Long Your own making Poems

Dear Father,  
I’m disappointed in you,  
you’ve let me down,  
a shadow cast over my heart.  
You say you love me, sure you do,  
but love is more than words,...

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carry me I carry you
look up there 
you see the miles
our destinations
is still so far 
gave me your hands 
cos together we can 
make it 

oh 
carry me I carry you 
together we can make...

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For me It is a given the beginning of love                         ...

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In chains, did he complain —
this man of sorrows?
He wore his stripes well.
Freedom for all! Freedom for all!

Follow the cross, the bleeding tree.
This holy man, he wept for you and me.

Encircled by snarling beasts —
they...

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A Prayer for Michael (the one who sent me here)

I said a prayer and called your name
It was a prayer for you
You are my friend
I called your name with tears 
My eyes are rivers in...

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Give Yourself a Break

Come on, it’s time. Give it a rest
and stop beating yourself up
about things that are over and done with
when you know you did the best you could.
He’s gone now and you miss...

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if you had the choice
(and this writer is not saying
that you have any choice
whatsoever---but for the
sake of getting to the end of
this piece…)
to wake up tomorrow 
morning &
cash out everything that you
have saved, buy a...

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YOU ARE MY STYLUS
              MY BLUEPRINT EMBEDDED
    WRITTEN IN THE SMALLEST PARTS OF ME
     ...

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To heal hearts, there are three ways. When waiting to be free so many days. Number one, tears, number two, laughter, number three pouring out fears, to someone who gets it. They just have to...

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Don't promise me or say things that you don't really mean
Don't say that you love me and then start to act obscene
Don't promise me a fairytale, and that I will be your Queen
Don't say...

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I have a game for you. “Why not!” you say.
A beer or six here, a hit or two there, 
Many others play this game every day.
A few more and you'll be better than square!

A dance...

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Judge me if you want to
the devil on my shoulder is one of your own making
you live through me
through the cliches of the worlds three perfect stages
the holes in the plot of phase one
of what...

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Don't lie to me. Don't half-truth to me,
like some craven jar, wide of mouth and
full of capricious weather. And never sing 
to me tunes not of your own making

I am not yours to pawn, as...

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One more year before the wild bird flies her coop.
Not bad. Bravo. Wise one.
You are more than enough.
Your optimism shines throughout your poems.
You know yourself.
Any idea how rare that is?

There are seventy-year olds who have...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                          ...

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I’m just your servitor, here to serve your every need
Where I am wholly here to serve to your every whim
Crawling on my hands and knees until they bleed
Trapped within these chains wrapped around my limbs

Crawling...

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Warranted Pride (1)

We sport garments of pride we feel self-righteous wearing,
some lust for, some claim to deserve (by their action)!
Who orchestrates merit by clothes worn outside?
Should we advertise self (Gosh! How daring):
bless giants with shoulders...

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You try to make sense of what happened
But it’s always the same 
Bad news hits hard
The cruelest part 
Is the lingering doubt
That things could have been different.

In your heart
You know that
You need to hold on
You’re...

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I find myself compelled to write to you about the intricate dance we’ve been engaged in—a slow waltz of emotions that has left me both breathless and bewildered. It seems like reverse psychology has woven...

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a heart for a soul and a soul for a heart 
i am the living ocean and you will drown
i am the sun and i will storm

your attention seeking with infantile trolling 
is a bigger...

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V-   iolence found in the hand of one who claims
“I-  must be god!”
O-  watch your back when you think you can attack the
L-   iving God. 
E-   veryone...

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5th grade 
I remember the air raid drills
sitting tight against the wall
arms folded behind our cow licked heads 
waiting for the all clear call
as the red bear menace waddled up and down the hall

5th grade
even...

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"In everyday look for something to admire, 
And if hard pressed just go and acquire

A little bit of happiness,
For the shops are filled with lovely gifts

Window shopping can be fun,
And your wallet is full of...

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I wrote 

Alas 

But never listen to the musings of myself

The World is not out get Me

I am

It's all in my Head 

I tell myself as much So

But what do you know 

If i could...

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I have seen you wandering through my life
A hundred nights in a lonely downtown bar
We have never spoken a single word
Our eyes have never met
Yet I wonder what are you thinking?
You sit alone at midnight
The...

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