Long Windshields Poems

Ohh I could have sat with my heart 
--elevated with dribbled echoes-- 
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams 
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment	
along the river’s edge beneath the...

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killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’

“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song

this is not rocket science…
no experts...

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killing her song
(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’

“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”
--Freedom Song

this is not rocket science…
no experts...

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Where I come from 

What a democratic place to live
A place where our leaders are elected but in actuality they are really selected 
where the government by the people is not with and for the...

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To finish her work and to honour my love
who now dwells forever in heaven above
It’s something that I am committed to do
to bring her invention to each one of you

She worked for a doctorate and...

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My elementary school was a box full of broken crayons. 
You know, the kind that no one likes to use because they fit inside your hands like a hug that lasts three seconds too long....

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Cracked windshields,
cracked sidewalks,
broken hopes,
sad dreams,
hurry before the fire starts,
and your good friends leave you
and your enemies take you over,
hurry before people cry out
for the happiness you possess
they with suck you dry like a bone
and take...

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Bricks through windshields,
Darts through hanging pictures of me 
And cracks in the photos, framed on the shelf 
But they're not there physically
My trust makes a run for the hills 
As the rumors start to spill...

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Chasin’ Lighting – In Honor of the CUA Crew!
Several rickety rides held together with the faith of the ages,
Sages some might say, turnin’ pages of things old and things new, 
The chosen few, riding with...

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Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs rolling 
     like filmreels infinitely looped...

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From the day she emerged
from her cocoon and spread
her brightly colored wings,
her life was destined for heartache.

She went through every kind
of pain imaginable, abuse from
the harsh winds, loosing friends
and family members to those damn
windshields in...

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A single tear-drop trickles from her eyes…
as she looks for answers from the skies,
in the twinkling of an eye her baby girl dies,
without a chance to say goodbye.
A cry of pain, a wail of plea…
gave...

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[Our perspective]
Blackness superimposed by glowing blue
Smearing white spiraling cloud icings
Appearing applied by a painter’s hand
Soon to stretch and then to transform
As eventually will happen with all belief systems

The curvature and reflection of oceans
Vast emerald forests...

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Grand Hope Flower
CA Hospital over 
a century of healing
Construction din
all of downtown one 
enormous construction 
site with all its might 
peeling into daylight 

Executive traffic thinks 
it’s funny, whizzes as 
acorns drop onto 
windshields and...

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Hovering in never ending circles,

Some crawling every which way across the ceiling,

Others in deliberate lock step across your floor,

Will they light on you or crawl up your leg?

They don't even know you yet want to...

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Paul said to press on forward
Towards the heavenly prize
For if we run the Christian race
We will come to realize
That in spite of the prisons in our lives
Keeping us in mental and physical chains
With faith in...

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A sky of gray dances before me
Endless and angry
Blanketing this dirt road
In impenetrable fog

We're all lost, enthralled
With our delusions
Clinging to our convictions
Tightening the ropes around our necks

And everywhere I look
All of my friends are dying
Trapped...

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Charley has taken his class hostage; he is seven.
His classmates are terrified of his out-of-control behaviors.
There is a perpetual glare on his face, he seems angry always.
He snarls and growls, sneers, and prowls around as...

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Here's a tale of a white Chevy Corvair, I car I'll never forget
   Repossessed from a gypsy, I'd be willing to bet...

On a cold, snowy winter night, February 1968
   This 'bagel'...

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The day it died
No-the day I died
It was beautiful
Sunlight gleaming
Across windshields
Casting shade on blacktop
Birds singing in trees
Leaves trembling in the breeze
Urban landscape
Somehow exotic
Both familiar
And somehow alien
I recall the foul stench of construction
The gentle laughter of...

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We touch I feel a rush
We clutch it isn't much          
I can't feel my heart beat when I see you on street*
    ...

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In the rough, cold pavement they sleep 
Prone to the elements that drain them deep 
A harsh concrete jungle where they live 
Their lives subsist on people who give

They are children with adolescent minds 
Roaming...

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LOVING   IN  THE  RAIN


Gusting hollow sound of rain on big leaves
Me wishing for more
Dripping  drops on bedroom pane
Starting to pour, pour
Into my memories

Cascading spray from his wheel
As a bell with...

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GROWN-UP OF SNOW

The wintertime came vigorous, fall in torn
rivers, trees, hills by snow spacing white
boots let imprints stepped across trails
roofs in split white water crystal Villages
masses and sight snow shown as term
Thanksgiving thou Christmas ritual...

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The first time I was on a near death experience,
I was 25

Cold winter day
Lightly snowing
Icy roads
Frost coved windshields 
Car lights passing
And gone
Kids in the backseat
Music going loud
Talking on the phone
Screaming and crying 
Wild like a...

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