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Chatham Poems - Poems about Chatham


Noah
...The 9th descendant of Adam He lived during a disaster he couldn’t fathom He was chosen by God, contrary to fantasm And lived nearly 1,000 years, transcending a phantom Surviving the stor......

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Categories: chatham, allegory, bible, christian, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Beware
...Beware of politicians whose active manifesto Is always to speak ill of other candidates and opposition parties. They are the real problems! Beware of political goons and rumour-mongers, spin......

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Categories: chatham, africa, corruption, life, political,
Form: Free verse



Think Well My Fellow Nigerians
...The interview at Chatham House gave me a pill that's hard to swallow Against what some apologetics think is straight and narrow Cos BAT didn't want to follow other's footsteps in anything He decid......

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Categories: chatham, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Observing the Tide
...I am captivated by the ever-rushing tide Small, distant tsunamis raping the beach, Granting the tiny sand crabs a free ride From way beyond the frothing surf’s reach Causing the terns......

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Categories: chatham, beach, ocean, perspective,
Form: Quintain (English)
Elegy for the Northern Royal Albatross
...They called you Grandma - matriarch of Taiaroa Head. Your husband of seventeen years, Blue-Green, named after the colours of the bands they placed around his......

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Categories: chatham, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Chatham Ave
... I walked down the track in the afternoon ten years of memories cut in too soon. I started to sweat, I had no room, and overhead......

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Categories: chatham, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Pink Horizons
...Oh the whiteness of the light! Oh the peach and pinkness of the horizon! Oh the breathlessness and beauty! I fall upon you As if to dive fearless into the eternal frothing white caught up......

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Categories: chatham, angel, change, love, music,
Form: Free verse
A Noteworthy Ship Poetry Contest Rjl
...Entered to take part In Robert James Liguori A noteworthy ship poetry Contest Wednesday 27th October 2021 From Liverpool The Port of Empire He came was born and wanted away and out fro......

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Categories: chatham, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Meet Me In Waitangi
...The feud in our families vetoes our bond We’re stood back to back for fear we’d abscond They force you to walk, keep moving, don't stop At gunpoint I’m ordered to walk ’til I drop So each step we......

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Categories: chatham, desire, feelings, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tear
...magic fermented smiles touching clouds evaporated mock? taunt? troll? negative? insult provoke stoke in Chatham or love breathe lend a hand lovely and grand storms ......

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Categories: chatham, art, brother, christian, courage,
Form: Free verse
Peter Pan Nightmares On Chatham Avenue
...out of sync the wheel squeaks, too many little brown mice with big mice ears have chewed my bearings a sunbeam sits on my dislocated shoulder and the cat's in the cradle sleeping with the ......

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Categories: chatham, fantasy, imagination
Form: I do not know?

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