Long Cupful Poems

‘She’s on again - the annual campin’ trip regatta,
and we’ve got ourselves together for our plans to Wonnangatta. 
The high country; you can’t beat it for the peace and quiet
unless of course some plans get...

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Cont'd from Cupid and Psyche: Part 1

And so, the tricky goddess 
got sacks of different seed.
She mixed them up completely 
and said: "Here's what I need.

You have to sort the millet, 
the barley and the...

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I run from memories, stained in enough felony
After a failed choreography to budge up new colony
To annul life, yet live the same life pieces harmony
Quick succession of bolding and evanesce jeopardy 
In confusion.

Constantly nudged, freely...

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Though washing hands pots clean                              ...

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Drumbeats, drumbeats, drumbeats
My soul is searching, searching, searching
My pulse is rising, rising, rising
My heart is pounding, pounding, pounding

I sit silent and meditate
Hoping for my sails of thought
...to catch the winds of motivation and inspiration
I have...

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Its mid night-
Aloneliness struck my heart.
Fear wrapped her emotions round me,
Cold held me bravely around the geographical
Part of my heart with  claws of infidelity.
My soul flashed and sparkled in confusion.
I missed the comfort embrace...

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Its mid night-
Aloneliness struck my heart.
Fear wrapped her emotions round me,
Cold held me bravely around the geographical
Part of my heart with  claws of infidelity.
My soul flashed and sparkled in confusion.
I missed the comfort embrace...

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I still think of you, in the quiet evening
When the sun is gone and just the moon gives out its glow
I still think of you, as I gaze up high the darkened sky
Stars shine like...

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Steaming, a cup in hand
Piping hot liquid, deliciousness
Found on the heavy blend,
Sunlight reflections on the glass,
Window pane glistening,
With its gentle brilliance.

Steaming, one cupful of enjoyment,
Pleasant like the morning,
When the dew drips quietly, 
Shimmering on the...

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cracked but not entirely broken

          the metaphor slowly personified

                 ...

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Recipe For Happiness


Happiness is like a cake we bake that creates the joy and fullness of life.

And, the recipe begins with one cup of resilience to keep it all together

Place next, one cup of acceptance...

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Crystalline sparkling day, translucent night sky,
the harbinger of cheer-laced Christmas time
we celebrated drinking the dregs of cupful joy of heart,
sharing with our long-time neighbor 
since when I didn’t remember,
but the luminous smile of their little...

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Written to be sung to the tune of 
"Just A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins)


With each new day, there's work to do
But so much joy within it too
Seek out those moments, when

Work turns to...

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MOTHER

Mother lived alone in a different distant city
I had asked her to come and live with me
She said she‘d come when time would come
When from unfinished duties it’d make her free
I waited long hoping that...

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The flame will not die.
I pursue the path of smoke
the virtue of suffering 
gives the pure light. 
The book knows my inside truth 
and tells no one. I weep for the swallows,
I could not feed.
I...

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soft waves ripple the water,
               they come and they go,
           sprinkling...

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Everyone has seen giving in and giving up.
I chose to believe we can all declined that cup.

Please say you cannot embrace compliant
or live life as an acceptance client.
Many do tolerate travesty's place
but we must not...

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My mouth cant be sealed
About the wonders of mama
I lived in her world(womb) for 9months
And there came a time for me to see a wider world.
Ah!it cost a cupful of pain
But no glimmer  of...

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