Long Thirsted Poems

My life hasn’t always been easy...
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Mossy vines served as camouflage for a  d
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My sweet boy was the  f i r s t  and the  l a s t,
           the one who quickly made me...

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A Passing Cloud - Poem by Lora Colon on Poemhunter.com

I like comparing him to a summer cloud
That drifted one day into my life, 
While in his shadow, I found my peace, 
A refuge from the...

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Interview With a Rock   
I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb.  Developing, growing, morphing through the epochs of time.  Then, on no day in particular, I emerged...

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Thoughts how they fade into nothingness of regret. I am lost once again. The pain of yesterday has not forgiven my offences and I am not worthy of a life anymore. “Please pardon me Lord...

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Inspired by and Dedicated to my Sister in the Lord
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It started off as puppy love the day 
I first saw him. 
My heart...
          stopped beating. 
My soul held the intuition 
of a young lady’s dream....

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Tom Mboya, son of Ndiege
From the craggy islands of Rusinga
--the craddle of his progenitors
He sprouts like avens in the loamy knoll
And out to the urbs he sets off his journey
A parlous journey to his martyrdom

Look...

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There was a belief that the gods of old
received all their great power from our prayers,
that out sacrifices, supplications
made them so strong we’d look on and despair.

But it turned out the truth was quite different,
when...

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This is the place the ’punchers come
when it is time to drink their pay,
ride in from the hilly rangelands
to forget cattle for a day.

Norma in the kitchen will cook
beef and spuds for this roving horde,
her...

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I was cursed with 
ink intoxicating 
blank canvases 
with toxic scribbles,
releasing twisted tales 
of suppressed troubles.
I was a forsaken 
           ebony rose 
in satan's grasp,
kneeling...

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You stepped into my life when I was wondering what love is.
For I knew only one aspect of the feeling, the emotion--
That connected me to me, my body, soul and spirit.

I didn’t venture, for fear...

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With every gust of wind, secret taboo,
secreting a web a cocooned prison 
of liquid knowing, flowing,
emulsifying impossibly old and new.
In the beyond of the known, stair-stepped, 
desert bone flashed into 
your consciousness a confident cajoling.
To...

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Chapter I

Part II: Power and emptiness


Mariah of Magdala!

Opulent woman yet juvenile 

Did your 'hood' bestow upon you such affluence?

Look how youthful you are

Flawless beauty with an enchanting aroma 

Like a spring in the wilderness

Of apparent...

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Despondency fills my soul while 
intense sorrow eats me whole- 
I beg and plead for victory and in 
          silence misery keeps me full.  
My...

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The earth dried and withered.  Rivers turned into desert, flowing springs into 
thirsty ground and fruitful land into a valley of salt.  The world languished, and the 
people lay in dust as the...

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Facedown on the carpet I just knew that I would die, 
the red obscures my vision as the blood dripped in 
my eye,

I never saw it coming, tell me, how could I have 
slipped? But...

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You swept me away into the depths of our own island,
I was young and in love yet craved independence for my life-
Six years passed and you offered me a beautiful diamond,
for you had always longed...

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***At the bequest of a friend 
or two this poem is a 
continuation of Tennyson''s
 'Ulysses'; though I don't
expect much glory for this
write, it was one of my
finer poetic attempts; 
especially Tennyson who
I think was...

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Movie: Untamed Heart

"AN UNTAMED HEART HAPPENED TO BE 
MY BELOVED'S WEAKNESS"


A first date is so full of lingering whispers and sweet romances,
AN UNTAMED HEART can beat faster given many wonderful chances-
He held my hand gently...

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I was left unemployed and penniless
As a result of vicious rumors
Circulating about the work place
Based on mere lies over drug abuse
They claim it was attendance
I know better, so do you 
Now, a once promising and...

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His eyes were aglow with a white flame,
And it burned away my fears,
His hand in mine, He lifted me,
His breath dried up my tears.

'Come My child, He spoke gently,
All these mysteries shall now be shown!'
And...

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When my soul feels dirty and restless, 
         and I ache for clarity and resolution, 
is when this secret keeps me breathless; 
on my heart a crimson...

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Pale and barren, a reflection mourns for 
        its memoir-
Soft as snow, a white dove lingers 
upon tender finger tips
remembering the moment 
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