Long Tarnishes Poems

The People from Those ****-Hole Countries

The people from “those” ****-Hole countries, eh??
Really?? Really?? You don’t say?? I didn’t know that!!
 
This is a recent stream of consciousness comment, which
constitutes a new low in the American...

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As solitude neglects the Harbor door
the Heavens fill with vengeance from the sky,
and all below can only watch them soar
for crippled decks were useless to defy.
The devastation rendered from the clouds
destroyed the birds of war...

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The monkey mind within, is unremarkably in fact many things, 
Often constructive, fractured, although tormented, it silently harasses all of Earth's Human Beings, 

Basic awareness comes from making this distinction, to enable what will one...

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I have waited for so long to share this impromptu song, I have created it myself, the day when I heard that my mother was dead; I am still trying to process it, but I...

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Seems my handwriting will never improve,
Yearlong efforts, letters still oblong.
Not quite right, but we pretend it’s not all bad,
I fixate on each line, a prerequisite approach.
So next and then that line and its spacing, proper
striving...

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He is an ant,nonentity and an entertainer,
He walks half naked in torn clothes,
dance openly in the market square
to music that is not there,
The crowd applaud with amusement.

He has no home
dump hill or underground tunnel serves...

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I found this little book 
inside my heart, much
to my surprise – in a place
secure, for faithful, searching
eyes...apparently having long
been there – a safe-space of refuge,
free from sighs – an inner garden:

no perennial blooms, that...

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Man Walks In Darkness

    Sad excuse, not a plus
    just ask Simon Cowell
    Freedom found on a bus,
    words of Colin Powell
 ...

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Apparent normalcy of seeing Simon crouched on bathroom tiles, 
engrossed in energetic chewing, fails to filter my distress.

From outer body standpoint, hovered below ceiling's heat lamp, 
I monitor the horror of my daughter's distraught face.

Ginger...

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The Sun’s Shadow burning 
Through It All…
Rough exterior masks the heart 
longing to love within him…
False happiness and 
contentment hides the 
wounded lover within her…
Joined in limitless love at the 
hands of fate…
Separated and alone...

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Bastille


Many years ago
They stormed the Bastille
Two hundred and one lost their lives
The tennis court oath however survived

Jacques had his heart with the masses
Necker could not be dismissed so easily
The storming of the Bastille was to...

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There is a universal catastrophic problem.
No nation or continents want to help solve them.
There are deft defying tribulations.
This affects us all not just those poor nations.
Famine and diseases plague every form of life.
I pray to...

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As the tree loose its leaves in winter and hibernation draws closer
And the clock of time speeds towards the end of my life
I hope you will be patient with me
Understanding that old age slows you...

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i wear this ring of rage like a noose around my neck
i tightens round my twisted thoughts until my mind's train wrecked
i wear this ring of rage and it cuts off circulation
love and light seem...

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What are the things that tarnishes wishes
Which is when I became deeply suspicious
Was it a word in a poem I recently read?
Which way by word was I being lead?

Maybe such a word was useless and...

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I cry for you democracy dear
          will i ever see you, ever
         ...

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Who would ignore a giraffe?
Place it off-centre and 
perhaps I would, on a particularly grey day
where I was all but disappearing myself

"Please point it out to me," I might say,
all the colour returning to my...

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When my mother said
     “Be mindful of your reputation,”
          It was a lesson I took to heart,
For once a reputation is ruined
...

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Why am I lonely with you dear
where did the magic disappear
when you don't call
doesn't bother me at all
when were together
it feels if we rather
be somewhere else
with someone else
there is no thrill
your eyes tell
the magic between...

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Who tends a vase 
while flowers wilt and rot within?
Who turns to polish glass or pot
when contents should remove to bin?

When stench ascends, 
and nostrils turn aside and clench 
because of staining sin,
it tarnishes the...

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I can feel the rotting thoughts in my head prosper throughout my body contaminating every living part of me like my souls been tarnishes by the tar and filth of  the world, still waiting...

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How many people on this planet may
be able to declare they’ve known true love?
I do not mean the kind that goes away
when things get bad because there’s plenty of
that kind of love! It’s often based...

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Life at its beginning is white for all
Cleanly and perfect- singular in design
Warm fed and comfortable
But life through the ages tarnishes the white
Sometimes as sudden as a bucket of black paint
Drenched and permeated and you...

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Dark clouds rise from the blue sea of sorrow
Surge in the storm wind onto my eyes’ visage
Dissolve to turn into torrents of tear to flow
Like the raindrop rills on the face of foliage.

Suffused with desolation...

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Everybody lies; it's part of the norm,
for truth, like a coin, tarnishes with age.
Honesty, being a stickler for form,
is best portrayed in movies or on stage.

Everybody cries; it's what humans do,
it is all part of...

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