Poems
By well-wisher
Poems on various subjects in various styles. I hope that you like them
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Gladioli
Gladioli; troupe of dancers flinging green arms above their heads. The spirit of life; of gay romance; their florid petals of flaming red.
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June and July (Rhyme)
June and July, how soon they fly but, while they're here, let's smile and cheer.
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Wish You Were Here
I wish you were here; I wish you could see sun-shimmer, like starlight, pour over the sea; hear wild blue waves crashing upon golden sand;
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Deep Love
Love is not in the skin; the flesh; the hair; the eyes or teeth. True love is found within the heart that’s beating underneath.
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Long, slow Summer
The long, slow kiss of summer; enjoy it while it lasts; the dripping honey sunshine; easy breezes brushing past; the sweet nothings of bird song Nature murmurs in your ear;
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The Sun Collector
The buzzing bees can never rest; always upon their nectar quest; crawling on daffodils and daisies they must think I am very lazy just lying on my back and snoozing
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To a book mite
Little book mite, munching on a page; chewing sayings by some ancient sage; while you’re busy feasting on a book don’t you ever stop to take a look at the pretty words which you devour;
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As you sleep, my heart doth sleep
As you sleep, my heart doth sleep and, in your serene beauty, makes its bed.
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The Pretty Picture
A picture used to hang upon my wall; a picture of green fields and hills and trees; silver rivers and pure, white waterfalls; blue skies and happy song birds flapping free.
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2 Love Poems: Three Magic Words & Love, be Kind
3 Magic Words Three magic words, when spoken, the gates of heaven, open and make the world, bright beautiful and new like music they are to hear; gold dust sprinkled on the air
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Dare To Love
If green shoots were far too timid to set themselves free from seeds, we would lose all of those vivid colours that the springtime breeds. If little chicks were all too shy
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Cats in the night
What eery sound is that? Wild mating cries of cats; distorted steel guitars or some strange ray from mars in a 50’s drive-in movie. It sends shivers right through me.
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An insomniac looks at the stars
Just think, without their blissful light how dark this restless night would be.
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Remember the Spring
Remember the Spring when the Earth is cold; remember the sun’s gentle kiss of gold; remember the grass and the flowers that grow when the world is all hidden with ice and snow;
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The song never heard
though nature gave it voice to spread the air with joys
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The Leap of love
Within love’s land, though I may be a stranger and cannot tell what sorrows, there, may hide for you, my love, I’d put my heart in danger; for you such risk is surely justified.
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Revolution Today (Lyrics)
1st Verse: Politics are parlour tricks; the fight has already been fixed; no matter who the people choose, the rich will win; the poor will lose. They only make a mockery
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Love’s Invocation
Oh, joyous love, come unto me; come fill my heart with pipes and timbrels; the soaring notes of ecstasy; the clash and crash of passions cymbals. Come fill me with fathoms of gold.
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The Private and The Free
No high walled garden can compare with wild spring blooms spread everywhere; no bird in a cage ever sings sweetly as those that stretch their wings; no man made lamp e’er shined as bright
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The importance of joy
The mole comes up to see the sun and I, I am a lot like he. I’ve lived a life in gloom but none can bear the darkness constantly. Hearts must have joy as lungs need air;
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Now my love has put down its roots
Now my love has put down its roots and can’t be shook by wind or storm; bright are its blossoms; sweet, its fruits touched by loves sunlight, gold and warm
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The Vastness of Nature
No picture can capture the grandeur of Nature; no canvas is vast as her broad open skies; her clouds, like a snow capped mountain in stature her sun, like a blue god’s bright golden eye
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The length versus the fullness of life
I’d rather do as flames and flowers do,
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The Final Ecstasy
After the dance, we both lie down together and share the ecstasy of love inside. After the dance of life, lie down forever in that ecstasy upon the other side.
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The Happy Song of Spring
Tomorrow is for fools; Today the spring is here; the sun’s a glistering jewel in the heavens bright and clear; there’s laughter on the breeze and blossoms fill the bough;
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The Child and Springtime
Year after year, my colours shall return.
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Love Speaks
Into the hearts of men, I go and there, the seeds of roses, sow; the brightest blooms that ever grew, of glittering and golden hue. Upon my flute I play an air
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Rainbow Earth (For Earth Day)
The sun is her orange and her yellow; her blue, the seas below and skies above; her green, the leafy trees and grassy meadows; her red, the bright red rose which blooms for love
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Life’s Great Carnival
An Infant’s heart begins to beat like a distant booming drum; coming nearer and growing louder, the closer it becomes. And it leads a carnival parade
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Spring Things
I praise the joyful litany of things that are so wonderful about the Spring; her sun, a golden kiss on bluer skies; her gentle breeze, April’s contented sighs;
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Because You Love Me
Your love shields me from all of sorrows darts so none, however sharp, can pierce my heart. I feel blessed, no matter with what I’m cursed and rich, no matter how empty my purse;
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Robo-Hobo (Sci-Folk)
I am just a Robo-Hobo riding in a space boxcar; over lazer light rails I go, travelling across the stars. Other folks may live under domes but I’ve got no fixed address;
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The Day Nature Got Tired
a smile spreading across the mothers face. Mankind had tried to put Nature in fetters but, perhaps, this species would do better; choose love, respect and kindness as its path.
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Summerfly
Running through a summers day, I chased a butterfly of blue and gold but it would always fly away; would never stay still long enough to hold. That butterfly has long since gone
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Treerobics
No wonder trees are all so slim; the way they bend and stretch their limbs; doing Treerobics all day long to keep them healthy, fit and strong.
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In The Place Beyond (Automatic Poem)
Often the door to my Heaven opens; sometimes in the heart of a rose;
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Springtime is Swingtime
Honey bees all jive in their be-bop hive; all the little bugs do the jitterbug. The daffodils grow like trumpets that blow; roses root-toot-toot in their red zoot suits.
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Two little birds
Two little birds dance far above, performing their beautiful ballet of love; Rogers and Astaire on the stage of the air; they whirl and they glide, always side by side.
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Nature’s Comfort
A love for Nature’s never unrequited. Into Earth’s spreading arms, we’re all invited. To each of us, the sunset’s kiss, she blows; for all the golden bloom of sunrise grows;
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April Rain
Silver April raindrops shower; over everything they pour; touching all with Midas power; polishing the whole world’s floor; transforming the grey and grimmer
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The Sanderlings
Long beaked sea-birds seek out little morsels on the shore. Anything they eke out is a thing they’re thankful for. Eagerly sanderlings scurry as the waves retreat;
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Distant Voices
Distant voices are blurred; noises instead of words; arguments become storms; gentle laughter like birds; angry mobs bray and roar; crowds are waves on the shore but though you hear far less
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The bower of my heart
My memory was given to adorn with twinkling silver nights and golden dawns; bright skies of woad and eve’s of indigo; green leaves and grass and every bloom that grows;
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The irresistible Spring
The seed cannot contain the flower once it has heard the voice of Spring, nor has the cocoon any power to hold back the butterflies wings; the change of season has begun
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On the scarcity of love
but love is an emotion; there should be mountains; there should be oceans
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The Spring of Tom Thumb
Just wee Tom Thumb am I; lost in the towering grass; leaning upon the trunk of every daffodil I pass. My life span may be days; my heart beat a bee’s wing but I’m honoured to gaze
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Albino Children
Albino children dance in the moonlight; the sun’s far too bright but the stars just right for their complexion, pale and the sweet nightingale sings its enchanting song
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2 Poems : 'The Valiant Sun King' and 'The Sun Peers In A Classroom'
The rolling, golden bowling ball of sun shatters all the tall skittles of night; driving blackness back to oblivion with its amazing blades of blazing light.
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Spring Forth
The axis of the earth rotates towards the sun; cold winters at an end; bold spring has just begun; a time to venture forth; for life to stretch its legs;
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Spring is Here At Last
Chilly winter days are past. The happy spring is here at last. The sun that hid its head away is spreading all its golden rays. The birds are singing merrily in every branch of every tree
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Blooms
Blooms are brooms to sweep winter away; brushes to paint the world bright and gay; fairy wands that cast colourful spells; Nature’s symphony of ringing bells;
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Baleen Ballet
Regally, like a queen, the beautiful baleen waves her tail up and down and makes a mellow cello sound. While, like in a ballet, her calf, around her, plays; he glides between her fins,
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Crossbill
Its bill is like two dry sticks rubbed together and, like the blazing fire that they start are the amazing crossbills crimson feathers. That's why it starts a fire in my heart.
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Blackbird Song
Blackbird, all the notes you use weave whirling, twirling curlicues; notes like little birds that fly through ear and heart like air and sky. On a blackboard, in bright chalks,
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Beautiful Universe
Magical galaxies, towering over us; sprinkling twinkling showers all over us; sparkling starbursts and spirals and rings; fabulous nebulas; fairy tale things.
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Butterflies
The wings of the blue morpho have no patterns; they look just like blue lingerie of satin. The swallowtail’s pretty wings always look just like crayon in a colouring book.
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Bluebells blooming
Bluebells blooming; life resuming after winter harsh and cold; roses spraying sweet perfume and daffodils spreading their gold. Poppies popping up, no stopping Springtime once it has begun
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Aurora Borealis
Aurora Borealis awe-inspiring sight; when God takes out her paintbrush, splashing skies with coloured light; like ancient spirits dancing; or vast silk veils of green and red,
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A Peaceful February Day
It is a peaceful day. The Earth tranquilly lays beneath the sky’s broad gaze and happy birds flit about, flap and play. A gentle, quiet breeze strokes through the willow trees
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A little thing
A little thing can tip the scales; lighten the heart so joy prevails, like a flake of snow or a gentle kiss, small things containing worlds of bliss.
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: - ) SMILE (- :
Smile; make your frown a grin. Smile; let some sunshine in. Smile; let me see you beam. Smile; it makes your eyes gleam. Smile; it’s good for your health. Smile; just enjoy yourself.
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4 Tiger Poems
Bigger. Stronger. Leaner. Meaner. Faster. Fiercer. Tiger. Roar! ------------------------ I am tiger. I am power and, when I grrr or I glower, craven creatures run and cower
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Confessions of a Shape shifter
First my toes turn into talons, then my mouth becomes a beak, feathers grow upon my fingers; songs replace the words I speak. Then I spread my wings out widely
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Daddy Long Legs
A spindly splodge of ink god spilt, you make up for your looks with grace; strutting upon the air with stilts; drifting past at a ghostly pace. Oh daddy long legs, you’re so queer
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A Literary High
Language can alter consciousness; letters like L.S.D.; stories can take you on a trip beyond reality. Try prose instead of Prozac; lines of verse and not Cocaine;
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Christmas Morning
Christmas morning; Sun is rising in blue skies of Bethlehem. Song birds serenade the new born like a choir of cherubim. Christmas morning; day is dawning; celebrate the infant king;
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Christmas Lily
Christmas lily, as white as the snow and shaped like a trumpet an angel would blow; you announce to us all that the Christmas is here and bring into our hearts the gift of good cheer
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A Christmas Tree
A Christmas tree, you’ve planted in my heart; a love both eternal and evergreen with silver bells of laughter and red ribbons of your smiles; soft glowing candles of joyful memories;
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All Children Go To Heaven
Up to a happy golden place; a place where playtime never ends;
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A Beach In Winter
I can’t wait till I spy that ship of gold; with sunray rigging and full sails of light
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A Christmas Rhyme
Little Robin with your heart so big, chirping happily upon a twig; when I hear your jolly carolling, silver bells inside me start to ring. Little Holly leaves that prickle us;
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A Love heart in the snow
But our true love shall never fade.
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Braving The Storm
and, afterwards, the sun will shine; the sky will be bright blue and calm
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Nature’s not just a pretty face, you know
Nature’s not just a pretty face, you know; there’s intellect in everything that grows. Some might even say that it looks designed but, in Nature’s form, I see Nature’s mind.
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A Rubbing Of The Sun
A rubbing of the sun appears in gold and deep etched clouds in blue Crayola sky and myself, as I looked at six years old, with bright, new copper pennies for my eyes.
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Ahh… but love is a wonderful thing.
Everywhere you’ll hear lovebirds sing and every day will be like the spring.
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Counterpoint
The darkness The light of hardship. of our love.
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A Smile For Every Sunbeam (A cheerful rhyme)
I have a golden smile for every sunbeam; a gentle kiss for every pretty flower that blooms; a silver tear of joy for every tiny raindrop and, for the big bass drum of thunder, a heart that booms.
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A Child of Nature
I see a gentle mother within everything I see; the way the trees embrace the birds within their boughs and sunlit clouds look like a mother who is smiling tenderly
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Autumn Fire
Oh, great Muse of Autumn fire; gold and crimson, blazing bright, who could help but be inspired by such an amazing sight but there’s no true way to capture butterflies in black and white;
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Autumn and Eve
Autumn born, full moon faced and naked as a tree, I grew to love each new Autumn as if it were born from me; love every leaf that bowed to earth, soft as an infant’s tread;
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Autumn’s Magic Carpet
Oh, great magic patchwork carpet, woven from star-like leaves of gold, on tortoise wings of time you take me far from white Winters world of cold to the exotic realms of Summer
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Blaze on, Summer bright
Blaze on, Summer bright; surround my heart in rays of light; armour of gold that glistens on long after August days have gone and press your flowers deep in me; heap up sweet scented memories
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August, most august
August, most august; Summer's sweet parting kiss, like those sights and sounds of Heaven fallen angels sorely miss. Winter’s wall shall come between us but I take comfort in this;
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At A Bat
Little, black, fluttering, pipistrelle bat; circling my ceiling like a surreal windmill sail; your tattered, leather wings unfolded like a flashers mac
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Brain Clouds
Outside, I hear the loud percussion of rain falling in rank and file; splashing, clattering; grey clouds gushing on terracotta pots and tiles. Shooting shining silver quivers,
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Breath Of Love
Breath of love, blow hard upon the sail of this, my little heart shaped sailing boat and stormy seas and thunder shan’t prevail. Though waves juggle her, she shall stay afloat.
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A short rhyme
Inspiring, like spires and arches of churches, the little chicks chirping up high on their perches in branches of beeches and larches and birches
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A Poem Worthy Of Our Love
A poem worthy of our love is a thing beyond the power of words. A poem is too small a thing; our love requires a choir of birds. Our love should have a hurricane with rose petals to strew,
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Alone with the world
Alone, in the eyes of man, I was but I never felt alone; not in the warm embrace of summer; far away from the cold hearted crowds; not with the breath of her breeze in my hair;
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Beauty’s gonna get ya
Beauty’s gonna get ya with a left hook and a right; a hundred bucks I bet ya, you’ll be seeing stars tonight. Beauty is a boxer; red roses are boxing gloves.
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A bouquet of words (Poem)
A fluttering of hearts, a shimmering of memories and a miracle of hopes; a carnival of dreams; a summertime of hugs and a fairy tale of kisses; a jubilee of smiles; a rhapsody of rainbows
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Censorship
to shape our minds; to prune and shear.
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A Time For Love
Now is the time when red roses bloom and the song of suckling swallows fills the air. Now, the world is fertile, painted and perfumed and wearing eglantine in tangled hair.
