Baby Boomers
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Late bloomer
Candour...humour
Va Va voomer
Or
Rumour..groomer
Consumer...tumour
Boomer espuma
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Categories:
candour, society,
Form: Rhyme
Siraj in charge of the new Raj
...Dash of panache …blade cascades on the lash..rocking …fans cavalcade flocking to be clocking some shocking..peacocking....with a hefty splash of flash fancy dan elan
No mocking.. knocking or block...
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Categories:
candour, sports,
Form: Free verse
Spiritual possession
...Through an opal window I saw a cloud,
changing colors from blue to orange to red,
like a burning fire.
I was swept off my feet,
floating on a bridge between this world and the next.
My body no...
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Categories:
candour, fantasy, heaven, imagination, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Forget regret, riffs on what ifs
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Forget riffs of regrets
But
To the hilt
We tilt to
Inbuilt lilt
A guilt quilt
Can jilt & wilt
But
No tiffs with what ifs
Won’t let you fret
Circumspect.. I find
Older you get
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Categories:
candour, hope,
Form: Free verse
Love at first sight
...I asked her
do you believe that as soon as any man walks into a room and he’s eyes fall so completely upon someone like you he can fall in love?
at first
she didn’t answer
she just looked at me ...
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Categories:
candour, appreciation, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Birthday poem for my niece
...As you settle into year 15,
reflect upon what came before.
The 14 years of being you,
allll creatures/people you adore.
There have of course been troubled times -
Life does not spare the leas...
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Categories:
candour, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Metamorphosis
...The resemblance of the omnipotence imprinted
With rare colours and shades elegantly tinted
Cherubims and seraphs adorn my being's core.
Like the capacious cosmos, I am in candour.
Senses surpas...
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Categories:
candour, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
If I have
...If I have awareness of an artiste,
Perceptive heart per chance of a poet,
A mind that loves harmony all amidst,
Freshness of dewdrops and wings of a jet,
Which can on imagination soar wild
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Categories:
candour, bird, childhood,
Form: Sonnet
Why did I become a poet
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I was born a poet not manufactured.
It started with a heart feeling fractured.
Childhood trauma led to built up suppression,
but the soul yearned for creative expression.
For years my poems hid...
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Categories:
candour, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Easter
...The evil doers (do they have any religion?) thought
The sun, when it doesn't shine as per their will, should be set.
Though millions of distorted versions of the truth were brought
What did they, ...
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Categories:
candour, easter,
Form: Sonnet
Knock
... Approached by a witch on Halloween one should, look her straight in the eye and knock on wood.Quote - Poet’s own
It's Halloween night, beware of t...
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Categories:
candour, halloween, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Reinvigoration
...Oftentimes I'm found to be
immersed in gloomy poetry.
Life's trials impose challenging woes;
so I suppose... No mystery!
Enthusiasm, seeking joy;
diminished, dampened by convoy,
of fiscal str...
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Categories:
candour, hope, innocence, inspiration, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Spirit
...The lighthouse blinks with candour
Invites the close of the day
The merging with the shore of creation
The night at the end of the bay
The darkening pools in the moonlight
The caverns th...
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Categories:
candour, death, deep, ocean, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Ground Level Entry
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"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary ne...
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Categories:
candour, muse,
Form: Narrative
Pinnacle
...I want to be wrapped in nature's hue,
Lost in its splendour,
Embraced by its candour,
I'm feeling blue,
I'm being misconstrued,
My world is latent to them,
They can't come into my realm,
I'm a...
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Categories:
candour, how i feel, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
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