Long Toss away Poems

Detrimental, this situation...so detrimental
Why, why do I even persist; why do I even bother to contend
to be a contender, the defender in this pointless game
Am I the pretender, pretending nothing affects me
like a contagious infectious...

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Thanks to Muhammad Imtiaz for allowing me to work with him to create this piece. I added a bit of fantasy to his real life experience. He was moved by seeing poverty up close in...

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I am a creature like others, taking for granted each breath,
making mistakes, some no amount of contrition can erase
which makes my faults no less dismal than death.
Unless by the mercy of my Creator, I am...

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re-write of American Pie:

A long, long time ago,
I can still remember when,
The presidency meant so much.

I was sure that when they got to vote,
They wouldn't choose that pompous goat,
And now I'm just astounded that they...

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How can I slip away unnoticed and unheard
Blend in with the environment, remain undetected, make a clean escape
out of the room into the heavy air of the universe outside
for the torment of my youth, there,...

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Continued from 2A


My mind drinks in the smorgasbord that lays before me

Baskets of mangos, papayas, apricots 

Red and green peppers

Nuts and dates in white porcelain covered metal bowls

Spices in see through plastic bags

A stone bowl...

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The present darkness threatens.
Why can’t I see the light?
And yet my faith still lingers
Like a flame of candlelight.
The weakened short wick struggles
And nearly smothers out
While prayers of love 
Fall softly from a mother’s mouth.

Though my...

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I hunger inside
To grow and grow forever
do I want to stay?

I hunger inside 
to grow and explore all that is new
yet it means to toss away the old
my old life and old self
and embrace the...

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inspired by Julio Eglesias song March 9, 2016
Composed by Joan May Donnelly Ellis

To all the men I've loved before
Who found their way to my heart's door, 
I'm grateful to you, 
I've learned a thing or...

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The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night 
Shredded for an aspiration 
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A glimpse for some unusual rank

Then comes the arrival of time...

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 This dark twisted game. 
 I'm running desperately trying to escape. 
 Frozen hands wrap around my mind in cursed fear.
 So alone. So scared. So lost.
  Can I find a way through...

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~ Stay   Focus ~
( Quatern )



Stay focus on Lord till reach goal
Just do it one day at a time
You will complete your task just fine
Even if from bottom you climb

Don't lose sight and...

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isn’t it hilarious
how it is that only tonight
both you and i have come to realize 

for years this dinner table
has vastly stood between us

and all that is spread upon it
may never manage to evade the...

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I swallowed my life away one day
No desire for the future to play.

No care to live another moment
I just wanted the world to be silent.

A handful of pills I quickly take, 
Soon my body would...

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Moving boxes now
Sorting through life's memories
Trying to balance

I feathered my nest
Filling the rooms of my life
With such fine objects

Stuffed into corners
Old emotions are guarded
Tears are welling up

I pick some things up
And put them back where...

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How I love, just to create; 
making things, with wire 
and other old scraps.  
Settling on a design, 
I will make it to sell, 
but my accounting’s not quite straight.

I’ll begin my project, straight...

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Often in life we have to let everything go.
All attachments will dissipate one day,
only the heart and soul survive the blow
of other fingers, other eyes
making judgments that are hard to realise
as they toss away tid...

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Step into the date-stamped time DeLorean,
move forward
on backward spinning nostalgia rims
Centrifugal hourglass ... 
short hand and long
Distorted view of time,
kinetic highway romantic destiny
Blurred future sideway images,
past memories rearview exit gone
Engine gunned to the max,
space curvature...

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Everyone would say,  did you hear?
She's the one
She's too young
How irresponsible

Wearing smiles upon their faces, 
pasting labels on her back
Her sullied reputation,  
a newborn in her pack
How impossible

Everyone would say did you know...

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Time and time again I fight
To make what's wrong into a right
But though I try and give it my all
I'm powerless and feel so small

The world is burning outside my window
But I have memories as...

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The Perfect Body

I know Lord, no matter what we do to ourselves, no matter how hard we try
The perfect body will rarely be seen by the human eye.

The perfect body along with the perfect face
Can...

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The Gift, Then The Complaint


Gladly if only, I had nothing to say,
I could just murmur and walk far away
Instead I write to spend my new day
doing so with no acclaim and no pay!

This life can...

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If you don’t sow the seeds
Nothing can grow

If you won’t alight the fire
We shall all grow old in the cold

If you dare not raise the sun 
We must live in the blackened night

If the moon...

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Still dizzy after our fall, ears ringing with fear,
Crammed in a hole we dug with our hands,
We toss away moments of galloping rage, 
Scattering secrets we once kept to ourselves,
Suave as the wind, a gentle...

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Bridges through life
Whether dancing through lifes circle or sitting in the pews, 
the world is full of wonder and knee-jerk news..
For those full of spite and woeful complaining, 
the world is full of darkness with...

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