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Best Poems Written by Baltimore C. Verdier

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Everything Happens For the Good

WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO MISS
I REALLY FELT THE PISS

IN THE MIDST OF THE RAIN
SOMETHING MUST EASE THE PAIN

THE JOY OF THE SUN 
IS NOT HOW LONG WE RUN

BUT IF THE MOON SHOULD COME IN THE DAY
WE WOUILD HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY

THE GREATNESS OF THE HEART IS MEARSURE
BY EVERY PLEASURE OF OUR ART

SO IF THE HEART IS TO GIVE
ITS POWER MUST ALSO FORGIVE

LIFE IS LIKE A WALKING STAKE
SO WHERE IT DRIVES US TO
WE MUST HAVE THE COURAGE TO TAKE

IT IS NOT HOW STRONG WE STAND
BUT HOW WELL WE UNDERSTAND

REGARDLESS OF OUR SITUATION
THERE IS ONLY ONE REMEDY TO OUR CONDITION

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR OUR OWN GOOD

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I Have Seen It All

Young man, I have seen it all
Yes, the days of old and new

I have watched it from far and near
From the break of dawn to sun set

Dripping in sweat and in blood
Drowning in tears and in grief

But you question my remote days
Term it backward and a dark era

You boast of yours being sophisticated
Digitally interconnected and free flowing

So true, but I'm still here
Much longer than you ever know

Look son, I am proud of my days
I had it rough and really tough

And it made me a strong world
Because I work with the heart to live

I took the long way to still be around today
Never an easy way my young man

I chose the days of trouble
So you can have peace in your time

But you blew it all away with your sophistication
Now your own world is crumbling upon you

Sadly, you end up at an early age
Because you chose the shortcuts to life

But I'm still here seeing you come and go
Painfully grieving your loss

Seeing you been buried is just too much to bear
But this is the world you created

You have a chance to turn it around
Learn the secret of this silver hair

Life is a sweet sorrow my dear boy
There is no easy way to live a life

Be contended for the little things
Work with a heart of love and with honesty

Pray for good health and not wealth
And let your church be your heart

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A Father's Apology To a Son

My heart is heavy and bleeding
The countless nights and days I left you standing all alone
But I’m your dad- A man
When you get older, you’ll understand
I compromised your love
I compromised your attention
I compromised your time
Sorry my dear son, daddy just lost his steps
But I’m a man-
When you get older, you’ll understand
I felt your sadness, loneliness and anger
But when you saw me, your whole world came back together
But I’m your dad- a man
When you get older, you’ll understand
A man’s decision will always be a man
Either for the right or wrong reasons
But you are my son and I’m your father
Nothing changes that, it stays the same
After those incalculable days of disruption in our relationship
I fear the worst to come from you
And when I wonder on my excuse to give you on my arrival
You ran like a top sprinter- 
Embrace me with the tenderness of your heart and asked-
“Papa you bring my candy”?
Because you know I’m your dad- A man
And when you become a man, you’ll understand
Because you will express same to my grandson

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The Bassa Dish

Give me my dumboy
The Bassa way
Let me swallow it like the fish of Jonah
Country soup with dried fish and monkey meat
Fresh crawfish and cold water fish from the St. John’s River

Dumboy- pounded cassava
Whiten and soften
Lying in a bowl smiling and watering
I guess saying eat me now, eat me now
But not yet, where is the dodoo?
The crown that sits on it

A mixture of bitter boy, hot pepper, potato grains, benny seed and season cubes 
Mashed gently in the bowl to get the real taste of the Bassa Dish
That is considered the medicine for the dumboy
So they say the ‘dumboy not sweet but the dodoo’
As you pour the hot clear country soup into the bowl
The dodoo turns it brownish and tasty
Give me my dumboy ooh
The Bassa way-yah
Let me eat and drink my cold Club Beer

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Love of a Tender Hand

If I wrote her name upon the shores
Of Popo Beach in New Kru Town
The envious sea wave will wash it away
If I engraved it on a stone
Along the road of Forteville
Rock crusher will split to pieces
To use for the  contraction of roads, bridges and the buildings
If I melt it on a plate of gold from Gold Creek 
And display for the eyes of man to see and appreciate
Warlords and con  men will loot away
And violate the rights of the unborn to read
So I will write the name of this love upon here
Time after time, death after death
That posterity may read and appreciate
This love of a tender hand.

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Love Is What It Is

Love is what it is
Like a baby, well nourished it grows 

The eye is the sole instigator
Falling for something the heart beholds

Space and time find no compromise
That gradually feed the ego

With the green eye monster at controls
For heaven sake, aren't we humans?

Jealousy is an unmasked hit man
Flaring in all directions of life

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Greed

Sometimes I wonder, wonder and wonder 
Why man, why he falls so low
Give him the abundance of water
He would ask for the Land of drought 
Give him a full bowl of tasty meat

He would ask for a calabash of army worms
Give him the way to a happy life
He would ask for the way to sudden death
Give him the path to peace
He would ask for the path to war

Give him the power to lead
He would ask for the power to corrupt
Give him eternity in heaven
He would ask for eternity in hell
Give him a kingdom

He would ask for a shed
Give him the blessing of God
He would ask for the curse of the devil
Oh yea, give him something
And he would ask for everything

Man oh man, man oh man
No matter how you treat him
No matter what you give him
He will never be satisfied

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Life Is a Sweet Sorrow

We must learned to take the bitter with the sweet
We must take the joy with the pain
Mend the the broken pieces and move ahead

So as we live, so we must die
The dark days and sun shining days
Be happy for the rain, sunshine and the darkest night

Because it is what life is all about
It is what love is all about
Life is a sweet sorrow
So we must learned to take the bitter with the sweet