Long Unaccepted Poems

©1996 RICO LEFFANTA

THE 4TH GA-AN RISES FROM THE FLAMES IN AN APACHE RITUAL OLDER THAN RELIGIONS BROUGHT TO THE “New World” FROM THE “old world”—Apache Ga-an Dance, an important, spiritual masked ritual of all Apache...

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A Dark Cloud  
                             
Why do...

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A drag of another cigarette the nicotine courses through my veins, 
It's not dope but it'll have to do, it's true the effects are not the same, 
It distinctively lacks the same power, same danger,...

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Young girl
Playing with her dolls-
Pretending as her babies
Singing a lullaby
For them to silently fell asleep
Waking them up...feeding...caring...
Acting as a mother...
But,that was before
Now,a young lady
A woman
Only at sixteen
Carrying another life
Life of unexpected reasons
Product of violence and...

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The often unnoticed first strategic step
in bullying
is to isolate.

Religious
political
economic
and/or sexual bullying
begins, already,
feeling entitled to pervasively disempower,
dissociate,
disinvest,
unenlighten,
excommunicate,
lock up,
terminate from employment,
send to the reservation,
asylum
ghetto,
wrong side 
of the LeftBrain dominant
self-righteous tracks.

Deeply separate,
divide and, thereby, expose
and bully
that Other,
or those...

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AMERICA AND MY CHILDREN ARE DISPLACING ME---

must I die
said the elderly man
must I cry
says the elder woman
what wrongs have I done
to be treated as such
America treats me like an unwanted shoe
Like a bunion that needs...

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I could make songs about having hella swag
or clockin dumb cash 
or maybe even talk about a whip with wood on the dash
but who am i going to inspire with tracks like that
money was the...

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we are a brainwashed generation
our once vibrant minds have turned grey from all the pollution in the world
we are no longer innovating, just reusing old ideas and trying to make something out of nothing
we aren’t...

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we are a brainwashed generation
our once vibrant minds have turned grey from all the pollution in the world
we are no longer innovating, just reusing old ideas and trying to make something out of nothing
we aren’t...

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Scams, shams,
falsehood,lies
deception, ...nothin' real.
So what's the deal?
So are the ways of man.

We are growing so old
but might I be so bold
as to say our love
is growing cold.
So are the ways of man.

Man's anger simmers
deep within...

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My funeral cortege has reached its destination
I see the serious visages of many,
And sniffs from the hearts of my cherished few.

My soul has a quick run through of my deeds 
Pride that I loved and...

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“It’s not so simple to love someone,
Who just doesn’t love you back,
But it’s said,
 That in order to love;
You have to love, a love
 That’ll just tear you apart,
 Along with
 Breaking your heart.”
“And, I...

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We live in a world so aware of it’s past it knows too take note and notice
yet we as a species are unaware of notes the past says must be noted.

A population with collapsed faith...

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Helplessness seeks help in despondency
When resources slip out of porous hands
A tacit realization of innate inadequacy
Devours the dregs of impaired self-esteem.

The feeling sinks in the pool of pale psyche
Averse however to breathe the air of...

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I been peculiar my whole life;
Been discarded unaccepted paid in strife;
I believed the lie;
I believed those lies;
But now older I am out of it
God is provider He provides all
God is provider He provides for us

I...

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Trapped inside an electric fence,
where do I go from here.
I'm locked down, lost inside,
suddenly my body filled with fear.

When I close my eyes these horrible images flash,
they take my breath away.
There is a message en...

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When I was a young kid and prancing like colts  
Age was about inexperienced thirteen only 
For the first time felt an intense urge 
To write a letter to a cute young girl 
Two...

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That girl you see walking

With her head down

And a hand covering her face?

Has severe insecurities.

 

The boy who always

Avoids touching others

That you touch just because?

Has microphobia.

 

That girl who you

Make fun of

For wearing long sleeves...

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Every morning i wake and put on this mask a mask that no one can see
and with this mask i am flawless confident and secure. 
Without this mask i am social awkward. 
This invisible mask...

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She sits like a song
In her rocking chair.
Grace evident - Smiling radiant
Power curling on spun glass.
Bound to a solitude --"Welcome, Old Friend"
Moving as if to escape the skin;
Magic beats her heart, brights her eyes.
Thoughts ignite...

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What?
against the reign of bullets?
paltry words...insignificant phrases...scant creative thought

still to try
to wring the meaning out of the blood stained cloth
to pick up each brass shell and casing
to listen and ask each one why

why the reign?
with...

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“The darkness void runs through thy mind
But memories take revenges
I’m the only one
And whoever tries to pause me,
Will be secured into my deep dark devil door
Wars aren’t supposed to be fought that way
Tricks aren’t supposed...

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Exiting Echoes in the Mist

Of the voices never heard with the silence slowly stirred
Tempest storms of their eyes darkened clouds in the skies
Of the silent whispers slurred vacant voices valiantly resist
Of the existing echoes in...

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A small town looks a dot on the map.
It was my own big little world.
Giggles of children playing together 
weaved a rosary of music and merriment.
A safe place greeted me when I came back
with people...

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Life isn about keeping score of right and wrong.
It’s not about how many people you call.
And its not about  who you’ev dated, are dating, or haven’t dated at all.
It isn’t about who you’ve kissed,...

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