Long Fateful morning Poems

MY TREE

Beside the Kinta River still it stands
Colossus of the primal forest panoply
The tree a native of the fecund land
It’s limbs support the graceful arcing canopy
Each arm like a single tree of temperate terre
Forming structure...

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Young Bobby Lee, loved Patty McGee;
They were married in the spring of eighty-three;
Auburn locks and pretty as you please;
Patty was a looker, complete with sharp tongue;
Her greatest bi-ch  was they were not rich;
Bobby was...

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In 1996 I was living in DC
while serving as a diplomat
At the State Department
My wife was in the military
Serving as a major in San Antonio
 
That fateful morning, I went jogging
Early in the morning
Fell down...

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If you ever visit South Wales do go and see 
The location of what was an awful tragedy
Famous for the wrong reasons the town of Aberfan
Suffered an unspeakable horror that was caused by man.

On the...

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There is a friend who made me poor,
Not because she stole my loot.
She took away my richest treasure
Because of what I did and said.

I knew this friend three years longer
Than the one I was yet...

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My Son you were my only one
A year ago you called me Mum
Then you were taken far too soon
Without a warning
on that fateful morning
This very day a year ago 
when someone called 
you had to...

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Lover's rock at the end of town
is underwater now despite the
drought and water pipe ban
in place

Because you see the politicians
could not unite on common ground
and overcome the red tape in order
of how to fix it

So...

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Once upon a forgotten age
Before the land fell into rage
A maiden sat upon a throne
A throne carved of coral stone
She wove a spell upon the seas
A spell carried by the breeze
That shall forever linger to
Protect...

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On that fateful morning,
I saw the flames so high.
They were so strong,
They seem to reach the sky.

All i could do was hope,
That everyone was safe.
When i saw it on the news,
I knew it wasn't the...

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There once were three little lights living among us…
But God called them home in that we can trust..
To live with Him and they earned their wings.
In such a way that brought our hearts to our...

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There once were three little lights living among us…
But God called them home in that we can trust..
To live with Him and they earned their wings.
In such a way that brought our hearts to our...

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There once were three little lights living among us…
But God called them home in that we can trust..
To live with Him and they earned their wings.
In such a way that brought our hearts to our...

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There once were three little lights living among us…
But God called them home in that we can trust..
To live with Him and they earned their wings.
In such a way that brought our hearts to our...

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There once were three little lights living among us…
But God called them home in that we can trust.
To live with Him and the earned their wings..
In such a way that brought our hearts to bowing…
And...

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a cloud of smoke looms in the air
so thick the sun disappeared
bright yellow flames rapidly grow
eating away what used to be home

as I stood and watched with wonder
hot yellow tongues licking upward
it just took one...

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