Best Honourably Poems

Watching you atop your tower
for once
wishing not to be you
but to be the dove
on which you prey
to so honourably 
have you take my pain away
I turned
to set this thought to paper
when I looked back
you were gone
and I sank
so sad
to still be there....

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Embrace this torso decaying in the wardrobe I wake up those skeletons laying in the warzone 
I make up the rules as I go along you all know so get ready ya better be set like a fresh jelly freshly baked cake on the go...

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We praise You, Lord, for providing us the best gift*
Such is everlasting life which does our souls uplift
With Your offered reconciliation midst sin-enmity’s rift
Making us heaven-bound, and from hell’s flames, adrift.

We praise You, Lord, for providing us the best security
Such is assurance of salvation in...

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Indecision!

No need to read between the lines.

By Stanley Russell Harris
(the new mad author)
and (Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned)


No need to read between the lines.
There is nothing to be found.
Right way up, sideways, or upside down.

What you read is what you get.
There is nothing hidden and yet…
You...

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My Wellie boots are battered
and all frayed at the top,
They cost me fifty bob
in C.D. Ellis’s shop.
They have seem better days
but they still keep water out
and that after all is what
Wellie boots are about.

I bought them on leave 
way back in 1962
and with a little...

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Fatema beloved special daughter of the Holy prophet 
In an age and place which treated daughters so brutally 
our prophet stood up to welcome Fatima 
whenever she entered 
and kissed her honourably, fondly.
Known as the Lady of light  , Fatema our lady of light
Oh...

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>I have a blinking broken foot.  
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
&
Poetry soup honourably mentioned.

I have a blinking broken foot.
My left one can you not see.
The picture’s on my Facebook page.
For all of you, to preen!
I did not do it in action.
Nothing brave...

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Richer than rich!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad Author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

Has football gone completely mad!
A sport of all now to be had!
Boys and girls play it today.
I wonder, is it for the pay?

Talk is now, if one does go.
To China, that’s...

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Does football make you buzz?
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author.
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

First I am not a blinking bee.
Nor do a football fan, I be.
So I am feeling good you see.
As at a football match, I don’t be.

If I was, I’d...

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Football II
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
And a poetry soup honourably mentioned poet

Football is a ball sport.  I thought everyone did know.
Sometimes the ball goes in the net. Other times it doesn’t you know.
Who is to blame?  I really do not know.
If...

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Is there life after death?
By Stanley R Harris
The new mad author
& A poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

Is there life after death?
Did Christ rise from the dead?
If you are a true Christian!
Your faith must not that question.
In days of old word of mouth told.
Of what happened...

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A latino zone in the base of North America
having an injured past honourably graced by two peasants
known to be the most populated in the Spanish world
but suffers a massive exodus to his neighbor above.

He looks at Texas and says “twas once”
but has long moved on...

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Battle of Arras April – May 1917
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

I was not there.  I have to say.
I was not born.  I meant to say.
Had I been of age, you know.
None these words would surely...

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A candle burns, for who tonight?
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
&  A poetry soup honourably mentioned poet!

Its power is just a tiny flame.
It lights the darkness of the night.
Many sometimes then are lit.
Their light brightens where you live.

Some are lit to share our...

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Suffolk day Wednesday 21st of June 2017
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

There is going to be a Suffolk Day, I heard the news I did today!
On BBC radio Suffolk, I say.  But shout about it, what me?...

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