Long Ailed Poems

Friends believed she was dead.
The doctors worked frantically.
No sign of why her heart just stopped.
The last thing she had said before she collapsed:
"I wish I was dead."

Seems that her wish was granted
Cause doctors still have no cure.
What most ailed her has always been
A crushed and broken spirit.

But in that moment
That singular...

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Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 The Fireflower (continued, b)

Finally a tired Ipiki
Flew back to his owner Matto
Hanging from his fern-frond necklace 
Starting late his daytime sleeping 
 
Matto went into the mansion 
Back into their...

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She had had enough and wouldn’t be afraid to do it again; 
This time even if it meant to lose me.

She said; ‘where would you take me you who wouldn’t fruit my womb.’

Nowhere I thought,...

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Who will cry for the little boy,

Whose wails are heard resounding inside the man.

The man whose ever unhealing wounds are clothed in pride,

These mortal scars he wears beneath his flesh

To him are medals of honour

testimonies...

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Thinking of you always reminds me of my youth, growing up in our small town
I recall my early teenage years were filled with fond memories of you in our circle of friends

Always polite and kind,...

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"Life as in a day". 

(1)	Coming into this world quietly at Dawn
	when a tiny little baby was born.
	With mother’s milk, extending the Life
	devouring foods mother provide.
	Slowly but boldly, crawling on all fours
	standing up and toddling...

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When a Man Loves a Woman


He awoke, unaware of what ailed him,
lay blissfully stupid upon the bed.
They had exchanged numbers. “Perhaps?”  “We’ll see?”
yet now, by trailing scent of her, he's led.

“Twas but the fleeting...

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THE FREEDOM THAT WAS NOT FREE

You were once thrown into the bottomless pit,
Into its abyss with little or no water or food.
Being caged like a wild animal,
Away from the public and family view,
For the course,...

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My leg died on a Friday when the specialists were away
In the ambulance I was alone, terrified and taken to a room in  hospital with flaky walls painted a dull grey
The agonizing pain did...

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I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor.
Ah, zeal of crossroads drove an interconnected strand.
Oh,goodness, how my initiative has flustered.

If we communicated then we would have bonded,
over a shared experience of parents who ailed....

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A Palindrome Tale

I’ve got a tale to tell you of travel, love and lust
The travel, it was joyful, my love life was a bust
I met a girl in Tulsa, next day my diary read
A slut...

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Oh, goodness, how my initiative has flustered.
I think that my meatless Fridays  will receive fruits of reward and hence I grow faint.
I sigh through dear retirement of a beloved pastor. 

Alas, I never learned...

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In search of a day to search for serenity 
Against this abased society,
A quest stays on for a time
To outcry against the wind of a warfare eternity. 

Out against the winds of tormented sunshine
Hassled by...

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I hadn’t thought of him for years,
this miracle man of my youth.
The sleeping prophet, in dream state
who spoke such healing words of truth.

He’d been raised a simple farm boy.
Edgar Cayce (casey) was his real name.
Unlike...

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A dagger stuck, twisted and skewed,
since the day I found out you’d been untrue.
Cold, sharp, pain flows from out the wound,
another scar not visible to the naked eye,
but still imprinted, branded here forever.
I’m not the...

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I was driving with my friend Delia in my brand new Honda Civic
It was noon and we were on our way to see my Auntie, 
she’s my mum’s sister, we call her Evil Olive! 
Suddenly...

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Written: September 13, 2023
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Through cloudless weeps, my pen glides.
Trace severe, dense whispers of afire minds.
Under the brisk beams of the Autumn sun.
Anguish is my tapestry, where sobs flow a ton. 

Upon a cheek where tears...

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I saw you in the distance in the dense fog,
you were sitting alone on a hollow log.
The look on your face was that of a sad expression,
an image of depression that was my first impression.
I...

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I see you breathe,
I watch you cry,
I hear you laugh,
Your my mother, mother mine. 

I lie,
We fight, 
I break you down,
Stubborn but fierce,
An heir who's yet to bear your crown.


You're the voice in my head,
Telling...

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Thank you, sweet Jesus, for
Having enough love in your heart to save Mankind's soul,
After we scourged Your flesh and
Nailed Your body to a cross, mocked with a crown of thorns,
King of the Jews posted above...

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A plate of hunger unsavoury to taste
My belly groans,worms meander in haste
once upon a dream packed with love and care a meal I wish
Unfair a reality of a belly inflated not with a dish 
Too...

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Dear God,

     As these hearts, ailed with sadness
     Look for reasons in the dark
     Turn their loss to hope and gladness
  ...

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I am your Mommy
My other roll is friend
All battles are not worth fighting
For the minor you should bend
When your interests are displayed
Those events I will attend
My endless Love and care
Your heart can depend
Feelings and emotions...

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C hivalry is not dead but alive in a gallant gentleman like me
H ailed as honorable, my desire is to treat each woman like a queen 
I  nspired by the Lord, I live each...

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Beloved a diamond weeping

In the heart of Adelaide

Legions of memories peaking

Digging dismal graves with spades



A minor fault by sound tribulation

Carved was a wicked tale

Upon her flesh existed no elation

Iced by disdain she ailed



By multifarious degrees...

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