John Ackerman

Moist, bright, and green, the landscape laughs around.
Full swell the woods; their every music wakes,
Mix'd in wild concert, with the warbling brooks
Increased, the distant bleatings of the hills,
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Cynthia

When at night I close my eyes,
to think all the days gone by,
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Solitude

whispers
a rain drop
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If a raindrop
could represent
the love in
a man's life
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How long will it take for you to see
Life is just an illusion, it's gonna pass eventually
The flesh is just a lie
Eventually you're gonna die
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The Union

I was lying on my back look up at the ceiling
Trying to come up with a wheel or dealing
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shattered glass out on the kitchen floor
picking up the pieces of my past
move away from the silence to a lingering laugh
each of us where's a mask in a disguise in life
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trapped within the very impulse of our loved beneath the perplexing ambush


we close the door of brevity with a slight adjustment of the hand when will we understand
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Woman


eyes, hair & smile
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The Hollow Leaves

Spread out upon the ground
Out of mere sadness there's a tug at the heart
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you can't make your heart beat something it won't

it's either heaven or hell now I got a good story to tell
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alone
in the silence of my thoughts
pitter patter of soft sandal feet
a candle lit in the corner of my room
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For decades I held back this piece until today

I Think Therefore I Write Poetry
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Living The Dream

somedays I pause to think to dismiss this earthly bliss in a time well spent in thought
when I was born I knew I had purpose in me even from a tiny seed in my momma's belly
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a squeel on the tires frozen in time to watch the passerbys
a decorated soldier pierced with emotion as he hands out a poppy
thank him for his service
Salvation Army is covered with brightened pamphlets among the youth
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let me sit down I came to transform the whole new hip hop crew in what to do
it's all a faded memory while I eat my spaghettl with Ragu what's true with you
hit the music to the flame I'm a microphone fiend but I choose to keep it clean
eating my Lean Cuisine got props for the under ground sound got the hook up
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there is hope for the seeker an exit for the joker
there is beauty for ashes in the sadness of the day
there is a new promise for tomorrow amidst the pain & sorrow
fly as high as the eagle to parts unknown climbing over mountains
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can't sleep got these two in my mind a surreal moment caught in the nature of time
Pac from the East coast rolling with the holy ghost up in the crib a reason to forgive
Smalls west coast boogy down with the socks that homeboy do think a lot give props
they both met so don't forget that rap game locked it was torn up chemistry take it deep
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Awake to face the noon day dawn
like a loving doe or that in a fawn
we all want to belong
I exist as a vapor then I am no more...
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bury me well below beneath the sea in surf & turf
falling back to thee all of life is but a mystery
do you know your history in a world torn to make believe
through the fallen leaves love's taste granduer
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