Long Chines Poems

He's a disgrace to the Red Duster someone said:
                    
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"Damn Bird"

All the King's Corsairs & Grand Sailors them all!
Went to winds in efforts enthralled~
Ken o'lone sailor whot's ayre so then gone~
Nay naught e'er whot's seen any day's dawn~

For once they did'st sail seas then...

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After the Occupational Therapist told me I’d never walk again (see my poem “What She Said”); I was in shock, but my being turned to my ballet days to recall when my legs were strong...

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The days of thunder sometimes i wonder, is life going to take me under, the thunder brangs the rain full of drastic pain, for a plastic brain, my head feels empty to simply apply my...

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Look at the bible
it was written as a rock thrown to the future
in case history repeated itself
and there was yet another religious war

here it is
in our presence
bullets and bombs
and enemies who have no reason to...

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The water-well
There is near the houses a deep well
you can´t stick a bucket on a rope, much ropes  were needed.
They used to hire a man usually the village idiot
to spend his life hauling up...

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The water well
There is near the houses a deep well
you can´t stick a bucket on a rope many ropes are needed.
They used to hire a man usually the village idiot
to spend his life hauling up...

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A Bus Ride 
I took the bus into town today its passengers were
mostly elderly, old women and generally fat as women 
of the land tend to be, busy feeding the family they 
spend too much...

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The moon shone on the water
Dyed ochre by the iron mines. 
Centuries of men have toiled 
In trenches and in chines. 
Carving through the sheer rock face
To tunnel under hills
Canals to link the land of...

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My life goes on and on
without any breaks nor rest
it’s like an icicle that melts
but never goes away.
My life is as perfect as it could be
like a rose to be seen
A garden of such beauty
from...

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Armaments
  

Now that the debacle of Afghanistan is behind us
 we have to find something else to keep the war machine going
“Aucan,” an alliance of Anglophone countries are formed 
A defence of the Chinese...

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A Picture 1960

In the sepia light, a thin man, dressed in a generous grey suit, 
stands reading titles outside a bookshop, in a London street. 

A woman, in a long black dress, white blues and...

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Food Revolution in England

That was what a middle-class paper wrote
and it could not be more wrong.
To eat this esoteric food, you need a thick wallet.
most people in England are poor and since
the food industry has...

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dress-suit occasioned, to the eye perception
     toasts and canned laughter,in  the name of making out
     can i buy you a drink, the prologue of octopused slumber
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Record Breakers. 
He is 100 and five spends his time in bed his family 
come up to his room and clean him up, he is windy
and it smells like a Chinese egg buried underground 
for...

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Crabby morning

He looked down into the toilet bowl 
had shat and flushed, 80-year-old  going to waste
down a drain and into the sea.
70 years ago when he lived on a farm human and
Animal waste was...

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The gush

    The moon is full not completely round
but elongated and so near I can almost touch it.
A pity the moon only reflects the sun
it diminishes it somehow.

The Chines planted apple trees...

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