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Christmas/Winter Haiku
Sunset upon snow; an infant’s eye grows sleepy. With laughter it will awake. Snowflakes, snowflakes, snow flakes falling. Winter gives me a book of Haiku. Present wrapped in white
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Baby Seals (with a kiss)
Far warmer than fur garments is that fuzzy glow I feel; that happiness that hugs my heart when I see baby seals. My heart falls into their warm eyes; as bright as stars in the North Pole
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Come Tread Upon The Snow
Come tread upon the snow with me; we’ve travelling to do. It looks so pretty and so pure and darling so do you but Winters not worth anything unless we’re having fun.
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A Love Bright Garden
I know three comely misses named April, May and June; with tulips, they blow kisses; with blackbirds, whistle tunes. And over hills and vales, each wears a long, green velvet gown;
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3 Poems
The Forgiving Springtime When the infant sheds white cloak of death; when newborn smile stretches across the Earth, she has no memory of the cold winter; of the harshly arguing winds;
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Bohemian Gold (A happy, pro-hippy poem)
Dark flames eat butterfly wings, tear through the handiwork of time; ugly hearts hate beautiful things, they wallow in their age of grime. One eyed men hunt the unicorn.
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A play for two hands.
I posted this earlier but thought it might be more appropriate now.
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AFTER THE FIRE
Poem I wrote years ago, after a house fire. Thought that I would post it now.
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An ageless love
Ageless love
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Autumn Fireworks
Young children run and laugh and scream towards the fireworks display; teenagers drift with inward dreams, fireworks filled their hearts today; parents watch kids with starry eyes,
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Automatic Poem
Inspired by Steve Button I thought I'd write a quick automatic poem. Don't know if it's any good. It's kind of Nursery Rhymey.
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FAR OUT!
Mission Control … we cannot speak about the worlds that we have seen
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INVASHUN
We zkoff Invader burgers, and we duz not zwink it strange,
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Lament Of The Old Star Sailor
That siren song of starlight is calling to me again
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Lash of Lallans
Probably doesn't fit the IP because it might be viewed as insulting but it's based upon the language of my childhood bullies.
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Return To The Beach
Canutes cannot untie the tide
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How Red Is Read.
Red river running; ever moving, never resting;
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Spring Free
Little poem about spring
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A Precious Gift.
I have a pretty, precious gift for you...
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Bird Feeder
Poem inspired by watching a bird feeder surrounded by birds.
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BURLESQUE
Ohhhhh- roarrrrr- aaaahhhh!
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are the birdsong that brings peace to the morning.
This might seem a little corny, like a Valentines card poem but I always thought of it as a lock where the reader is a key.
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Big, bad wolf
There is no army marching; storming your window pain
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-ment of a mo-
A love poem, either for the Venus de Milo or for a woman without arms.
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Gold, Frankenstein & Myrrh
We three kings of Orient are a little too early.
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Woman with a telescope.
Curling clouds, of permanent waves, pinned back, her bright eye is pressed against the eye piece; in love with the light that freckles the black, like the freckles constellated on her face.
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Joyful,noble people
Poem about our friends the dolphins.
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The Lioness (A short poem)
A short poem about a lioness.
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Sonnet
Alot of Shakespeare's Sonnets make the argument that a poem can give literary immortality to its subject. This Sonnet is a reaction to that idea.
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The Slaughterhouse Of Souls
No, doctor, I am not insane.
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Gripping Birdsong
Gripping in the title means both "that which holds your attention" and also "Clinging onto".
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Secret Service
nature/spiritual poem drawing upon the world of espionage for its imagery/metaphor.
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Little Lucy And The Debt Collector
Where is your daddy, little girl? Tell me, is he at home today? Where is your daddy, little girl? You know, he has some debts to pay.
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Blood Month
We trudge through the smoke filled field, the cold and mud of Murrayfield park; the camera flash, of wailing candles, pinning ribbons on the dark.
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New Cargoes (Based on “Cargoes” by John Masefield)
Anti-war poem based on the poem "Cargoes".
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The Look In her Eyes (IP)
This was meant to be a song but I couldn't think of another verse/chorus so I'm submitting it as a poem.
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Where Does Yesterday Go?
Does yesterday die or live in today?
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Flowers
Blind, deaf and dumb and numb with death
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Wynter Magyck
Mithras, Christmas or Abra-December.
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The Arctic Hare
I thought that, since it's winter, I 'd write an arctic nature poem.
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Reindeer Rhyme
Another short Christmas rhyme.
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The Bear In Santa’s Sleigh
A short rhyme about a toy that comes to life in Santa's sleigh.
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Young Santa Clause
A little poem about the childhood of Santa Clause.
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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE (Based on a poem by Robert Herrick)
Based on "To the virgins, to make much of time" by Robert Herrick.
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Dreaming of Clara Bow
Poem about the silent movie star Clara Bow.
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My Heart Leaps Up*
Round about the roundabout and arcing over our car, as we drove home from the clinic, through the brainwashing tumbledrum, the constant stutter and tutting of rain, a rainbow rose above;
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Sickness & Health
Come with us now through the perilous chapel.
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Scope
In terrorizing visions, I see virions of greed; icosahedral capsids vaster than cathedral domes and, wherever they hover, poverty erupts and bleeds
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The Auchinleck Prometheus
Poem about William Murdoch, the inventor of gas lighting.
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Song Without A Cage (IP)
Thinking about this week’s IP, it occurred to me that no one needs to be transported by music more than those who are confined to a prison of some kind.
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Emma is a kiss (IP)
What name pours forth instinctively when we are born again; borne into the arms of love; into a new eternity; tiny, helpless, wide-eyed and clinging? EM-MA! The mother of all words of love.
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tongue - twister (IP)
A kind of tongue twister.
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October Birthday
Birthday candles blazing in a circle, like the family and friends gathered around you, like the silver quiver of a hunter’s moon. Blow them out and then make your secret wish,
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On The Stonechat
Stonechat; Nature’s Demosthenes, your beauty pleads her case with ease, your bright black coat and russet breast says all that needs to be expressed. When it seems as if men cannot
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Sci- Ku
Attempt at some Science Fiction Haiku's
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The Power Of The Nightingale (Based Upon A Fable By Hesiod)
A twist upon an old fable by Hesiod.
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The Monarch (A Butterfly)
Silhouettes of trees, against a blazing amber sky;
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Some More Haiku
Bright autumn peach trees.
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My heart must be a mirror of the earth.
My heart must be a mirror of the earth, For when I see a rose one grows inside And gazing round at springtime’s spreading birth My heart bursts with broad fields and steep hillsides.
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Zebra
I see a fingerprint of god against the dusty plains. I see an X-ray showing me both death and glowing life. I see bars, but underneath a thing that won’t be caged.
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The Salvation Of The Stag
I woke upon some hunter’s wall and could not feel my limbs at all; my body gone, in fear, I screamed but, thank the stars, it was a dream. Rejoicing; in my life, I thrilled;
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nurturing a dove
The child’s eyes widen, behind binocular lenses, watching as featherless hatchlings grasp for air with tiny talons; tender mums and fathers feeding crop milk to their hungry young
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Flower In A Thorn Tree (Inspired by paintings of Graham Sutherland)
Let us join hands, we five and sing a roundel of purple; purple that pricks with beauty against the thorny grimness of a stone shattered world.
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Romantic Love Poem
Beside the face of heaven, there I rise and see the opening of your lustrous eyes. The birth of two bright stars, each morn, I see. No man was ever fortunate as me.
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Exit The Labyrinthe
The light of Knos- sos lies beyond.
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SOME HAIKU
We gather brambles while the clouds above grow black. Soon sweet rain will flow. Curly clouds part and let the bright June sun shine through to warm my bald spot. My pumpkin lantern
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The 30th Of Julia (IP)
Did I dream this weeks IP? It is the 30th of Julia right?
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Proof Of Aphrodite
From Heaven’s hand my love was formed; from only Heaven did she come; a true miracle was performed and all who say ought else are dumb.
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Marduk*, The Paper God (On Rupert Murdoch)
Marduk, who held a paper sun and paper world within your hands; maker of kings; lord of the lies. The fear of you is fading. All those who knelt at your feet now tear you down
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Is All Beauty A Kind Of Seduction?
Why does the moon, like Audrey Hepburn, beam
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The Lessons Of Nature
Our Mother Nature has so much to teach us;
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What does April Mean To Me? (Alphabet Poem)
An attempt at an alphabet poem. Hope it's ok.
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Their First Kiss
A very special kiss.
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Natural High
I do not need a needle, no;
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On the edge of death, reborn
Life affirming poem/story inspired by the forum thread on suicide.
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Seahorses
In a dream of seagrass meadow,
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Patience
Longing to write a nature poem
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Your Kisses
A little love rhyme
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My heart would have no sleep
Love like a nice, warm bed
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Pigeon religion
Pigeons have a religion;
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Peace & The Nightingale
Peace and the nightingale sing in harmony with each other, reminding me of infancy and the cooing of my mother. Thank goodness; like memories of my loved ones that live on,
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Great Love
Oh love, that made the sun so warm and bright! Oh love, that set the stars within the night! I read the pages of my heart each day and strive to live according to love’s way.
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Sunday Morning
Spiritual Nature poem
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Love and Socialism
We met infront of Marx’s tomb; watched the October setting sun; gazed up as stars rose from the gloom. I chose a star, said “You’re that one”. And then we kissed and raised a fist
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May we not fall in love again?
May we not fall in love again? Now that the swallows have come home and the bright sun’s once more in the sky and cold and winter snow is gone and the golden flowers are reborn.
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The Bringer of Light
Making all things shine; that is your noble art. ‘twas you who poured the gold into each atom of my heart. Yours was the kiss that kindled this bright candle in my breast,
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Poems of Autumn/Seasons
Autumn Vow When the oestrogen of green has gone, I’ll still love you as I did in spring; When the wind turns harsh and night grows long; While the fires of anthocyanin
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Oh, the lily could be whiter (Doggerel)
Thank heavens for small miracles
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The Ghosts Of Flanders Field
And we find ourselves in Flanders field again, trapped by those bloody poppies, row on row. We say “Christ! Sweet dove, do not leave. For it is with you, we long to go”.
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Your love that is without equal.
To the brightest suns of Summer, add the brightest stars and moons and the oceans gentlest murmur and the skylarks sweetest tune and all miracles together that this world was ever shown
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Transcendence
Our bodies stood upon this earth; our hearts upon the moon; our cares in cold December; our lips in brightest June. There was no world around us, no skies of evening hue;
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Kiss Me Under Heaven
Kiss me under heaven and let the stars see light. Teach angels to envy; let them gaze on greater heights. Your love makes a blasphemer of my heart with each sweet kiss;
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To beauty born in an era of blindness
You’ve come too late, my love, to shine; an antique pearl in an age of swine. Man’s lost all love for things divine. You are the sun but men are blind.
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Fireworks (IP)
Through right lense and left lense I saw rockets ascend,
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Two Autumn Poems - "Marigolds" & "The Carousel"
Two non-halloween Autumn/Seasonal poems
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The Ouija Man (A Narrative Horror Poem)
A narrative horror poem for Halloween. Hope you enjoy.
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The Ghost Of Violets
ghostly nature poem
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Our Wintertime Love
A fox and vixen, I have seen, make love amidst the evergreens. Two brazen flames that brightly glowed from wick of shadow and wax of snow. And honeybees, or so I’m told,
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More praise for the homeward Sun
First, bright flaxen lashes, then the opened eye of sun, like loud cymbal crashes, flashes o’er the horizon. Bright as inspiration, it touches blank winter snow, then out pours creation;
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The Army In The Snow – A Riddle
An army marches in the snow; each man carries a sword of sound but, with that sound, they strike a blow that can knock titans to the ground. Bound by meaning, they forward go
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Little New Year Rhymes and a Prayer
On December 31st and at the midnight hour; fireworks go boom and burst into a big, bright shower. When Big Ben begins to chime, to let everyone know the time,
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With the aid of Sun
The sun shall ever find wherever sorrow hides my heart; my heart, the hilt her bright blade gleams upon and side by side, the sun and I, split hopelessness apart
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Not Poppies But Roses
King, keep St Crispian’s and I’ll have St Valentine’s; For the glory of life is in loving, not in war; In the booming of our passions and the marching of our hearts;
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Snowdrops
Snowdrops growing; new hope flowing; pretty, milk white petals dripping from the blessed breast of Spring.
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Solar Prayer
Buried in boundless, sacred plains of azure; the turning key of time unveils your treasure; tipping a pot of gold of endless measure; kindling in all childkind, bright flames of pleasure.
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Unveiling of a hidden rose
Between the gold and diamond hours, a rose called sunset blooms; a flower for all lonely hearts to rouse them from their gloom; for while they wait to gaze on bright inner vistas of love
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Heaven in Autumn
It is Autumn in Heaven; for my love, she is old
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Love Poem (with instructions)
Hold this poem
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Promise my heart
My heart, that looked upon your love, now dare not close its eyes for fear it shall not see again flowers rain from the skies or rainbows wrap themselves around a never setting sun.
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The Victory Of Love
Little did I know that love had changed my heart; that love had come creeping, quietly as time, to plant new heart and make new man of me. Love, like a tempest but soft as breezes blow;
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Rush
I am the dandelion; purse your rosebud lips and blow, then watch my seeds go flying; spreading my sun golden glow. I am the tall tree pushing up to branching stars above;
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Pink Orchids
Pretty, pink phalaenopsis blooms; I bury my nose deep in you, till, tickled by your sweet perfumes, my nose always goes “Atishoo!”.
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Reach Out
I must reach out in all directions; travel every avenue, like branching branches; stars and snowflakes, rivers and raindrops that split in two. I must reach out in all directions,
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To Roses With Love
What rose can I give to roses to show them my deep love for them?
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Magnificat
My seedling soul magnifies your shining body. I long to touch your smooth, lustrous, dark skin; look deep into your eyes that shine with knowledge and know the multitudes of worlds within.
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Seashell Venus
With her laughter, light as lacy foam and her spritely eyes, bright as pearls; across the seashore, she shall roam; my pretty, precious, seashell girl. Wet sand sugaring her fingers
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The Jester And The New World
“Your noble majesty”, said he, “I’ll be your clown no more for I am bound to sail around this earth to golden shores. A new world is awaiting; uncharted, unexplored, where men like me
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Threnody For Sadness
Alas for alas and woe for woe! My grief, atlast, has gone below. I weep and weep sweet tears of joy; love struck a blow and grief’s destroyed. My gloom has gone to endless night;
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The Little Piper and the Spring
Kneeling down, as if to pray, the little piper softly plays, upon the pipe, a melody of Spring that sings inside of me. Oh, how the gentle rosebud ripens; slowly opening its lips.
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I blew you a kiss
I blew you a kiss on a windy day
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Eros In Chains (A tortured prisoner to his love)
I dare not say I love you, for they hurt me when I do. They tear the wings from Angel love, so it no longer soars above. They torture me till I’m in tears; I am afraid of all my fears.
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The Face Of My Lover Is Love’s Own Face
The face of my lover is Love’s own face; her arms; love’s warm, golden embrace; her smile, as bright as rapture’s gleam; her voice, like heart made music, seems;
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Pretty Stormy
I love your lightning flash; your precious gems of hail the passion of your thunder the music of your wail. You’re pretty when your angry, you’re pretty when your sad
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Hope Prophecy
Bright is the destiny of man, I see; for I am not a prophet of gloom.
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Here grows a rose...
Here grows a rose that will not die, not in the harshest winter snows nor deserts cracked, barren and dry. Through endless night, it still would glow. It is the love between you and I.
