Confusion Narrative Poems

That is what he wanted,, 
A change from where he grew up.
A novelty in his life 
which pleases the eyes
And lures the heart.
What is new...

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Nor do I feel free
akin to noble savage 
(gratis to Jean Jacques Rousseau)  
completely unfettered, and able lee
to fend off unseen banshee,
comically swatting for...

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The trapper looked for the oddly-dressed man,
but could no longer see him, or his tent.
He glanced around, so supremely confused,
now where the devil...

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Eamon heard the rocks skitter away,
scree tumbling down with his every step,
descending from towering Mount Gilborne,
to a lake below where he could rest.

He knew a...

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The saddest tears to me are from the eyes of a clown.
What does he have to cry about? When his job 
Is to bring many...

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No Judgement Jamie always was told
that judging others was vile and cold,
all her teachers did proudly attest
that living life without judging was best.

And the media...

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What happens in the past, stays in the mind. 

Sitting on the floor,  pen in hand, a wealth of books surround me, comfortable in my...

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We though she was just feeling alone,
and we wanted to be there for our friend,
but what happened when we stepped inside
shocked both me and my...

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Aiyegbogbon

Lost in vain emptiness  
Devoid of meaning 
Shunned within then without 
Submerged in a waterless pool
soaked in a bubbling vacuum 
Converged in a ceaseless...

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	I watch people move around me on a silver screen. They kept their eyes averted, making slight faces as they walk by.
	The other children spoke...

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I still savor the thought of the zest that I caught
When you joined us that night after school.
Tara figured out why, since she’s so sage...

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Time run things
Not people,
It decide when to go fast, when to pause 
And when to stand still to make a minute
Feels like hours,
No wonder we...

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...“The bloodshed grew, the army was called in,
and sided with settlers as they often did,
Blue Hawk’s people were crushed, all rounded up,
put on the rez...

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This house belonged to grandfather Rudolph,
though its history goes much further back,
all the way to the eighteen seventies,
when to this vast land Herbert Blake did...

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(a lighter-hearted parody of the masterpiece poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe)

Once upon a noonday sunny, while I smiled at something funny
In the park...

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When the devil comes under attack and you know he will, don't be discouraged or be dismayed, just say to him, "I'm going get God."

What...

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He exposed me to the hurt and lies, the brokenness, pain and distrust
The selfishness, the cheating, the loneliness and the lust
The darkness, the sadness, the...

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ADAABA  (INCULPATION)

submerged in marshy waters
she mused furiously
rotating the blades 
while massaging the hilt 
silently hopeful 
as the timing is crucial
marching to deluge 
the seemingly...

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Continuation of 
Part IV: FORGIVENESS

Today Mariah of Magdala,
It is written not only of you but of your enemies
Do you discover Mariah of Magdala
We are all...

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I’ve been haunting this old gothic
since nineteen eighty,
when I died from a brain tumor
at the age of sixty-three.

I cannot leave this antique home,
I am well-bound...

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