Long Canute Poems
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What a WasteWe throw away everything
We produce too much
We damage the earth
We do ourselves a great harm
A wasteful society we are
We use up and pollute
Sparing no thought for tomorrow
Earth is a bountiful place
It can meet...
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Categories:
canute, allegory, day, society, planet,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Legandary - For: Your Favourite Legend ContestA chronological anthology
Of legends, folk lore and mythology
There’s no one called Eric
Or Ethel or Derek
For which I shall make no apology
Samson just got himself sheared
Delilah had cut off his beard
She cut off his hair
Then headed...
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Categories:
canute, hero, myth, mythology,
Form:
Limerick
You Don'T Have To Speak English Well, Or Even At All, To Be a British MonarchWilliam the First was our last king to come uninvited
though invincible armadas have sometimes been sighted.
Foreign kings were imported in cases of doubt.
Native kings had the habit of getting thrown out.
In the War of the...
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Categories:
canute, england,
Form:
Couplet
The Ghost of Bill ZisonA Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s
Dunkirk
ire and vindictiveness akin to...
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Categories:
canute, funny, husband, introspection, me, me, , cute,
Form:
Light Verse
The Ghost of Bill ZisonA Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s
Dunkirk
ire and vindictiveness akin to...
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Categories:
canute, funny, husband, introspection, me, me, , cute,
Form:
Light Verse
A Short PoemMy poems are growing longer
When reciting I run out of puff
My lungs, once much stronger
Struggle with long-winded stuff
So, I'm writing this short refrain
To curb my penchant to ramble
I'm trying my best to abstain
From including excess...
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Categories:
canute, poetry, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
I Senselanguid doldrums, swaying lanyard, sails hanging loose
dreary small drums reverberate, neurons dumbing down
nerve ends fuse, sunlit shadows depict my numbing frown
feelings grind dull, thoughts stranded in the dangling sluice
...
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Categories:
canute, allegory, feelings, senses,
Form:
Verse
Relentless SeaWe live on the idyllic Island of Cyprus.
In 2008 this place became home for us.
Surrounded by The Mediterranean Sea,
It is that very sea than unnerved me.
I have spent many hours down at the beach,
Always...
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Categories:
canute, confidence, encouraging, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Forever LostSharp, the chill sends messages bleeding
Icicles along the contours of my very spine,
Lashing out in my brain,
Truth targeting each cell it can locate or define.
I am King Canute sat on the...
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Categories:
canute, death, lost love, sad, me,
Form:
Verse
THE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATHTHE COLD EMBRACE OF DEATH
For some, an imminent death is quite OK
Especially if by then, they’ve had their day
It’s that or continued chronic pain, anyway
But the decision should only ever be theirs
Not even by someone...
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Categories:
canute, death,
Form:
Rhyme
The Stupidity of ManThe stupidity of man
The leaders of Europe are gripped by a collective madness
Like swimmers in a river feeling the pull of the current, think
There is time to swim ashore where banks are not so tall.
The...
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Categories:
canute, adventure, feelings,
Form:
Verse
Ten Centuries of Our HeritageRoman conquest introduced new religion
law and customs.
Christianization was also influenced by Celtic Christianity
and it was sanctioned through the ages.
Many of our priests went straight to God
as stones thrown on entrenchments,
persecuted, tortured, martyred,
only because of their...
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Categories:
canute, spiritual, , cute,
Form:
Verse