THE CRY OF A MOSQUITO
...A mosquito once cried
Why do you all always
Clap your hands
Whenever you see any of us
Some of you buy chemicals
To get rid of us
When you all know we're harmless and homeless.
An insect...
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Categories:
eg, africa, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
RADIOING
...Knowledge empowers
Ignorance rules
Story-line
Never underestimate
Be the observer
Using discernment
God made everything
Good and bad.
A reason and purpose
As above so below
Day and nigh...
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Categories:
eg, africa, community, deep, education,
Form: Pastoral
Electric Anticipation
...I can feel it.
It’s not quite tangible,
Just out of reach,
Yet nonetheless real.
Like a sixth sense on my sixth sense.
The anticipation hangs in the air,
The thick, jelly like, immovable a...
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Categories:
eg, anxiety, power,
Form: Free verse
Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
...Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 196...
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Categories:
eg, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history,
Form: Bio
God Alone Is
...‘Mind negates, obscuring’ truth in a thought fog
Being but brazen attempts of our ego
To bemuse and confuse by such ruse, veiling light of God
‘So that under’ cloak of darkn...
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Categories:
eg, god, spiritual,
Form: Verse
5
...
"5"
benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world
grace, a name
whispered before
a meal shared
5 fingers
on each hand
steeples, hiding people
g...
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Categories:
eg, war,
Form: Free verse
Exits Exist
...
"Exits Exist"
prophecies materialised
bad dreams of tomorrow
arrived vaporising today
the higher ones
prepared their exit plans
they thought they were gods
but...
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Categories:
eg, humanity, peace, religious, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Mute Hearts of Babylon
...
"The Mute Hearts of Babylon"
the day
the poets died
a cloud past
over the eyes
of those
who required
the dance
in music
storms
calmly stole
electric love
...
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Categories:
eg, freedom, future, muse, music,
Form: Free verse
The Lady In White
...This is a poem about addiction and the life style that goes hand in hand with
the addict. The Lady In White is a metaphor that the addicts choice is a White
powder or rocky substance. E.G. Metha...
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Categories:
eg, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
What Are Words - a Florilegium Poem
...What are words other than coffin nails be?
Who does it belong to when it rails me?
An empty vessel at best that bails thee.
Lend me your ear and draw your heart near;
my words might seer, but h...
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Categories:
eg, analogy, emotions, literature, metaphor,
Form: Other
Time Passage
...In these lives, let the seconds run
it soon reached the minutes.
the hours, eg days, the years
and centuries...
I remember well...
looks like it was
yesterday... !...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Brocken Spectre - a Florilegium Poem
...The root word for religion is not kind –
Latin verb that means to tie or to bind –
as it tends to play tricks on anyone’s mind.
For some, the edicts lash; they merc...
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Categories:
eg, introspection, poetry, religion,
Form: Other
Names For Countries Or Planets
...NAMES FOR COUNTRIES OR PLANETS
I can understand and sympathise with famous cities
Being named after animals eg Buffalo or Phoenix, if they must;
But when whole countries are named after...
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Categories:
eg, sky,
Form: Rhyme
How I Organize a Rally
...No Holding Up Signs,
No Chanting,
No Looting, No Crimes,
No Soliciting,
They approach you, not you them,
then you hand them the literature for the cause of this organized event,
and if per chan...
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Categories:
eg, political, self,
Form: Rhyme
The Emasculation of Man
...
"The Emasculation of Man"
The world goes by loudly
emasculated man
sees nothing
for what it’s worth
ignorant and
pumelling chests
goril...
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Categories:
eg, humanity, i am, pride,
Form: Free verse
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