Long Dishonour Poems
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Mother of the AgeStately stood Princess Amber in all her finery,
Emerald tunic over a crimson gown,
With gems inlaid in her rustling gown,
Her arms bangled in intricate gold slowly rose,
Her slender fingers rested on her heaving bosom,
Listening to unstopping...
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Categories:
dishonour, anger, beautiful, emotions, forgiveness, imagery, jealousy,
Form:
Epic
A Canadian's Letter To Americans: a Thousand Points of Light
A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !
Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
Anyone can ‘make it’
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional
Always susceptible to its
Achilles heel of...
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Categories:
dishonour, conflict, corruption, leadership, power, racism, violence, war,
Form:
Free verse
Where's the Love, Honorable CankerWHERE'S THE LOVE, HONORABLE CANKER:
Only 'cause men not ready to ponder,
They speak literally and rhetorically at a yonder,
Not regarding how to make this world better.
Do you realise there're bigger questions to that which matters;
How can...
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Categories:
dishonour, abuse, bullying, corruption,
Form:
Lyric
EasterThey were forgiven
for what they did not know they did
Yet unlike those men
I am aware He bled
My inner being convicted
by the things He said
Knowing the truth
that Jesus rose from the dead
Still...
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Categories:
dishonour, baptism, easter,
Form:
Free verse
Hot Is the WindHot Is The Wind
One night can change things forever. Like the night the Americans came. One survivor went through hell to live. When the sirens went off, people pulled blankets over their heads rather than...
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Categories:
dishonour, death, fire, flying, history, hope, violence, war,
Form:
Verse
Stray NotStray not to evil’s dark enticement,
Instead heed what is good,
Against what’s wrong, in the end bereavement,
For those who failed to stood.
Stray not to debauchery’s wild call,
Tis a short road to death,
A body must not have,...
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Categories:
dishonour,
Form:
I do not know?
The Cancer of AfricaOur Shame,
"PRESIDENT" & "LEADERS"
Full grown men,
old,
devoid of vision,
Lacking in wisdom,
wicked weaklings
protected by paltry paid gun men
great grandfathers,
unwilling to train Younger Leaders.
Untrained themselves in morals & reputation,
Liars,
Tired &...
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Categories:
dishonour, cancer, corruption, cry, evil, introspection, leadership, soldier,
Form:
Free verse
God's Sovereign Choice - Romans 9: 15-21God is the sovereign God
who is equally sovereign and merciful
He's decided according to His wise decree
those that will bow before His rule
It's not dependent on human will
nor any of your...
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Categories:
dishonour, bible, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Unshackle My VerseUNSHACKLE MY VERSE
Prohibition on Poetry
...
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Categories:
dishonour, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Flock of Startled BirdsA Flock of Startled Birds
He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His leather shoes burnished to a mirror-like shine,
Tie ironed flat –...
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Categories:
dishonour, depression, memorial, mental health, military, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Plaidoirie For a 'Prince' of Jaffna - Part TwoPart Two
A Prince may not bring dishonour to his kingdom
In times of strive for the sake of Christendom;
If he seeks spurious honours to feather his nest
And alienates a people...
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Categories:
dishonour, history, people, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Leonidas, KingFrom Heracles immortal line sprang Kings of Agiad
The blood of Gods and heroes in mortal flesh thus clad
And such was Leonidas, half brother to the King
Cleomenes of Sparta, of whom the poets sing
When came the...
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Categories:
dishonour, history, inspirational
Form:
Epic
On a RoadI know I have no spare energy.
But circumstances compelled me,
To continue my job, I am a Mum,
I know I am tired and can’t afford.
My child never apparted me as last,
16 years, until his school has...
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Categories:
dishonour, caregiving, devotion, education, faith, family, friendship, inspirational,
Form:
Name
IndiaI watched a documentary on India
where a fourteen year old girl
had acid thrown over her face and body
because she didn't want to talk to a boy
Get a life people
perhaps she didn't talk
because you were violent
your...
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Categories:
dishonour, abuse, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
The Odour of ExcessThe Odour of Excess.
Sitting together,
smiling benignly,
sipping coffee,
flaked with 24-carat gold-leaf shavings,
their empty souls,
always on the prowl,
to sate,
the latest cravings.
"sell all your jewellery, and give to the poor",
revolutionary words, uttered by His son,
Jesus of Nazareth.
Well, we...
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Categories:
dishonour, allah, religion, religious, satire,
Form:
I do not know?
As They Leave (2)As they leave
They leave with us nothing but an empty
Treasure to treasure which even Judas Iscariot
The disciple’s Treasure cannot measure
And treasure with pleasure.
As they leave,
They victimize and they seize with impunity
And dishonour students’ union leader’s...
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Categories:
dishonour, adventure, allegory, education, history, people
Form:
I do not know?
BeelzebubSupremacy permitted to carry out his work
greatly loved by heavenly beings
disaffection spirit, ripened into revolt
once again, get caution of the supremacy
thou refused to be cautioned
sophistry and fraud pioneer
hard to discern, genesis deceiver
supreme neither deceit...
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Categories:
dishonour, betrayal, bible, myth, political, religious,
Form:
Didactic
Kundalini Part 4 of 5No! It is not a tragedy of love unfulfilled! Let us see why ...
Upon kundalini reaching the crown, it encounters a narrow orifice
A stream divine and subtle flowing through it into the sky
Kundalini must die,...
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Categories:
dishonour, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Broken HomeA broken Home is
Not only when parents got divorce
Nor when one parent died.
It is a broken Home
When both parents are alive but there's no love.
When there's no unity,
Each has its own desire to reign.
Sometime...
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Categories:
dishonour, home, pain, parents,
Form:
I do not know?
Illicit LoveTime together is the most precious time of all,
fleetng moments to be grasped,
secret, only seen by those who happen by
oblivious to the circumstances of what they see.
Ordinary to the uninformed eye,
two people rapt in each...
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Categories:
dishonour, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Tail TraumaTail Trauma
I’m a Cat (fancy that) and my tail went all droopy.
When I came in with it all bent, it sent my oomans loopy.
She started making phone calls, he put on shoes and socks,
They shut...
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Categories:
dishonour, animal, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
The People We Don'T Want To KnowThe People we don’t want to know.
From pay check to pay check many working class people have two jobs,
then it all dries up and there is no work and manual labourers are
called...
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Categories:
dishonour, social, children, woman, work, people, children, jobs,
Form:
Blank verse
The Great IllusionistThe Great Illusionist
You tried to defeat the beast
But failed to bring them your truth and virtue
The people’s hearts showed no mercy
The master servant of the people
And all they did was put you...
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Categories:
dishonour, visionary, words,
Form:
Free verse
Half a CenturyHalf a Century
Fifty is not old if you are a tree and the oak tree holds acorns
already planted in waiting for the wheel of life to continue in
sentient beings on time weathered paths one step...
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Categories:
dishonour, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
The Bruising of the Tender PartsAnd those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need. But God...
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Categories:
dishonour, abuse,
Form:
Pastoral