Long Finland Poems

I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the...

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On a sunny morning in September 1984
My mom’s best friend Linda drove to the grocery store
With her four-year-old daughter Becky in tow
Listening to the radio, Becky amused herself in the back seat, looking out the...

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When Irish eyes are smiling,
And the gymnast smile extends to curve her petal-red lips,
That's when she'll let her waves fall down with the grace of 
a faerie.

If in a wheat field the sheathes would glow...

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God blessed them and said to them," Be fruitful and increase in  number ; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and...

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He is cranking up the old rusty engine again, but all that work is in vain, sweat is running from his anxious face and grease is spilling all over the place. There he goes again...

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SENSITIVITY

They’re all ignored by us, but they have feelings too :
A black  gravestone  in  New York, down in the world, 
Recalling its halcyon days as a part of 
The impressive strata ...

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Combining the words “Fianna” and “Bard”, I give you the warrior-poet clan of the Fiard. 
Also, a fiard is an inlet of the sea with low banks on either side, common along the Gulf of...

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TIDES   OF   TIDINESS   

If  I was God,  the geographic world I would bless:
I’d start by tidying  up my world map for it’s a mess.
First let’s examine...

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Russia's losses have been greater with their Ukrainian invasion
Compared to nine years in Afghanistan, another miscalculation
Many towns and cities in Ukraine are now being taken back
As Ukrainian defenders launch, a devastating counter attack.

At a river...

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The attack on a shopping centre, is a crime against humanity
And yet we to continue to ignore, this ongoing brutality
You must always show a strong hand and stand up to the bully
Even if it that...

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October 9 is  the 283rd day this year
In history many died and she'd tears
1594  Portuguese empire defeated in Sri Lanka
Bringing an end to the campaign of danture 

1604 kepplers supernova found in the...

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Fi is my name 
Short for a title I can't rename

Fi is not a note
Two letters shorter than a mote

A fiddler from Finland
First son of a worker in hinterland

I travel near and far
With or without...

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We walked along the beach today...together hand in hand
enjoying the sights and sounds of nature…while making footprints in the sand.

We watched the sandpipers scurry to and fro between the water and the land
searching for their...

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In the calmness. In the stillness. In the silence I awake,
Waiting in great patience for the egg of dawn to break.
For hair is golden thread woven from my golden harp.
Be careful touching things if you...

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If only the French could speak German,
and Germans could greet the English,
If only the English could speak Spanish,
and the Spanish admire Italian Margherita!
only if Russians could try be like Swedes,
neutral in war and peaceful with...

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You have more Welsh than the people who think they are Welsh today. 
The DNA Kit announced, surprising me for I thought I was Dutch
I almost immediately began to see things and hear voices, the...

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They are so designed 
that cannot to live without any territorial pretension
for other country 
around them, inside, outside  and far away.
It’s just a matter of time
when, where and with which scale
and result starting realize...

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Scandinavia 

Finland is the whitest country in the world 
I read and according to the article in 
the Sunday paper, happy in their whiteness
People in Scandinavia tend to be pale-faced
Sweden too, was white and still is, but lately 
people...

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"The Beating Heart and Our Skin"  

When the heart of a 
people stops -
blood brothers
and sisters -
when does God 
walk in?

there is no 
waiting patiently 
when children 
are taken 
by the monster
who grins

when does...

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Babies have been known to crawl
Up to seven hundred feet a day
Better tie a rope tightly around them
Or they'll wind up miles away

Sex burns 360 calories per hour
Who has sex for an hour
Longest for me...

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NAMES   FOR  COUNTRIES  OR  PLANETS


I can understand and sympathise with famous cities 
Being named after animals eg Buffalo or Phoenix, if they must; 
But when whole countries are named after...

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Errors on Putins bungled invasion are beginning to show
As this obscene war progresses, his loss list will grow
He thought rolling in his tanks, it would take but a day
But the west is supporting Ukraine and...

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From Andover to Anaheim
Bangor to Boise
People speak up
Come on, get noisy

From Carteret in Jersey
To Cameroon far away
Speak up everyone
If just for one day

From Detroit to Dallas
Eaton to Ecuador
Come on everyone
Speak up some more

From France and...

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Babies have been known to crawl
Up to seven hundred feet a day
Better tie a rope tightly around them
Or they'll wind up miles away

Sex burns 360 calories per hour
Who has sex for an hour
Longest for me...

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An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain
Much like some people I know
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
I'm ravenous in an hour or so

A pregnant goldfish is known as a twit
That's a sight...

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