Places Allegory Poems

What Else? (A song-lyric for my late wife, Lorenda)

You found all my hiding places,
charted all my shifting phases
peeling layers like an onion:
soaring visionary woman.

Flying all...

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A cactus, me and full of spines,
But deep in side are wet confines,
And so they sprout away from me,
Protecting from the enemy.

Go question all and...

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Fallacious wars

 The war in Ukraine disturbs me greatly
Russia invaded and invasion is as we know illegal
with few exceptions like when NATO attacked  
Serbia,...

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Summer touches its end,
           the daylight fades out
       with...

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The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. Those who walk alone are likely to find themselves in places...

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Mouths distinctly
  in the kiss, a unique encounter
   when languages switch places...

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I'm from a place
that many don't know
because I am in love of
that place inside of me,
that I wish to offer
and receive... I
Path on a road
that...

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I miss my Rio and  own  behalf
but it's not from any river,
but rather from the unusual bay,
How nostalgic I cry and laugh...

From the...

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I saw you there in my inebriated cup with
 
downcast eyes beseeching but took to it 
 
anyway.
 
It called to me, moved naked as...

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(tongue-in-cheek humor)

I understand there is a lawsuit, doc # 666, Neptune vs. Jersey. Apparently, windmills being put in the ocean off the Jersey coast was...

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THINKING!
Am done writing 
Because I don't like rising
But falling into pleasant places
Riches of glory
Fond of palm fonds
For fun of the Jews not gentiles
To cut off...

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Genre: Poesy
Title: Nude Attire
Author: John King Ayanfe ©

Behold, attires covering secrets of nudity
Attires laying betwixt cheap and expensive costs
Thus, nudity is first an attire for...

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When I was 12
our family arrived at Croydon.
Everything seemed grander
a real Municipal town
we had record and camera shops
and departmental stores
everything seemed geared for conspicuous expenditure

We...

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Junction point
Nobody knew I am on the road
Except for Ronda,

I had new responsibilities,
The money helped to  survive with food, heat, and electricity,

Every Monday
I go...

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* Paid my heed my friends for the frost giants begin their march southwards, 
    * and their hounds of winter ,shall...

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