Long Countryman Poems

Disembarking from the Stygian ship

New arrival:      They just gave me this button and T-shirt. I know what the 
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Many-colored and candle-lights; high beyond the soft trees a fresh country leans heavily toward the night, far beyond the sea’s shady shore.

Beams, o’er wide fields like a white star, \till from the earth’s crown drops...

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‘Come on, you can do it! Take a deep breath, gulp the pain and push it down,...’
The young would be mother bore the labour with a ray of hope in her tearful eyes
Clasping her hands...

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Ho, ho, ho! 

There is this well written article, the link which I gladly give down below,
It is a most beautifully written anecdote of a traveler's tale for well it showed...
A funny side of Malaysia...

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Blank is this sheet of paper before me
my life in a tailspin, please someone catch it like a firefly
and hold it in place, keep it balanced so I can grab on to the railing
steady myself,...

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In these Days, We prayed series...

The 7enth innatemeditation 


REASON




Brethren,

Do we believe that the same God,

Who has endowed us 

With sense, intellect and Reason

Has intended us to forgo their use?


Thus,

A wise man who tells another he's wiser 

Is...

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In These Days, We Prayed
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The Curse On My Linage 


Oh linage 
I now sit and wonder,
why thou have grown so slow in progress
And wasteful in resources.

Ah!
Then i realize our great forebears
Laid too numerous generational 
Curses...

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TTribute
With many echoes I step my boot out,
To go and make our country a better place.
I smell smoke, hear war drums and see fatalities
I do it for you, myself, our predecessors and descendants.
I will surely...

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As I approached the political poll,
a fellow countryman spoke a word
of wisdom to my soul. He told me that
I should consider 'voting' as a task that never
grows old. He related this short story to me:

"For...

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French, the People 
I went to a wedding in Paris that was some time ago 
when the lily white French in their cotton packed 
arrogance thought the Arabs they had pressed to live 
in cheap...

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Inspired by nature, divine art
Light feathered, no care who listens
Pleasant sight, in chorus they whistle
Early by my window they visit
With voice so tender, inspires me

No words but tune so polished
With inspiration I keep off guitar
Calm...

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Life happens and never asks for our permission.
There are situations that are relentless in their mission
to test and try us, often to the breaking point. They
test our will, our resolve, our faith, and our love.

When...

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When the poets fall silent Man will not only lose his voice but also the notion of Life. ~Quote by poet.

Steeped in the pain of his slain countryman, 
surrounded by the turmoil of real fears...

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The woman I loved  most
did not love me right
with a gypsy blind knife
Shot a shot in my chest.
Newton took advantage of that
had a dream of an apple
made gravity law perfect ...

Since i was a...

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How many Friends Have You Now?

How many friends have you now?
How many write you everyday
Say they are sorry and their nation will pay?
How many have apologised?
How many have realised?
How their relatives have taken part?
Shot your...

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Ivan Talbot in W A, has some lineage; online today
Claims Rollo and Miliesius, and Hezikiah are all his
Forebears such 'could be dire' I know this line of the
Irish King, for he's my blood too (my...

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There I was paddling my vessel
Beneath the daughter of the stars
In the canoe capital of Virginia

Eyes void of that light that brings
The villagers about the fire at the
Crisp of winter pending

Sustained winds from the front

My...

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The Alchemist sat on his chair
Fingering the gold dust
Black curls were his hair
And golden chain on his bust
       Churchman, countryman, cityman
       Alll around...

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No matter If history be repeated to war or battle, 
Will go back fight and won the medals for chest, 

Neither be retreated or nor give up from battle zone, 
Until I led the combat...

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The ironing on hold,
she donned a teddy for a span,
gazed at her reflection in the mirror
through puffy eyes
tucked beneath a coonskin cap,
hand-sewn in some god-forsaken sweatshop,
then grabbed the keys,
hopped into the Countryman
with a profound sense...

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The breath of life condemns the dying 
The creeds and credos conceal the living! 
The man who sinned must be executed by death? 
Sins from the lawmakers 
Abide! And you will interfere in the duty...

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The infant orphan, you grew up in foster homes,
but your Polish roots were strong.
You knew Paderewski and you made his sculpture
for which you  won the prize at World’s Fair.

Ziolkowski - the story teller in...

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Aaron Kosminski, you were not Jack the Ripper
 as many would have thought.
 You have not kept a dissecting knife under your coat
 as Raskolnikov had kept the ax.
 
You were not addicted to opium.
...

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