Best Rigour Poems

All you do 
All you say
All you write
In the jasmine garden
Is a frenzied drum
Bludgeoning me to dumb

Intensely numb
I feel
As I reel

Yes
As you come
Rising on tides
Passion...

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Exclusive Birth Rights

I am German and guilty as charged by history and evil parental culpability
privileged by life and proxy thus I refuse to forget ancestral...

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Flower power

“If you’re going to
San Francisco be sure to
wear a flower 
in your hair”
long and shaggy
shagged longing wild

And to Berlin or
Paris for that 
matter to...

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Tough and hardy, this bushy shrub;
Roadside decor in blazing sun,
Flowers pretty enough no doubt
In sure rigour bear heatwave run.


Blazing colours in crystal tints:
Orange and red,...

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There's a tiny monster gliding in the air
Whoever you are, it shows no spare
Swiftly quaffing the earth's unstained blood,
it resolved to bury a raft of...

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TRIBUTES
overt
 the
 implication
& correlate
with
the
  traditional

 receptive
to
a
 witnessed
 desire

 themes
 at least
in part
 a reaction
to be
 explored

 the intent
 has
 an intrigue premise
 persuasively
 constructed
&
organised
yet hazy
concept
of  inspiration

sans rigour
questioning
or doubt
created
 through
 a complex
&  informed
relationship
of
 obedience
in
 manifested
attitudes

a refusal
to adhere
to
unfashionable
& ascribed
anathema
topically
 perceived

more
 receptive
to
 witnessed
 desire

 themes
 at least
in part
 a reaction
to be
 explored

 the intent
 has
 an intrigue premise
 persuasively
 constructed
&
organised
yet hazy
concept
of  inspiration

sans rigour
questioning
or doubt
created
 through
 a complex
&  informed
relationship
of
 obedience
in
 manifested
attitudes

a refusal
to adhere
to
unfashionable
& ascribed
anathema
topically
 perceived


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently...

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"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the...

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GTF

Wizened skin like burnished leather
Thin, grey and long, disheveled hair
Clear, sharp blue eyes that seem to stare
Through sun scorched face, alert, aware

A ‘lived-In’ face that’s...

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Villanelle: Should not Masters be They who cut through lands

Should not Masters be They who cut through lands
Who for pittance sake serve up cheap labour
Which...

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Exracted from Gerald Nforche's Epic, The Slave's Tale


-Across the Atlantic, 1793-

And as days tumbled away, we staggered
Along, knock-kneed, dead beat and haggard.
Our bodies singing to...

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Grand Ma


Depending on a day’s mood-
Grand Ma my mind recalls;
Saint or Devil in the wood
For fast writ on the walls!!!

Ah! Lovely Devil was she
She’d catch...

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What is it with some men?
Is this what those nuptials meant?
You are turned into his mother figure,
A holy cow, meals, housework, rigour,
Maybe there's no luck...

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“Penned” 

what happens 
when it comes to this
another woman 
takes your child

as her own 

and red becomes 
the bloody murder
penned in a pig stye, 
left...

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when it's the hour of sleep...
and you can't resist to leap..
unto the darkness strewn path..
heart pounds to tear it apart...

with a might driven gait...
and a...

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From the sharp corners of the towering residence,
In perfect linear angles, the shadows slice the concrete path.
The blue party lights add ghostly vigour.
Brown hands toil,...

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