I am nothing
Smaller then the smallest grain of sand
Resting at the bottom
Of the lowest valley on Earth
Gazing out into the infinite Universe above me
Welcoming a coming deluge
As I seek a flood of love and knowledge
Cascading from the...
– by Keith Lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Into the darkness
He slowly did fall
As he told the tale
As he left all
The world of the living
Slipping away
To the House of dust
Where he would stay
The angel of death
Had taken his hand
Gilgamesh save me
Make one final stand
...
– by Keith Lankford | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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I have two barrels
And they’re bearing down on you
I’m real interested
In what you plan to do
Did you come in peace
Tell me what was your name
Before another fool
Standing before me you came
You see that sign
Look down you see the land
It... – by Keith Lankford | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Scorpion Beings
Ishtar at his door offering herself at last
Gilgamesh refrained, much knowledge or her past
The Bull of Heaven shall reign down upon thee
She explained to Anu, or from hell I shall free
The dead to... – by Keith Lankford | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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Just a shadow of a reflection
She was a stranger
In danger of loving me
I looked in the mirror
What couldn’t she see
Eyes staring back
It just can’t be
Broken and crooked
Hanging around endlessly
I wasnt looking
For a project
When I... – by Keith Lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Keeping order in the streets
Protecting you and I
Sheriffs we keep
Turning a blind eye
To just who they protect
Just who they do serve
Century after century
Across the world
Co Intel pro
Should be a lesson to all
... – by Keith Lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Set up quickly
By the HPD
They had a warrant
Right here don’t you see
Fabricated charges
We’ll read em to you
Open up your door
Or were busting through
Your a bunch of fucking criminals
It’s plain to see
Setting me up
Munoz your... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Had a wicked disposition
The woman I knew
A instant recognition
Of my faults, quite a few
She liked to share her feelings
She liked to share her blues
Not into all that Jazz
But I like to play too
The beat fell heavy
On the night so...
– by Keith Lankford | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Central intelligence
Agents take flight
Well known enemies
Meetings at night
Planning and plotting
They just might
Taliban talks
Will TAPI
Be all right
Will you defend
What we hold true
Taliban your home
If you take Kabul
Will you...
– by Keith Lankford | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Blood stains the land
So many once roamed
The land of the eagle
The buffalo their home
Death came quickly
From distant thrones
Rape pillage murder
Enslavement unknown
Fierce and proud
Dancing at night
Ancient songs
Chanted bright...
– by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Young children young minds growing and learning
Smart devices not so smart values they are burning
Internet of things polluted and dirty
Don’t look at that until you are thirty
Politicians politicking endless ass kissing
Never propositioning... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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The days grow cold
The brisk winter chill
The nights come fast
The day they kill
The moon shines forth breaking the sky
His shadow is seen on darkness it rides
He is Targeted
This was the poem I posted on my all poetry account years...
– by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Three rounds and I didn’t feel any stronger
Guess I better sit here a little longer
She had said that he did not want her
It seems now he might not have been so sure
He was a big bad ugly looking son of a bitch
Long time ago I grew tired of... – by Keith Lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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No love loss
As I watched you walk away
So long gone
Your love just another day
As in the past when I watched your love stray
I’ll be the last to miss it this day
As the shadows fall on the grave you dug
Take with your demise a long...
– by Keith lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Ring……Ring…..Ring
Joe: Hello, this is Joe
Bama: Uhh Joe, hows that Vatican trip going. I guess you know, theres been a few leaks
Joe: That depends I guess, are you referring to the “package” the FBI found at “The Office.
Bama:...
– by Keith Lankford | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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We hold these truths to be self evident
We hold these dreams to be not forgotten
Yet unrealized
A dream not of one man
A dream of millions and millions
Not a dream of just the black man
A dream of all men
To live amongst our brothers...
– by Keith Lankford | 10 Views added 2 years ago
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I sat at my computer, staring aimless at what I had wrote. I had little strength to go on. No where else to go I thought as all had been taken from me.
Lost in my thoughts I drifted. I would often think back to before the terror attacks had... – by Keith Lankford | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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They fell in great numbers
Wings closing behind them at they hit the Earth below
They looked godly fierce and strong
These were warriors
Of the great war
They looked upon the planet
They look upon their new home
They conquered the new...
