Long Chard Poems

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Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines and Pen*stone,
Wash Dyke, East Breast and Flash.

Six Mile Bottom, Mudford...

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Four, six, or seventeen tulip buds grinning. Of course not on a salt marsh. Leave that alone. Misted aromas of ancestral graves should be cared for not dug but if a slug us in power...

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O’ in the laden light
Sparks the fire,
Its attic
Cathedral of fire shall not burn down
A blazed, all consuming fire;
Chard concrete, statues, bricks ignite;
Heavens, angels tear cry out, not here;
"The Cathedral serves as a spiritual home”
 For...

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""Entirely you know 
I cannot change 
the whole of the 
World all on my 
own." - 


"Or can I?"  

"I mean whom 
better to start 
with?"" 


""Yes, finding I 
am; Humility 
raises no 
defense...

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My friend had said
Oh! Father
 What color 
My eyes my skin's shades
 Of many MELATONIN (what)
 I have a white mother 
And yet my father's
 black 
From what am I 
What race am I 
They...

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Saturday Farmers’ Market 

Here’s how it goes at our Farmers’ Market:
shoppers all ages, clothing, and races,
parents push bundled babies in strollers, 
children dash eagerly through the crowd. 
Others meander to and fro, seeking 
new food...

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Through Dispare To Rejoicing

		By Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd
		Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 

Am I alone ? Does GOD hear the prayers I pray ?,
For I wonder in my heart if HE hears...

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(Tears of Mudd)


        Another day's gone and so are my friends! Tear it from me. Another good life ends. Where's my home? I'm all alone. I'm hurting.

	Last week...

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An Adaptation of the Poem “IF” By Rudyard Kipling
			When


				By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 
				Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd 


When you can keep your cool,
When others loose theirs, all around you like fools,
With all...

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Liberty Hall

The halls are packed with Liberty,
She cries FREEDOM on the streets.
The halls are packed with Liberty,
The children forgo their sweets.

Let's have a Ball

Smash and grab, fire asunder
Take what you can, who cares!
Come on people,...

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Yellow chard stain index finger smears my logic puzzle,
Sour cream cilantro splatter quite the quaint “addition” 
juicy brain pump lemon zest solution that I guzzle,
number crunching sea salt a spur to intuition

Roasted sweet potato has...

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Generating a ring
     of bright waters, which
currently meanders, ponders,
     and then streams - twitch
ching reflexively as flora
     and fauna lap rich
text chard liquid
...

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City of Many Tears


					By Charles G.P. Chard 2nd
					Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 


This city cries all winter long,
There’s no rejoicing of sun or song,
She cries and cries so many tears,
What is her anguish,...

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Heaven
              By Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd
               ...

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Money Can’t Buy True Love

			By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 
			Charles  Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd 


It’s not the things you possess that make you someone,
Nor the money you spend like running water,
But the...

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Why Do YOU hide YOUR Face From Me ?

		By Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd
		Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Selek 2nd

O LORD, Why do hide YOUR face from me ?,
O LORD, I need to understand and see,
O...

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Existing, so removed, in your ivory tower
From high in your loft you wield your power

You weave your emotions like Rupunzel’s hair
dangling enticingly waiting to snare

Keeping your feelings locked behind bars
elusive and untouchable distant as the...

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Death Nature 

Oh, how I love nature’s death;
As the season takes it rest;
Taking of its last thread of breath
Alas, climate changes jest;

It’s in death nature floral greenery fades away;
In death nature grounds struck at heart...

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Explaining The Season


				By Charles G. P. Chard 2nd
				Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 


From the prophecies of Malachi, Micah, and Isaiah’s books,
Told of a child to be born in Bethlehem by a virgin,
Beyond all...

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Hanukkah

			    By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd
				Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd 

The Hanukkah candles remind us of the story,
How one day’s Holy oil stretched into seven days of Glory?
Its story is...

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Cress  Cross
					By Charles G.P. Chard 2nd.
					Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 



What is right side up, is upside down,
What is upside down, is around,
One eye looks but only see’s to the left side,
The...

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Are There Angels Amoung Us?
			By Gavree Selek 2nd
			( also known as: Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd )


Are there angels ampong us?
Have we truly seen there form?
Have they gained our respect and trust?
For they are holy,...

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Every day before the sun would set, my husband and I would have a glass of wine.
We would sit on the front porch admiring nature’s glory before us so fine!
We would enjoy the view of...

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Behold sequestered by the sea,
not whale, nor seal, nor small sand-flea.

This is the face of old grand Ewe,
whom from the cliffs, has come to view.

Though slit-eyed stare, gazes at the ocean,
watching it move in glorious...

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Cupid, the Flirt

			By Charles G. P. Chard 2nd
			Chevra Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd 


Cupid drew back his bow once more,
And found my heart with his arrow,
You came into view, just past my door,
That threw...

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