Promise,
Yellow and gold and,
Crimson;
Never make a promise.
You cannot keep them.
Never say I’ll keep a secret, you
Cannot.
You’re human.
Have loving thoughts for yourself,
And for others,
Practice loving deeds for yourself,
And for others,
Lilac spider,
Purple sunrise,
Effervescent stone,
Love wherever,
Whomever,
You can.
-♦Photo – John Foot-♦
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Did you hear me?
Within the bounds of righteousness, you
May do as you please, I miss you.
Finish and come back to me,
I am always here.
Have fun.
Be happy.
Photo – MoisesGomes – African Women
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give me
goodseed
and I’ll plant it by the roadside.
give me water and
I will tend it,
goodseed,
grow it
give me
laughter
and I will turn it,
and live it with goodheart,
and love it in
goodlight,
like softlight
on bone.
-♦Photo – Gottfried Helnwein♦-
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They shot the cheese cake.
High heels,
Eye-liner,
Battle-ship,
Village people,
Purple tortoises
Yelling,
The light of day,
Grey,
The road,
Dim,
Muddy,
Single lane,
Wet,
Pools reflecting torch-light,
Forest in sillouette,
Trees in moonlight,
Going home now,
Finished now,
Homeward bound.
For Betty Valdez-Ogembo
♦♦*photo* – self♦♦
I am not poor.
I am not weighed down.
I am not ugly, fat, inadequate.
Not good enough, not pure enough, not strong enough.
I am rich.
I am free.
I am free.
♦Photo – Persian Blog, Omid♦
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Microsoft, Houston,
Com Check,
Com Check!
Challenger and Columbia, are
One and the same thing,
People died on the way up and on the down opening Space,
So do not blame America.
Be better.
-picture- shortpoetry.wordpress.com–
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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. George K. Warren. (National Archives Gift Collection)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #: 200-FL-22
WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 113
I do not have dreams that I remember but this is the war;
That I was at Queen Mary’s trying to make up,
For slipping,
-skipping school-
And now the scent is after me, evil
Plastic lips and yellow handbags,
After my own whiteness,
Pure white, like
Extra-pure, like
Black is dirty, or something
And I prayed for others today,
Sold good cabbage,
Hoped it will all be ok in the end, that
It would all be ok.
♦Photos – Federick Douglass and Ufunk♦
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Cheese occurs at night,
Counting lovers, Gerald
Jason,
Daniel,
Some guy at the Holiday Inn,
Leonard,
Han,
Rolf,
Keshavjii,
Simon,
Like that, they
Say a healthy lifetime has ten to twenty,
Lovers.
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And I’ll be dust to dust bound to,
Shifting black wicker furniture just so,
Patrons aren’t disturbed,
By the rain between,
The hair-do and the pedicure, separated
At least,
By three floors if the lifts are working, me I’m just
Splashing mops against mauve tile, they
Flashing manicured smiles, we
Electing marvelous politicians in fashionable leather,
Leather of the season, bound
To let us down in Range-Rovers, bound
To coffee machines spitting frappuccinos, just
Hoping for a tip to pay my damn school fees.
Photo: ♦Psychology Today ♦
See also: Hector
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sweets on a plate
empty tuperware
lens cleaner is,
What we took to bed.
Red he says, but he’s deaf,
With earphones on,
Police frames and Louis Vuittion,
Cardboard handbags,
And perfect lips,
Peach by the way, like
I said, I
Lost my shoes in India and the Geisha wasn’t real.
♦photo♦ – Hyunception: Movie Reviews & Analysis♦
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I don’t have friends, I do not think.
Friends get married, and
Drive bigger cars and,
Have more intelligent things to talk about, better
Places to go, are
Becoming lawyers and doctors and ministers,
Big people, and
It sort of interrupts things.
♦photos♦ Jacob’s Ladder
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Dead beetles die in their skins, and
Seychellois, Mauritanians, Maurtians, Martians,
Fighting with sun-tans all, and
Bad lip jobs,
In Nairobi,
Silent giraffes grope for love,
God,
Tends to antelopes,
The world ends
In a traffic jam or,
Dicks in space-suits building railways through the heart of a city.
♦Photo♦ Friends of Nairobi National Park
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