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Where my heart lives
Like the fishes at play in the water or birds that sing and dance through the skies; my heart lives in your love and laughter; in the air of your breath and the light from your eyes.
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Flowers for my love
I send my love a Sunflower for the brightness her love brings; and daffodils and blue bells for the bells her bright love rings; the reddest of all roses for the passion her love starts
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Wherever there is love
Wherever there is love, there will be hope; a fountain of hope that pours within our hearts and, bound together, we are bound to cope; each person, moved by love, to play their part.
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Writing about love
When love lets me speak again then perhaps I may sing love songs; when my heart comes home again from higher realms; when its golden wings grow tired of circling love’s bright sun
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Two Anti-War Poems : 'Charge!' and 'Overcoming The Beast'
What is it that seduces men to war? Why choose the hail and thunder to adore? Why not the snow white dove or crimson rose? Why can’t man be content with such as those?
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The Legend Of Myself
Thunder gods grow older; their lightning bolts grow dim. My father towered over me; now I’m taller than him. Now time has turned him from a god into a wizened elf
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Let me praise you
Let me cheer for you and sing your praise for the many wondrous things you’ve done. Let me pour upon you golden rays for being my constant rising sun.
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Into a masterpiece
Into a masterpiece, I walked for miles; put my hand deep and brushed against the brushstrokes; closed my eyes and felt the colours; a silken soft and fragrant rainbow;
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While my lover sleeps
Two bright stars lost within the land of dreaming; they will not shine again till you awake. A pretty rose that bursts with laughter gleaming will stay a rosebud until next you speak.
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I will, truly, love you forever
How many times must I assure you that my love for you is without end? Infinity’s a teeny-tiny thing beside my love for you, my friend. Long beyond the beating of my heart;
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Our Hearts Together
Look at our hearts together; how they wander happily over sunlit hills of heather; free in love’s captivity. Look at our hearts together; like two wings upon love’s bird.
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Some Sunshine Rhymes
I hear the happy chaffinch chirping like a laughing child; see the yellow daffodils that bob like belfries in the wild but does the Summer hear, within my heart, that booming dove
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Peeping Tom
He spies on her as she takes her bath, so beautiful and serene, but then she notices him watching and, spreading her
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The Groom Of Life
Life long, unto life, I am betrothed; contented with this flesh in which I’m clothed; wearing this golden ring of days with pride; happily sleeping by the Springtime’s side.
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Summer: The Real Jubilee
Enter wanton Summer sun; Winter’s buttons all undone. Enter the exotic queen; luscious luxury of green and gem hued; pearl dewed satin petals; lakes like polished, precious metals
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Gigantic
Love’s sleeping giant has awoken. I hear its thunderous feet within my heart; feel enormous hands with grip that can’t be broken and power to raise me up or tear me apart.
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The Runaway Heart (Redrafted)
Tonight I was awoken by a funny sort of feeling and, opening my eyes, I saw my heart high overhead. Like a helium balloon, it bobbed about upon the ceiling
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The Wonder Of A Rose
Every rose is a colossus, towering overhead. Every rose is like a lighthouse with an eye of blazing red. Every petal more impressive than all the pyramids and tombs
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Remember this bright Summer
Remember this bright Summer when all the Autumn sky is grey. Remember blossoms on the trees when Autumn leaves are tossed away. Remember her you loved; how she was young and bright and gay.
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To all the seasons, I am thankful
To all the seasons, I am thankful, for their beauty, wisdom, hope and joy; my four noble, trusted companions without whom my heart would be destroyed. To the child of spring; the ever hopeful
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The Beautiful Struggle
Go and bathe your deepest troubles in the ocean that an enormous, sinking sun has set ablaze; bury the mountain of your sorrows in a flowering field on the bluest and brightest of Summer days
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Rose Hips
She asked me for roses; I gave her rose hips and said, “Here are roses as red as your lips with perfume more sweeter than any you’ll smell in expensive bottles brewed up by Chanel”.
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To The Summer Breeze
Sweet, gentle spirit of the Summer breeze who whispers words of love in leaves of trees. It’s joy to feel the soft touch of your hand; your cooling breath, like being gently fanned.
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This Sporting Life
The booming thunder like a starting gun, a torrent pours, a shining marathon; muscular clouds hurl javelins that flash whilst whistling winds begin a wrestling match.
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The Love That Grows Wiser
Let the lines grow deep upon our love and let the hair of our friendship turn grey, for the love that grows wiser is a love forever strong;
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The Rock and Roll Bus
Riding on the rock and roll bus that shakes and rolls and rattles us; pastoral symphonies flash past. Driver, why must we go so fast? Too fast to see the countryside;
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Radio Summer
She is beaming out a gleaming signal to anyone at all whose heart will hear, in wavelengths of golden solar splendour which she hopes you are receiving loud and clear.
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The Happy Willow Tree
Sad eyes see willows weeping but they never weep to me. A lovely, long haired maiden is the tree I always see or a tall, melting green candle that sustains the flame of life
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Pearls
There are pearls, deep at the bottom of the ocean and there are stars up in the endless night above; peaceful Summer days amid life’s restless motion
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I Love Yew
Oh, I love yew and elm trees too. Elms overwhelm my heart with bliss. I love to stroke a sturdy oak or clasp an aspen close to kiss. Some, mocking, say Psychiatry is a tree
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Faerie Magic
My favourite theory is silken winged faeries with dust made from moonbeams and glitter of stars that come, late at night, with pass keys of light and sprinkle, on my dreams,
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Love’s Storm And Calm
Whirling, like a rose in a tornado; struck by the bright lightning of love; my heart's a hundred rumbling thunderstorms; my body, a tree in the high winds of passion
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Save The Arctic
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/arctic/ Blessed virgin of the Arctic; rarest, most flawless, most precious diamond of this world; my eyes melt and my heart cracks with aching;
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The Summer sets as does the sun
The Summer sets as does the sun; sky turns to crimson; leaves to gold but time, round in a circle, runs; all will be young that now grows old. Fear not the darkness or the cold;
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Thank Nature, we grow older
Oh, thank Nature, we grow older and too tired to run and play; tired enough to sit and contemplate a splendid August day. Little kids are far too busy flying to watch a bird in flight
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Look Eastward
Look eastward, heart of sorrow. See that the darkness cannot hold back that brave phalanx of the light that brandishes bright spears of gold. See how the fearsome foe of winter
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Idea for poem structure: A Word Symphony
Drip by drip and drop by drop, rain starts to fall then will not stop. It glimmers and glistens and shimmers and shines, it rattles and clatters and splashes and…
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The Sleepy Autumn
How gentle and how blissful does the sleepy Autumn seem, like a child whose auburn hair spills on soft pillows of the earth; leaves like heavy eyelids drift off as if into dreams;
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The Alchemy Of Autumn
The alchemy of Autumn is so awesome to behold, transforming elm and sycamore from emerald to gold; the weeping willows crying stops as tear drops turn to flames; the oak trees become lions
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HUMAN AUTUMNS
Spring shall come and fill the lives of all those who follow the fall.
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Every day, I am reborn
Every day, I am reborn; every dawn’s the dawn of light; yesterday, the world seemed worn; now it seems new and shining bright. Every day, I am reborn; every morn, the world’s remade.
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Nova Cygni, 1975
The star upon the swan shone beautifully bright; my eyes began to open as the nova was eclipsed, that’s when I took my first long look upon the light and when life laid its first
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Whodunnit? : A Mystery Poem
Attempt at a whodunnit in poem form.
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The Adorable Dormouse (Redrafted)
Little golden Dormouse, gently huddled; curled up, like the world’s most warmest cuddle; comfortably tucked in beds you weave from honeysuckle bark and grass and leaves.
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Solution to “Whodunnit?”
That’s it! I think I’ve worked it out. I know who dunnit, without a doubt. Who it was that shot Lady Bloom and how they entered her locked room.
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I love a lady called the Autumn
I love a lady called the Autumn; her eyes are Perseus and the Plough; her dark hair, dancing clouds of starlings; her kisses fall from maple boughs. With burning lips of amber, gold
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Stop, Look and Listen
Look at the amber Autumn leaves. Look at the scarlet sunset hues. Why not take time to sit and wait; relax and contemplate the view. The Spring and Dawn will soon be here
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The Heroic Autumn
The last words of the Autumn, at the dying of the year, are the oratory of beauty; ennobling to hear. With the sighing of the Autumn wind and tongues of blazing leaves,
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Poetry for Ants
I try to make the writing small; try to mix sugar with my ink. The ants take no notice at all. I cannot think the way they think. Sometimes it puts me in a rage
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The Hardy Birds of Autumn
The hardy birds of Autumn still seem so bright and gay.
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Upon An Autumn Kiss
Oh, little flame of Autumn, never fear the winter snow for now you’ll go to where the Fall colours forever glow and silver moon that so adorns this blissful Autumn night,
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Seize the day
reach out and seize the day.
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The Angel & The Mermaid
An angel once loved a mermaid. She’d bring her stars down from the sky and invite her up to heaven but the poor mermaid couldn’t fly. Then the mermaid would say, “Hey, let’s
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In a kiss
If seeds and sand grains make the fields and hills and oceans are, by tiny raindrops, filled; if starling flocks start from a single egg and * BANG! * one spark explodes a powder keg,
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Touch Poem (Poem to be stroked onto skin with fingertips and punctuated by kisses)
Beyond distance is (Kiss) a happy place (Kiss) called Us (Kiss )
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On Loneliness and Love
I hear a bird who’s singing all alone and the song it sings seems oh so monotone but then it’s joined by other happy birds and, suddenly, a melody is heard.
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The Suitor And The Woman
A suitor loved a woman and he wanted her to know so he gave her songbirds in a cage but she just let them go. Then he bought her gold and diamonds but she gave them to the poor
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Spiritual Love
Pure as angels, we both shall become when, our two hands joined like an angel’s wings and the halo of friendship round our hearts, we enter that Heaven of true love;
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Supergirl
Wish I had special powers; that I could strettttch ouuut tiiiime; make minutes into hours. Wouldn’t that be sublime? Or I could sdrawkcab emit nrut; make yesterday today.
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The Oracle of Love
and when I hold your hand, I know, we have only higher to climb. Our love's like an oracle that shows my heart glittering visions
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Elevated (Please read from bottom to top)
evated. soul el- Your to inspire. written Words, from the dead. growing Life, flying higher. soaring; Bird overhead. rising Sun, into fire. bursting Spark,
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The Autumn Flamenco
pretty leaves that were skipping and leaping and flapping
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I Love You!
I’ll whistle it to the birds and I’ll buzz it to the bees. I’ll whisper it, like the wind does, to the grass and flowers and trees. “I love you!”. I’ll climb up a high mountain;
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Where Winter goes, Spring Follows
Wherever a red leaf of Autumn falls, gently leaving a kiss upon the earth, there a pretty red rose of April blooms and wherever white snowflakes cover all,
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Love’s Education
My heart only knew how to beat. You taught it so much more. You gave it nimble, dancing feet and wings on which to soar. You opened new eyes in my heart; made bright new worlds to see
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The Sacred Flame Of Love
Love, cherish and do not take for granted that most generous of gifts from god to man, the truly sacred mystery of love; the secret of lighting love’s eternal flame.
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The Nudes Of Autumn
Some have spreading, sensuous limbs that flow like rivers to the sky or twist like the roots of new growth in long, languid shapes that recline on blue satin of evening
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Give Me A Sign - A Graphic Poem
All I really want is love, LOVE, L-O-V-E!
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Election Knight
Oh, Barack Obama; black knight in bright armour with the sword of the light in your hand. Romney comes to joust you, hoping that he’ll oust you and bring back a dark age to the land.
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Paradise Found
There is a pretty place I know; a place where crystal waters flow and flowers, of all colours, bloom filling the air with sweet perfumes; where birds that have bright rainbow wings
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War & Love
red as the roses; Oh red princess;
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Some Little Poems
A Bear Behind There is a bear who follows me everywhere I go. He hides when I turn round because he thinks I do not know but wherever I wander, near and far, I always find
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Love makes everything brighter
Love makes everything righter; love gives a new shine to the moon; love paints the rainbow brighter and adds new notes to every tune. Love makes the rose more rosier
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True Remembrance
Remember wicked lies were told; remember lives were bought and sold; that young men, who now won’t grow old, died to fill rich men’s hands with gold. Remember now the slaughtered youth
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Intercity Synchronicity
I’m riding on a train; on a train through the rain; through the rain falling down; falling down to the ground. And little silver drops fall again and again and again without stop
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Oh, moon
That beams so bright above me; reflecting on you, I feel blessed. I think Heaven must truly love me, to feed me milk from her own breast
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The reason why I rhyme
Gentlemen of the jury. Please, listen to my petition. There is no cause for such fury against this happy repetition. To rhyme is not a crime. Some rhymes can be sublime; poetry in its prime
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Upon an Ageless Love
Love sees springtime blossoms in the Autumn and leaves of green while branches are all bare; love still feels the golden kiss of Summer with winter winds nipping its nose and ear;
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Happy Wishes
Upon the twinkling of the stars, I make this wish; that every dog shall have his bone; each cat, her fish; each little mouse his cheese and all the birds, their crumbs
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Heaven is a disco
Saturn’s rings rotating; a record begins to play; then pulsars start pulsating with a beat that’s bright and gay. Then Angel’s straight and queer dressed in golden, glittering wings
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Pansies in the snow
Pretty pansies in the snow; happy faces all aglow. Winter's when they show the mettle of their brightly mottled petals. I should be as bright as they on this chilly winter day.
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Storm Gifts (Giving gifts to bring cheer in hard times)
We bring to you, these gifts in trouble and in storm; a shelter for your head; blankets to keep you warm. Together we will weather this storm until it ends; an unbreakable circle,
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Eskimo Love
I’d like to be an Eskimo, live in a little house of snow; a little igloo just for two that I would build for me and you. We would live the Eskimo way; go riding about in our sleigh
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Sun kissed
The humming of the honeybees and happy serenade
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Desire
Some have hair like the midnight; some like blazing fire or sun but all have eyes that shine bright and I desire them, every one. Some have skin of burnished bronze
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La Lune De L’Amour
They call you la Lune De L’Amour. How many love scenes you must have lit. Your crescent bow and beams have hit more than poor Cupid's arrows ever hit and yet you look so lonely to me;
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Home to you
I am not home till I come home to you; till I see your face, beaming, at the door. In your arms is the only home that’s true and, without you, I’d be homeless forevermore.
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Lighthouse In The Sky
Sun that shines in through my window, scattering your precious rays, can you see me sitting, trying to write this poem in your praise? In your divine golden image
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Winter Sparkle
If Summer is golden, then Winter is diamond and pearl; a shimmering sequin of frost that swathes all of the world; there is a crystal star etched in each little snowflake of white
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Springtime is the world falling in love.
Deep under the bare breast of winter snow are little seeds like stirrings of new love. From them, sweet blooms like pouting lips shall flow, blowing kisses to the bright sun above.
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The Elegant Sunbird (Save the Elegant Sunbird)
The elegant sunbird’s a painting in oils with feathers as glossy as glistening foil. When it spreads its wings it also spreads delight ‘cause the Elegant Sunbird’s a rainbow in flight.
