Long Unclench Poems

This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can not keep up with its rapid thumping against your chest,
you’re...

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Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
and see the world, warped, and blurred through the half glass of...

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Once in a wonder land I trekked –
Through the chaos and the wreck.
The earth was clothed in a misty layer –
Sown by the heavens’ unanswered prayers.

Cold hard steel, some sort of construction site –
The somber...

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Dinner was over an hour ago
Counters wiped clean, dishes are washed and dried
I hold my glass up to the light like a color slide,
   and see the world, warped, and blurred through the...

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Let’s be honest, I’m not that honest.
Be honest, 
Just this once.
Forget all the dilutions of grandeur,
The noise.
Eat it so hard in the teeth that your mouth has a voice.
Unclench your tongue just long enough to...

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   "Wedding of a Wench"


a joyous celebration promised arrived on lacy invitation
bring only your smile as a gift to offer congratulations
but my cousin, Marlene, was known as a troublemaker all her life
now so...

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I gather you haven't heard?
What happened to the young girl with hopes and dreams?
She died along with puberty
But in her room above the highest floor
She will sit and wait... in silence
To hear the breaking of...

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Human

Sometimes, there are days 
That seem bleak,
oppressive, cloudy and grey,
When you don’t know why you are here
And can’t even seem to find a reason,
To stay.

The dazzling bouquet of flowers 
You once held in your arms
Have...

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If my head wasn't filled with thoughts of revenge  
I'd be able to unclench my fist and open my hand, to take God's in mine
Leading me out of the darkness
Stepping foot in his everlasting...

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I drown in my sorrows
At all times
They seem to
Consume me
I wish there was a way
To defeat them
To turn them off
But they continue to
Flow out of me
Rushing like a
Waterfall
Never ending
I hate when I get like
This but...

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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness". By Thomas Jefferson

A place where the zeal of my heart dwells
The appeal of a simple life, as lucid tale tells,
within a...

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Bury your guns deep in the sands of time
Break your daggers in half and leave them behind
Unclench you fist and loose your stare of hate
Live in love today before tomorrow comes to late

Masquerade the truth...

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Unrestrained passion is like a wild conflagration; it devours everything, even itself, in the end. 

At the end of it all, you will sit down and shudder, surrounded by the ashes of your greed, the...

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There is a deep message within my soul power within my closed hand-

You can’t understand the fire that burns within me even standing at a

Distance would consume your entire lineage at its very roots.

The very...

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The dark blood clouds have left
It feels like the sun came out for the first time
More people feel like they belong
I feel like I belong
I feel like the wars will end and the fighting will...

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There is a deep message within my soul power within my closed hand-
You can’t understand the fire that burns within me even standing at a 
Distance would consume your entire family at its very roots.
The...

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My tongue curls in on itself,
an unreasonable fist
too stubborn to unclench.
Pulling punches, muscle memory
it never owned, saves
what little flesh hasn’t folded
to thicker skin in the game.

Yet here it is, unraveling,
slowly surrendering to necessity—
callused, unwelcome softening
in...

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They agreed to go to their favorite hangout and cigars.

Once they were seated the waiter said that the restaurant had a deal on Italian wine.

In the beginning  it was easy, turn the cold shoulder...

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wait...
these are the times
when the outside is lined with pseudo sarcastical rhymes
sending grinding vibes of binding crime into non criminal minds
with winding cliff sides with clean records that die
when men move forward they never ask...

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The word which describes so much. I have felt physical pain so great that it has shut 
down my body and mind.
I have felt fear of that few people will ever experience that has stopped...

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I watch the world go by, as I fall to the floor.
You say, "Oh my.", when you see I don't live anymore.
Did you even care, when I was losing my mind.
I've always known life was...

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"I wish you would just unclench your fists and let go of all your pain and hurt.
It doesn't help to keep it bottled up inside.
I can see it...
Eating away at you
Eating you from the inside
The...

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There are abilities in disabilities
So shun idioms that mock any form of disabilities
I know a fellow that has his physical frame unbalanced
And his head obliguely and disingenuously referenced

With slash reference Oriogbade may look dowd
But his...

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Once while sitting, idly, scribbling
thoughts, like drool, slow, slowly dribbling
eraser tips muse gnawing, nibbling
I spied a shadow on the floor
suddenly the muse came creeping
creeping through mind’s chamber door

The month was chilly, wet, and raw
goosebumps raised...

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Poetry Contest "Give me a Ghazal" Entry

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