SIX WOMEN PATIENTS
... SIX WOMEN PATIENTS
Six broken women lay down to rest
brown bodies all in a row
six long stories to tell with jest
six smiles with a million tears
race around ward rele...
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Categories:
acacias, character, emotions, environment, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Like a lighthouse defying the darkness with an unwavering light
...Like a lighthouse defying the darkness with an unwavering light,
I've grown accustomed to sleeping with my eyes open, watching the edge of dreams,
afraid of being surprised by the veil of silence t...
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Categories:
acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The carriage with Mr Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen
...The carriage with Mr. Mihai Eminescu glides silently, unseen,
Through the whispers of Iashi's stones, wrapped in its own mystery.
How long and tiring is the journey through boundless realms,
Emerg...
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Categories:
acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The carriage with Mr Mihai Eminescu
...The carriage with Mr. Mihai Eminescu
Is heard passing through the streets of Ia?i.
But, Lord, what a long journey it has made,
How pale and weary he seems to be!
And what is happening, Lord, in t...
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Categories:
acacias, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Fountain Within
...On this day when
One walks outside
The fumes are coming off the roads
The mountains appear full of smoke
Dust is flying around seeking relief
Many seek for shade but none found
Oh, ye cloud...
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Categories:
acacias, fate,
Form: I do not know?
Rhapsody Recitation
...clothed in drama
a pentecost poetic
chiastic
three stanzas long
the Spirit outpoured
in the Day of the Lord
portents predicted&
prescribed
called out
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Categories:
acacias, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse
Verse Freed To Rhapsodise
...clothed in drama
a pentecost poetic
chiastic
three stanzas long
the Spirit outpoured
in the Day of the Lord
portents predicted&
prescribed
called out
...
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Categories:
acacias, christian, word play,
Form: Didactic
Rhapsody In Flight a Song of Pentecost
...clothed in drama
a pentecost poetic
chiastic
three stanzas long
the Spirit outpoured
in the Day of the Lord
portents predicted&
prescribed
called out
...
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Categories:
acacias, anniversary, birthday, christian,
Form: Verse
Silent One - Poem Inspired By His Recent Write
...“SILENT ONE” – inspired poem
I
Musicians unite for a cause, no cause celebre
But small nursing homes not on maps, or Frail Care facilities -
Magically coaxing ancient responses and memories,
An...
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Categories:
acacias, appreciation, care, caregiving, earth,
Form: Alliteration
Singing With the Birds
...Weaver birds near Escombe, where I was raised ...
Doing their weaving with palm leaves, cut precisely
With little beaks, for bare Acacias across the yard ...
Now nests like fruit: wide downturned ...
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Categories:
acacias, appreciation, atheist, faith, fate,
Form: Blank verse
Ode To My Better Man
...I
The rains have washed the air
and landscapes glow in a soothing summer green
that perfectly tints the blue skies.
Grasses are dancing a samba of love and country,
Woodpeckers are flocking with...
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Categories:
acacias, beauty, cheer up, color,
Form: Ode
Fairyland
...There is a rocky path,
small fields on the left
and a mysterious forest on the right,
a fairyland.
Cold creek among the trees
running towards the lake.
A red short wall decorated with nettles...
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Categories:
acacias, childhood, magic,
Form: Free verse
A Brief Tango
...- a brief tango -
I see from this pestering pedestal,
And what’s that I see?
Gazelles and antelopes of the Savannah
Or the deceits of a mooting brain?
I see them – a careful pick of a genera...
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Categories:
acacias, adventure, break up, divorce,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Walk With Me
...Come take a walk with me
let us stroll the savannah
I want to show you the beauty
to introduce you to East Africa
A land seeped in dark history and mysteries
where once the Tembo roamed in their tho...
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Categories:
acacias, africa, magic,
Form: Epic
Voices
...When the sun goes down bleeding
beyond the hills yonder,
I will meet you under
the acacias.
As a souvenir I will keep
your lips in my books for history.
As a gift I will give you
my tears.
This de...
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Categories:
acacias, art,
Form: ABC
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