Long Daredevils Poems

I was a professional landscaper, with passion for nature, and a green thumb,
Like passions of smothering, dreamy nighttime, to which we gladly succumb.

My work took me to many gardens, set in the butterscotch zones of...

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These villains in the land of Prejudice
Sitted in terraces, funding dareDevils...
Painting innocent  faces with faeces from Boko bum...Issh!!!
 
Insult, added with salt upon injury
And we lavish in abject penury
Still, we are GIANTS of Africa,...

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Good, bad or otherwise it is so interesting when we discover one of our ancesters is famous.
'Daredevils over Niagara' was written to showcase people who have attempted to dominate the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. While reading...

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As I gaze through the window, I see birds jumping and flying from branches on the trees, landing on the overhead wires, swinging back and forth, each with a different song coming from it's throatSome...

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The teacher was irritated, using her angry voice.
He yelled at me and hurt a kindergartener.
She wanted me to do this that and the other.
Things I never do as the counselor.
I am not punitive, and do...

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We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty

We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists and the Amish
Are neighbors here

We the People
Are Jamaican and Japanese
Swedish...

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Written on January 26, 2020
By Gail DeBole

Drink up daredevils!
It’s not a joke.
The human toe in your drink 
Is not just taking a soak. 

It’s challenged many drinkers 
And many have exclaimed, 
“Ewwww, What’s going on?...

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In the world of fallen angels
The other kind of daredevils
Seeking the world’s attention
Competing for world domination

This is the moment to believe
In something more, to be brave
When life is a misty blair
Uncertainty stifles the air
Under such...

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This morning, remembering the end of times is not that far off
I sampled my cinnamon and sugar toast glad I did not have a cough.
The timer on the oven was showing me I had gotten...

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The Balancing Act

It is as though I am constantly in a balancing act
I envy those that seemingly do not go through 
This process of weighing things in my mind

Those like poker players that can go...

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The white of the eye
Holds a dark centre
Our souls behind a tinted window
Dare to let me see what sins you hide...?

The face of an angel
With the heart of a demon
‘cos we’re all immortal
On the faces...

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You may call me harsh or even wicked
But I am more than it because I am crooked.
I may look self indulgent or resentful,
But now I am transformed into someone more powerful.

Fearless! I call me,
Fearless I...

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Sweet and wonderful the memories of childhood,
Painful, oh staggering to recall, Raddle-Dazzle, I would forget- if I could.
Endless, endless the days we spent riding in the magnificent wild,
Calm and peaceful your nature with this young...

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A Psalmody of Psalm Ninety One
God is our refuge, He is our shelter
Kept safe from demons are those who’re blessed 
Beneath wings of the Almighty that cares
Spared from the snares of unwanted foul quests.

Fear not...

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faded roses on the wallpaper
leaves bent back in an imagined wind
fingerprints of a thunderstorm cling to the wet image
she says it was a lovely thought that gave birth to such beautiful drawings
that any child could...

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Ariel

"With the eyes of a child I stare in awe, a wondrous sight I take in all

 Angels flying without wings, hurling through the air, spinning and twirling without a care

 People moan and gasp...

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Our story is wild style graffiti 
’We fell in love then we fell in love again.’ 
thrown up on an urban wall for eternity; 

We could write legal but chose illegally,
bombed the building with expression;...

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Cascading water that never seems to end
Going over the falls ever single day
The roaring of the water crashing down
A torrent that no one can stay

It draws a crowd of people far and wide
Who come to...

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Words have become such
      naughty little daredevils

turning my thoughts
      inside out,
and up-side down


in order to have their own way


Using sentences
     ...

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just like foxes they arise from dark places 
they come to fight and scavenge
As they start to climb they become stronger in a pack.
the power they have goes over their heads 
there's no way they'll...

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