Long Focussing Poems

Writing words that don't fit the occasion
It's as if I am lacking a genuine sensation
If only you'd stop stomping on me as if I'm the mat at your front door
My head is in the murky...

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Here’s a twain of siblings so delicate—
The tenor and its weary vehicle,
Similar are, nor yet so disparate
O lady, art not thou so fickle? 

In seeming sameness struts lady contrast, 
Harmony jars to sing in unsure...

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Free Verse

I live not far from humankind the cradle that is of
what and where we are all coming from Johannesburg
so they say and going to one human race of every colour
no need for power domination...

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The Way barred, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Le sens clos by T. Wignesan

Every man has to confront his own night
If he wants to continue on his journey.
But Death takes it upon itself to meet him...

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An amazing moonlit hazy walk,
A knotted wooden park bench to talk,
A slip of the arm over her petite shoulder
Heart racing, she smiles, he’s feeling bolder

He rises and outreaches his shaky hand,
Coaxing her to embrace as...

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Let’s give hope a try, I think.  
Before life makes us old,  
Before our hearts will go cold,  
Let’s give it a shot,  
A meaning, a purpose.  
Maybe the whole...

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The thin black gauze does not obscure the eyes
Staring at me, one eye closed, one eye open; devoted
Grey metal pipes, exacting in their common goal,
Soon to erupt in justice, to carry out a sentence passed.

The...

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I want you to remember me, not like the settling sun but the rising moon, fierce but volatile. Remember me as a silent beach, the one with many pits, like a wind mill but smaller....

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Standing near the front of the queue
The boy rehearses his lines
"Just three or four pints"
Over and over again in his head

Focussing on every step
That takes him to the inquisitor
Stray too far to the left or...

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Inspired by the painting Shadows In Motion
by Ewa Czarniecka

Which shows people walking in heavy rain. The pallette used is all subdued colours mainly focussing on greys and blacks. The ground looks shiny and wet. Some...

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Never let age deter your Life's Purpose and blessings. You're part of the Universe's greatness. Blessings, Love and Light. 

Part of the Universe's greatness 
By Michelle Morris 
05/09/2024

As I edge ever closer to the time...

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4 arms crossed together,
On a 4x4 sheet of paper.
Their eyes full of life,
Sitting by the ocean sides.
Now they are oceans apart.
Focussing on bar charts.
That snapshot now lies torn and rugged,
In the corner of a Woodland...

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All I've got now,is a picture of ours 
Kissing me for last time,taken indoors 
Reminiscing the love,I once knew 
the passion and pleasures,which won't renew 

Holding that picture,I look in your eyes 
Can't beleive,your words...

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focus closely on the natural world
greet morning daisies as they stretch and unfurl
they appreciate the day no matter what
focussing on flowers I could learn a lot

rose petals lay strewn all around
beauty from bud until meet...

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We see them all as pests to be destroyed.       
For they feed upon our food crops galore.       
And invade all our homes by...

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Author Dana Redricks
June 29, 2018

Everyone is focusing on
the external enemy when
we are being destroyed
within
The enemy is detracting 
people while he slowly leads
people astray
The Word of God is where
Can find the truth and
it will set us...

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Awakened with all seeing eye
Focussing, turn away and sigh
An empty space, I have to try
Feeling all askew

Take memory of distant times
Everywhere, as committed crimes
Regretful, revisited mimes
Urgent to renew

A saviour imparts one word
Passing comment mis-heard
To impart...

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Awakened with all seeing eye
Focussing, turn away and sigh
An empty space, I have to try
Feeling all askew

Take memory of distant times
Everywhere, as committed crimes
Regretful, revisited mimes
Urgent to renew

A saviour imparts one word
Passing comment mis-heard
To impart...

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Eyes
Darting around the room,
not focussing on anything
Can’t focus on anything.
Watering, blurring my vision
I cannot see.

Hands
Sweat on my palms,
fingers trembling.
Not enough strength
to grip anything
I cannot feel.

Stomach
Tied in knots,
somersault after somersault.
My lunch wants to say hello,
just try...

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