Long Feuds Poems

I'm reading The Evolving Self:
A Psychology for the Third Millennium,
by Czikszentmihalyi,
and How the West [sadly] Came To Rule:
The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism,
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisanciogla
at the same time.

Czikszentmihalyi (C) wears academic labels of Positive...

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Bee-Real


As I flew up, into the air, 
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud to see me go; some were still crying.
As they held...

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I’m sitting here, at ninety-six, alert an’ fairly healthy, 
wondering what the ones I loved in days gone by would think
To see me now, the last there is of all of my relations, 
with only...

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Awaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and curled,
stray stars and stripes adorning,
sent from the netherworld.

I wander through...

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Romance Day And Night

How the Romans played their moonlit dreams
splashing out near viaducts of love I can only
wonder same as with knights in shining armour
or rather without when the Ages seemed dark
and oriental spices called...

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The fires rage thought out the bush
yet still we do not listen
The ozone layers depleted
rising heat in play 

Teach the people saving 
teach a better way
create a solar planet
clean air now everyday

Venice it is sinking...

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What exactly is meant by, "The Art of Practicing Forgiveness?"
Jesus Christ was willing to forgive us. Even going as far as
Making his ultimate preordained sacrifice on Calvary's Cross.

"On Calvary's cross I make my stand,
Poor sinful...

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I arrived, quite by chance, in the Valley of Lissing
‘Twas a land of plenty—Only color was missing

Except, that is, for the magnificent jewels
That gleamed like dazzling, glistening pools

Sapphire blue, emerald-green; what a magical feast for...

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what sin lies within seeking to learn the nature of our existence?

the wisdom of the ages is meaningless if humanity is gone

is afterlife more important than continuing humanity?

our very cosmos is filled with unidentified flying...

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* For basketball legend Kevin Garnett *


Intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... was of a wholly-invested mettle and mind
the conscript of a checkered court
dauntless defender of glass and...

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The mists of time,
they once more dissipate,
we return to mighty Alahsar,
come, my Lords and Ladies, 
come. on golden wings, 
Alahsar, 
the golden beauty of dreams,
it does await us in its wonder.
The mists now clear,
we now...

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Under the tree in Africa, we sap strength
from the songs of the sparrows before sunlight.
as we walk to the farm, the 
morning breeze brush our 
body from the billowing branches.
We pick up our hoes and...

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“Each man follows his own trail, but he rides it all alone,”
Was what Free Will always said when he turned his horse toward home.
But none of us knew it then, just how true those words...

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I

As things do return home like a refrain, 
On way back from a country tour were we,
A leisurely long trip—my kin and me, 
And met a quaint character on the train, 
As I recall, in...

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Love is so powerful between Andy and Helena after their love grew up to the climax they found themselves in a situation where no one can live without the other this has been going on...

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In a realm where feuds festered, fierce and free,
Two clans clashed, Kovacs and Petrovics, starkly set.
Amidst the mountains, a tale of sorrow spun,
Where bloodied bonds bespoke a bitter debt.

Within the heart of Europe's emerald embrace,
Their...

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Dar es salaam where I live means heaven of peace
But to me she has proved as well to be a haven of peace.
A peaceful place for any peace-loving person or race.
Atleast selfishly from here seem...

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Elegantly enthralling in this evening is the expanse of the sea
Spread so vast and wide, everywhere I could see
Cloudy sky colorfully painted to pose
On watching it, my soul silently rose

Fishing birds do frequent round
My mind...

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Written: September 26, 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 39 Poetry Contest            Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

 “However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever...

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Tribute poem-

With Promise Of Entry, Elysium
 
Childhood, seeing from afar, candle burning bright
with courage, imagination seeing life through
always and forever the promise, heard each night-
walk a brave path, receive entry, as is your due,
heaven searching,...

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The deep and sonorous voice of
his defeatist self-talk was paternal,
and torturous, 
reinforcing the force fed message,
"There is no happiness,
only gradients of misery,"
leaving him indifferent to the present,
careless of the future.

Reared in the shadows of perfection,
parental...

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May sunshine and scattered showers
Countdown days and sleepless hours
Village maidens creep from their bowers
Meet amongst the meadow flowers

In a circle they skip and dance

Whilst chanting their love one's name
Enticing as moths to a flame
Each to...

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Castles






Medieval towns, the citadels,
as fortified large ornates fascinate,
Engulfed my flaming true passion
that still echoes inside huge walls,
Sound of glittering brave swords
that took to a cowardly deceit,
Condemned moonlight
as we met used to greet,
Midnight shadows over walls...

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(Re tiny box-like homes lining the west side of
South Bundy Drive, north of Nebraska Street, in West LA)

The soiled feeling comes not
From the indignant paradise
Scurrying past their frontal lobes 
It arrived in silence
Borne of being...

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Written: December 24, 2023, For Anoucheka Gangabissoon Contest
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Forgiveness is felicity fetching a hefty feud.
It warms our hearts and improves our mood.
To live calmly on Earth,...

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