Best Uplands Poems

...You small community of men
devoted to the gentle arts
why would you cross those foreign seas
where war awaits to break all hearts.

Stay in those  gardens you make green,
sustain your rank amon......

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...kaisers, kings, emperors fight for territory
  dispensable bodies left in the ground on foreign soil, unreturned
  militarisation of memory and folly
  an Irish nation half-wrenched from a bloodie......

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...The Way Of Victory

 
I longed for wandering by those islands

  Where ever blue rapturous sunlight beams ;

Sought a mountain home, for sleep and silence

And gold-crested star-winds throug......

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...Faulkner's comment, I imagine him
tossing it off like Yogi Berra between games
of a doubleheader. The hero, the expert, the virtuoso
has no real control, is going to feel
unmitigated, unsparing f......

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......is what we see
Emotions are the weather of the mind
We live between peaks and troughs
The former breeds hubris with downfall built in
The latter deals with death,darkness and despair
Our mood......

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...Although I hardly gave it a thought
I didn't really doubt
our miniature juniper, a bonsai,
would survive our desert vacation.
                                                  It likes the dry
a......

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...WEIRD PATH -KIFUMBAMACHO

Living at the coast i never gave any credence
to stories of the supernatural attributing them
to ignorant locals who are into mysticism an spirit-ism

being a believer......

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...Chapter 14d (King Ptolemy the second, cont.)

https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Africa-adventures-Phil-Salmon/dp/197392479X


“And upon the open ocean
Far from land in roving sail-ships
How to fi......

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...So 
go 
quo vadis
hence forward
to where honour grows
uplifting time out of this mire
who is leading who are we ever never to know
gods prophets with promises and blessings easily given and easily ta......

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...DARKER   SHADES.



Have you known some darker shades
Ever bitter vested in hand held grief
Like bolting of steed in fast uplands
Onslaught of undines in yelped streams.

Ancient roads kept in distur......

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...
the uplands of the Scottish countryside
          have held a riddle, many hundred years

a meager man-type creature called a HOB
     creating rumors of their mischief, grand

the t......

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...We can’t make this up.
We can’t justify the tears.
We’ll struggle to ask for their forgiveness in our prayers.
We can’t hide away the doubt and the fears.

We’ve lost so many now. 
They do not ......

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...She would undream her burdens, her life's 
Map of drudgery; all those years
She is hardened enough to hold tears;

Her hand never slackened by the
Fusty, hard stone of labour and love-hunger;
F......

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...I.
The letter had come in Nevada’s north,
when Sol had been enjoying a blonde whore,
only to see it slip under the door,
he finished with her, but enjoyed it no more.

After she had gone, he re......

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...Sultry sky
Undulating uplands
Majestic mountains
Magnificent moments
Exciting escapes.
Reality relieved.

© July 12, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen......

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