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Long Chesty Poems

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MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: chesty, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic



Premium Member To An Injured Fox Cub - With Thanks To Michael Coy
Today I found you cornered, drenched in cold,
your fur coat nothing but a newborn's down,
a tiny ball unfolding while I hold
you shivering. Your lacerations frown

and at a distance, I can see the why
of your abandonment,...

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Categories: chesty, analogy, animal, hurt, metaphor,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Love Me Or Hate Me
"Love Me Or Hate Me" ~ Says the Limerick

I am only five lines written for fun
Mocking someone with foolish words of pun
Love 'em or hate 'em
You praise or condemn
A poetry form some call "hit and...

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Categories: chesty, poetry,
Form: Limerick
Albert's Avengers
Albert G Walpole, proud legionnaire
Clerk to the council for all of his days
Lived with his mother in Hartington D'Arcy
Nice little end terrace, quite set in his ways

But one Sunday evening, returning from church
This man of...

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Categories: chesty, adventure, conflict, farewell, goodbye, hilarious, judgement, violence,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Murky Mess
once …

there - with trunks of monkey’s meth
there grew a breadth of bunky breaths
deplored by dreaded, drunky deaths
to calm their chemic coggers 
the fame of phlegmic foggers

so deep and dark those dribble bibs
didst dig their...

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Categories: chesty, analogy, dark, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Growing old and decrepit
We cannot fight old age –  So, when I get there…  I’ll just embrace it with a big dollop of humour!!  Quote by poet.

My decrepit body makes me cry
Growing old ain’t fun,...

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Categories: chesty, body, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Captain and His Dove
The Highland Princess
Berthed again
Freshwater Loch
Beautiful Highland Glen
 
Tranquil pined hillside
Log cabin picturesque
Captain and his dove
Lovingly blessed
 
As winter sets in
Snow falls so deep
This two in the warmth
In cuddled keep
 
Roaring log fire
Birch logs a sparking
Face...

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Categories: chesty, adventure, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness, holiday, love, passion, places,
Form: Rhyme
Cough
The troublesome throaty explosion
For which demanded is handkerchief 
That helps to hinder hell’s diffusion
By the thoughtless simple man or chief…

The oft-followed by a dragged-out gob
The owner sends straight to nearby soil:
What had tried to chesty...

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Categories: chesty, cry, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Nigerian Police Station
Once, I was there to check a tall Zaki
And it became reason to meet khaki,
Very clean but most offices tacky:
A cop could turn one into a lackey!
 
I know The Police is for the Nation
But...

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Categories: chesty, africa, allusion, corruption, cry, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Star
Morose morn, but sun’s a catalyst, warm

On the eave, the pigeon’s contumely coo,
rids a night’s cumbersome, cold, smother
New day, dearth of dew on concrete lawn
Its dull gray lightened by that eloquent hi
nodding chesty chary iridescence...

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Categories: chesty, allusion,
Form: Metrical Tale

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