Long Takings Poems

* I wrote my first poem 2 years ago, to celebrate, I've written this poem where I've stole my own rhymes from my own poems and morphed it all together enjoy

I'm a quick wit picnic...

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Admittedly a little bit of me can see I have an ability
missing ambition to mission living submissively in submission,

If I believe built into me 
a skill too free 
up my sleeve capability
I'll gift to me...

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Cabbie with A Heart

This latest news about a selfless taxi driver…
The kindness out of his heart is a source for wonder ….
In the daily business of ferrying his charges for a fee…
He works long hours...

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She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of busking here
In one proffered hand
She grabs at it petrified it...

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My Grandfather's Grocer Shop

I was born in Liverpool - England and
I remember back to when I was a child
how I marvelled at the way things were done
in my Grandfather's Grocer shop. in the early 1950s.
I...

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Golden retriever energy

from a human marshmallow

Squidgy, and layers of softness

So sickly, it’s yellow

Push me and shape me

Gelatine-free

and never fully set

I long for warmth and comfort

Never opaque

Vulnerable, in my mellow

My eyes, a book to be read

Transparent,...

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YOU MIGHT NOT THINK YOUR PERFECT OR MAYBE NOT THE BEST.
BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW I ADMIRE YOU AVOVE THE REST.
FOR WORKING SO HARD TO PROVIDE FOR ALL.
THANKS FOR BEING THERE AND ALWAYS STANDING...

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They say once your in, there’s no way out
Unless you’re wounded in a bed, or six feet under ground
You step out into the streets
Getting shot, without a witness to see
Just lying there all blooded up
With...

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I am ready, big day today, my first meal,
And what I smell to my taste does appeal,
You have both been so busy preparing,
Love the deal that the three of us sharing.
Oh, it looks exciting, 3...

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Born to cure by nature for we are Siamese twins,
though we`ve been separated from inception,
our tentacles and wings pilot the earth like fins,
Mixture of herbs and root led to our conception.

We have limits and boundaries...

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We watched Frida Kahlo 
with our backs toward the rice fields
The monkey fits tightly to her breast, 
her right breast. A parrot 
on her left shoulder; two chatter-boxes that mimic
What if the wolves pull our...

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The following poem is a personal one, a memory from decades ago about a specific person and time in my life.  It's a memory I cherish so having so many people find the emotion...

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Those days are gone, set
afloat upon waves of air-
that in which we dreamed, for we
were dreamers...adrift in the water
that took us to wherever
the currents flowed-
into weedy patches-
weedy and twining like our minds,
like ivy vines on...

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'Tis 60 years now come and gone
Since first we took our Pledge
To be true, one to the other,
To take a step beyond that sharp edge
That marks the bounds of Mine and Thine,
To embrace, the more...

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adventure, growing up, hip hop, repetition, word play

A ONE STEP AT A TIME ©
Life is but a hopscotch path
Players vying for placement
Rules to follow aground
Tokens used for good luck
Practice runs lead to safe landings
Over ever-changing...

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The pavements stand empty the winds are still
Where are the people these chairs to fill.
Can hear shouts and cheering drafting in the air
Are these the people who will occupy each chair

They are at the Rugby...

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I'm going gung-ho, I'll let the gun blow, I aint done no, until I say so,
I've got sayings to sow, when I lay they go woah,
ink the words in the row as I show off...

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had I woken with that headache 
then I would have stayed in bed
but because I felt much better
I got up for work instead.

had I got there any later
then it would have been my loss
as I...

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I have seen and felt your icy touch,
And, you have scared me too much.
But, I have seen you take the Great, the Rich, and the Poor –
And, this indicates to me, you will only come...

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I woke up this morning like i can do anything
got the feathers to fly and swim with a fin
a divine right as though born to be King
I can do anything, I can do anything

I'm going...

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Taking these pills
To make me feel sane
But taking these pills
Makes me more insane
I see dots & circles
Swirls of colors
Faces are morphed
Objects look rubber
I don't know what it is
That makes me so crazy
Everything's hazy
Maybe just maybe
If...

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In the shifting of days repeat, one slips of mind all the powerful and meek gratitude.

A feather floats freely.

Overwhelmed by such responsible ways,distracted by so many a trials when so clearly
simplistic are the goods we...

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