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I am nothing but everything
While I am merely a man, let me admire that splendour I shall become part of, when I am dressed in the leaves and the flowers; when I am married to the Earth for all time;
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The Proud Bird
I am a wren; little brown wren; not pretty nor fierce but proud;
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Passionate Poinsettia
Oh, passionate Poinsettia; when nature paints her lips with red and gives us all a festive kiss. Like a winter sunset your broad leaves of blazing scarlet spread
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Heart-breaking beauty
1st Verse: Over the snow-capped mountains spill silken shades of gold and pink; a thousand stars peek out and trees turn into fountains of ink. The sky is dyed like denim;
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Happy Christmas, Heart
Happy Christmas, heart of mine; one dozen kisses sweet as wine and a great big smile for you, my face; wrapped up within her warm embrace.
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Flowers for the New Year
Flowers for the New Year; flowers for the Spring; for bright hope; for good cheer and new life awakening. Ring in the year with bluebells and sing the Sun King’s praises
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Fear not
Fear not what may or may not come; those shadows of the unforeseen; think only of the rising sun, blue skies, bright blooms and fields of green. Ask not what trials or sorrows may
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The Poor Little Birds
Nature bless all the poor little birds; feed them for the joy that they give
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Life is Grand (Automatic writing)
We are shooting stars falling through the cosmos; let us look at universes great and small; the way that rain shines gold upon the window pane or the stars seem to surround a person’s head;
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New Year Near You
Like the magic stroke of Midnight was our kiss; filled with golden bells and fireworks of bliss and the love that, in our hearts, began to sing
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The last piece of perfection
and your lips, kissing. All the stars are out tonight; each one bold, beautiful and bright. The moon's gigantic, full and round, pouring its gold upon the ground.
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Freedoms not infidelity
Freedom causes suspicion when looked on with jealous eyes; most people look unfaithful merely trying to loosen ties. I never loved any but you but love ties bound too tightly
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She strides the Earth
She strides the Earth in her green gown and where she strides new life is sown. Living, growing, spreading, flowing; flowers thrusting free from seedlings;
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The Ugly Truth
The truth is a geek. It doesn’t look chic; has spots on its face and specs on its eyes. The truth is a nerd; socially awkwerd and so shy you might miss it in a room full of lies.
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Mother Heaven - Prayer (Personal Faith)
Mother Heaven help me to endure and I shall be a carrier of your cure. Mother Heaven help me win my fight and I will be a bearer of your light. Let your sacred milk of mercy flow.
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Older but not lesser
Though your old eyes may be wrinkled, they’re as blue as periwinkles and they sparkle and they twinkle like the welkin* when its sprinkled with a trillion brilliant stars.
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Hummingbird Kiss
Gentle as the hummingbird that hovers round the flowers; her tongue a beating-wing like blur as my nectar, she devours.
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Destiny
My eyes may not be wide enough to take this world inside; my heart too soft and gentle for life’s rough and rocky ride but Nature cannot hear me cry, “I’m too young to be born”.
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From every end, a new beginning
Surrendering, the setting sun goes down but dawn will raise its golden sunray crown. Out of the deepest darkness climbs the day. And blazing green fire grows from the grey
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Of Bees and Flowers
The Bees Oh, we plunder cotton thistle and we liberate the rose for wherever nectar glistens, there we honey makers go. God save our United Queendom;
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Stairs
Heaven. to /S/ \R\ /I/ \A\ /T/ \S\ the climbs heart my kisses your Upon
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Virgin of Winter
Virgin of Winter, pale and pure; untouched by sunlight’s golden hand; time’s made a match for you, I’m sure. That beaming sun’s a handsome man and, within you, he will ignite
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Love, let us be wedded in the Spring
Love, let us be wedded in the Spring. That’s when the Earth lifts up its bridal veil of white and the sun is like big, brass church bells that ring;
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Written in stone
Silently the lichen grows on words engraved in grey; WOPDS THAT ARF WPITTFN IN STONF WILL NFVEP FADL AV AY
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The Good News of Spring
On bright yellow, telephone like daffodils the spring is ringing; yelling hello and from swallow filled tree hollows, Spring is singing. April petals open like the envelopes of scented letters
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My Bread And Wine
Breath is my bread; breast of the Earth; thread that binds me to you from birth; air I share with each beast and bird; lungs swelling with language and song.
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Flickerbook butterfly
Yet real Springtime will be here soon; tattooed wings shattering cocoons part of the reawakened Spring; then my heart will beat bright red wings.
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The stormy night
the sun will shine just like an empress and, with the world, kiss and make up.
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Fatherland
I am Lily of the Valley. Forth, from the green Earth, I sally and, from my shoot, proud and tall; showers of snow white flowers fall. I am snowdrops in the Spring time;
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Hail to thee, Gladiolus
Hail to thee, Gladiolus, brave, bright lily of the sword; with your bold colours, you console us more than a thousand pleasing words. Sword of the springtime; sword of joy
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To Venus, greatest of all the Gods
There is no god more mighty than gentle Aphrodite; Jupiter’s bolts may pound but our hearts make more sound; Diana has her snares but none, to love, compare and brighter than Apollo
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Nice weather for it (Little seasonal love rhyme)
The weather man predicts there’s going to be a chill. I hope that he is right and that, indeed, there will ‘cause then I can get cosy snuggling up to you
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Reflecting upon our love
Me within your gaze like lake waters in the brightly shining moonlight. Moonlight, shining brightly in the lake waters like your gaze within me.
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Night full of day
Stars glow like little pieces of the sun waiting to be assembled into day; in the night is the day that has not yet begun; like my heart, it must escape darkness some way.
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Love, actually
The hand that scattered gold across the night placed, in her eyes, two gemstones shining bright and, taking tincture from the setting sun, made her lips glow that same flaming crimson;
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Oh, flaming Flamingos
Oh,flaming Flamingos; when you bow your heads, you’re the sun set that scatters soft feathers of red and against its light ballet you are musical notes in an appassionata
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Our Friendship
Our ship has no crew except me and you; no hull and no keel but the way that we feel; no billowing sails but our hearts that prevail; nothing in the hold except memories of gold.
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Perpetual Emotion
kiss me and and me kiss again and and again I’ll love you and and you love I’ll forever and and forever
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Sleeping, dreaming and awakening
Little eyelids drooping she drifts deeply into sleep; then the creamy sky grows pink and the setting sun sinks deep. Then her head goes roaming far off to that distant land of dreaming
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Shhh!
Press your ear up to the snow and you will hear the seedlings grow; embryos beneath the earth preparing for the Spring’s rebirth. Soon you’ll see their shoots of green
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The Immortal Earth
with each year I grow closer to the spring.
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The Grey and The Green
My mother’s the Earth and I’ll stay by her side;
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If it were Spring everyday
that bright butterfly of Spring.
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Spring’s First Kiss
Now March begins; first kiss of Spring; wings beat like hearts as birds take flight; buds open like hearts opening to new love’s glory and delight. And this is only the first kiss.
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Diversity
Intolerant winter, when all is black or white is starting to disinter- grate and vanish out of sight. Now all the many colours of the spectrum get to shine
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Rebirthday
To Earth’s Rebirthday party, you are cordially invited;
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The Carefree Hare
How I would like to be a hare and run about without a care and, in the spring, go toe to toe in boxing bouts with buxom does; have lots of little leverets. I don’t think I would ever get
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The Blue Rose
A blue rose, is the ocean; all its shark-fins are its thorns; all its waves, its bright blue petals that turn crimson in the dawn.
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February Waits
February’s waiting; she’s waiting for the spring; for a blue sky in the heavens and the flowers opening. She’s waiting like a Helen for her bright Ulysses sun
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Servant of Nature
She gave me hands that I may write sweet poems in her praise and eyes to see her glorious light spreading its golden rays; a feeling heart to fill with joys as I behold each spring
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En Plein Air
I tried writing in the wind. The wind blew my pad away. I tried writing in the rain. The paper just got soggy. I tried writing in a storm. Lightning struck my ball-point pen.
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Random meditations upon time
Time, the hours, like tall towers, piled; Time that makes a mother from a child; Time that files the mountain to a plain; Time that finds the cause and heals the pain;
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For love not faith
Do not doubt that right is might; that there is fire in the light. Do not doubt kind hearts prevail; that courage wins while cowards fail. Do not doubt that truth will win;
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Weavers In the Web
Little spider listen while I pluck on my guitar; my fingers weaving patterns from its strings. Your tiny web glistens like a galaxy of stars; strummed upon by the rain and sun of spring
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The Willow and The Wind
The willow, by the wind’s forever hassled. He’s always tugging at her pretty tassels. Outside my window, I can hear the rustle as the willow and the wind wrestle and tussle
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The Composite Flower
Amazing daisy; composite flower*; shining example of collective power; your petals, White knights round a table of gold; “All for one, one for all”, the bright creed they uphold.
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The Schoolmaids of the Spring
When the Springtime sun appears, it is as if a school bell rings, from here and there and everywhere, out come the young school maids of Spring. They are the Spring flowers that spurt
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Our Love Will Last Forever
I could compare it to a flower but a flower’s sure to wilt or compare it to the sweetest wine but wine can be spoilt and spilt. I could compare it to a Summer but a Summer always ends
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V for Valentine
V for the Violets that, in your eyes, bloom. V for the plush, red Velvet of your kiss. V for when passions Volcano goes BOOM! V for love’s Visions of heavenly bliss.
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March is on the march & The Apple Tree
March is on the march. I hear its tiny boots. I hear them in the rain that feeds new roots and shoots. Soon you will see the bugle call of golden daffodils then Springtime will come marching
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Green Magic
As the magician conjures up a ring Behind his silken, snow white handkerchief; Rising, the golden sun unveils the Spring And vanishes the snow it hid beneath. Caterpillars turn into butterflies
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The beginning
It started with a cosmic kiss; the heavens filled with stars of bliss; the planets, drops of joyful tears; the sun, the smile between god’s ears; that is the story told above,
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The Spreading Spring
When prim white winter melts away then carefree Spring comes out to play; each peach tree the Winter undresses she covers with her soft pink kisses and stroking willows makes them gush;
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Mother Tree
Standing beside the tall sycamore tree, I am reminded of when I was three and standing by my mother’s tree trunk legs gazing up at her face high overhead;
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Poplars (Erotic Nature Poem)
Rain droplets drip on poplars as their green fingers grip the sky. Reflected, they are fingers probing deep between the rivers thighs.
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The Season of Love
First he unfolds his golden peacock feathers, then sun and earth, in love, are joined together; the butterflies make love beds on the thistle and little lovebirds woo with songs and whistles;
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The Epiphany
One day, as I was gazing at the branches of a tree, I had the most amazing and profound epiphany. In that shimmering fragment of an instant, did I see the body of the living universe
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When will our finest hour be
When will our finest hour be, when we fight to defend from those who poison land and sea and sky, the Earth our friend.
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Love for Mother Earth - Nature Hymn
Oh, precious sphere of sapphire,jade and gold set in the dazzling diamond seas of night; your beauties and your wonders many fold; it’s a joy to behold their splendid sight.
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Your kisses take me higher
I climb upon your first kiss, roof top high; then your mighty second kiss sends me to the sky; I bounce off of your third kiss high as the Himalayas
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The Image of the Sun
Man was made in the image of the sun; his fingers like its beams for spreading light; his smile, the sun rise when new day’s begun; his mind, a lamp to make the whole world bright.
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T-Rex
Tyrannosaurus; like old Tyrants you have gone. Did you hear the Greek chorus of raptors and Pteradons? Once king of the carnivores now a big jigsaw of bone; like mighty thunder was your roar
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Like the bee upon the clover
Like the bee upon the clover, you, my lover, will always be until the white cliffs of dover wash away into the sea. Like the booming of the bittern is this love that swells my heart.
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High-flyer
Bar-headed geese near the star-studded sky, what can it feel like to fly so high? O’er cloud capped Himalayas you’ve trod; high as a prayer reaching out to god.
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The Millipede
The many-legged millipede is an impressive sight, indeed; a one man, miniature stampede, past slugs and other bugs, he speeds; trampling through the tall grass and weeds.
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Spring Is Getting Ready
The Spring is in her dressing room; she’s still getting prepared; picking the dress of grass and blooms that she is going to wear. Fixing her hair and make-up;
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When March makes up her mind
When March makes up her mind to burst into the spring; bright blooms, from seeds, unwind and all the birds unfold their wings to embrace the broad blue skies and the sun that seems so shy
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March
Oh, march; why are you so coy? Why not open yourself to joy? The passion of green fire blazing. The Springtime can be so amazing. Oh, march; why are you so shy?
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Haiku (For St Patrick's Day)
Emerald Shamrock whose three hearts of green help lift my one heavy heart.
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The Robin
Mr Robins always brightly dressed; a red waistcoat wrapped round his portly breast and, over that, a long tail coat of brown; his tails forever flapping up and down.
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The Missionary of Spring
Her only words, the song of birds yet I’m convinced the Spring is right. She does not preach but strives to teach and civilize my heart with light. Her gentle flowers have greater power
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The Infant of Spring
The springtime is like a new birth held in the loving arms of Earth, with rosebuds for her pouting lips; pink flowered boughs, her fingertips; bluebells her eyes so bright and clear
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Desire
Desire is a creature that lives underground; in its long, dark tunnels it crawls all around. Some say it's a monster; some claim it’s not real and ignore that deep, gnawing desire they feel
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The Magnificent Rose
Like an amphitheatre are your petals red and round; like the mouth of a spectator going ‘Wow!’; opening your curtain of bright petals you astound;
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The Beauty of the Rose
What a heavenly bliss is the sweet beauty of a rose; just like kisses within kisses are its petals row on row; beautiful concentric circles of curling, silken, scarlet flame;
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Lantern of Lantana
Lantern of Lantana; I love how you glow; like joy bursting inside when love first starts to grow; like a big-bang beginning when a universe starts; an explosion of colours
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The Spirit of Spring
The Spirit of the spring is a transformative thing
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The True Golden Dawn
They have taken the name of Eos in vain. The true golden dawn is a time of great peace. It’s a loving touch that brings warmth and not pain and smiles upon immigrant faces in Greece.
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She
She is the fox with its fiery tail; the whirl in a shell worn by a garden snail; the red in the rosebud; the blue in bluebells; the little black dots on a ladybirds shell.
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Sea of bluebells
The bluebell’s slender, curling cloches pour down just like water that sploshes, as over woodland floors it washes in pools deep enough for galoshes. Even bark covered trunks of trees
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Epicurus
Sage birds enjoy their singing and I enjoy to hear their voices brightly ringing, bringing sweetness to my ear. Wise flowers enjoy the sunshine; their round faces beam with smiles
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Springtime, like a friend
Cheep by cheep, the chirping birds chip away at my gloom. And sunlight keeps, in golden shards, slipping into my room. The Spring time like a faithful friend tries hard to cheer me up.
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Honesty
A mask is like a mark upon the face; honesty like the suns own shining grace. A lie is poison poured upon the ear while honest words are water pure and clear.
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Immeasurable
The beauty of the Earth that means more to me than gold.
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Hold on
The rain slips through my fingers; and dark soil and grains of sand. It makes me wonder what else could. The grass and trees? This bright green land? This moment in this hour
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Nesting Doll
In her mother’s lap the little girl sat and in her little hands she hugged a nesting doll. I stepped back from the painting that was called the ‘Nesting Doll’
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Short Love Poem
Love sheds light upon the sun; love makes the worlds beauty clear; sorrow makes all dark and dun but love sees flowers everywhere.
