Long Eyelid Poems

Face to the sky,
Breath of the Caribbean
Woven with earthy Autumn,
Saturates the alveoli of my lungs,
Pouring raw impulses into the neurons of
My pleasure centers, so triggering a myriad of
Memories ... the demurring requiem to summer tide...

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In The Valley Of Avalon

This day the master of my Fate
Is none of those who lead shuddering
Through mazes of wizardry,-
Nor Trachmyr the Hunstman,
Nor Tannwein the daughter of Gweir,
Nor Penpingyon the porter of the palace,
Nor the...

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The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...

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I'm not comfortable
talking about racial differences,

Or even racial
or sensual similarities.

I know what you mean
or maybe I do.
Something intimate and personal
about melanin
and hair qualities
and what lies red-blooded
under shared and segregated skin.

I remember when long hair quantity
was...

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Oh ...

Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony of chaos,
Turmoil the norm ... reality the chill that bites...

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In the relentless rhythm of time,
You have transformed into a mysterious beacon,
Shining in the night,
Invading my heart with embassies of thoughts,
Consulates of feelings and representations of burning longing,
Today, on the highway of my dreams,
Your green...

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              For in the depths of time's forgotten embrace,
A world, once lush, now shattered, displaced.
Anteeing up as joker, distant and vague,
I tread...

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You just walked out that 
meaningless door
You really did leave, and 
kept my heart sore
You never knew what I 
thought in my mind
You never knew you were 
the best thing i will ever find
You left...

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b  a  n  g   b  a  n  g!
I couldn't believe I just fired some shots
there she laid...
    belly up
   counting the dust
dead...

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I could tell from the look on his face that things were not going his way,  the numbers have been overwhelming but the people have been deceiving him; some people with bad intention tells...

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BACK STORY
Me and my dad used to work as a team on the Trolley Buses for Manchester Corporation, out of the Hyde Road Depot. Dad drove, and I was his offsider, collecting fares, and keeping...

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Loving life hid beneath rim of cool ceramic bowl
Tree frog claimed proud place, toilet's homely hole
Enamoured by his simple palace making stance
I bend to peer at his green grip toe stick, entranced

My ordinary admonished by...

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“I’m reading your poems, Mama”
She wrote while we were chatting online today
I was thrilled
What could give me more joy
Than to have my 19 year old 
My only child, the light of my life
Read my work?

Then...

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I lie back as the journey of your lips begins
First, my forehead is blessed
With little kisses
To be shared with each closed eyelid
Fluttering above my lips for a moment
Your lips just brush against mine
I draw in...

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The Marvellous Moggy
By Jan Beaumont 

There's something for which most of us all share a great affection 
A thing that's like a living welcome mat
While some like dogs for comradeship and sometimes for protection
A lot...

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1/23/21


I lived and learnt

Will I ever lift this curse?

I offer many gifts to Earth

It either did or didn't work

I ended up in last place or finished first

Got so much to do, before I'm in the...

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Rain Drops

I stand with my feet firmly planted on the ground.
The shifting wind's blow around me trying to make me sway.
I look up and see a gray-hued ominous sky.
The sun is setting, but is doing...

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Written: April 30, 2025, for a contest by Brian Strand

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blow out 
        ...

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Now doors were all closed, without single crack,
The father exposed, with son was to black,
Inside of a lorry.

Surrounded with fruit, they trembled from cold,
For clothes from Beirut, which little warm hold,
Too thin were and hoary.

»Where...

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When all the Earth's a bed & all the world's asleep,
When you dream of conquering the world,then shove away the thought & let the unheard alarm go beep, because obviously,big dreams require longer sleep,
When you...

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What has become of Nigeria?
What has become of my countryhome?
What has become of those children littered there?
Is everyone there still alive or all are dead of lassa?
What has become of her economic that once glowed?



I...

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Only those who have not yet met truly love each other,
Those who, in the early morning horizon, imagine themselves as kings and queens without sin,
They dream in the secretive color of amethyst, hidden somewhere deep,
Where...

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There is a door no one speaks of.
It is not built of stone, nor carved in the timber of old houses,
but hidden deep in the marrow of the world
where beginnings were never written,
only uttered once
by...

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Awakening From Pleasant Dreams...

No matter scant details recalled upon 
arising from slumber, this even though 
submerged into deep unconscious - (as 
ifmine being plunged bajillion miles 
subterranean catacombs) thoroughly 
saturated with inaccessible facets of my...

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His Life, for thirty pieces of silver was sold
And, with a kiss, was callously betrayed,
Just as the Scriptures accurately foretold,
Each prophetic word was obeyed.
Like a Lamb to the slaughter he was led;
The soldiers punched him...

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