I found a million words
Laying all about
Of love, joy and gratitude
Volumes they would write
Enough the world to... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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10 times I saw you smile,
in your shy and beautiful way,
10 times my heart melted
in an ice-cream sort of way.
10 times I plucked up courage
to tell you how I feel,
10 times you turned and smiled
and my head began to... – by Leo Long | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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I feel myself dropping
Falling from the skies
My hands grasping wildly
As the clouds whisp on by
The pitch of night surrounds me
Swallowing up my cries
Evil stars they wink at me
As onward down I... – by Leo Long | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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Do Not Enter
Yet curiosity picks at the rusty locks
Encasing that eldritch tomb
Where decaying love lays... – by Leo Long | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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Dark the days, our memories too
a peal of thunder
Heavy with accent
Weighs heavy upon our weary minds
Rips from our heart
dignity and pride
barbed be the chains
which strangle our... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Our Town of Aleppo is divided into squares
Some black, some white
Where the grand masters of our lives
Wage war both day and night
Our homes are chess pieces
Moved by barrel bombs
Our lives blown to pieces
But the game must go... – by Leo Long | 20 Views added 2 years ago
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I commissioned me a poem
words gushing as I wrote
but the theme was sad and heavy
and it struggle to stay afloat
It bobbed across the page
in emotions did it twirl
and ran the risk of sinking
as the tale did... – by Leo Long | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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Aloof from this world
On cloud number nine
There's no race distinction
On this bench of mine
I see the land of the free
and the home of the brave
Where the whites have extinct
the sqauw and the... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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I created a poem
like the gingerbread man
Short and sweet
according to... – by Leo Long | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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The dark clouds writhe
like serpents in the sky
and belch down brimstone
where unicorns asleep they lie
In the distance Mordor's spear
dominates on high
demanding submission
from whence dragons... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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I built my life on dreams;
castles in the sky
sat back, reposed
And watched the world drift on by
I wished upon it peace
As I looked at it afar
and from my cotton wool world,
This dream wasn't... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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On a tight rope above the void
A precarious porcelain sentry
My sanity stands guard
Refusing repressed rage entry
Mold covered memories
Reek from the corners where they hide
Of summers in the sun
Splashing in the... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Heavy handed Harold
With quiet Quinton quarrelled
Fighting for fine filly
Slapped he said silent... – by Leo Long | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Here we come a galloping
Across the emerald plains
Carefree and happy
The wind tugging at our manes
Just on a whim
We chase a passing cloud
Then watch the golden sunset
Nickering out... – by Leo Long | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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Slowly the day is dowsed by night
as the clumsy sun trips over the horizon
and is gone from sight
The swallows morph into their darker side
and screeching fill the twilight skies
in fear all creatures retreat and... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Parched am I oh Lord
and my soul cracked
as the dry river bed
crying for a summers... – by Leo Long | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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What say you noble men of old?
William with your pen shaking
Like the Speare of a savage?
Spilling your mind across the pages
Which Robert in all his haste... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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A silencer on an a-bomb
A muzzle on a leviathan
A band aid for the plague
A Rennie for Kracotowa
and a hanky for swine flu
Such are flowers on a... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Bewitched,
and by your beauty captivated
A voluntary slave
Bound in fetters of love
Compelled,
Like the street sweepers daughter
Eagerly I step into your chamber
My will chained,... – by Leo Long | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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You smile
You swear
You tease
You cheat
You lie
You scream
You cry
You are sad
You are sorry
You are... – by Leo Long | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Soft
A flutter
Like butterflies
A life forming inside
A miracle, unfolds within
Like a budding red rose
A new baby is born
It’s beautiful... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Jaws of steel
Fangs of a cobra
Sharp as razors
Glint in the dim... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Summoning a waterfall
He fills the sea
Commanding sweet hail
Into its milky depths
His steely trident
Churns up a maelstrom
Raising a soaked raft of leaves
He casts it from the... – by Leo Long | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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Armed with spears
They stand on the ramparts
Of the wall you built around your heart
To keep love out
The tar and fire
Falling from your lips
Burns at the forces
Bashing at its... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Like a stick man
I danced across the pages of your heart
Page after page
Ream after ream
Living my... – by Leo Long | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The pupil surveyed the sea
Listening to the silent herd
Smelling the fragrance he alone knows
Soft the veld to touch
Savoured he the flavour of the sweet... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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The waves of that night
Were wilder than could be
There was no safe or sound place in sight
And the vessels bobbed like corks upon the... – by Leo Long | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Blank
They stare at me
Oblivious
To the rage below
Congregating in corners
They plot against me
Sadistically
Blocking out the world
Chained
Voice eludes my tongue
Hoarse from silence
Deafened by its... – by Leo Long | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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In the coven’s cavern
Dark and dusky
Wart and Weird
A potion are planning
Boiling and bubbling
The cauldron they caress
Eye of emu
Finger of fiend
Mutter and mumble
Hair of hare
Claw of cat
Splash and... – by Leo Long | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Obscure, drawn, demented
With mouths agape
We blend in wishing to stand out
The mop that sloshes
Keeps us clean
But below its dark and dingy
Our screams of pain
Aching to be heard
Are masked by the ever shiny... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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I swung wide my shutters this morning at dawn
To witness the beauty as another day was born.