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Light and Music
How loud it is, love’s music; it’s deafening to our ears; how strange then that it’s music only we two can hear. And oh how bright love’s lustre; like a star in the sky
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The Element of Ecstasy
When East and West winds are entwined; their bodies, a great whirlwind make. When Earth’s in ecstasy, divine; that’s when we feel the planet shake. When oceans are, with passions, wracked
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Let me be your rainbow
Let me be your rainbow; the sunlight in your blue skies just to see the bright glow of happiness in your eyes. Let me be the bright song that fills up your heart with cheer,
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The Hairafter
Oh where do hairs go when they’re shed, when they grow thin upon my head? To some Hair heaven high above where angels tousle them with love? Is there a paradise where they,
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The Undaunted Cupid
And yet the little cherub soldiered on; making his bow a crutch to lean upon.
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Solstice Dream
Vervain, trefoil, roses and rue, under my pillow, I did place and dreamed a happy dream of you; of your beautiful, shining face. We danced beneath the solstice sun;
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A Spaceman Came
A Spaceman came to gaze upon a rose.
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Summer Rain
And, suddenly, the rain fell down. In its coolness, I wanted to drown. Against my skin, it tasted sweet as it quenched away the summer heat. Like silver was each precious drop
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The Forest For The Trees
We saw her when we gazed on her with Neolithic eyes and felt that close connection to the stars in deepest skies but the closer that we come to her, the more we drift apart;
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The hunter and the birds
The hunter’s eyes are sharp eyes and yet they fail to see how beautiful the bird is that he aims at with such glee. The hunter’s ears are good ears yet never seem to hear
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A Native Of The World (Based on the tune to ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’)
I salute the tricolor of the sky and earth and sea; the lion rampant of the rising Sun king’s livery; those are the only banners that mean liberty to me, a native of the world.
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Swallows, swifts and martins
Swallows, swifts and martens fly; like a feathery, lightning flash, go by in the blink of an old birdwatchers eye, across the broad, blue summer sky. A glimpse of wing and a two pronged tail
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Hail to all
From a seed comes a tree; a tree in a field; a field in a village; a village in a region; a region in a country; a country in a continent; a continent upon a planet
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Summery Memories
Summery memories of green and blue and gold; the world so bright and trouble free and I, just five years old; waist deep in the unmown grass, up to my heart in joy.
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My Spirit in Heaven
My soul already, through the heavens, sails; wanders amidst the countless, shimmering stars. It catches hold of comets by their tails; visits all the bright planets that there are;
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Storm Survival Pod
Some people think it looks quite odd; our orb shaped, storm survival pod; our neighbours think we’re oddballs too. They wouldn’t think that if they knew how many storms we have survived;
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Cheetah
Within the blink (Too fast to think; the cheetah, prince of wildcats sprints with engine grrr; its coat, a blur of spotted fur, it’s here then there, so fast it flies)
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Life gave me a flower
Life gave me a flower; I wanted a gold ring. I threw away the flower now I don’t have anything. Life gave me an hour to gaze upon the sun; I spent my time complaining
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Before Love
I saw your face; that is the moment when I knew that my life had truly begun
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Lazy Lizard (Just a short rhyme that occurred to me) (Inspiration Point)
The lazy lizard; he slowly slithers; he's as slow as a snail. But he’s a wizard, ‘cause when its withered he can regrow his tail.
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The thistle
The thistle is sweet Nature’s kiss; epistle of electric bliss. When life feels like a hammer fist; her lips shine like an amethyst. The thistle will, from morn to moon
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Summer Music
There’s Bach in the bark covered limbs of the trees and Beethoven in the hummed hymns of the bees and the little birds sitting on telephone wires
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A poor man looks at the stars
Who owns the stars, I wonder? Are they private property? May my weary eyes still wander round them aimlessly and free? Somehow, the Earth got given to the rich men, kings and Tsars
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The Birth of Cool
First the sky has a blues attack then Nature slips on shades of black. Night draws up like a Cadillac while mellow trees sway forth and back.
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The flower of man
If he could just remember how he once felt in his heart
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Happy Ever After
It was sweltering Summer; so hot I could melt and the sun was a gold deck of cards being dealt and I felt the green field and it feeled just like felt;
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Wild Angelica
These wild angel’s wings, out of Summer’s heaven, spring; branching outwards, they take flight; flower feathers, soft and white. Bursting out like light each bloom is a halo, bright
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Sympathy for the sun
Which among us never wearies? Who has a smile that never dims? Though the day be bleak and bleary, at least the sun still strives to glim. And when the sun is in its glory;
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I’m always amazed at the men who’re married
When I see a girl in a bridal gown and she’s arm in arm with some idle clown or a man who is mean or rude or dim then I wonder what can she see in him. When I see a girl with a band of gold
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Solar Praise
I praise the royal rays of Sol; the boldly blazing golden gaze of solar rays that raise my soul. Arise tomorrow; erase my sorrow; as your azure skies are my merry eyes.
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To a grey hair
Slender silver sliver; little hair of shining grey; age comes to deliver more and more of you each day. You resemble blades of grass that winters frost turns white
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Fairy grass
There’s a feathery grass that’s as soft as a sigh that I oft like to stroke as I am walking by. Common Bent it is called and as it shakes its head
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The Creation of the Rose
On the eye, it must be a kiss.
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Bagpipes and bells
Is that bagpipes and bells I hear? Is there a wedding somewhere near; coloured confetti being thrown on groom and girl in long, white gown
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The Eternal Tree
with her I’ll be reunited
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Mother Nature
Tenderly, she gazes, with blue skies upon us all and from soft bosom of the clouds milk of silver raindrops falls. With gentlest Summer breezes softly, does she stroke our hair
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On the other side of midnight (80’s Upbeat Gothy song)
Then you’ll awaken on the other side;
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Happy Haiku's
The sun is setting; the sky is dressed in splendour and my soul is here. Summer birds chirp-chirp but just for a brief moment they were all talking...
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The dancers (Changing perspectives)
He took my hand. She took my hand. He twirled me round. I whirled around. He danced. She danced. We danced together. She danced. He danced. We danced...
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Traveller, take care (Narrative fantasy poem)
Traveller, take care try some other road instead; traveller beware, for grave danger lies ahead; a horrid monsters lair and the monsters not been fed...
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Eternal Love Poem
This poem will go on as long as our love; the next line is below; the next line is above.
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Diving
This is a diving board. Dive tluasremoS and SpLaSh deep below the surface of the blue green ocean; shattering reflections of the sun; rds blowing...
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The Mad General (Anti-war Poem)
There once was a mad general named Octavius McGee who led ten thousand men, all just as brave as men can be. And he said to them “Keep marching and...
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September Comes
Emerald is the little leaf that hangs upon the tree and happy is my heart, whenever I am near to thee but then September comes and that poor leaf...
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Autumn Song
I sing a song of crimson and of gold. I sing a blazing song as bright as fire. I sing a song against darkness and cold; a song to raise our sunlorn...
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Heaven
On this page a poem’s hidden: Can you see where it is written? Then I’ll reveal it to you So that you can see it too. Heaven is a bit like this. You...
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Badger Babies
Black and white badger babies snore, tucked up in beds of leaves and straw; huddled up snugly in their setts; mud-cuddled like the Earth’s own pets;...
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The Friendly Dawn
At first two chinks of light amidst the gloom become my eyes and then fill with my room and then the smiling sun is there to meet me and birds, with...
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Summers of Yesterday
Where have all the Summers of yesterday gone? They live in my heart and their light lustres on. From my heart, as from Earth, all their bright...
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Love has wings
But our love shall fly [THEY] [BUILD] [WALLS] [BETWEEN][US] [HIGH][WALLS] [TO] [DIVIDE] [US] [UP] [WALLS][OF][HATE][AND][IGNO][RANCE] [WALLS][TO][...
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Poem with the Flu
A foul disease it is, this Flu. I cough add sdeeze. Atchoo! Atchoo! By dose is blocked. I caddot sbell. A rose from rocks, I could dot tell. Add by...
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The Vulture
By nature, the vulture was built and designed to clear up the clutter lions leave behind. They may not be cultured and they may eat like slobs but...
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Red Rose and Sky
Red roses and the setting sun, just for a moment, became one; of solid form, petals were purged and with the scarlet sky, they merged and in that...
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Wilson's Bird of Paradise
I'm Wilson’s Bird of Paradise, behold these stunning plumes of scarlet, blue and gold; the whirling, swirling scroll-work of my tail; this fair fowls...
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Chinese Bellflowers (Balloon Flowers)
Suddenly, the balloon flower’s swelling bud bursts open and open mouthed, the young girl gasps as purple stars unfold.
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The Brave Little Robin (An Autumn Carol)
The Robin in the Autumn sings a different kind of song; different from the Summer and Spring when days were bright and long. Its tune becomes a...
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- 502 reads
Autumn Rabbits
What was that? That rustling sound? A brown leaf tumbling to the ground; nothing but old times gentle tread. Young rabbits lower long ears and heads...
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- 566 reads
Roses don't make promises
Roses don’t make promises and birds won’t tell me lies; the sweetness that’s in Nature’s kiss has nothing to disguise. And when I look up at the...
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The Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree
It lifts my heart and soul to see the Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree; bright colours dripped upon its bark; a rainbow shining in the dark, reminding me,...
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- 478 reads
Sleep well, Earth
Sleep well, gentle Earth, under your gold leaf blanket; lay down your weary head of fire and dream of emerald days. Soon enough you shall awaken and...
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- 301 reads
The Sandman, Autumn
Into the world the Sandman, Autumn, creeps and lulls the gentle child of Earth to sleep, blowing his twinkling stardust in her eyes; making her dream...
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- 629 reads
Some Autumn Haiku & A short Autumn Poem
A September day; leaves still green and sky still blue; Summer holding on. The Autumn is here when Maple leaves spread wings and become birds of fire...
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The Blazing Autumn Tells Her Children
The blazing Autumn tells her children, that their suffering, she knows but that a season lies before them from whence milk and flowers flow that she...
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How sad it would be but how happy it is.
How sad t’would be to see the sun no more; never again feel its warm rays against my face and all those blooms that, out of spring and summer, pour...
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The Holly, Evergreen
Tightly, to life, the holly leaf is tethered; ‘twill not wither even in wintry weather. When blazing leaves have blown away like feathers, the holly...
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- 435 reads
A Web in the wind
I watched a web a spider spinned and, by spinned, I mean span or spun, toing and froing in the wind; its silk threads glistening in the sun. Though...
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- 455 reads
The Treasures of Autumn
Silver is the Autumn moon; stars, scattered diamonds, many fold; luxurious, the carpet strewn of leaves like bright and burnished gold. Silken are...
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Autumn, To Some
To some, the Autumn season may seem duller; to me, it’s misty, magical and mellow; trees blazing with the most amazing colours; a rhapsody in red,...
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A dram of Autumn
Drink a dram of autumn; of her whisky coloured leaves that drip like drops from branches and floors, with goldenness, flood. Though the days grow...
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- 378 reads
Narcissus
Look at the stars, Narcissus; they shine brighter than your eyes and each blooming rose is redder than your lips. Can’t you see their sweet kisses;...
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Autumn poem and Autumn Nursery Rhyme
Autumn Leaves Red Autumn leaves whirl round and leap like dancing flames of wild desire or hearts of those who’ve fallen deep in love. They fail and...
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Thistledown
Thistledown, soft as a kiss, went drifting through the Autumn air; bristling clouds, as light as bliss, blew here and there without a care. Like...
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- 842 reads
Made of Love
The Universe is made from love; I’ve seen it with my heart; each speck of dust; each star above; there’s love in every part. Some people might see...
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- 284 reads
All through the winter
All through the Winter bleak and dreary, the Sun seems like an absent friend but he will come home bright and cheery and, with green Springtime, make...
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- 333 reads
Beyond Autumn
A golden sun king sleeps beneath the veil of Autumn gloom and under every fallen leaf spring flowers wait to bloom. Now all the world grows bitter...
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Immense
Let us, a crimson sunset, be or wheeling starlings in the sky; try to live life more gloriously; blaze blindingly before we die. With music, let our...
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The Victory of Light
Once more, the dawn's triumphant; once more birds sing its praise and, over fields and hills of green, the bright sun spreads its rays. Once more the...
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Bright November Day
Oh rare and precious bright November day; I cherish each small inch of your blue sky; each sunbeam that you kindly throw my way means as much as all...
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A Little Romantic Rhyme
Just like a pair of matching gloves you wear in wintry weather or like a pair of snow white doves; two bright birds of a feather, I believe, in my...
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A flower grows
A flower grows, right here, within my heart; rainbow-like; a true miracle of joy but now, were you and I to ever part, I know love’s wondrous bloom...
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- 383 reads
Make Love Not War
Oh, why make war? Make love instead; share not cold trenches but warm beds; wear lipstick kisses, not red wounds; scream, not in pain, but rapturous...
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- 539 reads
All that Nature gives
She gives me all the stars within the night; one hundred, billion lanterns glimmering bright; the happy birds and pretty songs they sing; all the...
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- 279 reads
Nightingale Song
Too soon shall come the break of day; too soon the glistering sun shall rise when all the world awakes and they begin to yawn and rub their eyes. But...
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November Wind
November wind, don’t blow too hard; the Autumn leaves are bright and gay; like golden stars and amber shards but you will blow them all away...
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- 801 reads
Merry as a peach tree
Dressed in motley costumes of their many Autumn colours; pretty peach trees do ragdoll like dances in the wind; making me feel gay when Autumn days...
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- 483 reads
Happiness
What is this thing called happiness? Nobody knows. Some find it in a lover’s kiss; some in a rose. Some seek it all their lives yet don’t find it at...
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The Moon Looks At Me
Gentle moon, I see you gazing; silver fire, blithely blazing for all humankind to see, yet you seem to look just at me. Why me, out of all the world...
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- 399 reads
Untitled
The world of man, though on and on it goes, sometimes completely disappears from sight and there is nothing else except a rose; nothing beyond its...
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- 375 reads
Dream of a kiss
I dreamt last night of your sweet kiss and a bright sunset filled my heart; a pink and golden haze; a mist that poured into my every part. With honey...
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- 294 reads
Beautiful World
Whichever way I turn within this world, the most astounding beauty meets my eye; whether green velvet fields and hills unfurled or the majestic view...
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- 795 reads
Winter is...
Winter is a shell of snow from which the Springtime hatches. When Spring comes, green leaves shall glow as bright as flames of matches. When Spring...
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- 283 reads
The Meaning of Stars
I cannot read the words that heaven writes, in twinkling ink of stars across the night and yet their startling beauty speaks to me more than one...
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Why should all men see god?
Do all see the same beauty who have looked at natures face? Does she move all men to tears or do some think her commonplace? Do all men see the value...
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Remembering The Peach Tree
Oh, the peach tree has now shed its leaves, it’s true. Ahh, but what beautiful leaves, upon her, grew and what bright and cheery Spring blossoms of...
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- 266 reads
The domestic star
Candle flame; humble fire; spraying forth your fine gold wire, your pointed flame’s a spire, do you see? Do you aspire to be a star in heaven’s high...
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- 665 reads
It's daybreak
but daylight never breaks, it only can repair; repair my shattered heart with golden bandages of beams; repair me with a tender smile from its blue...
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Love's Chosen
It seems a lucky few are blessed not once but twice; in this life I have you and, after, paradise.
