Long Allotments Poems

Mother's womb panged to be delivered.
A rift awakened, once asleep in roost,
but 4alarm crowing on steeples of burning roofs,
the foundations gone missing, on sabbatical 
crowning of burning man both in and not in the news.

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NRIs (Non-reading incorrigibles) always start their public school careers not in August or September, but rather on November 16th, because November 15th is the day all schools get paid in full for the entire school...

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Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid? 
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes 
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garnet sand raw vehicle 
garden common opal 
transit sidestep
to a multiverse 
of sappy...

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When I was a kid, I would climb up trees,
Was made to wear shorts and always cut my knees.
Played in the allotments, making tents from cloth and sticks,
Imagining we built a fortress made of bricks....

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There’s still a  Church and Chapel
A pub,  but no longer a school 
For there  on the council 
Childless incomers rule.
There are houses on  allotments,
Pastures where cows would graze
Have asphalt and concrete...

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Upon the transit city streets
Where all the faces seldom meet
and hands are seldom held in greet
as ears and eyes avoid hungers reek
Who clamors for the hungry born? 
While food is stuffed in fattened heads
delivered from...

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These are photographs of my village
Taken over a hundred years ago
The streets look just the same
As those I used to know
When Fifty or more years later 
That village was my family home
And i wandered them...

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spring the season of procreation
a coming together, fun, elation
birds nest building, mammals den digging
cock birds singing, squirrels dreys rigging
dawn chorus, awakening a warm day
all life buzzing and new on the way
but natures confused, as winter...

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Twenty secretaries found his
Notes interesting. These were
the official words to the
Beginning of a music partnership
that was done for the purpose of
creation and profit. Twenty music
Companies sought a solution
They found it feasible to consolidate
there interest by...

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The organization makes a package
With questions and answers forms
And videos to be used at
Engament parties.
My cousin Madder told me
He and one of the actors
In involved with one movie
Said some sciences looked
Like thong commercials
While others were...

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Far beyond the supermarket workers and the gardeners building their own allotments, the boy soldiers and the coal-miners with dusty lungs, the women helping mould silver bullets for wars and the ministers off with their...

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Five stones     
                 closing times
radiograms and
         ...

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Five stones
                closing times
radiograms and
              seventy-eights
school caps
              sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks

Charabancs
             ...

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24 Hours of Power
By Curtis Johnson 

He was strong, loving, and merciful, and he was God 
He made a beautiful world when everything was void 

It was He who sat on a throne and gave...

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Real life

  We clamour to be heard for our space which invariably 
 will intrude on others’ space which we dismiss in a torrent of abuse
we will not listen to voices of reasonableness.
We say...

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Everyone longs for meaning, finding bits in many places.
Searching for a soul mate, we get a glimpse in many faces.

Countless strive for success although they cannot claim it.
Such a transitory notion, it’s hard to sustain...

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Five stones closing times 
     radiograms & seventy-eights
 school caps      sticklebacks
 saturday flicks    pooh sticks
 Charabancs       ...

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Pathway blocked
Detour around;
Seek alternative route


Look beyond zest
Let message fling;
Align your quest 


No customers
Drowsy sales person;
Somnolent afternoon


Bazaar atmosphere
Crowded pathway;
Curious seekers


Mini speakers
Loud digital music;
Screaming upbeat sounds


Popcorn vendor
Long queue waiting;
Small people and parents


Durian season
Pungent suffocation;
Sensory perfection!


Sales season
Great Singapore...

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Reverse Engineering a Surreal Eden.

To grow a mountain, - - - - - right!
In, an old jam jar, yeh right!  
Of clean soil, Soil! Isn’t that soiled?
Such a seed could be, soiled and would...

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Imagine ! Engineering a Surreal Eden.
To grow a mountain, imagination right?
In, an old jam jar, yeh right!  

Of clean soil, Soil! Isn’t that soiled?
Such a seed could be, soiled and would be exclusive;
Perhaps part...

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To those who measure the depths of their power,
In the fathomless pools of tears of the oppressed;
To the human hyenas that gorge themselves full,
While the sons and the daughters of the incarcerated,
Battle with the sharp...

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An amount of dark and light
is all that may be required on some days.
Awareness can monitor the heart-rate of God
underneath the surface of the teaming world 
quite well 
with a portion of this and that...

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