Long Entreated Poems

By Stanley Collymore

At first I wasn’t in the least interested in you. 
But then, why should I be? You, after all, 
are an unmarried and out-of-work mum 
just turned 23 and, additionally and 
quite evidently...

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Renee Vivien English Translation

Words to My Love
by Renée Vivien
translation by Michael R. Burch

This is Vivien’s “coming out” poem, although the term wasn’t coined until many years after Vivien’s death. The poem was written about forbidden...

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Centered in the irregular rectangle of the caves entrance the fire popped and danced as the snow fell lazily before the backdrop of pines.Softly the wind moaned above the tree line.Francis sat on their makeshift...

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??Isaiah 5:1-8 KJVAAE??
[1]  Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: [2] and he fenced it, and...

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Nightmare are dreadful things
They creep into subconscious minds
And tear at sanity's fragile strings 
Turning our thoughts to things unkind

I was a teacher of children small
And loved the years I spent with them
But soon after leaving...

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The ocean jade, its 
white-veined waves,
flush the sponge land,
as dangled toes melt into sand.

Far across the earth ends
in a silver bright horizon...
Almost blue then, there 
the sky, the water
Transpose in sight
Coalesce inseparably
Those seas, those skies....

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Pallikarnai,one of
the prominent
waterbodies that
once provided life
breath to Chennai
(Tamilnadu, India)
is now a garbage
dumpyard. It now
serves as a moving
symbol of how the
civilized can
threaten the
environment.


I

Pallikarnai
Resounds
In the Alps.
Retches the
himalayas.

Foams
In the Ganges.
Forays the volga.

Muddles
In the Amazon
Mucks the Nile.

Incarnates
In myriad moulds
And...

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The lights of the city reflecting from the aqueous pitch, pavements in a kaleidoscope of colours create a melancholy ambience for the few who venture within. The city is transformed as the animated bustle of...

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I Remember the Day
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

I can remember the day like yesterday,
When the snowfall brought much glee,
One Florida church made a wish that year.
Flakes of snow they wanted to see.
Praying...

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All throughout I shooed the crooked thoughts away. 
For a doll such as her Dolly, with her unrealistic
Curves and flawless skin, would be hard put to 
Find comfort onboard daddy’s ship. She’d find
That loneliness is...

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UNTIE WITH TITHE IF TIGHT

Descend from your boulder of woe
into the vineyard where great men sow;
here is my escape wonder park,
inscribed: Givers Never Lack;
betwixt the valley of indecision & greed
whether to eat or sow the...

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At what cost rags to riches splashing blind falling in trenches                        ...

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There is an angel who sits upon my shoulder who goes by the name of Death,
And though I cannot always see him, upon my neck I can always feel his breath
As he whispers to me...

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I have a fear of drowning in deep waters, dark and cold;
I dream the waves are parted revealing Death's threshold.

I wonder, trembling in my bed, if another life I've known;
is there a body beneath the...

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I was walking along the path
With full eyesight in tact
Discovering nouns and verbs
Conjoined as presented fact

Things were fine, til they weren't
And I began to question
If there were common laws
A weary soul could rest in

The more...

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May 18 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 31-33

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD...

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"...when power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
                     --John F. Kennedy


A frat asked, will you ever forgive her?
Come!...

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           Poet Visitors in the Night



Asleep, I was, under my new forest green 
velvet and Sherpa throw.
With loving stockings to...

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Gallop vapor folded aluminum mare resonator 
Sun spits decorative decimals bleeding metal
Scatter the hourglass pearl crown tidewater brine dusk
Tongue sings driftwood bone galleys
Captain Arcaro flew sideways through time,
his boots full of fishbones,
his teeth tuned to...

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Where then the emotive happiness
with such procrastinated enchantment brings
desirous supposedly encountered
and romantic wanderings heady cadence
which pins the inattentive to the skins of longing

It is said to be lost in the surge
to swirl with giddy waltz
yes...

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ENTREATED 

The gigantic motion patrolled 
In the dark room immersed myself 
No! This can't be it's no more
Giving out a shrilly sharp vocal
My throat adhering to dryness 
What a slurred pilgrimage 
I didn't realise it...

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How can love be so constricted
to turn from one and to another
it is boundless
love is truly undivided

And how in all the strangers eyes we see
we feel so very separated
yet in endless love we have existed
for...

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Wisdom is a much sought commodity
many would seek it above any jewel
Solomon had it above anyone living
but didn’t always use it being a fool
 
The wisdom that comes down from heaven
is full of peace and...

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You look into my eyes, the mirror to my soul;
Entreated, enchanted you explore;
You look upon me in love or is it lust;
How do I know in you I can trust?

Pacify the acts of endearment;
Untie those...

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He had a dream in the still of the night,
Someone beckoned on him,
Someone implored him to come,
He looked distressed and troubled.

He was worried 
He knew it was an urgent plea,
But it was a place no...

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