Long Write off Poems

This is just me writing a verse
About whatever came up first when the dictionary gave me a random word

Matricide

It was all going well I'd never felt better
I've been happy since we got together
You were always...

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Dear self-conscious, enthusiastic, helper girl,

My words of advice to you are to take one day at a time.  For even your worst day, is only 24 hours.  There are so many times you...

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I have to put you away again
My Dear and Special Friend
Deep inside of my folly, a
Pleasure having you visit 
My Irish melancholia

You’re here, I am not sure why
I think it’s not locking up
These months you...

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Fifty stars
and
thirteen stripes
Wavy patriotic mathematician
do the math ... 
Subtraction or addition,
what will the numbers be,
37 or 63?
Slavery took away my parents’ human rights,
and their children’s dignity
I got 59 stripes to show 
	what was done to...

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April has come but March still lingers, this is the reality of the east winds,
April and May, a the time for poets, as they write off the tyranny of reality,
Fickleness and uncertainty, has always been...

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Early Poems XVII

Morning
by Michael R. Burch

It was morning
and the bright dew drenched the grasses
like tears the trembling lashes of my lover;
another day had come.

And everywhere the flowers
were turning to the sun,
just as the night before
I...

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imagine if all your heroes,
all your idols, all your 
“spiritual leaders,” who
have supposedly written books
(or had books written for them/
by them), whose “lives” have
been depicted as such by those
who never lived when they lived,
who never...

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3/4/25
"Time"

People often rat pack
Quick to have the last laugh
It's a sad fact
That we never could get past that
Time is something we can never have back

Few heed the forecast
Torches pass
Opposing forces clash
Since the prehistoric past
Waters roaring
Weather...

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HEY! IT'S CHRISTMAS 

Kere si mesi, odun de. 
Odun olola.

A season of remembrance. 

Eliciting avid memories of our deliverance. 
Evoking the thoughts and purpose of His birth.

A season of love. 

Into a sinful world, a...

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Is it possible to be proud of pride; if not then I don't know what to call this
this feeling of appreciation, turning an entire night around
but the night gains dust on the couch; it's a...

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Dearest Miscellaneous 

To be seen in darkness is all I ask of this lifetime. You are it, my darling - I'm hopelessly in love! You occupy my thoughts on those rare moments I engage with...

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Empty.
Used up.
Used full-stop.

Much as this is true, there's more to say than ever, just
Bursting to break through,
Stuck in my head, my throat, 
Clogged up with guilt,
I refuse to be a burden but I refuse to...

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I feel like with her I'm just an after thought but at first I didn't mind and that's why I feel like such a prick...
I kept my feelings separated for as long as I could...

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I feel like with her I'm just an after thought but at first I didn't mind and that's why I feel like such a pr*#k

I kept my feelings separated for as long as I could...

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"And the times of this ignorance; God winked at;
 but now, commandeth all men, everywhere,
 to repent! (Acts 17:30)

 Interesting it is, what gets printed
 in the fine print on the other
 side of a...

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"And the times of this ignorance; God winked at;
 but now, commandeth all men, everywhere,
 to repent! (Acts 17:30)

 Interesting it is, what gets printed
 in the fine print on the other
 side of a...

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When my eyes closes
And the black and white colour gone,
Let not your tears fall but, let verses of words be written to send my soul to its home.


When my legs could not move again and
The...

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Mall stores are closing;it's ten p.m.;
But the parking lot action is about to begin!  
The first car pulls in ,followed by car number two.
Eight more will show up before they're all through.
You'll find red...

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I think it’s time I write
Write you OUT
Of the coming pages of my life
Oh…you linger
On every page
that's ever been
Keeping the plot a disguise
Unexpected events
My heart's demise
Slowly but surely
being written
By your unseen hand
I reread chapters
You were...

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She was strength and magic
Timeless and tragic
She was diamonds and dust
  Just when you had her attention you lost her trust.
 Refined and dignified
 Reclusive and mystified.
 She was a mystery and a disaster
...

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Good afternoon my lady
Lemme introduce myself,I am a poet
I love playing with words and creating puns
I am ready to plant you in my paragraphs
Print smiles on your face and paint them with words
I will curve...

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The Dying Game 

Joe Dougherty

 
Fleeting images in the fading light
A whispered voice… "it will be all right"
Evening draws and the shadows blend
Another day's fighting has come to an end

Tensions ease around the fire's light...

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Black lives sounds exclusive 
I'm afraid and fear for my race, its slowly turning into racists
Its like they are still being chained, now mentally
Its student pushed to some degree and turned master
Hate is now embedded...

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sit down & try to explain
to someone who doesn’t
hold a creative flair, just 
what it is like to walk, talk,
breathe, sing, eat, sleep,
lick, touch, grope, grab,
fondling, ****ing, attending
casual events with, dancing
with, picnicking with,
driving for long...

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My pen is full of ammo and ready to shoot
The weight on my shoulders is too heavy for you
Never been the type to live a lie, would rather hit them with the deadliest truth
My pen...

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