Long Breadths Poems

ages ...

years flow between us
      as two oceans of the world we spin upon
         yet, just as the earthly abyss
  ...

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CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)

Several of the primate children 
Sat together in the branches 
Of a tree; they did not notice 
Danger silently approaching 
 
Through the leaves a brown and yellow 
Shiny scaly serpent slithered
Closer to the young gorillas 
Eyes unblinking glimmered...

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I waited
Under the outspread foliage
Of the banana tree, 
With ripening fruits dangling precariously, 
Wondering, 
With eyes set on the earth, 
Wishing I understood
This everlasting madness.
To what end would man go,
To what end? 
A mystery it...

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REWORKED     27 OCT 2017

I'm sorry  I'm reposting this, I had to rework it for better meaning continuity and flow of speech.


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Time pulls life by its hand 
and she's gliding along,...

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To be clear; 
Once you were not real;
But my God had you created from my illusion; 
What I desired but never experienced,
My thoughts were for you 
Whom I did not know; a ghost;
I knew what...

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She, there drawn, but not for sleep
          Daubed in guile, the heartless weep
             ...

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When I hear the chirping of bizarre birds in the morning,
And see the sun gently rising; golden rays adorning;
And feel the graciousness of the almighty upon me,
Who, by his abundant mercy, gave me a day...

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A brilliant, wide rainbow bent over a stone in the creek. 
A jealous breeze carries the suppressed echo from the caves. 
White blossoms inspire the soul when it begins to feel bleak.
Purple flowers draw in...

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Memories silently glide by behind like little ghosts
Memories become passive figurines playing with my hands like a toy
I find myself sometimes inside the guise of a boy

And I find myself a while engulfed in all...

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Its a bright golden day
A wedding day is planned
The bride is 8 months pregnant
Tries to hide it with her hand

Now that bump is more than a handful
As we are yet to see
Cos she starts to...

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a heart met on with buoyancy
          yet wends to futures, dreamed
               those...

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So there I was
Just minding my own business
Not bothering anybody

Nor wishing to be bothered…..

Didn’t think I could be
Bothered, that is
‘Cause for sure I had it down this
Time, with all its waxing and waning
Its swelling and...

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Night's silent shadows softly fall
     from moonlight's muted, mellow glow,
that shroud the land with sunless shawls
     on cold ground glazed with glinting snow.

Tree branches, seen with broader...

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Dear diary,
My vented heart speaks to you today,
Help me forget the terrible bygones;
The misfortunes of a young girl,
The pain that she felt
In the coercion of another’s body’s act,
Her screams that were wasted
In crying out for...

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A glue and a saliva
Couldn't hold the lava
     The climax of the data
     The core of the matter
     The part of the bone...

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Five shimmering decades of wondrous stardom
Amongst the hearts of the heaven’s kingdom;
Hundreds have heard the healing messages
From our Lord’s messenger of fifty enlightening pages.

Our man of honour has travelled through the lengths and breadths of...

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