Cigarette Smoke
...On a warm, dew-weakened day,
Watching the grey void of a lost
Sense, anxious moments recline
On whiffs of ancestral propitiations
When rafters regain possession of
Filched roast fish, balanced w...
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Categories:
clamoured, life, philosophy, vanity,
Form: Free verse
JACK ELLISON IS NINETY YEARS OLD TODAY
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August the eleventh is a very special day
Because happy Jack Ellison is ninety today
A talented musician he used to play the banjo
With the Canadiana singers, many years ago
A ladies' man...
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Categories:
clamoured, birthday, happy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Light Skinned
...Light skin, fair skin
All clamoured for by
Creams to the rescue
Fading creams, toning creams
All bleaching creams
Women and men, old and young
all clamouring for light skin.
Looks enhancers...
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Categories:
clamoured, africa, color, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Tripple Tripple
...Double Cup my Tripple Tripple
And don't stir in a milk
Sugars 3 and creamer 4
I'd like to make a stilk
Horny steamered fattened slupe
Hands a clamoured cloupe
Barion blatter to uncouth
Bairk...
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Categories:
clamoured, drink,
Form: Quatrain
Blessed By the Rain
...God called us by name
Emotion to sooth
Shall never exclude
Ready to advance
Enchantement we shall dance
God held out his hand
Rayed our path along the sand
Beside no one else
Took a look with...
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Categories:
clamoured, deep, devotion, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Perspective
...A smile on his face
His very pale face
As his body was moved
And placed in the coffin
A life not so well lived
A drunkard, thief and murderer
Not one bit of tear on faces
As this poor soul ...
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Categories:
clamoured, death, perspective,
Form: Quatrain
Love and Folly
...The Lover's love bred many memories
It's fragrance filled the air around
As its tree blossomed secret sounds
That created chemistry and mysteries
Like children in games quarrels would arise
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Categories:
clamoured, love,
Form: Couplet
A Roadside Tale
...They stood there by the shadows
Two vagabonds should you call,
One was a man of honour
The other a mongrel small;
The winter sun was setting
Twilight had crawled overall,
The north wind cl...
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Categories:
clamoured, death,
Form: Elegy
Solitude
...From inside myself I feel in humility
That wondrous sense of awe within my mind,
A special transcendence into tranquillity.
My memories rise to the surface to remind,
I’ve lost reality in the s...
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Categories:
clamoured, family, introspection, life, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Granda's Wartime Tales
...When I was a little girl
My grandfather had a tin
With a sailor smoking a cigarette on the lid
It was what he kept his medals in
He called them Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
And I asked him what the...
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Categories:
clamoured, grandfather, nostalgia, war,
Form: Rhyme
A Mutiny
...Lived eight years in a retirement community
Best eight years, so thankful for the opportunity
Elderly ladies clamoured around me
Best looking oldster they ever did see
Had to beat them of...
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Categories:
clamoured, age,
Form: Limerick
Mutiny
...Lived eight years in a retirement community
Best eight years, so thankful for the opportunity
Elderly ladies clamoured around me
Best looking oldster they ever did see
Had to beat them of...
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Categories:
clamoured, fun,
Form: Limerick
Dlcw Don'T Let China Win
...DLCW Dont Let China Win
For the badminton pundits in this country, there are a great many of them...
In their eyes, the greatest badminton player is Lee Chong Wei , a true Malaysian...
If you a...
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Categories:
clamoured, appreciation, community, dedication, international,
Form: Free verse
True Love
...remember the last time we met,
you and i,
mere fledglings, naive and innocent,
with big dreams, conquerors of the world were we,
ambitions flying high, separate worlds but a common goal
slowly w...
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Categories:
clamoured, love, love hurts,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fee-On-Her Joy
...Fee-On-Her Joy
The peril of the real epitome of African goddess,
Her gift packed neatness pouted love in her,
That has been brewed from Luo love pot,
Her lips lithe in the coat o...
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Categories:
clamoured, appreciation, beautiful, bereavement, nature,
Form: Ode
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