night before Christmas
As I was getting ready for my hot date
Putting on sexy lace, hoping he’s not late
Hanging mistletoe and smiling as I wait

I hear his car pull in, he’s now at my...

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Beware the young bastard that was birthed here by sin,
The silver haired boy beneath large piles of bricks...

Beware, beware, the young boy named Cage.
Beware, beware, he can't feel a thing.

He sits there chained down and...

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^How do you tell your beautiful child?
That you watched play and run so wild.
You promised to love and to protect,
To teach them kindness and respect.

The closer that awful day draws near,
You know you must surpass...

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In New York, someone gets stabbed every 52 seconds
Poor bastard... must have bled quite a lot
Guess what animal can jump higher than a house
All animals, houses can't jump, you forgot?

How Long is a Chinese name,...

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Did you ever walk in sunshine, following a rain
Did you ever hold a loved one when you knew they were in pain
Did you ever smile at someone just because you could
Did you ever hug a...

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'From A LIth Book Of Tales'



On Cultism...



'Dodorima, Abankrier, Obuogede, Awumen,Omi'


Shout and chants that derails youths of their Concentration and goals in life.
Community brought us all together 
But secret societies;
The blacks,blues,yellows,reds,greens.
Each having their own evil agenda,
Killing...

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He put the shovel in the earth
With dry eyed dread he shakes his head
He's not a man to show emotion
He'll do the job, dig up ground
go through the motions,  build up the mound
before...

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Knots in my stomach never untied
I feel them tighten more and more each time
tightness
in my chest inside and out  
tears
as they are swell up in my eyes waiting to be released

Trapped in a loop...

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When I was a new seminarian
I had a favorite parish priest mentor
who told me the best way to die
is while having an orgasm.

I wasn't sure if I could ask
why he was so exclamatory sure
of his...

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Skin and Bones

As the tears swell up in my eyes, then fall upon my face
You look at me in despair
I wonder if you loved me, or if you even cared
Was this the real masterpiece, or...

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As she talks to him on the phone, 
Her eyes swell up with tears,
But she’s smiling.
She gasps.

You can tell by her eyes that she’s happy.
He’s not leaving again.
The smile never leaves her face as she...

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I came home from work saw my lover in the arms of my very best friend.
I said to myself_Self this got to end.
For this is more then my old heart can take.
If I don't do...

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Her memories swell-up in our bosom spontaneously
And get hold our whole being so overwhelmingly
Moistening our eyes and lifting our spirits joyfully
That asserts her deep love for us all, quite candidly.

Her years of memorable stay with...

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“Rest in my arms”
Sometimes it’s hard to put my heart into words
As you lift my spirit higher and I soar with the birds
You bring me to levels of unearthly love
Where time seems to stop from...

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As the tears swell up deep in my eyes
For once in my lifetime I feel alive
Dwelling on the past, I will not allow
The fears I once had mean nothing to me now

"Let go of the...

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When what do my pondering thoughts become
Now that your visions and affections have tunneled my way
No longer precariously wandering through the confides of my mind
Because of you I enjoy your soft graceful ribbons of warmth
You...

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Squirrel has peanuts.
A pile of peanuts in their shell
to crack and nibble very well,
and twirl through paws
like a fat baton.

Crow sits atop a lamp pole,
very high and mighty in this place
to survey the lowly rat...

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On many a long, hot summer’s 
day,
I prance down to the field and 
lay,
On the wet, wet grass, and 
stare right at the sky.
Watching, waiting as the clouds 
go by,
Waiting for a dragon cloud to...

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