Long Taking steps Poems

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"GOOD BYE, MY LOVE" Part I
Written: December 14, 2015

After the snowfall but before the lily blossoms,
you were this woman who left by choice,
all natural decisions made from a place...

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What’s Right is letting people speak,
be they a genius or absurd,
and let people judge for themselves
the content of the words,
To let them turn those words to text
and spread them out there, far and wide,
the people...

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I remember our first date
I did everything not to become late
I wanted to create an impression, an expression of love.

This was the first date, on my calendar of true love
Love like no other before, and...

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 Continued from Part 1 

Matt Dillon chases Jack LaLane
Around a roller derby lane
I think I need some more cocaine,
So please don’t ever come back Shane

I try to walk another street
When me and Walter Cronkite...

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After the snowfall but before the lily blossoms,
you were this woman who left by choice. All natural decisions 
made from a place of despair. Darkness consumed you as you 
fell into an addiction with expressions...

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Sweet little feet as she walks,
frame petite in the park on the trail.
Slender and small such a doll
with her ever so Betty Davis eyes.
I want your life.... little sticks hold
her long darkly hair, she can't
weigh...

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Feel the fear rushing through your pulse
I'm sure it's nothing like the pain I was forced to endure
I'm sure it's nothing but a misplaced heart beat  
Like what happens when you're lying 
But I'm...

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My Mother was born on October 3, 1916, and died on August 6, 1997.
She would have been over a hundred years of age. I (we) miss her very much as all who love her dearly.
My...

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Dear Self,

I have taken a moment to write,
Since time is walking briskly. 
How are you faring?
Do you still get excited with the changing season and smell of rain?
Do you still sit out in the cool...

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On a pale July winter
I danced with the last Princess
In the middle of a sordid one room...
So long after sunset and so far from dawn
The smell of tomorrow burnt and tempting
I warmed my frozen fingers...

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How curious, remote, the pain seemed now
As a fly on the ceiling, she looked down
Her body below in a hospital gown

Incessant beeps emitted by machines
With blips and waves on their monitor screens
She tried to cry...

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I'm searching for the real me
I'm searching for myself
Am i who i think i am
Or am i someone else

I look into the mirror
And stare into my eyes
The image comes out clear
But it's only a disguise

The...

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I console my pain with words that mean nothing to the process of amending. 

Heartbroken, in need of a spared token.
From the pages of the book of love.
I fell and in the aftermath I was...

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“A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE”

“America— fill me in on your new vision
Wake me up from indecision
Help me trust your mighty wisdom
Show me how to question questions, and lead the way to contemplation

Uncertainty about your...

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With a forgotten desire to light up the night 
Flickering embers of passion untold 
Like stars at night are lost to day
Like a bird first to perch and later take flight 
So is life a...

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I feel as if I have lived my life on a dark staircase.
If I move, I will have missed a step and it's that constant feeling of falling that never makes me take that step...

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I look around 
And see everything here is changing. 
The homes, economy,  clothing, 
It’s moving on. 
I wish it would stay the same. 

They say it’s changing for the good, 
But there are so...

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Tip Toeing 

I'm  taking steps 
But quietly 
I look to the left and to the right of me 
And guess what I saw 
I'm going excelling very far 
Driven without a car
GPS takes you...

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Alone again within myself
 Emptiness with the faint sounding echo
 I swallow hard fighting back the tears
 Looking at the walls bland art deco

 I wish my brain used a megaphone
 And my heart could...

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 Keeping your mind, 
healthy and open 
and taking that big step 
through the opportunity door; 
you’ll find going up, 
the career ladder, easy.

It’s not always easy, 
to keep and open mind.  
Going straight...

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A flounder is a flat fish, found in tidal waters
Laying on the bottom, partially covered with sand
“Floundering”, is a nighttime sport on the Texas coast 
You slowly wade through tidal flats, with a gig in...

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I just wanna be me!

You know I can walk a mile in your shoes
But who said I ever wanted to 
You know what you want me to be
But don’t you see I just wanna be...

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“The Sonrise Inside of Me"
(by Michelle L. LeBlanc 04/04/2023)
Dedicated to my son, Jayden Donald LeBlanc


My heart aches
My body breaks
My mind protected
My tissues exorcisted

A whole new level I have found
Learning to process trauma
Has definitely broken new...

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Dont take it for granted
Those skills you’ve been holding
Those gifts he keeps watching and waiting…
For you to use
Knowing with Him within Faith inside of you…
You wont lose. 

Its okay to take a break from taking...

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Who gets the blame?
the day you've been waiting for
the writing on the mirrors
for the steps
to help me outsmart the euphemism

you should be taking steps to babyproof the planet
replace myself
with what you have
propoganda
for what is not...

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