Long Wariness Poems

Cross Species Awareness

Beneath a calm ocean, man watches a shark.
They are same in size, but one has advantage.
Man is wearing a wet suit and long swim fins.
Shark is naked and is not bearing its teeth.
Water...

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Nearly ten o'clock, Capitol Hill, inside the SCIF (specially designed for classified purpose): House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff was hosting an esoteric hearing featuring a deposition with Defense Department official Laura Cooper as part...

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Even when it hurts

I picked myself up
From this broken heart I felt
I tried to hurt you back but your heart was already torn into pieces
I couldn’t do any more damage.

I knelt down before you to...

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Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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You, again. . .
Yes, I know I mustn’t look your way, 
Even averted wholeheartedly, I am immersed in your presence
And it is so different, when it is the first, 
It is stranger, unearthing…

I wasn’t in...

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Written: September 2nd, 2023
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In the depths of one's mind, foes reside.
Within oneself—a war cannot be denied.
Refers to individuals—their internal strife,
Struggles and spurs that shape their life.

In the realm of views and desires so deep,
Fear and...

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Impossible mission to pinpoint present
such fleeting moment instantaneously spent
according to yours truly i.e. this gent
mind boggled, intrigued, stymied...
courtesy unseen minute
(mine hoot, minoot, my newt...) agent

provocateur stealing every precious second,
whether or not satisfactorily spent
time thief absconds...

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Staring at the pearl called moon,
Bright, brilliant – beloved
Inspiring the heart to hope
Stirring up peace and joy
Embracing the moment with
Light that abides inside
Breathing out echoes of dazzling
Upbeat positivity – dreams
Inspired by the intensity, stardust

Considering the...

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Title:  Rhyme Time 3
Across the dappled common areas,
Close to the stone in-crested buildings
Of the university, most masterfully, well built, solid
His steps fell into place with mine.

I felt his breath on the nape of my...

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“No One Lives His Life”


A quiet face, dark brooding eyes
hiding a quizzical gaze, masked
the mystery within.  There was
a wariness about the jaw,
clenched as if holding some
small prey, some bit of information
that must be held,...

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Sometimes it feels easier to throw my younger generation
in with my older generation
and walk away,
as quickly as possible,
without drawing undue attention to my own eagerness
to disappear into blues of love's last kinder memories.

I wonder why
it...

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My world is sleeping and fragrant
with its musty green scent
on a cool and quiet morning
I run, therefore, I am.

I’m followed by a moon shadow
until the morning light.
The dark to dawn embraces me
with rays that bathe...

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People are hurrying, scurrying, worrying
Frenziedly squirreling clusters away.
Rumbling hypotheses riding on every breeze
Cast a malificent shadow our way.

Spreading pervasively, sneakily, rapidly,
Spanning the continents, changing its tack,
Causing uncertainty, splitting humanity
Interdependency starting to crack.

Tension is rising, it's...

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I wake up this morning
My mind a turning
‘T is my last day of twenty
Thirty is mine at the next dawning
Yet without check spurs on the time

‘T seems teen days were yesterday
Yet fifty’s days seem not...

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Dreams Distant
                       by Odin Roark

The child slumbers as well
Eyelids aquiver
Like his father’s 
Synchronicity...

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I’m just a shell of what I used to be.
Now you say I’m beautiful and innocent,
Cheerful and sweet.
I may be those things now
But blinding beauty, whitest innocence
True cheerfulness and sweetness like pure sugar…
Those are what...

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So morose and so lonely my sordid path is
lost in all this colossal wreck
a beauty spot in all this, that which mar the facet of earth

so destitute the walks of my path, with footsteps traced...

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Exquisitely composed
poised in the sun
flick of white tail
soft shafts of light
late summer sun

Motionless-
moored to a sea
of tall meadow grass
 
A broken spell
conveyed in the breeze...
a haze of unwell
a snap of a twig
a rustle of leaves
moment's...

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I carry the world on my shoulders
but it's heavy, any moment now
like a toy building block it will come
tumbling down  merrily merrily
all just a dream, a joy imperfect.

To be imperfect is my true joy
detached...

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When we see the ww’s we think different things.
Some of us see wrestlers. Others visualize internet sites.
What about zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  zzzz s.
when you see zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs do you think of rickrack?
Or is that an old fashioned...

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Passion arrives in his sudden embrace
It speaks to me in his smile and his eyes
It shows in his fiery touch and his face
wooing me, gently, to my sweet demise

With every kiss desire gains more ground
to...

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