Long Affably Poems

Don’t the years go quick?
It’s another birthday BBQ
It’s that time of year again
When acquaintance is renewed

When family and friends
Come affably together
To eat a hearty meal outdoors
And sod the English weather

The beer and wine is chilled
The...

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Cassius Clay


A heavy Weight Champion
  Who punched his way
    Through barriers of colour
      With blows of a kind Heart...
	
He floated like a Butterfly
   Yet,...

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Perhaps in another i.e. alternate world, this middled aged (baby boomer bona fide bra burner) of two well nigh near grown daughters felt caught in an invisible whirled wide web The Parent Trap. 
 ...

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After July abdicates, august August arrives,
and the year advances, as annually agreed. 
After assessing alternative alternatives and accords,
as anticipated, no other affirmative alternative is advanced. 
Actually August is always an annual actuality, affably accepted
as amicable...

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And she smiles in my face
But if I say nothing, she is without a trace
She's always on my mind but she doesn't seem to care
A one way love can never be fair
For while the recipient...

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Oh man! Going in a golden palanquin
Ever thought, what is going on in those minds?
Of those, who are bearing your burden?
And those hundreds following your path, blind

Why they ignore their aching shoulders, and
Laugh at your...

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"The storms are raging on the rollin' sea,
and on the highway of regret."*

All quiet in the evening cove,
ship rests against a red-orange canopy,
a canvas of peaceful existence is seen,
as sailors in comraderie sing affably.

Darkness overshadows...

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“The birds fly away from their nurturing nest, 
find their own sky, never to return” 
– Quote by Poet


For them I built the nest,  
where we could stay together
for as long as the sun...

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The crystal white orb guarded the night
With sky full of jewels sparkling so bright
Mirrors etched in the tranquil black pool
Where underneath rests a sleeping soul

Oblivious to the stench of murky darkness
Echoes from croaks and jump-in...

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Inside my head of old cobwebbed - memories,
my plain life filled with laughter and families…
Stories that delight tedious nights; formed a stamp,  
in darkness of a flickering oil lamp.

Frigid nights with blankets layered in...

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What a day with all the errands to run!
having other commitments to attend to;
it’s really busy; it’s saturated with preoccupations;
a hefty day that no one can just ignore thus far.

Where there’s time to find a...

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A dedication by Joe:

 In one minute of expression!
In the hour of an age;
I saw the fruit of inspiration
A largesse from heaven’s mage.

So I reached out to its fire
My heart big as blue sky
Just a...

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I built a nubile nest for them so we could live together 
kept it warm in the long winter time of frost and freeze
no speeding storm of strife could ever sweep it away
where I held...

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Christmas Poem
May peace reign down on earth for Christmas
As we celebrate the Holy birth 
The day baby Jesus Christ was born
Who came to walk amongst men on earth.

For our sakes God’s only Son was sent
With...

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“When the birds leave the nest to fly in another sky, 
the feathers they leave become memory” - Quote by Poet


I built a nest for them so together we could stay,
kept it warm in the...

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I built the nest for them so together we could stay,
kept it warm in the winter days of frost and cold,
no sweeping storm of strife could ever blow it away,
where I held them in my...

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While plugging away at my own mental capacity
I write what I think with what I think is stunning veracity
But sometimes my peers surprise with insistent tenacity
And the gall and the chutzpah and the sheer audacity
To...

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And Mama pins laundered sheets on the clothesline
Raising her creamy arms with a hum,
Gentle against  tainted bricks  of our wall
Right in front of this  grassy yard…
My velvet dress  all spruced up
Fragrant,...

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Chasing your tail forever like a dog
Into the forest, confusion of the fog
A door that’s locked, without a key
Asleep you found it, woke not to be
Where is this tail, where did it go?
Pondering on my...

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Filaments of white creep imperceptibly across an innocently blue sky, like hopeful mycelial tendrils feeling tentatively into their embracing surroundings. 
Petite tufts of lightly dirtied cotton wool float affably by, unnoticing. 
The movement of passing...

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I know someone who can love
I know someone who can wait.
I know someone who can take,
a better achievement than a bait.
A someone that stale fate,
in the eyes of those that can't.

I know someone who can...

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Affably Adorable
Beautiful birdsong
Cherished chasteness
Diabolical dalliance
Enthusiastic enchantress
Frolicking Fortitude
Glorious Gallivanting
Heavenly Hero
Idealistic Imagination
Joyful Journey
Kaleidoscopic Keenness
Light and Lithe
Mystical magical
Nocturnal night sky
Opulent Oracle
Prophetic promises
Queried Questions
Reflective Responses
Serendipitous Sensuality
Treasured Tranquility
Ultra-sweet and understated
Virginally vindicated
Whispery wishes
‘Xiting ‘Xtremetries
Youthful yearling
Zigzagging zealots...

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Again, Autumn leaves us.

Somebody shouts «Trouble, Misfortune!» 

We shall not accuse the wind

which has torn off all leaves.

Autumn goes away imperceptibly,

like the wife who 

no longer likes her marriage.

She only will smile nodding affably,

And from...

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The Zodiacs delivered a gift to Virgo... A puppy. She fed him every day and forged a close bond. One day when Virgo returned from a journey she found that Amos had not touched his...

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