Long Brambled Poems

(Part One) The first few hours.
I was just a ordinary man
caught up in the unruly throng,
The mob jeering and ranting
insults on the road along,
I pushed and shoved my way
through all the furore
to see what all...

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Before that day splashed  everything with light
I  played in solitude with cuddly clouds
And watched them form changing figures, blight
The sky or bring the sobbing sludge of rain,
      ...

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Written: January 24, 2025 For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand 
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In the galumph of...

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I blundered …

through the dark forest -
I knew where I was headed
though I’d lost the trail many hours hence
but darkness had now fallen
and my face and arms
were etched red from my many stumbles
(tripping in the...

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ON  PREDICTIONS
        ( by  S.Jagathsimhan  Nair)
What  paths and brambled brooks I passed to halt
In this corny beat, to question my salt
What transcends this sum...

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Child, when you begin to remember, whose memory
Do you remember best? Is the one told to you by bias
Art, and reinforced by a contentious history?
Is it the one imagined while we are apart, the pale...

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What do you say
When tree leaves fall in spring
And the heart becomes ice
Amidst the flowers of May
Will the answer
Love is never enough
Be good enough
To patch the wounds of hope?
Or shall I tell them
We are worthless...

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I saw you
In the tender birth of a summer’s day
Emerge,
Fragile to a new life,
New freedom,
Feast delights of nectar
On the brambled cliffs.

I saw your fluttered dance of courtship
In the gladed woods
Above the Lyn.
Those crowded flights
Of summer’s...

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I forgave them, the anointed flock, rinse them
And wash them, and put them back
To wear your robe, your borrowed diadem
Walk to Golgotha with curse at their back
I forgave them
For they never felt the fire, knew...

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Coming over the open horizon 
     My eyes prospect the garish cliffs of day
     And find not gold in the morning light
     ...

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Love still laments, when it was charred into ash
and left to fill the imprints of yesterday's footprints
leaving no tracks to follow

As a soul's heart is thrown into the Cimmerian shade
wandering, unwillingly in forsaken mists of...

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Sitting beside a noisy, restless creek,
rushing water over stones and green moss.
Often, these crazy days, thoughts seem to seek
places to hide from life's tumble and toss.

A meadow of wildflowers comes to mind;
running barefoot over non-brambled...

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Evening, its cage opened, is the apple in my hand
I gave reprieve to the dogs and we went running
Freedom should not be made of castles in the sand
The leash tripped me hard, suddenly I am...

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I shall go where all shall sleep,
Where silent winds their counsel keep,
Beyond the edge where sunlight dies,
To walk beneath the endless skies.

Through forest dark, through brambled thorns,
I’ll tread alone in twilight haze,
Each step a whisper,...

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Memory Lane

The old dirt track, where, as kids, we’d roam,
Now brambled weeds, so overgrown,
No more gangs playing a noisy game,
Just another memory lane.

The streets, the houses, the corner shop,
Pavements covered in chalked hopscotch,
The field of...

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After breaking his heart,
His love turned into hate,
All that is left is her scent,
He let go of her sweetheart,
Though it's so hard to forget,
A love story came to naught.

Trembling with alot of fear,
While playing truth...

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This Earth on where life is  awakened me
And gave breath to breathless without concern
A cry was heard as a welcomed decree
A precious gift until death I return
While time's quiet shadow circles my eyes
I'll search...

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The nights out here are bright and clear,
Light pollution is not a fear, the North Star 
Is unusually bright, while Venus shows its 
Distant light.

The nights out here are clear and bright,
The clouds the stewards...

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As light dances red to horizon's end
So do we while approaching last breath
To complete life's arc with its final bend
and contemplate stillness in silent death
How quickly we'll flee from our past design
Find order in reflections...

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Icicles frozen on your smile
We speak winter words
From placid hearts; friendship was just a season of your want
The great summer lightning is passed.

It came in the dead of night
Racking me with pain
Your presence would have...

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