Long Ageing Poems
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Solo PerformanceIt had been a hellish week.
On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.
This separation had been scheduled to...
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Categories:
ageing, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 1SHE was my wife, once ...
long ago, so very long ago ...
we met on the showboat, up-river,
almost fifty years back now ...
I was a young officer for the Confederacy,
working for the Yanks after The Turn,
supplying...
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Categories:
ageing, history, sad love, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Transformational CuriosityThat's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
ageing, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Lusting Abyss, his Darkness.
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Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness...
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Categories:
ageing, love, peace, people, places, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness
Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
ageing, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Hope-And a Father Is Could BeHope and…a father is could be
Against all odds and expectations
so many rules and norms and
clever theories society’s demands
cultures and conventions there is
no magic wand no miracle solution
I throw you high up in the air
and...
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Categories:
ageing, childhood, fantasy, father daughter, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Simulations and SymphoniesSimulations and Symphonies
Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations
Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book
Beauty that...
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Categories:
ageing, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form:
Rhyme
China Tour Thoughts 2China Tour Diary Moment #2
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AZURE MOUNTAIN GORGE
Mile after mile we take the China roads;
Highways beckon now as our tour meanders;
Vistas speak beauty as coach bears our load;
Silence fills endow as wind blows plunder.
Springtime in China...
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Categories:
ageing, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Pink Perforated Ping Pong BallsAlfie was the first son of a billionaire
Who bought a golden cradle for his son and heir
There was no expense that daddy wouldn’t spare
And perforated ping pong balls didn’t feature there
On Alfie’s one year birthday...
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Categories:
ageing, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
Asian Epicurean QuestAsian Epicurean Quest
At the heart of China Town, Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) is Petaling Street.
Domain of hustlers, hucksters, cheap-jacks and diblers; purveyors of street food, rude t-shirts, and rubber sandles to put...
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Categories:
ageing, food,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Who Would Milk the TigressWho would milk the Tigress
wears no armour gasmask
pail within squat thighs
nor bloodless...
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Categories:
ageing, freedom, mother daughter, peace, political, soldier, women,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily Lxxxv-85If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily-LXXXV
(Note : Fresh disclosures from the Catholic Church on the subject
made public by protesting Mothers of infants victims of pedophily
at the hands of the Clergy...
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Categories:
ageing, anti bullying, bangla, betrayal, bible, bullying, child
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
ageing, absence, destiny, dream, imagination, lost, missing, time,
Form:
Free verse
Facial Recognition BluesFacial Recognition Blues
Physicists speculating about a cosmic hologram
Anarchists debating about the next message from Uncle Sam
The archaic ageing of the technology of the Telegram
An innocent waiting for an answer from an Annogram
Images of scientific...
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Categories:
ageing, angst, beautiful, corruption, integrity, international,
Form:
Rhyme
Just Down the Road From SalemWhile the hungry ones pass by
the fruits of life upon the ground,
The king and queen are leaving
and they're not making any sound.
In the coming of...
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Categories:
ageing, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Old But Still In Time To Live LongerLosing hair is a sign of ageing,
Except for other eventual reasons, of course.
Thank God, I'm just getting older, not ill.
My sight is not the same anymore.
Even when wearing glasses, focus is sometimes blurred.
Knees? Oh, please!
None...
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Categories:
ageing, age, funny, health, imagination, mystery, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
The Empirical Veneers of Decency and AcceptanceThe Empirical Veneers of Decency and Acceptance
It’s funny how perceived intelligence
Is not necessarily a measure of true smarts
How the genius, the barrister and the eloquent
Can miss the point from the very start...
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Categories:
ageing, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Poems Omega Minus - Parts Three To FiveIII
Kept out
kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
and the usual conning courtesies
Kept shut
Involuting in the hippo-lipped paranoïa
from the darling eyes of his...
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Categories:
ageing, inspirational, time, time,
Form:
Free verse
40th Marathon For 70 Year Old40th Marathon For 70 Year Old
Almost in disbelief, I reread the headline of this one particular online piece of news….
A 72-year-old Retiree Just Ran His 40th New York Marathon, screams the title of this news…
Reading...
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Categories:
ageing, appreciation, character, inspirational, new york, retirement, sports,
Form:
Light Verse
A Thank You To the NurseA rhyming thank you written in verse
To the wonderful women and men who work as a nurse
They do so much more than just first aid
Considering their responsibility they should be better paid
They assist in the...
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Categories:
ageing, health, sister, social, work, sister, work, day,
Form:
Rhyme
Everything Aches'Everything Aches'
Oh my arms do ache as I write down this prose
Most days it feels like the pain goes all the way to my toes
Bring me back lazy days lying...
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Categories:
ageing, cry, how i feel, hurt, pain, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Beinn Nibheis - Scene 1I sit and pause, looking at the sky blue ceiling above me. White vapour cotton wool clouds
gently float like water lilies on an upside down pond. My humble seat, an igneous rock
from the Devonian period....
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Categories:
ageing, animals, inspirational, nature, places, seasonsme, weather,
Form:
Free verse
More Beautiful With Age - Question MarkMore Beautiful With Age?
Do men grow more beautiful ageing?
It may not be fair but seems true,
Some process that’s secretly working
To bring a man’s heart into view.
And women seem openly jealous,
Divining miraculous change,
While counting their wrinkles...
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Categories:
ageing, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Lusting Abyss, His Darkness - Act 1Darkness is he, soulless totally
It's abyss he commands, desiring what he sees
In front of him stands a virgin, pure as the driven snow
For white he knows it is, upon she his darkness will show
Long haired...
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Categories:
ageing, angst, fantasy, dark, dark, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
Mirror of PeaceLooking through frosted glass of windows' sorrowed pain I who
Reflects upon the frozen condensation in the shelter of my mind
Delight that there are crystals on the panel which refract the joy
On the grace bestowed upon...
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Categories:
ageing, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse