Long Foreword Poems

9)  My maids and I will fast likewise.  And so I will go to the king,
     which is against the law; and if I perish, I   perish!"...

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Foreword: Contains excepts from, and additions to, my own three part poem ‘Bone Idol’, which is way too long to submit here.

Skeleton Quay

He lingers on the quayside and heeds the phantom howls
Out on mist shrouded...

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Foreword: This poem is inspired by F. Chopin's Ballade in G Minor op. 23 and the anime "Your Lie in April". The number are timestamps from a video of that performance so that you can...

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Lost warrior


There is a grave where my heart was once in peace.
It has been used and consumed, taken piece by piece.
Now the hands that want to take my only happiness,
Reach into the black hole inside...

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FOREWORD: I have no idea if this actually works... I’ll let you decide

TWELTH KNIGHT

If you truly love me you shall do as I ask
To demonstrate your ardour, I set for you this task
I shall not...

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Alone within a small dark room
Heart racing from impending doom
Just beyond I see a light
I stumble closer to see this sight

A single lightbulb overhead
Reveals a creature sleeping in its bed

The features of it, no one...

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Foreword: My regular radio station recently
held a phone in show on the subject of
Veganism... The following was inspired by
some of the more colourful callers.

Purely for fun, no maliçe intended... Your Honour



Vegans, Damned Vegans

He sneered when...

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Here comes a word,
A word that cuts as a sword,
You could have heard it’s foreword,
From a songbird or a ladybird,
But I renew your memory,
Of the rocks in our eyes.

I will whisper, mime or even shout,
If...

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Foreword... 
Of two commonly used pronunciations, this poem uses Dippla-doe-cous.
Originally written as a singy songy thingy to the tune of Supercalifragilistcexpealidocious.


Jurassic Lark.


An optical illusion or a little hocus pocus
I swear I saw a dinosaur, a...

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Locked in place on a high cross
Swords spoke the foreword
A quick glance at eternal peace
Combat defined his wounds

Only the pen of history
Penetrates his heavy armour
Behind his shield lies purgatory
At the height of an evil empire

Cracked...

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Foreword: on 30 December 2018 one last straggling rose remained in my garden. Below it a daffodil flower was just splitting, ready to open. Now that can’t be right.


The Rose And The Daffodil

The rose and...

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I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the...

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I wonder how important are you 
if you're being watched over 
day and night by tens of pairs of eyes. 
Are you a jewel with incomparable value 
or are they just dumb to waste time...

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Foreword: I wrote this piece in 1984. Seems kind of prophetic now.

On this day in time,
time ceased to exist;
because of the taste of greed,
men couldn't resist.

They wanted more oil,
they wanted more land;
So they bombed little...

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Love
Love is the Greatest 
Compassion
Ever to Behold
Love Never Runs Cold
Love Never Hides
Nor can be kept Secret
For Love is All to behold
Love is Straight
Foreword and Bold

God gave His Love
For God So Loves the World
He Gave.. 
Expression...

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Foreword: I wrote this poem while listening to Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz. The lines were pretty much impromptu so please be considerate when it comes to the wordings. Thank you :)


Once upon a dream,
You...

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Foreword... the sort of daft rubbish I write in a effort to defeat writer’s block. No attempt to make any sense, just to get words on a page/screen. Normally I end up deleting such garbage......

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Foreword: we’re all aware of the ’pot ate oh’ and ‘pert arter’ debate... well, in some English accents (including my own) there is a third version: ‘per tay ter’. I lean toward this pronunciation in...

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TOWER
                            MY FEARS?

     A...

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He was an ugly handsome 
In a foreword  backwards kinda way
Silent and outspoken 
with nothing great to say

Strong with a strange weakness
Secrets he could not keep
He had a sense of humour 
that mostly made...

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(Foreword: don’t know the score elsewhere, but the UK has a rule of six... which is the number of people who can gather as a group. Unless they’ve changed it... again).



My sister, my brother, my...

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[Foreword: spring in the UK is delightful 
But it isn’t all sunshine and roses!]

                     ...

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Whered the wind go.
It came by in a breeze so slow. 
Then it charged onward in its rage.
Forever moving foreword, the world its stage.
But someday the wind will go away.
For nothing can forever stay.
And when...

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lets meat-
my mary friends for a   pot LUCK meal
at my plaice
colleen can you  m a k e
       your hale mary chilly
patricia please make your suite
 ...

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Murder on the Orient Express--just?
Shorter the fuse tighten the screws,
sharper stuns the rushed, drug delays the hushed,
marker trashed refuse, clues confuse.

'Morning after sharpened scours the given,
charming entertains the witty,
earning their forthcoming thwarts admission,
forming and sorting...

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