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- 250 reads
The Mistlethrush*
The Mistlethrush flies here and there and wherever it goes, in the branches of trees appear bunches of mistletoe. Now you might say “It’s just a bird...
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- 409 reads
The Tiger Lily
The Tiger Lily is her name, a beautiful, bright burst of flame, she flings her petals open wide, joyfully yelling, “Come inside! Come inside and warm...
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The Light of Love
There was no light until the light of love. All before then was just an endless gloom but then that hand that pierced the stars above placed, deep...
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Love, a miracle, shall always be.
Love, a miracle, shall always be. Even when mere men can part the sea or saunter casually upon the waves or even raise up dead men from their graves...
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- 319 reads
Outside of Misery
Did all the songbirds hold their tongues and where hid that enormous sun? Grief’s strange that makes us blind and deaf; distant as in deep realms of...
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- 379 reads
Sunrise
Golden Beautiful Glory. Sunrise Bringer Light. Of
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- 265 reads
The Salmon's Life (IP)
The Salmon’s life is river like; a constant onward rush like the rugged river rapids against which this fish must push. First amber egg, then alevin...
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- 531 reads
Your kisses remembered
As sweet Spring blossoms grow upon a tree, your every kiss adorns my memory. Without them it would be like branches bare, hung with nothing but all...
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- 373 reads
Vole Love (The Prairie Vole is a famously monogamous creature).
Once a pair of prairie voles shared a little prairie hole and, till their dying day, they were in love. Now the little fairy souls of that pair of...
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Time
TIME T I M E TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T I M E TEEEEEEEEE AYYYYYYEEEEEEEEE...
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- 274 reads
How
How do I frack open their shale hard hearts; inject a little reason; extract a little love? Is it too late perhaps? Has the vile poison of greed sunk...
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Basket Star (Plus: The Newly Discovered 'Cocoa Frog' of Suriname)
BASKET STAR ( A type of star fish) Lost in a loose psychedelic tangle or tango of tang- erine limbs or an Or -ange organ Sonata’s notes whirling ar-...
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- 1160 reads
True Love
I saw gold and I thought it bright because it glittered in the light then night came and its glow was gone; only the stars in heaven shone. False...
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- 564 reads
The green island - Rhyme containing every colour
Oh, there once was a great, green island in the middle of a deep grey sea where, upon its golden yellow sands, brown girls danced round with glee...
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- 259 reads
Reasons to kiss you
Here’s a kiss to keep you warm at night and another one to make your heart feel bright; a kiss for whenever I’m far away and one more for a cold and...
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- 406 reads
Encouragement to a light bearer - Speech/ or poem
They must be strong, who carry the light, for it is not light to bear; virtue is a heavy burden; in this world where North often seems South; where,...
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- 258 reads
The Rings of Olympus
A ring of blue; blue as the sky where white doves dare to soar up high. A ring of black; black as the night that’s overcome by each dawn’s light. A...
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- 354 reads
Bible Tales
Abishag the shunammite Abishag the Shunammite kept old King David warm at night. Hot water bottles would have done but Abishag was much more fun...
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- 551 reads
The Firebird
There is a bird that glows within the night. I found one of its feathers burning bright; as great as any treasure ever found; a phoenix feather lying...
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- 363 reads
The Flood (IP)
First One raindrop Fell and then Another raindrop fell and That is how the flood began and before long it covered everywhere. But then One person...
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- 256 reads
Long Live Our Love
Your kisses are a gentle coup replacing the old with the new. A new heart now beats in my chest and gone’s the gloom that once oppressed my soul,...
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- 240 reads
When the Spring returns no more
When the Spring returns no more, then I’ll not sing its praises; when Mother Nature gets bored of daffodils and daisies; of golden sun and bright...
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- 275 reads
The Majesty of Love
There are moments of majesty; like witnessing a birth when, for a brief moment, we see a heaven on the Earth. Moments when men are truly good or...
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- 257 reads
Come and Buy
It is love’s market place; the spring. The birds, like costermongers, sing and frilly, perfumed flowers try, with colours, bright, to catch my eye...
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- 327 reads
The First Day Of The Spring Is Here At Last
The first day of the Spring is here at last; daffodils, golden, bursting from the ground; resembling emerald angels trumpet blasts announcing the new...
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- 432 reads
Inanna (IP)
Through seven gates of progress have men passed into this grey age of Erishkigal. How long will its infernal grimness last? How farther has the soul...
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- 650 reads
In the heart
Where can I find the thing most blessed? Not in the East. Not in the west. Not in the south nor in the North will you find that thing of greatest...
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- 258 reads
Revolutions
Red flag of the setting sun; Night’s insurrection has begun; a crimsoned crown falls from on high as multitudes, bright, storm the sky. But then...
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- 273 reads
You, My Love
Half the bright stars would be gone from above and half the bright world from beneath and half a life would I live without your love with a heart and...
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- 350 reads
Wise April 1st
Wise April 1st is bursting forth having studied all winter long; explorer swallows head back North with bright discoveries of song or uniformed in...
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- 365 reads
Upturned
I am suffering in hell; sinking in sludge and mud. Christ! Bombarded by shells; sometimes drowned in a flood; trapped among hairy rats; my clothes...
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- 1390 reads
Flowers Of Remembrance
Pretty red poppies growing in a field remind me of all of your gentle kisses; of when, to your sweet love, my heart did yield and you showed me what...
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- 262 reads
Lovers and Angels
Why do lovers and angels weep? Think what treasures their souls must keep; treasures too many are denied and yet they are not satisfied. Though all...
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- 510 reads
Now that it's Spring
Winter seems like a distant dream now that it’s Springtime, bright; hard to think that fields lush and green were once covered in white or that the...
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- 341 reads
My Spirit, it lies down in Nature’s bed
My Spirit, it lies down in Nature’s bed; against green fields and flowers, rests its head; unburdened from a world dreary and grey; soothed by the...
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- 233 reads
The naming of your eyes
Your left eye, I call Helen and your right eye, name Roxanne after two whose great beauty brought them fame. For no bright eye in heaven shines as...
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- 358 reads
Upon Envy
Envy thinks the stars are not so bright and says of mountains, “They are merely hills”; she calls crow black, the dove of purest white and, in the...
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- 352 reads
A Pleasant Solitude
A pleasant solitude, I find, in your bright company; and in your loudest laughter, the deepest tranquility. It's like finding myself in a warm, happy...
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- 393 reads
Soldiers of Freedom (Rhyme)
Remember those who protested; remember those who striked; they fought for you and I as well, to protect all our rights. They did not fight with guns...
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I saw an old man, far away
I saw an old man, far away. He was as crooked as a tree. I joked, “I’ll look like him one day” as if it were a fantasy. But he came closer, day by...
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- 269 reads
Song for a late bird
At least, my friend, you flew; stroked heaven, broad and blue; spread wide your agile wings; of air, became the king. So high you must have soared;...
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Love’s Lightning
And then love’s lightning struck me in the heart; with fearsome flash; deep as a fatal dart and, as the hundred hooves of thunder sound, within my...
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- 267 reads
A Mountain Speaks
O little, pretty ladybird, now I can understand. I am a ladybird, like you, on lady Nature’s hand. I’m just part of your scenery; you’re the star of...
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- 434 reads
Love, unbelievable
Those who hear me tell about my love must think I lie for it’s hard to believe men may reach heaven and not die ; hard to believe that such bright...
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- 334 reads
If I had seven hearts instead of one
If I had seven hearts instead of one, all the joy your love brings, they could not hold. No store house, perhaps not even the sun contains so much a...
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- 551 reads
Oh when will love, this world, unite (IP)
Oh when will love, this world, unite; when will it work with all its might and greed and war and hatred, smite; showing men’s eyes love’s glorious...
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- 449 reads
The stem that bends with the storm
How strong is the small flower; its stem perfectly formed. Unlike a tall, stone tower it bends with fearsome storms and yet, with all their power...
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- 268 reads
Glimpses
I have seen the blue glow of heavens skies gazing through the aperture of your eyes and tasted Heaven’s waters of true bliss in the heavenly...
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- 287 reads
Star Earth
Some call you, Earth, a planet but to me you are a star and all heavens gemstones cannot compare with how bright you are. For you, in beauty, shine...
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- 276 reads
If beauty were a brightness
If beauty were a brightness you’d outshine a million suns. If beauty were a swiftness, round broad heavens, you could run. If beauty were a height,...
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A Loveful Poem
Loveful is the only word for how my heart is feeling; full of love like joyful birds or angels gaily reeling. So loveful, in fact, it seems,...
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- 323 reads
Sunset Haiku
The sky is burning with flames of gold and crimson. My eyes fetch water.
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L the O light V inside E
I feel a L like I a G million H stars T ; a L made I of G shining H gold T inside each time you K red I fire S burning S me each time you K sweet I...
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The Things I am
That thing, that changeling, is not me; its hair; its face is a disguise; it does not see things as I see; it has no glow within those eyes when it...
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Impact (Short Anti-war poem)
Heavy tears fall down; a mothers world blown apart by the bombshell of news; in her life now, a vast crater.
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You ask me what I’m thinking
You ask me what I’m thinking. Why love, do you not know? Whenever I’m this close to you, I think, “I love her so”. I think, “We should be kissing”;...
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- 249 reads
From a tree to a carver
Carver, keep your chainsaw and your chisel from this wood. It took centuries of craftsmanship to make me look this good. Mother Nature slowly...
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Visiting the Burrell Collection
Whispers and murmurs; distant doors creaking; feet softly scraping; a low electric hum; a man coughs; a child runs by; my feet ache; precious things.
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Forget the first world war. Remember the children of Palestine.
While they looked back one hundred years and for the ancient dead shed tears, bright futures of the young were daily lost. While red poppies were...
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Orbit– Graphic Poem
F\ /A L/ \L I/ \N G/ \I L N OVE I O R SE AB OVE I O r b i t r O bit r O bit O bit r Orbit around you.
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UC
IT ‘S HERE INFRONT OF YOUR EYES. SEE? A LETTER; WORD OR SYMBOL MEANING FREEDOM; MEANING IDENTITY; MEANING THE SOUL; WHO YOU TRULY ARE BUT PLEASE BE...
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Love’s higher realm
Stars must look up upon the realm of love at love filled hearts that shine brightly above and even over haloed angels heads our hearts must fly with...
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Tactilize (Verb: To imagine how something feels; imagine touching something)
I tactilize your kisses; imagine how they’d feel; sweet tantalizing blisses; if only they were real.
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Love Love
DON’T DON’T LOVE LOVE PLEASE HATE HATE PLEASE DON’T DON’T CHOOSE LOVE PLEASE HATE WAR PLEASE
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Sufi
I am a RO TAT TAT OR One of the WHEELS WITHIN WITHIN WHEELS One with the greater WHIRLING AND AND TWIRLING of worlds do I feel.
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The End
The sound of screams; rockets explode; red fountains pour. Bright fireworks celebrating the end of war.
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Not till never
When, off the page, these printed words leap and turn into hummingbirds and fly three times round Saturn too; that’s the day I’ll stop loving you. Or...
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Outside my window
motorcars, SUN BUSKS rush up and down my road. motorcars, breathlessly, WITH CYMBALS n my road. RAINWATER SOLES ssly rush up and down my road...
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Big Bang Beginning
Emptiness was all around; silence was the only sound; darkness, all that could be seen then nothing blew to smithereens. And, from nothing, something...
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- 369 reads
Apokoinu
The wings of a bird spreading limbs of a tree; the suns golden beams spreading bliss throughout me; the river running white horses over the plains;...
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The Last Mona Lisa
The last La Giaconda now has gone; murdered to sell its enigmatic smile; its canvas carcass rots shot up by guns; its paint work slathered in a...
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Three in I
Laws men make, hearts, cannot take nor love, break. Land which, inside Man’s heart, resides, none can divide. These kingdoms, three; one, within me,...
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A candle
A candle is lit in a little room; a child’s face is bathed in gold; its flame dances in her eyes; a small smile spreads across her face and raising...
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Mankind (Rhyme)
Mankind is many kinds; many kinds is man but the best man of any kind is the kind who’ll be kind when he can.
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Nature’s United Kingdom
My hearts persuaded by the words, in pretty native tongues of birds, that Mankind’s bonds can’t be undone; that Nature’s kingdom must be one. My...
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The Famous Professor
Professor Immanuel Emmersly Keene showed proof, beyond all doubt, that the grass was green and then, for an encore, he proved it was true the sky...
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Change (IP)
All the men of tomorrow may think saccharine tastes sweet but the men of yesterday; they had real sugar to eat and tomorrow they may say “How much...
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Afterlives
The spirit of the autumn leaves goes to green heaven up above and every lovers heart that leaves its body goes to a place of love and every candle...
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A Chance To Live (IP)
The ghost, he tried to grip the rose; he said, “I love how red it glows. I’d love to smell its scent again; to touch it just like other men”. And...
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Face reflected in a window pane
Over my reflected face raindrops, just like teardrops, race and grey sky is the colour of my eyes. But then my eyes become bright blue and my smile...
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The Beauty of the Strange
We saw the sun come up at night, that strange young girl and me; the blackness filled with golden light; visions of things to be. We saw the stars...
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Feelings of lust for a peach tree
I sometimes feel I want to kiss the slender branches of our tree, in Springtime, when she, blossoming, is or when Fall disrobes her for me; stripping...
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The Autumn leaves have turned to red
The Autumn leaves have turned to red but one day green, shall be; not like my true love who lies dead in land across the sea. My true love went away...
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- 274 reads
Autumn Haiku
In the Autumn time all the trees are orange trees; sweet tang for the eyes.
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To the insomniac
One night, or day, you’ll fall asleep and sink into slumber so deep that you shall never wake again; so why not leave your sleep till then? And,...
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Gus & Goose
Wherever Gus goes the goose goes too; whatever Gus does the goose will do; when Gus tries to hide the goose always finds him so he just walks with...
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The Swallows
All of the swallows who’d flown south; they came back home too soon; they’d seen my sweet love’s smiling mouth and thought that it was June. They’d...
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Might and Right Together
Might and right together; that’s the power of the sun; like the Summer’s warm, bright weather bringing light to everyone; bringing life unto the...
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The Real Santa Clause
When I put on his coat of red and don his beard of white and wear his cap upon my head, I feel an inner light. When I practice my Ho-ho-ho’s; with...
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- 401 reads
Sex Is Just A Big Mud Pie
Into the wet earth of ourselves we dig, making our mud pies and making them big; not frightened of feeling the wriggling worms; not worried, just...
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The page 3 girl
Having the last word isn't important. Saying the best word is.
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On pleasure’s intrinsic worth
Some think the rose is just a lover’s flower or should only adorn the marriage bed but in the rose their glows beauty and power which fills each...
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Elemental
Her skirt flew up with a gust of air; a lightning flash of legs, long and fair; her brown hair danced about in the breeze just like the branches in...
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A dream is like an Easter Egg
A dream is like an Easter Egg; a fragile, painted thing but then, bursts forth, a fiery leg and brightly blazing wing. And though the dream may fall...
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- 464 reads
Tampon, tampon
Tampon, tampon; little white mouse; hiding away in your little mouse house. Into your hole, I give you a push then I pull on your tail and I make you...
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Messenger of Love
You sound like my heart does, little dove; go sing outside the house of my love; let her hear the throbbing in my heart; how I feel each time that we...
