Long Yokes Poems

A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light breathes into 
fontanelle slowly sleepily  
Sekmet my...

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They fashion stone or wood and in sin
Worship it adorned with silver and gold,
And that it totter not as scarecrows in
A melon patch, they fasten it hold
By hammers with nails; there it will be

With eyes...

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Why me father/daughter relationship
important to this papa

Fourteen and a half years
since death of mother (mine),
nary one iota of communication
in general and compassion

in particular while
she lived, now wears
heavy and yokes
mantle fostering tears

indirectly sabotaging rapport
with eldest daughter
futility...

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This is what the God of Israel, the Lord Almgihty declares
Unto all of you who have been carried away in to exile...
In the land of your captivity until the day i reconcile
You to your Motherland...

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where bones are picked cleaned by talons crook's of raven-wives                         ...

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January 9 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 25-27

Key Verse – Genesis 25:21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and...

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SONS MANIFEST!

 

In the beginning it was not so

Now the earth groan and humanity moan

Confusion rumble, all is berserk

Limits is stretched, yet it unbreak

In chains, cry many dreams

Oppression the wicked flaunts around

Denigrating, once a bright...

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One Last Chance


I ask YOU GOD right NOW, for there is nothing righteous in me.
 Please dear God, I admit my sin, fall fresh upon me,
 my life by your spirit, and set my heart...

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Now you know full well what they're about, they're about using you
aint know better than wizards of wall street, rockin the beat with a juke.
Vegas bookies abetting frauds taking odds right against you,
left to die...

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(Dedication: For Tiaua M Ioane)
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Here on this earth each soul must walk
From time of birth until death stalks.


Each day hurls forth with stress and strain
As we go north and face each pain.


No matter how or...

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Warriors of austere adventures,
soldiers for suffering and tribe survival,
children,peasents,women & men,the penny poor & candid criminals,
proud peoples,honest heros,

we marched on all the flesh of earth,
no terrain was forbidden for the fantastic forbearence of the foriegn...

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BELIZEAN BLEND

In the beginning it was the Yucatec, the Mopan and  Kekchi  as well
Who came from the steppes of Asia where nomads dwell
They fished and farmed milpas, in paradise; away from hell
Some building...

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Signature

 Append the seal on the opening glee
 Of performance agog with clapping drums,
 The cylindrical bell calling to spirituous mundi
 Screaming flew about in the air;
 Perched on ears
 And pecked on fertile hearts,
...

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July 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 46-50

Key Verse – Isaiah 47:4 As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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There is no secret what God can do
what  he  has done for others he will do for you with arms wide open can start anew there  is no secret what God can...

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From the ashes of superstition,
like a Phoenix we have risen!
As he puts on his White Lab Coat
of Unthinkable Wisdom.
In reality... yet constantly dreaming.
Under a microscope he tries to find meaning.
Building blocks of existence,
a scientist's relentless...

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Got a great recipe
For cheescake...
Decided to make it once...
My experience was to show me
I really am a dunce...

First I had to whip cream cheese
I threw it in a bowl,
Took out my trusty mixers
And thrust it...

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RESPECT YOUR FREEDOM

I glance through my verandah window,
Birds flying over my head freely.
I imagined myself floating like them,
In pain complicated, reminiscence shown deeply.

The afternoon breeze breeds an aroma,
Like fresh cologne of summer ivies.
Unlike bad odors...

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The Master Artist never sleeps
He daily a full schedule keeps.
Each day and night His works are new
and they are perfect through and through.

Each day’s sunrise a painting new
created just for me and you,
the canvas of...

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As the devil roams the earth, sometimes
believing church folk depend on other
Christians for support during occasions of
doubt and despair.  I find myself
errantly choosing the wrong paths
forgetting that I have professed
God as the One on...

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Africana, Serengeti kaleidoscopes
I painted with Zebra isotopes
 My ethnicity abounds from my
 afro follicles.
 Black fruit with pink middle 
 My garden cultivates Nubian yokes
forever bound like 
 Sampson tied to temple pillars 
 pulling...

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I was just wondering....

What was the first job you were given
By Joseph in the carpenter's shop
Were you set to sweeping floors 
Cleaning hidden corners with a broom, 
To remove the shavings
Of the wood your father's...

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~Sunset’s Releases 

~Sunsets, a time for many releases, 
   letting not the sun go down upon one’s wrath, 
   the author of lives broken in several pieces, 
   these...

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They make laws, like great dictators; say they do for my sake;
I know these laws, like blood-money, in reality, fake;
They force them on me; prodding, pushing, Pressing, propelling, 
I keep pleading; perpetually peace perpetrating; 
Who...

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A TREMBLING HEART
I pray oh Lord, my soul you’d keep,
As I welcome the black escape of sleep,
Small, trembling heart, in a full grown shell,
Sometimes ain’t doing very well,
 
I’ve figured out it’s not on me,
You...

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