Long Crump Poems

You said you loved me
I let down my robe
I gave you a sight of what I had 
never let
any other man behold,
Then you said you needed me,And 
just
like Isaac lay still on the altar
Without a...

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Let the rivers flow as they want to be
Let the flowers shine in their brightest glow
Let the crippled, caged bird be set free
To its heart’s content, wherever it wants to go.
A daily thought, a silent...

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CRYPTIC CALLS:
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The night called out to him
A man of plane fleet
Gloved in illusion of machete and strength
To beat out from the web of sleep
And answer the howling cryptic calls:

Cryptic calls of hooting owls and chirping...

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The British were coming. 
As dawn's cold fingers 
clawed the eastern sky, 
men scurried to their stations, 
all too aware of the rhythmic crump 
of that ugly distant drumming. 

The Threat was inching closer, 
a...

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The grey-haired by on our streets
With rags hanging his shoulder as his only cloak
Every night on banana leaves he sleeps;
He has no crump nor cakes let alone a glimpse of hope

All day his leg sweeps...

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First crawl


I learnt to crawl in a tie,
Banker’s suit and smile on a lucky tot.
Learning the secrets of trades and service,
I’d make a difference with my skills,
And earn some money on the side.

I learnt to...

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Fading flowers lie scattered on the ground
Scythed down by deadly horizontal hail
The long, short, and tall fall without a sound
Relentless dawn’s bright light begins to fail
As noxious clouds of gas the sun shroud round
The fallen...

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In a state controlled by a fanatical militia
Fuelled by a desire for revenge,
They sit cowering in a crumpled cellar,huddled close,
Wide-eyed kids whimpering
Held tight by sad-eyed women and grim-faced
Men,muttering their imprecations
While listening to the crump,
Crump of...

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This morning chilled me to the bone,
For frost had crazed my window panes
'Twas hard to leave my cosy home,
For given choice I would remain.

But no, there's pennies to be earned
For what in life is ever...

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Creations I built around your axis, 
Skilled with ideational praxis, 
Given up like snake-eyed dice, 
Sincerely proffered sacrifice. 
Tendered freely, fuelled the fire, 
Gasoline infused desire, 
Whoosh and crump of my damnation 
Redeemed by paper...

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July moon, third quarter, patrols the night.
Pierces smoky haze, phosphor and cordite.
No crump of shell or rattle of gunfire
just stillness, man made brambles,
wooden posts and wire.
Not so much a breeze, more a draught
carries distant murmurs.
Someone...

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I wanna go to Martha’s Vineyard, eat muscadines and drink wine.

I want my belly to swell with the fruit of our love.

I wanna drive on full and eat fillet mignon for breakfast.

I wanna live like...

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I am caught today ... freed
                 
            ...

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I stepped out early on a winters morning, 
Still half asleep and quietly yawning.
The street lights cast a yellow glow,
That fell upon the virgin snow.

Lights coming on in houses,
As I walked the silent streets.
I took...

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