Long Frilled Poems

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(This verse is painted for my Loving Daughter P Suzanna Christy on her 8th birthday) 

It was the day she began to move out,
She’d been in the cradle of her mother’s womb
Some seven years before...

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HARMONY 69
The night of twelfth December `69  
knotted together an icy storm wind 
that whipped False bay`s waves 
to white -frilled blankets.
Thunderclaps against primal rocks
resonated through a ghettoe of glowing tents
on a dark, rough...

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How fast time has fled in limitless wingspan
How months and years have merged into eons
Bringing such changes, so awesome and spectacular

I have come swinging open the iron gates
Of the Netherworld where I have been asleep
For...

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Three Private school girls went missing at Hanging Rock
In 1900
An eerie tragic event
Enjoying a planned picnic
No one knew what was about to impend
Lunch finished, four girls and teacher 
Decided to explore
What happened was a whole...

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With the romantic spectrum of sunburst sky’s fire
I profile the radiant rendering of my blazing desire, 
where our harmonious hearts are entwined,
sutured by the enticing threads of sublime fondness.    

I couldn't release...

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Bloody streuth look out mate here they come
The Tourists Downunder to have some fun
Clickin’ their cameras, looking goggle eyed
While out in the hot sun getting deep fried
Askin’ for service and getting in our hair
Makes you...

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Come 
with 
a 
smile, 
come 
with 
a 
wink
Come 
to 
the 
land 
of 
pink 
pink 
pink

Imagine 
yourself 
as 
a 
pale 
pink 
fairy
wearing 
an 
earring 
that's 
a 
pink 
clip-
on
And 
real 
pastel 
pink 
petals 
held 
in 
your 
pinkie...

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The streets are shadowy and solemn,
shook only by the drunken alley cries
of men in dance and celebration
of a Saturday night spent well
at Madame’s.

I sink into the fire escape,
as I always do after dinner
to gaze at...

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My Dearest Brother And I

I want the wall of divide to fall apart and
Forget we're cousins, born of different parents
We are the children God made for love
Now the parents of children teaching only love above...

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Pike Place Market and Space Needle
race tracks out at Indy
stands Jefferson's Memorial
Nashville's Grand Ole Opry

Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing)
Great Wall nearby Xian (Z-on)
wow, thirty million in Chongquing (Chun-king)
pass Hong Kong on sampan (sam-pon)

St Petersburg a...

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I remember you, from when there was a spring
When the seasons were ripe, with verdant green
Our nimble feet danced in the wind
and on the brink of everything

Not a furrow in the brow of youth ...

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In the twilight hour waning by the window, 
open to the hues of the eventide horizon, 
and to the breeze of the departing day, 
the sky shimmers with the last glow 
of the sun setting...

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In the twilight hour waning outside my window, 
opening to the hues of the eventide horizon,  
the sky shimmers with the last glorious glow 
of the sun setting at the edge of the indigo...

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The Stately Iris Flower

Bearded irises are tall and stately in form
They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm
Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips
A swollen stem where nutrients are stored at the hips
Spring...

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In the twilight hour we are by the window, 
open to the hues of the fading horizon, 
and to the breeze of the departing day, 
see the sky shimmer with the last glow 
of the...

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The serene shade of serenading foliage
rippling in the cadence of the spring zephyr,
a translucent shroud of magnetic longing
filled the space of my collapsed emptiness, unfelt.

The bursting golden beams of the sunset blaze,
slicing through the shimmer...

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I keep ringing your phone
Only to get back the last memory again
A voice frilled with youth
Laughing at the old man's obstinacy
One day you shall wish to find
In the centripetal torment of the world
I still pray...

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Red, red roses, you flowers of immortal love
You first blossomed in God’s Garden for Eve
In my garden too, you bloom so bright
I tend you with love and care day and night
You gladden me all through...

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Wishing well of dreams
You Illuminate colours
Whom Impacted the heart and Soul
Regardless of the outcome
My little Orchid
With your velvet frilled lips
Touching soft petals
Fresh kissing air your beautiful scent
Rippling Inside a hair breath
Warmly whispering with the ghosts
Completely...

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"I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so
that I could fly." - Joy Fielding


Furrowing the crisp layers of thin air
flies the migratory songbird of charm,
the cheerful Robin on the...

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I groped and stumbled through the years and woke up early morning groggy, hurting.? I peeked out the window and saw the sky bright, sun smiling.? I brightened and borrowed a smile and, for once,...

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Sunrise and already the water 
is being seared with a glow 
as if under a grill. 
You can feel the heat building
in the morning air, the sand 
still warm from yesterday.

The tide has left the...

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I see her everywhere I go
Mother of the earth, splendid soul
Filling everywhere with her harmonious presence
Holding everyone on an irresistible reverence

She dwells in the sky above, so blue
With the smiling sun and the silvery moon
Up...

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Angifi Dladla

LAST NIGHT

Last night I wasted no time;
I hovered over the mortals.
One was soft snores, the other 
a Pharaoh in stiffness.

For weeks I had been preparing 
for this up-flight! Up, up, 
through the ceiling
I defied...

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