Long Embankments Poems

I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few...

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Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...

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The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the strengthening light, 
In its deliberate and unconcerned   ...

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The hectic world is like a giant ocean.
Every day we wake up and dive in.
We dive into our work, activities, or 
errands we must do inside this great big world of blue!

Our friends and family,...

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In a silent dew, melting the morning,
Beautiful as the music, a song
Played softly on the gentlest guitars,
Stirring, urgent, the mists in a heart
Who hears the melancholy played by the stars,
As leaves dance quietly through the...

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I have poured out my heart      like water
But only those understanding      will see
I have laid the grief      of the children
before...

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January is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, 
Fooling us yearly. 
Appearing overnight, as we dream of warmer things.
Covers the earth with her glistening white beauty, 
Knows we will be mesmerized by her dazzlingness.
Enthralled...

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February is a fascinating gateway to cool hand crispy, fooling us yearly. 
Appearing yearly overnight, when we are dreaming of warmer things.
Covering the earth with her glistening white beauty, knowing we will be mesmerized.
And we...

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Sprinkle More Lies

Sweet little lies we bank upon when the heart goes weak
And insecurities bar ears from wanting to hear truths
Yet beautiful in themselves, bringing surplus happiness

My little babe fell down and bruised her knee
She...

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Euphoric growth and gracious space, could no one lay a finger on Scarlett’s place
The daisies breed and seed sunshine as if the heavens hovered and covered the 
saturated earth
In her world she inhibits sleek habitation...

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Bouncing from piles of baby powder grains, 
     ballerina feet firm balance establishing 
     Addictive activity pulls challenger audacious
     Amidst busy Aussie city,...

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The canal poked like a finger
into the wrinkled abdomen
of the Port. Along its length,
ketches once bruised
wooden wharves unloading wheat
shipped from outports across the gulf.
Pigeons stalked the spill of grain
from hessian bags torn 
by wharfies hooks....

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Mountain melt trickles a pure innocence
ever closer to her fluent destiny
with each lingering kiss from the sun
Wooded embankments overflow 
the ancient river starts to grow
and faster and faster she 
pushes her way downstream

Here is where...

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BERWICK – ON – TWEED    MARKET



Cold, even in summer
Vast bastide hides the place.
Tweed widens and shallows:
Its sallows harbor salmon.
In the  ancient market place
Sneaky ancient marketeers pace,
Their faces seeking trade:
Fowl, flesh, or...

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In a pool of clear water.
Look what you can see.
Walking on the bed of the waters shore.
As sure as you can see!

The waters of his word, the waters of his blessed!
Come pouring forth from the...

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