Long Tight knit Poems

There's an angry, confused and sad man - I see it in his eyes
Putting up a synthetic smile and front - his primary disguise
He's choking and suffering in his pointless mundane life
So the anger, rage,...

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So this is Fremont, California
Circa nineteen sixty-nine,
Nice and bit of a tight-knit
Neighborhood, that is fine.

I am a honey tanned Hawaiian
In a nearly all white community,
With the only swimming pool
Thinks there is another opportunity.

Learned later that...

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I can't believe your audacity
Well actually!
Your so consumed with rapcisty
The bling life has blinded you
You can't even see what's Infront of you

Who even are you?  
I don't even know you!
You've become a stranger,
The money's...

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No T.V., no internet, what are we to do, just look at us!
I remember a time, it wasn’t such a fuss.
Where pleasure and creativity we could find
without such things to entertain humankind.
We could look around...

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You my dear will never make it in my family,
For our blood runs thick with tradition and legacy.
We hold ourselves to a higher standard,
And you, my dear, are simply not up to par.

You see, we...

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The enemy says “tribalism” is a bad thing,
that it’s sow divisive

I believe “tribalism” to be universal unity:
One family tree
making root loving reap decisions
This is a very good thing

All who can spiritually see,
surely know
that for the...

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Martin & Connie


Martin and Connie had five beautiful daughters and then she 
found out from her Doctor that she had another baby on the way, 
but how would she tell Martin of her great news...

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The plains of the Dakotas seem endless
With rumors of great mountains to the west
And rumors of great lakes to the east
But to the proud pioneers who settled here it was home.

The sturdy Swedes, the proud...

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4/1/17

Flowers blooming
Spaced out or in a tight-knit grouping

All around things looming
In space objects still or moving and zooming

Birds pluming
And other animals grooming

Downloads queueing
Electronics in need of a rebooting
Or powering off, to enable cooling

Below, on and...

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There is freedom waiting for you
“What if I fall?” you ask.
My dear, 
What if you fly?

    And as you open your wings 
        Like bones...

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But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children
come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God
belongs to such as these.”
—Luke 18:16 NIV

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO JORDAN

What’s happened...

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Arriving on this earth just after the war 
Never seeing the images my parents saw
Food was still rationed or so I was told
When to see a banana was like striking gold

Today we demand food whenever...

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6/17/17


I'm just cooling 
And musing
Below the flooring and above the roofing
Still manuevering and moving
Working hard towards improving

Live a life of your choosing
Focused on what I'm doing
Got to get it, can't continue snoozing
While there is and...

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Times have changed, much for the worse.
Familiar understanding, a vestige of the past.
A bond of lineage, of common mother land.
Unified through generations, now all alone.

A time once existed of dependable men.
One man knowing his brother...

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None of you want to believe the end has begun
all so smug in your tight knit illusions
heads full of lies, truths you never knew

Listen to their words without thinking
how easy it is to look away
not...

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The alarm goes off, you are called away

To save lives is instinct to you from day to day

It is sad to see such losses

But you as the fireman insists it is about the caring and...

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Sticky Glue Stick

An SLR camera shutter clicks
shut, sticks then opens: at a
designated shutter speed.
The subject is caught and the 
camera’s quick: like a frog
unfurling its tongue to snag
a wary fly, with its sticky tongue.
The subject...

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Roses are red. Violets are blue,
But Violets for you, PD, just won’t do!
Roses mean passion, for roses are red,
And though I don’t want this to go to your head,
PD, you’re sweeter than dozens of roses
So...

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An anti-Semite pruned the tree of life,
cutting branches with a sickle of hate.
He unleashed hell's fury in God's temple,
killing Jews, he swore to eradicate.

The faithful fell in a hail of bullets,
as a synagogue in agony;...

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Each night's wrapped in a silken shroud
when sunset brings the end of day.
We wait for sleep and dream aloud,
"oh let me soar where bright spheres play."

Outside my window, in the sky
the tight-knit flag of night...

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Fra Angelico Sermon on the Mount
Jesus and his tight knit group
the pristine sculptured scene
breathtaking and serene
a halo light surrounds the head
of keen ears leaning in
it’s as if the disciples have died
and gone to heaven to...

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They are the Ghosts of the Orange House she whispered.
By the whisper, I figured she thought I knew about them.
I didn’t, but I have heard many rumors since; I emphasize rumors.
They think they are all...

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(thinking of better weather right now :)

Tranquil waves gently crashing the lake shore. 
Tight-knit family units of Canada Geese,
all on a mutual hunting mission as they coast along the choppy waters.
Various shades of green consume...

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Caught in the act — 
That’s a boyz-to-men
criminal fact

Court-ordered to lip unlock
No bail ... 
bar code held in a cellblock

Cop daddy ‘cuffed embrace:
tough love 
kiss given to a rap sheet face
Blue reach long arms of...

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Here I sit
My faithfull little dog and I in a tight knit
We watch the rain fall
The wind howling it's call
With each crack of thunder my dog quivers with fear
I hold her close and wait for...

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