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The Peach Tree Is A Puppy Dog
The Peach tree is a puppy dog; restless and playful in the wind; with limbs that leap up to greet you; pink blossoms that lick your face; welcoming...
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Soul Star (Poem and Word Square, read horizontally and vertically)
FIVE SOUL STAR RAYS GLOW SOUL STAR RAYS GLOW GOLD STAR RAYS GLOW GOLD WITH RAYS GLOW GOLD WITH LOVE GLOW GOLD WITH LOVE FIRE
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Dreamer In The Sky
Upon a satin bed of blue, I saw a dreamer lying down; her skin, it was a snow white hue and on her head she wore a crown. “That snow white lady, who...
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The Jolly Puffin
Oh, Mr Puffin; clown faced chaplain preaching the necessities of joy from the wild vaudeville of your grassy slopes, your shirtfront like a billowing...
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Storm of Colours (Science poem)
When lightning ionizes all the gasses in the air then what was frightening becomes something joyful to behold. Then thunder bolts of many colours...
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The Black Hole
Bravely, you blast off from the whirling ball of Earth in an ecstasy of speed like a star-knight on a steed. But whatever you do; however you try,...
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The Last Song
A man who was dying started to sing; he sang badly; he sang off key; he sang out of tune; he sang the wrong words but he sang without shame and then...
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Magic Touch
An upturned top hat on a table; a magicians hat. You reach in and there is a red paper heart. You take it gently in your hands but the paper bursts...
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Bursting With Love
Like a rainbow bursting out, bending over this line in the poem and sinking back into the words; that’s how you make my heart swell. Like a rushing...
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Transformation (Read downwards and upwards)
a bird flying into my heart transforms it
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The Mystery Of The Moon
THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON THE MYSTERY OF THE MOOI THE MYSTERY OF THE MOC THE MYSTERY OF THE MOC THE MYSTERY OF THE MOOI THE MYSTERY OF THE MOON
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- 349 reads
L<o><o>K
L <o> <o> K >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AT MODERN LIFE>>>> WHAT IS MODERN LIFE?...
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A Word On A Page
A word on a page is a bird in a cage; its wings only spread when it sings in your head; when, in through your eye's open window, it flies, wheeling...
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CLOSER
I AM NOT SMALL ONLY DISTANT AND, DAY BY DAY, I'M GETTING CLOSER.
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Water Trick
WAVE UPON THE SAND\ WAVE/ WAVE OF NEPTUNE'S WAND\ / FOOTPRINTS HERE TODAY\ FO/ FOREVER WASHED AWAY\ /
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JAGUAR
CVERNHWHATISTHATNOISE?UTCGHX UYRGHYSOMETHINGCREEPSCLOSER UYTHRTHROUGHTHEDARKFORESTIU UYRFIHEARITGROWLINGYUTRDVHHV IUTRBUTICAN'TSEEITUYTRGHYYUYVP !!...
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- 487 reads
Joyned
Love, smile and my heart is a whirling dove. Love's my land, my hearts in a world of love. You rise and I know that the days begun. Your eyes are...
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sun reflection
sun SHINE upon pond puod uodn 3NIHS uns
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8 men travelled rhyme
8 men travelled 7 days long; 6 were clever; 5 were strong; 4 were princes; 3 were kings; 2 hear a happy bluebird sing.
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September (Rhyme)
September wept amber; leaves lay all around. Seeds slumbered deep under the snow covered ground. But in time the Springtime and Summer returned. Life...
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Autumn, Queen of Hearts
Autumn can seem a queen of spades whose burying the sun or queen of clubs when last leaf's laid and winter, cruel's begun but she's a queen of...
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Love Struck---------
<----------------------- His arrows of desire <----------------------- Cupid constantly fired <------------------------ But every arrow...
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Watching fireworks
Explosions. Sky rockets shoot up to the sky till finally they fall and fade and die. Emotions. Light bursts from childrens eyes; so wide with wonder...
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Duchamp's spellchecker
writers cant be terrorists only typing errorists modern artists take apart and urinate on rules of art modern musicians make noise shatter, loudly,...
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Pandora's Box
More panic pours out of pandoras box; everyday an avalanche of misery and fear; of mad murders; mass shootings; terror bombs and cyber hackers, ear...
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Spring (A poem to be enacted on stage)
(A little girl skips on stage holding a watering can, looks left and right at imaginary flowers on the ground). Look, see, gentle ones. Spring...
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Who-etry: exploring a medium that is still young (An enacted poem)
(Girl enters from left, stopping up left. She examines her hand.) What am I? (She looks at her arms) I am not a poem (She looks down at her body) I...
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The fire is life (Seasonal poem)
The fire is life; my heart, the guy; bird's rockets that whoosh to the sky; flowers like sparklers wind's hand waves glowing against grey Autumn...
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The Cheerful Robin
As sunrise spreads its golden wings, I hear the cheerful robin sing; in bright red berried rowan tree he sits and greets each day with glee. Then,...
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- 406 reads
Elevator Music
You may call it elevator music because it's music that lifts up my soul; pulls up my heart upon strong silken strings; and with the warm rising sun...
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- 416 reads
Sugar and Salt
This whole world draped in snow white flakes looks nice enough to eat just like a pretty Christmas cake dripping in icing, sweet. And all the stars...
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- 409 reads
White Tiger (Haiku inspired by a white tigers face and eyes)
White tiger standing amidst fierce wind and snowflakes; a butterfly roars.
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Moon like an odalisque
Moon like an odalisque veiled within the night; behind her a silver eyed seraglio of stars; underneath the veil of space, the mysteries of heaven.
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- 326 reads
Spider Serenades
Small spiders pluck upon the threads of silken webs they've made; lure long legged beauties to their beds with spider serenades. I've tried that...
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- 313 reads
Traffic
Words like traffic rumble down the information highway; through the windscreen of my widescreen; headline headlights in my eyes. Money men and...
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- 455 reads
Setting For Love (IP)
Setting sun that sits on high, setting a scene for you and I; setting fire to the sky and setting free our hearts to fly.
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- 296 reads
Slender, long and green
Slender, long and green they spray from sparkling, crystal cylinder; each one with bursting, sunlike head that pours my heart with gold and yet I'd...
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- 426 reads
Moon
C hanging onto above; changing into a dove.
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Things that shine in the dark
Stars in the night sky; starfish in the deep; dreams when you shut your eyes and drift off into sleep; diamonds in a coalmine and, when I'm feeling...
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- 316 reads
A flock of different feathers
The Hoopoe of Israel; the Sunbird of Palestine; the Dove of Peace between them and all, in a branch of love, entwined.
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Snowflakes
No two snow flakes are the same though falling snow looks all alike; each one has a different name, this one called Maurice, that called Mike. People...
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- 448 reads
Tusk (Anti-poaching poem)
Moon crescent at dusk like an elephant tusk; bright herd of the stars like an elephant's soul. I reach up and I rip the moon from the sky, replacing...
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- 325 reads
Haiku
A dream of winter in the middle of the spring; cherry blossom time.
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- 295 reads
Blossom Trees (Rhyme)
Each trees a glum tree in cold winter gloom but Peach trees and Plum trees soon burst into bloom. Then Cherry trees and Apple trees, so sad with...
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Contracts
Contracts thick as telephone books; contracts ominous as commandments from God; contracts like a deep morass of words writhing with deadly snakes of...
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- 313 reads
The flowers wish
A flower wished that it could fly and flap its petals in the sky; granting its wish, God winked his eye and it became the butterfly.
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- 268 reads
Bernie Sanders
Brothers and Sisters, be the solution; the brewing storm that brings salvation. Believe in something blessed and sacred; brightly shine and bravely...
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- 287 reads
The solitary star
Britain, as you are, you are a brightly shining nation but can any single star outshine a constellation? Think of all the twinkling crowds that make...
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The Immigrants
They came to America, slaughtered the Native tribes; bloody immigrants. They came to Australia, murdered the Aborigines; bloody immigrants. The white...
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Braiku
Either Europe makes some of the rules or Tories make them all? For gods sake, remain.
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Advice to Pandora
The box now is opened that was labelled 'Do not open'; the whirlwind let loose that should not have been set free but atleast there is hope; we...
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- 425 reads
Sometimes
Sometimes it is good to just take off your glasses that blind you to the blur; make the world impressionistic. Ofcourse it can be frightning, that...
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- 285 reads
One grain of heaven
One grain of heaven where, upon an island shore, I leave my footprint.
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As long as love may live
If what atheists believe is true then, all my life, I will belong to you but, if Christians are right, I know even in Heaven our loves star shall...
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- 581 reads
Nature's Beauty
In wintertime then modesty prevails; sun hiding its head shyly like a snail and all the earth is clothed in layers of snow as if it were ashamed of...
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- 381 reads
Tale Of The Greedy Cat
Once a little girl who had a little cat gave it a little cat food and it got very fat. It got very fat but that didn't matter. She gave it some more...
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Fledgeling Flight
I lift a fledgeling to the sky; say, "This is how it is to fly and this is what it means to soar and this is what your wings are for". I carry it...
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Pheasant
His body is a bow thats flexed adorned in golden foil; his head, held regally erect, a portrait done in oils. His long tail is a bullet shot and,...
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- 361 reads
To shepherds, a warning
To shepherds, a warning; to poets a dream. Red sky in the morning, how lovely you seem. A blushing blue maiden with cheeks turning red or rose petals...
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- 368 reads
5 Haiku's on Summer and Writing.
1. Sweet golden summer. As bees search in flowerheads I try to find words. 2. As I am writing clouds drift through the summer sky into my poem. 3. My...
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- 573 reads
Comparative Anatomy (A Blason)
Within your eyes is proof we are grandchildren of the twinkling stars and your mouth is that, crimson, glows proof your ancestor was the rose and...
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Having a Basho
Night pond - Frog jumps in- Sound of space.
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- 401 reads
Sumtum
The Sumtum is that time of year when Autumntime is almost here; when leaves on trees start turning brown but Summertime still wears its crown. Its a...
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- 278 reads
Black and gold
Blazing out of a rustling tangle of emerald green and brown; black spots upon gold and white like scorch marks against yellow flame and then, the...
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- 351 reads
Worth
There is a yellow metal they call a precious thing; a man who sits upon a chair and people call him king but a rose is truly beautiful and birds...
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My name is Nature
My name is Nature; thats who I am; the running river; the rutting ram; the birds that flutter; the fish that swim. My name is Nature, I am him. My...
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- 313 reads
Baobhan Sith
Five deep red horizontal lines upon white stillness surrounded by a darknesss I within a circle and a horseshoe; a golden sphere vertically rising...
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Knapweed
I see the knapweed and I know that death will not dispel my glow but distil it in purple fire pointing to heaven in desire.
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- 430 reads
Little Bird
Oh little bird! Oh spread your wings! Oh, spread your wings and ride the wind! Oh ride the wind that winds up high and then; and then, in heaven,...
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- 305 reads
The Young Rebels
When they had no god to believe in they found SPEED.... When they had nothing left to fight for they found 100 WAYS TO BE WILD.... HELLCATS ON WHEELS...
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- 372 reads
The Electric Aspen
Whispering leaves in an excited crowd; bright golden blaze like a shimmering passion; quivering branches so thrilled by the wind. With the electric...
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I hoped to see a star
I hoped to see a star that night; one single star that twinkled bright but all the sky was thick with clouds that smothered starlight in their shroud...
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- 422 reads
Swan
S- wan, so wonderful. A cloud that wandered down from heavens lake above. Its neck, a handle on an urn of ancient Greece. Serenity and peace.
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- 383 reads
Stop
Stop the traffic of your tears; and turn off all your sighs unbend that bridge between your ears and leave these streets of lies for theres a world...
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- 400 reads
Behind the clouds
Behind the clouds; beyond the night though we no longer see its light, the golden sun still shines as bright. And hope that seems to disappear; if we...
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- 311 reads
Reformation
A pickled christ hangs in the church of Art; a false idol; a dead thing but Art spoke to me; the living Art of a rose. It said, "You need no priests...
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- 315 reads
Heart Travelling Time
Trip a on going are you. To lead will it where knows who. Reverse now seasons and time. Behind leave, reason and rhyme. Know you think you all forget...
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- 292 reads
5 Autumn Haikus
Autumn leaves of red and gold falling on the ground; Summers kiss goodbye. An Autumn Haiku full of blazing fall colours; that's a maple leaf. As...
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Understand
.... . .-.. .-.. --- Something is speaking in the morse code of the rain; with the signal lamp of sun; in the sign language of birds and the...
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- 359 reads
The Moonmaid
A moonmaid lived upon the moon; the loveliest moonmaid by far. She sang a lovely lunar tune and combed her long hair with a star. But then one day an...
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When the wandering wind...
When the wandering wind wends its way through the land, little leaves leap and spin in a gay sarabande. Like a wizard that waves a wand within his...
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Some Autumn Haikus
An Autumn willow grows beside the waterfall; a fall of fire Autumn, with a sigh, all her golden leaves, lets go. Spring brings emeralds. Black...
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The Choice
Gas or hills and vales of green? Gas or water, clear and clean? Gas or fauna, free and wild? Gas or good health for your child? Is it that hard to...
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Violin
The man who smashed a violin; who snipped all it strings with scissors; who broke its neck with a hammer and cut through its body with a saw. That...
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The Leaf Falls Down
The leaf falls down all golden brown out of a tree; by time set free. Onto the ground the leaf falls down; slowly descends to join its friends On sea...
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Footsteps
A hundred, thousand small grey raindops pouring down like footsteps on the city. The city full of footsteps; conveyor belts of people; people moving...
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Energized
As wind turns the wind turbine round; as solar panels fill with sun; and the hydroelectric dam with water, roars so, with out- pouring beauty, green...
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To Climb Upon The Stars
To climb upon the stars brave men shall go whether their heaven answers yes or no; lift up the veil of heaven in their night; pull down the clouds...
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I Wonder Why The Cock Still Crows
I wonder why the cock still crows. Perhaps he really doesn't know that he's no longer wild and free and has no masculinity. That his hens now lay...
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The Atom Bomb Came To The Monsters Ball
The Atom Bomb came to the monsters ball. It said, I'm the most monstrous of all though Dracula began to disagree then he was hit by Nuclear debris...
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Time Flies
Time flies like a witch on a broom; like a rocket that lights up the gloom; like a leaf that flies when its windier or a swallow that flies off to...
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Ballad of The Christmas Lovers
1. There were two Christmas lovers; a young girl and a boy. Their love felt just like Christmas time it gave them so much joy. 2. Each night they'd...
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Unweaving the rainbow
When Dawkins shines truth through his prism there is no rainbow; no various colours of belief; no gods of red and blue and green. There is only white...
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Tears stream from Aleppo
Tears stream from Aleppo; blood sunken, shattered city; scarred and ruined, scattered lives while monolithic men, with stone hearts watch; unshaken...
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Spider Sestina
I see a web a spider's weaving and, hanging on that silken web are, bound up, little creatures, living from whom the lifelight slowly ebbs but their...
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Winter Sunrise
The sun, in winter, gets up late and yet is truly worth the wait for when the winter sun comes up red wine spills from its golden cup. It stains the...
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The Last Man Alive
I thought I heard voices but they were just echos; echos of the past and echos have no ears. And a nagging voice told me, "Give up your search. You...
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Google Earth
Upon a Google Earth, I roam. I travel but never leave home. My spirit virtually strays round pixel streets and alley ways. Like a modern Phileas Fogg...
