Best Take Turns Poems

I visited mum today 
as I do almost every day

She greeted me with open arms

And then says

‘I didn’t think you’d come ...
I thought you had fallen out with me’

Yet  
Yesterday everything was fine
and it was fine the day before
and the day before that

‘oh it...

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I find myself
In the middle of nowhere
And I don't see signs
Of anything familiar,
Yet I take turns
As if I'm going somewhere,

I meet new people
Strangers who welcome me
And I confide in them,
Unwilling to remember
My reason for being there,

But then I recall
Not charting a destination
For I had none,

No...

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IT TAKES TIME TO SEE THE LIGHT

Death is best taught in the dark
Fetching sticks, setting sparks
Its bag of tricks: sickness and hope
A black curtain vanishes
The magician leaves you with a moonless night
A lonely night without stars
And you work to locate those sparkling crystals
And place them...

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Sharing is friendship.
Moon and sun are best of friends.
They take turns to shine....

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No mother would fill up her eyes with tears of woman...
if it weren't for God performing a miracle at dawn,
as she cried out in joy and held her baby in trembling arms
but shed many sweet tears hearing his laughter so loud;
oh, he couldn't see her...

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Eagle flying high, just a dot in the sky
I fly in to join you and circle with you
together we take delight in plummeting down
then climbing back up to float on thermals

The landscape below shows trees the size of matches
individual flowers too small to see just...

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holding Abigail in my arms
my cat is treated to lessons mother
passed on to me
bury your face in her neck
and gently rub your cheek
she will arch backward into the nuzzling
chew softly on her ears
the more you pay attention
to the back of the head
the brain will fire...

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Sometimes I feel I know nothing about life

But I do know something about Kenya

I come from the gustily, hilly terrains of rural Ingavira

Where huts form bungalow sorts of flawless beauty

An ambiance of warm soothing atmosphere

And all my life

My home has been here, yes here. Kenya.

I’ve...

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LOVE


Love is just four letter Word
But sometimes acts as double edged sword 

When you're in Love , it feels so good 
Keeps you in Happy and joyful mood

Heart beats with a slower rate
Sleeps the thing the body hate

But when love tries to go away
Makes life...

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They didn't rush out to greet him
When Father time made his call...
They traded house and picket fence...
For one room down a long hall

like soldiers standing watch...
They take turns staring at the clock...
And wonder where the babies are....
They used to rock!

He said....It's Grand Central Station...
Every day,...

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But a strange change happens
at early nightfall
in those stuffy rooms and halls
and it suddenly becomes clear
all was not as it seemed
old folks transformed
so cunning and keen
sparkling iridescent
playful, plucky, pleasant
flagrantly libertine!

Like children slowly scampering
out of bed to play
they saunter, skip and stumble out
every one in their...

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An ivory brush he runs through her grey tresses,
a flannel, hot water, refreshes her face,
her feelings of gratitude anyone's guesses
he gives a sad smile as she stares into space.
His hands are the guides who will take her and lead her
through myriad functions and chores of...

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Imprisoned by shackles of being born in a lower caste, his roads are blocked.
Rejected by society, he's sidelined to garbage ridden streets, where he sleeps.
Providence left him abandoned as destiny became the harbinger of mortality
Ravaging his saddened life in grief as if his existence is...

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The left blame the right, the right blame the left,
both concealed in ideology logically lost on me.

It's not that I don't understand, there's no one with which I stand,
both succeed in ways necessary then turn sour though a good recipe.

The point and blame at those...

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With the back drop of the moon
Against the bright lit starry sky
A solitary tree stands silent
Let me tell you the reason why

Below its curled like branches
A couple, hold each other close
For it's in this romantic setting
That nature bows and knows
 
The grasses even whisper
As the...

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