– by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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When the moon is gone
And the sun shall soon be bright
The day is new
Shattering the night
When we look out and see
The last of the night
Dead to us now
Do not feel fright
FRIGHT
DO NOT FEEL FRIGHT
DO NOT FEEL FEAR
Although the day is... – by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Mask up
If you want
To now be free
Lock down
Locken down
You and me
This is for the good
Of Society
Until you get shot
One two and a three
I’m not a anti masker
I’m not a anti vaxxer
I’m am a dissident
Anti government... – by Keith Lankford | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Original gangster
Im drawing lines around you
My pen my gat, my fedora hat
I’m gonna win, you gonna lose
Online prankster
It is a red pen that I choose
Don’t look back, the futures where it’s at
My future without you
Prohibition
... – by Keith Lankford | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Have a seat
So glad to meet
Ill send you flying
On the broomstick you sweep
No your cooken
I don’t want to eat
Witches stew a brewin
Get up off your feet
I’ll see you lying
In the tears you weep
My dog got your cat
The one you now... – by Keith Lankford | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Half Mast
Half Mast
Just now
I sit
And I wait
And I watch
And I wonder
Gunshots
Firing off
Clapping
Like thunder
Homeland Security
They are at my door
Please don’t be alarmed
You have no freedom... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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If I lived the days for you
And each night love was anew
As a flower in the sun
Such sweet beauty for everyone
Would fall still leave me dead
To live my life in spring instead
If I awoke and found you absent
And the days followed the night
... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Days rolled by in waves
Crashing gently to the shore
Eating away the weeks
Weeks and months
Months and more
Slowly taking from me
Another year another life
Struggling to remain free
From this world so filled with strife
I find myself... – by Keith Lankford | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Lest tonight your mind I take
Swim together ancient lake
At my side the moon we rake
As the shadows sliced do break
Walking paths tree lined shore
Walking through your minds door
At my side ever more
At my side never sure
By my... – by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Dancing
Take my hand
Lift you up
From where you stand
Slowly twirl you round
Gaining smile leaving frown
Pull you close to me
As I whisper in your ear
Lean in close your eyes
Please now girl have no fear
Let your body hear the sound
... – by Keith Lankford | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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The milky presence of the moonlight
Gave way to the rebirth of the sun
Splitting the darkness with ferocity
Sweeping the serpents to their dens
Leaving brilliant light for all
Replacing the distant flickering
Of the stars above now unseen
... – by Keith Lankford | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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The scalpel slid across the flesh
His eyes fixed on his work
He set them it in the tray I held
Working his fingers through the flesh
He grabbed the scissors
Freeing the organs
As flesh was worked
From bone
The air had a heavy stench
Not... – by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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He worked feverishly well into the night
His children in bed early for the school day ahead
Left his wife whom he had waited patiently for her slumber
His wait had paid off handsomely
As quietness fell over the house he left silently
Pulling... – by Keith Lankford | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Words sweeping pages
Often casting spells
Cursing the air around them
If cursive is used well
Calling
Judges Juries
All rise even the dead
Bailiff Baah present to us
The summoned one he pled
Gates
They slowly open
Pass through enter,... – by Keith Lankford | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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The Truth Ministry
America’s new religion
Preaching day and night
Servicing indecision
Making it all Right
Cut
... – by Keith Lankford | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The Truth Ministry
America’s new religion
Preaching day and night
Servicing indecision
Making it all Right
Cut
... – by Keith Lankford | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Monday
Moon day
Just passing through
Tuesday
Winged gods
They swoop on you
Wednesday
Woden’s day
Trade the love you knew
Thursday
Thor’s thunder
It may rain on you
Friday
Freya’s day
Week of bondage through
Saturday
Oh... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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The beat of the music
Drummed heavily in the night
Filled with ancient rage
He danced by firelight
His love had left
To the realm of the dead
Semi-devine
He wept beside her they said
He had journeyed
For twelve long double-hours
To the... – by Keith Lankford | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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Gathered together
we found a odd grouping of sort
As if leaving the engagement solidly drunken
they seemed to have arrived
Conversation with these blokes was most definitely a one way endeavor
Wandering deeper into the crowd I sipped on my... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Running for a dream
For freedom this we fight
Running from the screams
Our soldiers heard at night
Running to defend
All we hold so true
Some no longer running
They turned red white and blue
Running for the corps
The flesh it falls from... – by Keith Lankford | 13 Views added 2 years ago
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I peck
And I peck
And I peck
Underwriter
Typewriter
Black and cold
As I Trek
And I Trek
And I Trek
Always
On the road
Of a story untold
The crumpled paper bounces off the wall, landing on the floor next to the basket.
I...
– by Keith Lankford | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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It was a late and dark Halloween night
Timmy lay waiting
Looking left
And then right
Blood streamed freely
Dried on his face
Mind screaming needing
A way out of this place
Dark damp and looming
Shadowed in the night
Inviting exciting
... – by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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She lay shaking
Listening to the foot steps outside
Light would flicker randomly
Shining through the thin window
Casting shadows on the wall behind her
She imagined them coming again
At their mercy in a lawless land
Assaulted beaten
At... – by Keith Lankford | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Transfixed in fear they sit in prisons
Giving way to the fear they found
Watching played out nightmares
Technicolor sound
Airwaves scream
Nightmares slicing through silent dreams
Open eyes blinded
Open eyes unseeing
Nation to nation
Global... – by Keith Lankford | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Trick or treat
My little pretties
Gather around
We’ll share some ditties
As the moon light shines above
If you look you might find love
Etched among the lines
Carved by pain and time
Whittled as if a mask
Look closely you might run fast... – by Keith Lankford | 14 Views added 2 years ago
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Dark Shadows
Lest tonight your mind I take
Swim together ancient lake
At my side the moon we rake
As the shadows sliced do break
Walking paths tree lined shore
Walking through your minds door
At my side ever more
At my side never sure
... – by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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A flower falls into the Grave we have dug
Looking down my eyes heavy
Tears run freely
Silently
They too fall
As it lands on the coffin below
Its petals crashing into the darkened wood
Reaching out in one last gasp
Before falling fully
... – by Keith Lankford | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Young men dead in a foreign land
With a bullet in his head
With a gun in his hand
Fighting for freedoms
For you and I
Fight as he might
With our freedom
He died
Young mothers head in her shaking hands
Eye shut tightly trying to...
– by Keith Lankford | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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