May 11, 2011

Poetry

From Lessons Learned by Antoine Murphy (author's profile)

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Mama, finally
I've had the
chance to
sip your pain
intoxication
smells of
lost love
relative
my virgin birth
forced to suffer
attacks
result aformentoined
act
no emotions attached
as I clutch
the 16 bars
of battered wombs
ignored punches
absorbed
maybe they
were meant for
me
or should've been
since you didn't deserve
nightmares the screams
I heard

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2 Dasha Kelly AKA Chase A Kelly

If I were your son
pondering four month old
toe tags
my murmur represents
its arrest
how can I be dead?
at HOME
Mama, I wish—
just wish—
I hope—
I wish—
innocence could share
could taste
one more last
kiss?
halos will make it
last
forever, outliving
lifetimes, eternity
please, mother, step into
the platform of
golden ciphers
leave your burden
and precious tears
(revenlin 21:4)
on the stairway
to heaven
fashion your passionate
lyrical pain
breathe ancestral's
love of life
into baby veins
each leads
precious hearts to beat
remember
the smile
possessin' always
crawling around imitatin'
GOD's
his laugh impersonates
yours and Dad's
fluffy wings remind me
of clouds I summon
for you to sleep
upon.

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