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The Same Old Story
111111111111111111111111111111 I thought this was the new world but 222222222222222222222222222222 I'm facing the same old walls...
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Duet
YOU We wrapped around each other; AND making love; ME becoming one. YOU We'll climb the stars together WILL until we reach SEE the rising sun.
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The Power Of Nature
A little opening flower's petals. A small childs curious and growing mind. The broken cocoon of a butterfly who opens wide its pretty wings and then...
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Crucifixion
-ENDS ASC -IT HARD NAILS DRIVE DEEP AND FLESH IS TORN SPIR THE BUT -GAIN A RISE MEN TAKE DOWN A LIMP, LIFELESS FORM WILL HE BUT
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A beat
A beat, there beats within my breast when I'm by thy true beau- ty blessed. A bla- zing torch that burns brightest when I'm the boy thou love'st the...
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Livingis
Livingisashimmer; livingisaglimmerinamirror; livingisaflicker; givingisaglitterinadimmer, darker world. Livingisashiver; livingisasliverinasilver...
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The Old Magician
The old magician, he appeared not. And the magician had a beard not. He had a rabbit in his hat not. And sawed in half his pussy cat not. He...
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The Blue Room
HIGH ABOVE THE BASS LINE; THE BLACK BLOCKS OF SILHOUETTED HOUSES AND STREETS in the b- lue room of the Night; a sil- ver Saxo- phone moon MOANS while...
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The Golden Rule
We must apply the golden rule to nature because there are those who would cut us down; who would drill us with holes; who would fill us with poisons...
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Rabbits Rebound
Rabbits rebel against death all around; rabbits may fall but rabbits rebound. Rabbits rise up with the rebirth of spring; their long ears appear with...
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Jeremiah
Jeremiah; filled with fire; let it burst out of your heart. Say old temple walls will crumble; say a brave new age will start. You have heard the sea...
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Peach trees blossoms
Peach tree's blossoms look so fair, like pink ribbons in her hair or butterflies rose tinted wings that flutter away with the Spring.
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Spring Blossom Girl
Spring blossom girl; you're an april pearl or rainbow that curls over my whole world.
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- 250 reads
Lumière de l'amour
Lumière de l'amour, retour à la terre. Vive la voix de la paix mais pas le bruit brutal de la nuit. Chaîne la chien de la haine! Délier le lion d'...
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The Sculpture
I saw a sculpture of a horse today through which an artists spirit seemed to flow; the personality or will one may by studying an artwork come to...
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If I may never see your eyes again
If I may never see your eyes again then I shall pick two stars from heaven's face. If I can never hear your voice, well then, I'll hear the sweetest...
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Let it be done
Real tragedies can never be rewritten; we cannot unexplode the bomb; we cannot bring back children from their graves but we can save the children of...
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The Hardest Working Angel (Poem written for my fathers funeral)
Our father did not believe in heaven but if there is one, this I know is true; he'll be up there working 24/7 to make heaven better for me and you...
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Terror
The extremist Trump shouts fossil fuel akbar with the ticking time bomb of global warming in his hands. Theresa May behind a veil of respectability,...
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Outfox Theresa May On June 8th
Theresa May is hunting with her pack of Tory hounds; she wants to rule the country but before she can be crowned she needs to deal with Jeremy, the...
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The Change Machine (IP)
When they owned the change machine then the world was frightening. We lived with changes that they made because no one cared what we said. We lived...
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The downtrodden rose
The downtrodden rose; a flower of power; glowing and growing as tall as a tower; filling me with inspiration and glee. Yes, the downtrodden rose...
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Two Famous Speakers
One was like a heavyweight stamping smaller opponents faces into the mat for belts and medallions and the baying of the crowd but after a storm of...
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Pictures of Grenfell tower (Ekphrastic IP)
Pictures of Grenfell tower; a black and blazing tower of horror; of hopeless people and trapped screams like the worst tragedy of terror in...
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Moon
Golden mystic cloaked in velvet; moving like a magic spell that, through confusion, wisely peers then, like illusion, disappears.
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Festival Of Life (Freeform poem)
I was born and life took my hand; whirled me round up- on this world. My heart began to beat beat and life infront of me unfurled. A carnival; a...
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Sentio Ergo Sum
Who else but I looks at the sky, or when the sunset comes, who else loves and who else cries? Sentio ergo sum* * I feel therefore I am
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Sun setting
Sun setting; so splendid; scarlet-saffron shining sky; silken scarves, softly slipping; shadow scenes slowly shifting; spilling starlights sparkling...
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Clouds
Clouds, soft and white, float, through sunlight, by. Clouds, big as whales, float, slow as snails, by. I lay and I laze and I gaze at the sky with my...
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When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon
When Louis Armstrong landed on the moon, he played the moonmen all a ragtime tune and blowing on his cornet, he did swing and all the moonmen crowned...
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Words are the birds
Words are the birds that we keep in the cage of our heart. That's why I write; to give the birds flight; to set the words free; to let the world see...
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If an isthmus there is...
If an isthmus, there is, between Heaven and here then it must be in this; in your arms, with you near and the bridge that there is between both of...
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On Vaping
Vapers seem like charming pipers. Vaping makes a snake like hiss; vapours coiling up like vipers with, like snakes, their poisoned kiss.
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2 Ventriloquists
Two ventriloquists talked of love or else love made them do it then they really kissed while their glove puppets sang a love duet.
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Some of my poems uploaded to YouTube
Using a free movie making app and free speech synthesiser app and some public domain pictures I have put some of my poems on YouTube: https://www...
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Tyger Fire
The same tyger fire that burns also lights the way; the thing that makes the eagle soar also pierces his prey; the rockets that men build, they build...
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Flamingo Tango
Two flamingos; wing in wing, go dancing through the night. 'Neath the mango trees they tango while loves moon shines bright. In perfect synch two...
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A trick of time
You place your years into the box; you close the lid and tap it with an hour hand; tap, tap, tap, tap; tick, tick, tick, tick; you open up the box...
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Cyborg
She is half womAN ELECTRIC MACHINE; on the surface, skINSIDE, WIRES BLUE AND GREEN; her face is half smiling fleSHINING STEEL; the love in her...
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The Jolly Jester
I am a Jolly Jester though you may call me Joe. I make a jingle jangle everywhere I go. With little bells that dangle upon my cap and toes, I jingle...
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Taking a knee
Taking a knee; making a stand for what they believe in; true love of their land. For truth and for justice against violent hate. Its true patriots...
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Autumn Fireworks (Haiku)
Autumn fireworks; showers of red and gold flames; a boom in my heart.
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Butterfly Soul
sky. of the wing Butterfly My soul, changing colour, flies. Beautiful song of the Earth.
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Autumnal Haikus
1 The trees are now bare and the wind so dark and cold and you are not there. 2. Nature's paintbrush paints all the leaves of the Autumn. My brush...
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The Light Of Yara
Sometimes at night, the light of Yara glows, brighter than gold conquistadors desire; the shining soul of Hatuey that rose when, bound, he was...
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A haunted hamster cage
A haunted hamster cage, I own. A hamster ghost lives there alone. I see its wheel turn round and round and hear its eery squeaking sound. I tried...
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Fireworks
In wellington boots we wade through the field. The weather is cold but together we're warm and, whizzing in circles, four catherine wheels their...
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Sparkler
A glitter whirl, the little girl is weaving as she waves her wand; a sparkler in dark November; rockets soar at her command. Then fountains of their...
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Some Autumn Haikus
Walking (Haiku) Walking slowly on red and golden autumn leaves, we crunch sweet apples. Bursting out (Haiku) Shiny chestnut shells bursting from...
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All is discovered (IP)
All is discovered; to create is to explore like sailors or like lovers searching for the perfect shore. All words are in waiting like the gold that's...
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A Gelding Remembers
The sudden sound of thunder, a memory, unearths, within the gelding's brain of wild hooves that once pounded across an open plain; a river of proud...
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Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 1
Through bare black branches of an old peach tree I see blossoms of sunrise. Golden Autumn leaves as Earth is slowly turning fairylike with frost. The...
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Autumn/Winter Haiku's - 2
The bright Autumn moon reflected in the water. .noom nmutuA thgirb ehT Rising sun behind rooftops blanketed in snow; a child awakens. Sunset, red and...
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Pinecone
The prickly pine cone is no flower but lovely petals, it has got; ornately carved just like the towers of Khmer Kings at Angkor Wat. With skillful...
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Tricolour
Autumn flies its tricolour though winters almost won; crimson leaves of sycamore are cockscombs in the snow. Mottled golden maple leaves are crumpled...
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Sun Spider
The Sun's a big spider of gold on a ceiling of blue. She comes down when the world gets cold to weave a web, its true. She weaves a web of ice and...
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The Speed Of The Seasons
White as the flash on window panes the world's painted with snow; bare trees are thunderbolts again but, fast as thunder, go. And then the Spring...
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Clouds and Islands
Islands floating in the sea and clouds within the sky; changing their identity as time goes drifting by. Battles, guns and uniforms; black...
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Little Albert (About Watson And Rayners cruel experiment)
Messrs Watson and Rayner, smiling like clangs of steel, proudly present, for your amazement, "Little Alberts fears". See how the pet lab rat that...
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A Rabbit
A rabbit is forever ready to run; its shoe like ears shovel up sounds from the air and scan for the sound of a man with a gun or the foxes and...
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wWw
the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE the THE World World World World World World World World World World World WIDE WIDE WIDE WIDE...
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Spring Synaesthesia
A few autumn leaves are like golden bells amidst the crackle of bare branches and the silence of the snow. But a big cloud passes like an oom-pah-pah...
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The Palindrome of Mai
I am Mai, King of Fognik; Born in Ninrob; Son of Fonos; Slayer of Foreyals; Conqueror of Fororeuqnoc. I am Master of Foretsammai I wed Lady Ydaldewi...
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Trying A Sedoka (5-7-7, 5-7-7 Japanese love poem form)
Wait! Don't tear apart this sedoka; please don't tear the story of our love a- part or you will tear my heart apart with sadness; tear my life apart...
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Used Shoes
Used shoes, battered and trampled upon with tied down tongues and worn out soles; full of rain. I feel how you look; worn and worn out by miles of...
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Aunties & Uncles
Aunties are strange, giant women; bosomy mob bosses, it seems to me; Matriarchs of tribal broods; their social gatherings like summits between...
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Once I had an itch
Once I had an itch that lived upon my back but though I strained and stretched I couldn't catch it. But then I bought a scratcher and, that old itch...
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All of me
This love does more than pound upon my heart; this love resides; resounds in every part. Infact, I feel it most within my lungs; love's longing sighs...
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A precious thing
Out of the seed comes the flower; out of the flower comes the scent and out of the scent comes sweet memories of the happy days I've spent. And out...
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Love's Victory
The swastika is lost against the curly heart of love; the hawk of hate has no defence against the gentle dove. In barren lands where no loves felt...
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The Toad Trump
Snakes may fool the tender heart but cold hearts let you in, venomous toad; squatting upon power; hate and fear let you in, leaping from the ballot...
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Comb over
He can't comb over his rabid Nazi fanbase; he can't comb over his total lack of diplomacy; he can't comb over his ties with Russia; he can't comb...
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Snow Flowers
Let's make snow flowers with petals of white for they only wilt with the sun's golden light. Let's make snow flowers for, though snow blooms go,...
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The Caterpillar And The Rose
A caterpillar crunched upon a rose. "Oh stop! Please stop!", he heard the flower cry. "Fear not", the caterpillar said, "For those bright petals that...
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#walkout
Seizing the weapon of democracy in their hands; the children, true heroes, fight back.
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The Meaning
Love is why the rose is red; love, why sun flies overhead; love's our spirit when we die and each bright heaven in the sky. Love's why birds have...
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Storms of War
Man is a hurricaine that can choose not to blow; a storm not just with eye but heart and mind; the birth of a wildfire that can refuse to grow; a...
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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky; voice like an old tree with limbs you can climb upon to see the world anew.
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If there is no faith then there is still love
If there is no faith then there is still love; no book, then still the kindness in our souls; a heaven upon Earth if no heaven above; the angels of...
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The Numb 90's
Apathy and Ecstacy; everything is irony; new TV reality thats all the 90's meant to me. Crass lad culture magazines; nothing for a 90's teen; no...
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The Hearts Of Politicians
The hearts of politicians must be wierd to care for some injustices, not others and always those where there is money near. Are they the hearts they...
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Remembering
It's hard to remember our brave men and women; to think about poppies of paper dyed red when my head is so filled with crushed flowers of youth; my...
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Free
No more free the Earth; no more free the skies; no more free the ocean, just free enterprise.
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Men and Birds
Man saw the bird and envied it and so made his own wings; he flew like birds but when he did, 'twas not, like birds, to sing. Instead, he beat the...
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Beautiful birds
Crows are very beautiful, cawing at the end of day; hunched on branches, black and bare; behind, the setting sun.
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Elements
Blairite: a cheap plastic; the kind used to make artificial smiles or fake weapons of mass destruction; extremely toxic. Corbynite: a magnet that...
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The New Windrush
Windrush now is not a boat; Windrush is a Labour vote. Whether you are black or white, get on board and join the fight. Tory whiphands beat us all;...
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Earth (For Earth Day)
Earth is such a strange name for a planet; it sounds like Planet Water; Planet Air. Why not a name like Susan, George or Janet or planet Fun? It...
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Socialism
Spreading on the poverty of darkness, I see the socialism of the Sun; the rich of stars looked down once, cold and heartless but now there's light...
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May the 3rd is "Our Wars" day
May the 4th is Star Wars day but May the 3rd is Our Wars day; Corbyn our own Obi-wan; our force, the force of "Jez we can". Just like in the Star...
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Out of the austerity of Winter
Out of the austerity of winter, a red rose, blooming, bravely raised its head. Frost clutched at it with blue and icy fingers and wished, in her cold...
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A tree without blossoms
Knobbly with buds, its bubbling with spring; each brass bud's a mouth that is bursting to sing. Babbling with birds and wobbling with wind; a tree...
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Phoenix of Grenfell
Phoenix of Grenfell; people arise; tear down the sinful system of lies that puts saving money before saving lives. Together, as one, we can win if we...
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Vote for Texit! (Tory-Exit)
Vote for Texit! Tory-exit! Kick the Tories out! This 3rd of May make Tories pay! And let there be no doubt we will not stand, in fair England, for...
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On Ownership
Long before men, trees were planting the earth; every forest, by right, is their field; every sapling an heir, owning the land by birth but, sadly,...
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Anger
£293,000 was saved fitting cheap flammable cladding to 122 flats but only 71 people were lost in the 24 storey fiery grave. You have to burn inside...
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Another Rising Sun
I saw another rising sun, the best I've yet to see; upon the flaming pyre of dawn the nights dark body lay. And every flame that blazing, shone...
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Astrology
The only real astrology; the stars that have rule over me are not any up in the skies but the two stars of your bright eyes.
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Hayfever (Redrafted)
Summer, I love her and I'd never leave her though I've discovered that I have hayfever. Love her red roses though I get red rashes and my poor nose...
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Courage
Ultrasound sees into me; X-rays examine me; CT scans dissect me but none of them sees the courage I need to face this cancer growing; that, only I...
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Stomach Cancer
I sometimes feel like deaths mother; carrying the child of death within me; feeling it suckle on my strength; waiting to bear my own oblivion; the...
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