Long Affray Poems

We deemed that we could never be beaten.
Our flaws, too, turned out to be an asset.
I would grant you a drink once you've eaten.
Passionfruit, to recall which silhouette
My confidence sustains me through my tears.
For poise,...

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Christmas is creeping in.
I’ve seen my first quality street tin. 
The John Lewis advert is out
And the motorised reindeers about. 

Shop windows glitter and glow,  
Ladbrookes give odds on the snow, 
The eyes ...

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Son of Trembling



The Sun will stop to shine
 Where trapped they do recline
Where they drink and dine
Yet, search, pine and repine.

Would Humane inside him stir
To forsake malicious flair
Has he conscience ever known
To He has he...

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Ronald was a tough old ram, the biggest of his breed
Daniel was a clipperman, renowned of shearing deed
Many sheep were sheared that day and woolless they had fled
Before those two met in affray and battled...

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no scrap of wrestle left inside and the battle remains

the same each morning in and all night out of peace

rock bottom ground control on empty remote chance

that this too shall pass in lost resolve of...

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On beginning to compose a new poem...

Assaying thoughts gambol,
scuffling as in an affray
née crushing, jockeying, stampeding...
demanding equal airplay
gushing as metaphorical think
spigot turned on full force airway
thru totally tubular cerebral

microcosmic aisleway
vesicular conduit fifty
plus shades of gray
exhaling...

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Written: November 12, 2023, For Unseekeing Seeker Contest
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Love is a rule binding us all, broad yet near,
Saffron sun sparks souls...

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“Moves are slower, concentration intense, as style and wits are pitted.
Finally, the remaining white knight makes a brilliant challenge admitted.
The black king weak from the affray, a pawn keeps danger at bay.
With its faithful pawn...

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....oh mother....oh mother

   in the past I have shown lack of care, disdain
   caused you nothing` but a life so full of pain.
   so don`t take your total destroying,...

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I wish I could find you.  I feel you around.
When I look to the sky, it points to the ground.
Ground points to the sun, as it moves east to west.
I’ve missed you again on...

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It seems we are at an impasse
That no matter what it has always been you-
And despite my futile affray it always will be

I don’t want to simply be in the background to you-
I want you...

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In continuation to the limerick "PEDRO THE PEDDLER" . . . : )

PEDRO’S BROTHER DIEGO . . . 

So . . . 

Didn’t Pedro have a brother he is called Diego
He is just back from...

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"Temptation would not shift, had to make one last parting gift" ~The Poet~

Seeping like spilled golden honey smothering the horizon, 
As age old marshmallow clouds surrender to flames and wizen.
The molten ball of fire, sinks...

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across the angry sea of wild
sings this lost demented child
his whiplash stings with mighty blows
top and bottom and way down below

trapped inside it`s wrathful jaw
the bitter wind is too great to ignore
an arctic blast from...

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‘I thoroughly believe the time is near, 
even in 2012 this year, 
the need is quite clear, 
stubborn concepts will resist for sure,
to no avail, love’s precept children are dear…

as grapes of wrath and crafts,
write...

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A soldier has come home today,
He has been fighting in lands far away.
A soldier has come home today,
There were no cheers, not a single hooray.
A soldier has come home today,
In a coffin to his loved...

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Vandalizing History
A Miracle Man opinion
6/21/2020

Under social injustice, history is vandalized today,
what started out a peaceful protest, wound up an affray.
Many became vociferous in expressing some slighting,
now, seems no day passes without dissing or gaslighting.

The world...

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With underlying arms well akimbo
Seductively they glance at each other
Smiles seasonally defined
Amidst celebration in the bed of rose

Gently they pulled their panties
Preaching to one another amidst copulation
The Bible too far from bed
Humbly replaced  rubber cum...

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One day again I may 
become serious about writing poetry
with words to cushion the effect of trauma
those of a life, a sentiment for our historic past
and its people I hold most dear.
But alas not the...

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RECRUITMENT

Your country needs you lads, let Lord Kitchener tell you more
Come forward, join the ranks and we’ll send you off to war
You’re fighting for salvation; you’ve got Jesus on your side
Remember that in battle; let...

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You may feel a sigh 
As you fuel an eye 
With a sight from across a bay. 
To see a glow 
As sun slides below 
At the very end of a day, 

To see a...

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I was a Soldier

I was a soldier many years ago,
How time flies, where did it go.
To many places I was deployed,
Never too long before I was sent,
To fix things electrical was my bent.
I saw no...

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In judgement’s call a parchment list revealed
Of deeds indefensible and innocence congealed
A baby left all alone in an oppressive heat
The mother’s denial was for herself to secrete
A 12 year old daughter too scared to be...

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Perilous Times
Written: by Miracle Man
September 25, 2020

Lord, Hear our prayers as we intercede,
on behalf of our troubled world today.
Disobedient people good thoughts impede,
and each day brings some new affray.

Today we are living in those perilous...

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My childhood bed stood beside a small window 
one story over our front door. 
My brother slept in the other, 
by windows to the garden. 

I slept there again, not long espoused, 
my wife asleep...

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