Long Worriers Poems

Know Me 


You only know me by what you see, 
You are so distracted by my outer appearance that you cannot see me
We cannot believe what is seen by the naked eye to be true
We...

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Paul was alright when we last met;
Various promises to each other,we had made.
The last time I heard from him,
He was pleading with me not to join his team.
What team? I knew not what he meant!
So,away...

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Not a word
I say with my tongue
That you will believe.
Truth coming from my heart
Lies falling on your ears
And you believe what you want to believe.

Not a word
I will write on your skin
That it is fake
Like...

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how do I fill as look into the ski's at my fallen peers,
  as a child I longed for a way out as the elders lie dead in the streets,
  as blood from...

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The mailer is telling you the story...

''Today in my huge mansion
There’s going to have a deep discussion
By Sir of  South region
This note is to you, Lord Western''

"About what this is going to be, minion"
When...

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I have this image
of Him and me
in a pasture.

It is bordered on one side by a wall of stones,
dug up from the soil by generations of worriers
before me.

Behind us is a narrow dirt road,
protected by...

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I am the child, of a child, of a child, of a child, of a slave.   They were the children, of the 
children, of the children of kings, Queens, scholars and worriers of...

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A day at a time the world changes,
Ideologies of yester years turn blue,
A world we knew becomes a stranger,
No hold bars I see a generation lose it,
Clear minds clog with twisted thought, 
Words of the...

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Worriers Sink, Warriors Shine
- By Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele

Let's exempt the death
Worry is for the living
Who has cases to win
Challenges to surmount
Fears to conquer
Aspirations to achieve
Failure to escape, 
Success to record.

To worriers, life is hellish
Every issue...

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On this day for Our veterans, we say we honor our soldiers that protected our country. For they served us well as worriers. They deserve to have our gratitude , for some were drafted or...

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Loud claps of thunder introducing torrents of rain
Severest river storm I have seen in recent years
With broad streaks of lightning lighting the sky,
Enough to frighten any timorous chronic worriers
Main street has turned into a raging...

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The Romans did it to please the gods,
 the Egyptians did it for her,
the Aztecs too for pleasure and the love of a woman,
In war as with the men of troy, or the worriers and...

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