Long Ealing Poems

is everyone from Barking  Barking mad?
Does everyone In Lambeth do the Lambeth walk?
Is Leicester Square In Leicester?
Is The Elephant And Castle a place where they hide Elephants?
Is Oxford Street in Oxford?
And Paddington a bear?
Highgate...

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Written: May 12, 2024 For Constance La France Contest

1.  "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."  E.E. Cummings

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  "L o v e   lives  
  in the archaic abyss of an 
        endless ocean, where wind and waves
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An unfilled room, a plot line that ends
Becoming redundant whilst no one defends
Chaos created in an unoccupied space
Dread that meanders but cannot be traced
Errors uncovered yet remain unknown
Failing but maintaining a fake happy tone
Grabbing attention,...

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RIDE OF A
LIFETIME

A roller-coaster catches my eye in flash 
B eguiling me to run bullet fast...
C hequered spiking thrill press my spine
D ancing stars shoot then surround me fine
E levating energy screaming release
F ever fervor...

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F    ather in heaven and your beloved Son
A    ngels blessed to guard and pray for us
I     n this universe You have made
T   ...

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Hey you!  You’re a mum
‘Bout time you talked to your son
Where was he last night?
Came home, what a sight
Lingering smoke
‘Bout time you sat down and spoke.

He ain’t got a job
Well dressed, not a slob
Cut...

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Gaz is a class 4.0 wheelchair basketball player,  
He saw a roadshow when he was almost a teen, 
From the UK Wheelchair Basketball Association, 
Having become an amputee aged ten and keen. 

He competed...

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Your heart was all I wished to possess 
Leaving you whole in my arms, giving you rest. 
Hurt to be something far from your mind. 
The best life I can give for someone one of...

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a
no pain
existence,
simple in its
total dark twilight,
healing hush, calm as death
extreme sense of sweet silence
serene, no fear, no hate, painless
ill conceived dreams without stimuli
as (nine... eight... sev...) thoughts     have   ...

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Jesus is my everything

Joy fills my heart and soul
Enduring peace within
Sweet sense of gentleness
Unending reassurance
Surrendering to His love.

Inner hopes that sustain
Sending up honest prayers

Making me realize my needs
Yet, stilling my worst anxieties

Everlasting faith fills me
Visualizing...

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P reparing for work, my uniform blue.
A ligning heart and mind to things ahead.
R eworking puzzles, things that I can do.
A voiding mistakes, fending off the dead.
M any times past, I've knocked at heavens door,
E...

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Same faces
old men 
briefcases
must be working 
early today.

She's still doing the crossword
yesterday's news
feeding her answers 
reading the clues
nothing changes.

Baby in a carry cot
not a lot of scope to wriggle
but 
giggling anyway.

The tube map's the same...

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A nytime she writes, she writes with all her tears

P ondering all the heartaches that's haunted her for years
O pen and transparent to all that wanna see
E nding every sentence in tear stained agony
T rying...

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A nytime she writes, she writes with all her tears

P ondering all the heartaches that's haunted her for years
O pen and transparent to all that wanna see
E nding every sentence in tear stained agony
T rying...

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I have a funny feeling.
 It is all so unappealing.
 The dollar's hit the ceiling. 
 This may  send the markets reeling.
 If the markets hit the floor,
  Paul says we'll all be...

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F allen as a ripe fruit that falls to the soil
R iped in perfect timing with the sunlight
A rising lively with promises of new seeds
G lowing vividly with a crystalline splendor
I nstilling a feeling that...

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Beautiful and kind
Rare like an unusual find
Easy to love, like a dove
Amazing as a miracle from above
Talented in heart and soul
Hoping to make you whole

Opening doors that were closed
Feeling like a song being composed

Healing the...

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