Long Exponent Poems

Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams 
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...

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THE PLURALISTS : Empedocles & Anaxagoras

That single primary substance the ‘arche’ of
the Ionian philosophers ,
Was challenged by Emphedocles (b.495BC)
and Anaxagoras(b.500BC) !
Emphedocles spoke of four qualitative elements
of Nature ;
As Earth , Air , Fire and Water...

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#84

TEN UP

10^0  

Ten to the zero is really just one,
positive power, its a whole, not a part.
We don’t move from the decimal,
it’s just where we start.

10^3

Ten cubed, or a kilo,
when dealing in drugs.
It’s a...

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FOR DR. ABUBAKAR OLUSOLA SARAKI
Ilorin is bereaved again: another calamity has struck!
Ilorin has lost another pride of the community.
Saraki this time! Why has Mr. Death focused on us?
He has already extorted enough from us already
but...

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It was fluid, softly palpatating
at the same rhythm as my heartbeat.
The orb was perfect in every way.
Made of polygons too small for the naked eye to see,
each one pulsing at exactly the same frequency, 
at...

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"It is so easy to make resolutions, but to keep them is an uphill task"~ By Poet

We take new resolutions on each New Year’s Day,
But never seriously stick to them and success ebbs away.

I am...

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A soft shadow was cast,
As we spot a magnificent ship with a mast.
Who had a vision in this world?
Of the stories, that were to be, left untold.

Spectacular in every way, Queen of the vast ocean.
Did...

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His use of English was exquisite
His vocabulary superb
He could use the mot juste
To make his thoughts reverb,
Tousled moppy hair above
A big bespectacled grin
The sort of warm personality 
That could really draw folk in.

And he swore...

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Upon the font of a photograph
the full frontal magazine
slick press and press up
muscles in paper cut
the shape
the form
the make up
exponent of the elastic wonder push up

Squeeze the stone
for one drop of inspirations blood
should look like...

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From the village to my villa under the sharp axes to tax collector to colloquial meme to artificial
 Fake cat to collaborator in my skin to skinny jeans the breasts pointed like the pyramid of...

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Dear strong, mysterious Mr. Richter,
I have adored you all semester.

It's all about the way you say "cosign"
and the command you give to busy equations.
You keep those numbers all in line,
as if any one could give...

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She grew up in the modernity of urban culture,
fascinated by the rhythm of contemporary music,
decided to make the career of choice
as a professional pop singer.

An exponent of traditional art, her father
didn’t like the idea of...

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I was standing in a queue at Mumbai Airport
And there in a parallel queue a stunning beauty
Our eyes met, the faces were quite familiar 
As we graduated same year from the same university.

*Kalpana, the vision...

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Whatever the offerings of time may bring
Whatever song my heart chooses sing
On life’s small pursuit I shall meditate
Elysian splendor around me, I appreciate
The simplicities of pastoral living unfurl
I’m graced in Your stellar light, a cosmic...

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I was standing in a queue at Mumbai Airport
And there in a parallel queue a stunning beauty
Our eyes met, the faces were quite familiar 
As we graduated same year from the same university.

*Kalpana, the vision...

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I can feel MAA within me 
How it all began
It's as fast as 
Sun rays can run 

Everlasting miles
Keep us near and apart
Still  your presence
Sitting in heart  
 
As time passes 
Love for...

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X Marks the Spot 

It’s the 19th consonant, 24th letter, of the alphabet,
A Teachers’ markings, for wrong answers on a test!
A Greek numeral representation for, the number ten!
An unnamed or unknown, person, place or thing,

Used...

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History clings to me, a mortgaged sleeve
inducts the conscious reasoning to other strove.
As head above the cloud my famished noel
is reckoned to contingency's faint vowel.

As spirit clings to me, metered exponent
to use my vestige rating...

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Don’t misconceive my mercy for weakness
Exponent to impuissance that bestows
Ascertain verity of Uniqueness
Appreciate my pose of apropos

Strength my forte led by capriciousness
I once shattered and left to be consumed
Thy inner voice pierces my graciousness
Amidst the...

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Logos of a lyric poet 
gleans the page, so white. It’s the 
esurient exponent of 

heart and mind. How I 
wish I could be his reader, instead 
I choose to write about--

this childish yellow butterfly,...

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