History Fire Poems

Fiendish, they encapsulate strawberries;
Subliminal message makes mouths water; 
Phantasms won’t let go of the fields 
lost to the four winds of conflagration;

Subliminal message makes mouths...

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I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb.  Developing..........growing………. morphing……….through the epochs of time.  Then suddenly, on no day in...

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beak
of the plague mask
    lest I smell
your rotting bodies
    strewn
I smell your crosses
  daub your doors
I smell your...

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There was a certain dread in the air
Like something ominous was ahead,
The building started to tremble,
It seemed impossible, a mental
Numbness gripped the people, 
A disbelief,...

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A laughingstock of history …
America right now
Fifty years of turning left
leading further down

Words alone can’t fix it
so little time remains
Freedom anything but free
—with liberty in...

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Blind in the all-consuming mist without a trace of light 
Blind in the oven’s black smoke that makes all songs to Jesus seem hushed 
A...

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Fire came out of  the grave of Prince 
Ruhongeka ( Luhongeka)  Ngengethe Mussabwa. 
After the killing of King Mussabwa Kamango by
 the Colonial army...

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Written: September 25, 2023
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Deep in the realm of nature, a raging inferno
A power that was blazing for eons, a volcano
It is always there, on the...

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There was a sickly tree

In a barren clearing

In a burning country

On a mourning day.


A wild crown of branches

Haloed by concentric rings;

A rising wave of spires...

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In WW2 Sweden sheltered
    Jews in desperate need

  Today Swedes burn a Torah scroll
     a brutish, dastardly...

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Soft and gentle, like southern rain
Still as the embers, breathless
In the fire’s dream – lasting beyond
Graceful wisdom who portrays the eventual
Healing, the flaming gestures in...

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A pleasant cool settles
the ground flecked 
by sunlight drizzling down
through a tall canopy
of trees. A slight wind 
tickles the top leaves
with whispers. 
All seems idyllic.

Yet...

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In the book of fire 
& 
all that blazes
In the words of praises, 
Burning fast
They are hard bright
…it blares white.

This is my desire 
But...
What is...

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Pakistan is at the moment in a grip of a quagmire led by all the institutions that have been most shamefully compromised by greed of...

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Westminster has historic walks
And tour guides do tour guide type talks
One speaker regales
It’s most epic fails
How sad about Mr Guy Fawkes...

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