Too early I’d risen for the cool of night yet hung there,
Her eyes still sparkled and indigo graced her... – by Leo Long | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The steam that rises from the shell
Mists up the scope lens
A steady hand etches a heart
Through which the other... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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I pull open the cover,
a trap door to the deck.
“Weigh the anchor!”
and with a splash the adventure begins.
”Trim your sails!”
and the curtain flaps behind me.
The bow of Old Salt splits the waves
and I wipe the spray from my... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Terrorism, rape,
Car bomb, paedophile...
She feels vulnerable,
No love to keep her warm
9/11, kidnap,
Human trafficking...
She’s been forgotten,
Left alone in the... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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“Come join the joy ride.”
‘cause life’s a rollercoaster.
You can live life on the sidelines,
Watching others raise their arms and scream
Or you can get in line and live life to the... – by Leo Long | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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... they are the nameless
the suggestors
the invisible advisors
because if “they say”, then that’s how it is
... no faces
yet resounding words
they echo in our heads
are they... – by Leo Long | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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“One day you’ll leave it too late”,
He always said.
For my life of procrastination
There was always tomorrow.
“There’s no rush”,
No hurry... no urgency here
For what can’t be done today
There’s always... – by Leo Long | 16 Views added 2 years ago
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Today I felt like writing a poem,
Perhaps on the fall of Caesar, or the rise of Rome…
But then I felt it’d be a bore
And you’d never shout,... – by Leo Long | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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“To my Love”… I start the letter
Which I know will be a curse,
For we said we’d be together, for better…
And for worse.
Each line that I pen
Forces a tear from my eye,
For I reminisce of back-then
Before I knew I was about to... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Worn… the scenes are vivid
Of angry protests,
Scowling faces,
And the sharp knife that rips the... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Fresh from the incubator… we come out a box,
Newly born and eager to burn.
The doctor’s smack lights the wick,
A weak flicker is the... – by Leo Long | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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I felt the stab of pain
From a brother in the hood
One seeking to rise to fame
I thought he understood.
I taste the bitter in what he said
As he spits the words out
“I wish you were dead”
He just verified my... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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In my mind I see them, children of the land,
Black as darkest Africa, standing with an outstretched hand.
I see their stomach’s bloated, signs of despair,
Yet on I go with my life and couldn’t even... – by Leo Long | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Alone stand I this solemn night, alone.
Alone I am the judge and witness, alone,
And I ask myself a question,
One I must answer to myself and by myself, alone,
“Am I ever... – by Leo Long | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Pitter-patter; tears on the roof,
The world sleeps knowing not the grief,
And in dawning hours the gage is proof
Of a tear shed for life… oh so... – by Leo Long | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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My sports car’s bumper is redder than your pale lips,
And it’s Parrelies blacker than your silver flecked hair.
The TSW mags are genuine chrome, not only the lightly rooted tips,
And the smooth, glossy bonnet not wrinkled like your dial from... – by Leo Long | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Oh that the deepest Love
Would come to a heart
Like a hand, tight in a glove
Holding a pen, and there make a... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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So many times we’ve decided, “Its time we split up!”,
But then we find we just can’t give up.
It’s not for each other; it’s for the children we care,
On them it’s unfair,
They stand in the corner helpless and... – by Leo Long | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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