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PHENOMENAL WOMAN
Filed in Poetry by on January 27, 2011 21 Comments
PHENOMENAL WOMAN

by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of […]

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Coming Across 520
Filed in BikeSet, People I Know, Video by on January 26, 2011 32 Comments
Coming Across 520

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvPxvn14b8 [lightbox href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rvPxvn14b8″]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox] I loved coming into the city on 520 when @mistadq was still a Prospect for the Wheels. Almost every day during this time we traveled from Tacoma to work in Redmond and Bothell, then at night to the club and from there back home. There were alot of people who gave […]

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No More Warmth
Filed in My Writing, People I Know, Poetry by on June 10, 2010 19 Comments
No More Warmth

For those fleeting months in winter You held me so close That my heart almost burst From the possibility of it all And I went about everyday Happy and warmed By making our new life together But as summer has come Between us something Has grown cold And I sit alone most times Shivering and […]

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Ben’s Poem
Filed in My Writing, People I Know, Poetry by on May 23, 2010 25 Comments
Ben’s Poem

To see a man Is a wonder I have not known I have struggled And pushed to do so Yet I never have You can persist to much Pressure on a man Is like a ballon On an open facet I just wanted a love I just wanted a man To look at me with […]

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Undefiled
Filed in My Writing, People I Know, Poetry by on February 27, 2010 21 Comments
Undefiled

You and I are the kind of lovers Who like to push at the edge? In the open? I stand in wonder with you Looking over the cliff Wondering when Wondering if If we could kill this And yet the abyss calls us Me to submission You to public ecstasy All is fair in our […]

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Defying Gravity
Filed in My Writing, People I Know, Poetry by on February 27, 2010 30 Comments
Defying Gravity

I live to defy everything The past the future Gravity pulls me downward But I wrestle To move upward Gravity gives peace no leave I gaze up to you Face to face I defy what would tear us apart I place my mouth next to yours Breath in as you breath out I can float […]

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Nothing Uncomplicated Really Is
Filed in Music, Video by on December 8, 2009 31 Comments
Nothing Uncomplicated Really Is

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOBZ_dkGpJ4 [lightbox href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOBZ_dkGpJ4″]Open in Lightbox[/lightbox] “Least Complicated” I sit two stories above the street It’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep There’s life down below me though the kids are walking home from school So long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right […]

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Death In The ER
Filed in People I Know by on November 17, 2009 27 Comments
Death In The ER

Originally posted by M.G. DeQuincy Hall During my workday I learned searchers had found the body of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis in North Carolina, and I’d planned to opine about a mother who would sell her child into prostitution, the monster that would buy her and the sickening pervert eventually responsible for killing her. Querying news […]

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Opening Doors
Filed in My Writing, People I Know, Poetry by on October 16, 2009 21 Comments
Opening Doors

Just as my divorce became final I was sure all the doors in my life CLOSED There came to me In this land New men New life New possibility OPENING DOORS

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How Brad Effects Me
Filed in People I Know, Poetry by on October 16, 2009 23 Comments
How Brad Effects Me

Wild winds you blow hard In my soul Even when the distance Separates Severs Us apart My greatest fear Is how I will long for you When our time has passed How dedicated you are To turning My life Upside down And inside out.

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