Best Quietened Poems

She remained silent amidst the squeaks of the bats
Sleeping on the hostel bed, she dreamt of winging like a dove. 
Her tears were blended with...

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The crescent moon overlooks
The pink taffy sky as it melds 
With the grey mist that rises 
From the creeks and gently rolling hills

I read a...

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“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and...

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I sung all the night with the Devil,
It seemed harmony had found itself spooning with dissonance
Not indeed needing to be one or the same
Yes—the light...

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The Lost Teddy Bears.

What adventures will today
Our Teddy Bears complete
When they all go out to play
At the park just down the street.

Lisa has a picnic...

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Time moves slowly,
and changes come fast,
each birth, death,
nothing forever last.

Learning to cope,
sometimes hard to do,
trying to fit in,
that is all you can do.

Streets once traveled,
now...

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February came in keeping with its ancient character a month of coldness, wetness and of thawing,
With departing frost and melting snow, February could possibly be...

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(In loving memory of Thokozile)


A dark cloud crumpled into our quietened attentions,
Caving in deeply into the deeper ends of our calming wake,
We feel the onerous...

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RESISTANCE (EAST TIMOR)

A young man
A young man lying
Sightlessly staring beyond the sky.

Resistance…
A fierce wind blowing… 
Bitterness trapped in his quietened heart.

His forehead.
a round mark, tiny.
precisely....

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'twas in a room in Blandford, on a bright spring day
When a voice within my head a whispering, whispering to my dismay
For the voice grew...

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A cave hidden in the forest beyond
Crimson waters flow out,
The wolves seek out the source
Only to find her bleeding soul.

Slithering stream reflect her demons
Trapped inside...

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Wayward in my sin,
to You, I’m foreign
my angel wings have fallen
my belief disproven
a gimmick in his marketing 
didn’t take much convincing
for I bought in
an empty,...

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It was a stressful drive
Up north I-seventy-five
The rain came pouring down
Water, water, all around

Semi-trucks carrying loads
Vie for places on road
I was in middle lane
Trying to...

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It was a stressful drive
Up north I-seventy-five
The rain came pouring down
Water, water all around

Semi- trucks carrying loads
Vie for places on road
I was in middle lane
Trying...

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This is the story that should not be told
And it was not told ever
Till the time it mattered
Now that they have escaped in corners safe
This...

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