Long Bittern Poems

??Isaiah 14:12-23 KJVAAE??
[12]  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! [13]  For thou hast said...

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Not a true Choka...but uses a 5,7,7,5,7,7 format 
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Chill, steaming vapour;           
Silence over pale water;       ...

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We met on February the twelfth, (1998), smitten by her, that was I                      ...

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Sitting on the back porch on a balmy summers morn
and listening to the music of the dawn
wondering who sang the song and where the bird is at;
reaching for my copy, of ‘What bird is that?’

But...

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Grim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids a bitter adiós.

The breakers so in agony they gnash
and gnaw...

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You…my friend…my only friend
Broken, broken again
Torn to shreds by a different end
Cast away into a distant land
To meditate, to become strong willed
To pick up the scattered fragments of hope left behind
Headstrong, the voices call it
A...

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the light of all life
sol...illuminating all
false statement

false statement
sol...illuminating all
the light of all life

distant horizons
the edge of the world
guarded by retards

guarded by retards
the edge of the world
distant horizons

the world is a disc
you did not know... some...

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The window the moon looks like an eye,
And the wolves are howling behind the wall
The outside world is cruel,
And someone in the darkness coming for me...

In the darkness she heard sobs,
What, maybe there crying child?
But...

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Stop and look, stop and listen

Nature’s here around us 
Natures’ birds sing sweet melodies

The scent of wild flowers in the meadows
The bluebells so delicate under the trees

Beauty of light transformation with evening 
crimson skies over...

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 Canadian geese
black cheeked... brown...  white tipped feathers
stormy ocean waves 

barnacle geese
hibernate as barnacles
for some... once a thought

starlings murmurate
whispers of countless wings
safty in numbers

hark a bittern booms
invites new life to explode
sedges obliging

quack... quack... quack...

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The amaryllis yawns in bed of white 
The fall of day paints shadows on the rose 
Each flower is a ward of solemn night 
Their gentle sleep upon which none impose 

Beyond the halls and...

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JIM


Oh Jim why die so young
We know your time had not come
So many songs yet to be written
Many of us had been bittern
And just waiting to hear your voice
Giving us all not much choice

Fitting so...

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