Best For Whom The Bell Tolls Poems

We walked slowly along the busy road
My tiny hand slipped into yours 
I clung tightly on to you
Whilst my sister skipped off with her friends

My brown leather satchel hung from my shoulder
We arrived at the entrance to the school
Not a word passed between us 
Suddenly...

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Wendall walked a wiggly wire
Strung between two church spire,
Unfortunately for him he was undone
By an oblivious, bell-ringing nun,
Causing a result so very dire....

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Ask not for whom the bell tolls
Said little fairy bell sitting in the meadow
Among the Prim Roses reflecting, the sun’s glow

The Cow Slips in the rain 
The Lady Smock trips on her train
Ask not for whom the bell tolls

The Snap Dragon bites, the Willow Weeps
The...

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The Tsar

Bronze Titan, the Leviathan
our Empress Anna's child
borne incandescent from the pit
Tsar Kolokol I'm styled.
Stand inside me, hear your voice
for thou shalt not hear mine
intended once for time of war
not praise to the Divine.
Such arrogance a curse since led
to each of us, the three
by God's...

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The cadence of the knell on the wind Lord
Has folk peering from windows and doors
A reminder of fickle mortality
Peals forlornly, for whom the bell tolls

The screams of the Angels, are deafening
Those with the conscience to hear
Dark Winter, cuts colder than ice
Unfolding, the fear of all...

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Sharpen the blade and start the fire
Set ablaze your selfish desire
Alas, I have learned of your hidden goals
It is you for whom the bell tolls

Call it hate, call it detestation
For your love is the only abomination
That burdens, tortures, and destroys my soul
It is you for...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls 
 “I am The Light Of The World”

early morning ringing of the bells
sound carried for miles by the breeze
into the towns and villages far away
while summoning the faithful to recite the Lord’s Prayer  

thrice- daily ringing of the church...

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treatment commences
cancer eradicated
we remain hopeful

the bell’s rung three times
radiotherapy done
life begins again

live for the moment
we are never complacent
cancer may return

cherish your loved ones
embrace life, it’s all too short
cancer is a thief!...

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With my hands I rip off my horns
I wish to be a cambion no more
I fought the demons, dragons and behomeths
and to my favor is the score

So through the towns of hell I walk
only to find a little old mansion
I enter and there behold 
is...

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When Death comes knocking at your door
Rail,resist or recoil at her call
The inevitable and rarely welcome visitor
 To Her succumb must we all
To Her cold and chilling embrace
When with Her we come face to face
 Cold comfort in being clasped
To Her icy bosom at last.

Larger...

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FOR THE MAIDEN AT THE IN, 
OR THE BARMEN WITH A GIN?

FOR THE PANETTIERE IN THE BAKERY,
OR THE WORKER AT THE FACTORY?

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?

FOR HIM OR FOR HER?
FOR THE WEANING CHILD OR HIS MOTHER?
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?

FOR THEE, 
CHIMES THREE....

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I stumbled across
A stumbling block
Five Stolpersteine
Where a family used to live
Surname Jaffe
Made me think about
Think about those
Those the bells didn’t toll for
Made me think
Think about them
Them the bells doesn’t toll for
Them the bells doesn’t ring for
For me
The alarm clock rings
Think about that...

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Jim found a way to make his girlfriends sing
he buys each one a giant diamond ring,
while he's not made of money
they all call him "Sweet honey"...
but his wife just calls him "My ding-a-ling."...

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To write
like me
You must 
think like me
And see
like me
And feel
like me

To write
like me
You must 
ask not tell
For words
rung clearly
By fortunes
— bell

(Dreamsleep: July, 2024)

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