Long Avenges Poems

This piece was inspired, many years ago, by the magnificent poem - "The Highwayman" -



‘Neath an ivory moon in a cobalt sky, on a clear and silky night, 
On ebon steed, with pistol drawn, I...

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Paraphrase From The Scriptures 
“LORD, You my Rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
My God is my Rock, in whom I take refuge, 
My shield and the horn of my Salvation. 
You are my stronghold, my...

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Figures of immense reputation and popularity they were
Attracting public attention and admiration in the pursuit of their great works
Leaving behind them a legacy of some kind
But going with them their unique characters.

Wasn’t the explosion of...

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BORN AT 47
I am born , now at the age of forty seven
I am surprised, as I seemingly feel
The same fresh air of thrill
May be how the freedom starved folks felt
In the historic year of...

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Who can really forgive us...
if not God Himself whose love for us
is measured by endless kindness?
I tried to forgive others,
and although the grudge is forgotten,
the unpleasant images, the hurtful words and the evident pain...
are hardly...

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Can't understand how Covid
Has taken over our lives
Started in Wuhan, China
But some say it's a disguise
To eradicate a population
That the undertones defines
As the count is rising
So does the bogus cries

Some say it's a man made...

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DEVOTION TO OCEAN

           Opulent water of ocean
            Wonderful wide sea extension  
 ...

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I am being thrown from the depths of centuries
Carrying all my grandmothers’ wounds
Combat boots marked my head  with terror
my back  bruised with the lashes of my man’s old belt

I am being thrown from...

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superlative in wrath as one who avenges nemeses
sometimes a man out of hate is subsumed in sounds
propagating the use of onomatopoeias
stomping slapping and gerunding
the ancient and eternal anachronism
of what is now in the cocoon and...

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As if a spell seals people's ears
We stopped weeping cause no one hears

We lost a lot and strived for years
In God We trusted and gave up our fears

But if God was not enough 
If the...

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Could not hold it, put it down.
TIME.
The words forget you, pass by.
You remain standing on the brink.
Now, now, where to go?

Time avenges, walks on you
and you cannot catch the breath,
to fill the space between life...

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The world’s dark pandemic
A Pure blood, a mixed blood or a half blood
East, west, south and north there is no difference
Rich or poor, what matters it’s that inside the one’s heart
Never blow your own horn,...

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Wolf sneaks up on finch. Grabs her in his 
canines. Osprey avenges finch. Snatches a 
hare from the glade. You fool, wolf howls, 
that hare meant nothing to me. Osprey 
swallows last bit of meat,...

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My lies have taken everything I loved
My mind is fuelled by the pain I trust
My fingers turn everything into dust
My heart avenges loss through use of lust

Anger will tell me that the world’s to blame
Fear...

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Chosen a burden  of childhood
out  goings meant not a  reflection 
of the  “happenings” .
The severe  bruise  devoted  to the  meat
and  about  yellers  might not...

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She cries for the slain,
She mediates for the oppressed,
She opens the door for the innocent,
She avenges the tortured.

Her voice is heard on the streets,
Where the feet of the downtrodden tread,
Her tears flow at the grave,
Where...

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