Long Get on with it Poems

“You may be right, Rian.”  Joulupukki started again, “If you look at the door you will see letters that are inscribed into movable tiles.”  They all stepped closer to get a better look....

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Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...

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"The Returning" 

Inside us all 
a strange forest

where light and dark 
are fed to us by 
curious creatures,
their unexpected gods 

in thoughts and deeds
joy and fear 
hate and love 
belief and disbelief

inwards
our dreams 
turn to
The...

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THE LONGEST DAWN PART 2 H C SONNETS
5
Each stage of life left without a goodbye
Youth, adult, work to live to earn your place
Strive to eat, learn a trade you need to ply
Bills, bills, bills, bills...

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“We live on a placid island of fear 
in the midst of black seas of infinity
and it was not meant that we should 
voyage far”








"Intrepid Blue-Green New Gold Dream"




We edge closer and closer
to answers that...

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Divorced

She was smiling

A small victory

Would he be contesting the house

No

The cars

No

Half the savings

No

You’re agreeing with everything

Yes

I must say, that is very generous of you

He smiled

She didn’t

You’re giving me everything, just like that

Do you have a...

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Hi Michael:

You might have been too young to remember, but there is a certain line that Grandma use to say to any of us who was sent to the store.  At the time, I...

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Sawing Firewood For My Dad, Again

"Saw them logs boys, saw them logs
 heat for the kitchen, heat for the halls
Winter is going to be so very cold,
 so get it done before we all grow...

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She passed many things, daily
As records played in the background
Don't go near, stay away, don't touch
Til she drove herself to the only place SHE could be 

.................................FOUND

Monotony has a rhythm of its own
Familiar carries a...

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[Verse]
I got cayenne in my coffee
and I served it up myself
I mixed it up with the cinnamon
and it sure woke up my mouth

You kept me up all night again
but only in my dreams
it seems you...

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Take me to the great big ocean to settle this aged old commotion; take me to the ocean to build a gigantic camp fire in the middle of the Oceanic water and drive out the...

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2025.2.19
Conflict of interest.
Since when did I start facing that?
Why did it happen all the time?
Did I have its meaning misinterpreted?
Was there a term to describe,
How, all of a sudden,
You felt some things in life,
Like they...

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Right, listen up, the moon is in its ascendancy, Saturn is aligned with Venus, the other planets will align at 09.53 and 1017am.

Wish I’d never bought you that astrology book now, you’ve finally lost the...

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My god, red bra, orange pants, and green socks, I’m making love to a traffic light.

Get on with it.

I can’t, where do I start.

What does it matter?

It matters a lot, if I start with your...

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Gambler, I am not
watcher of gamblers be
One stood to depart
approach I, to engage
So I whispered
and he listened

"I saw you cheating."
     He said, "That's absurd."

"I saw you praying."
    ...

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“I think the lemonade was poisoned, Sir,
he’s been murdered!” Watkins said
“I can see no other reasoning
for why the victim is lying here, dead.”

“Let’s not jump to hasty conclusions,”
Detective Inspector Bones, replied
“There’s protocol we have to...

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Marriage is a joke.


Under moonlight we spoke of an exchange of new sensations;
In the secrets of loves code, we created a conversation.
Into a series of unknown’s, we allowed ourselves to fall
And all in the hope...

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~The Male Menopause~

Did you know girl's, men run on hormones too?
They are not so different girls from me or from you
But when a man reaches his fifties he becomes unstable
To blame it on the woman...

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I could not refrain from asking what it was that made her sigh
When each picture that she started she took down. I wondered why.
The young lady was forthcoming; said her thoughts were fresh and bright
Every...

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There were ten of the female gender in my immediate family.
Comparatively, there were five of us males and a dog name Jack.
Whether needed or not, I'd say there was a two to one advantage.

I'm not...

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You are kind, generous, beautiful, and intelligent, this is not my imagination
Love, honor, and pride fill your heart, yet in your eyes I see desperation
No one else matters as much as you, of this fact...

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The sun did shine,
The day was fine.
That day I was at ease...
"Get on with it" the judge cut in and tailed with a "Jeeze".

As night time fell,
T'was like a spell.
I swear it was not me;...

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I used to walk carefree around this world, 
My shoulders light and free of any chips
Not thinking fate would ever come unfurled
By nonsense escaping naïve lips

I thought Murphy ’s Law was ludacris
Karma for a mind...

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When you think about that day
When you just had no motivation
All your energy gone
Lacking concentration
You feel like a failure
And life will never be good
Maybe drinking more
Perhaps going off your food
Being so afraid
That you will never...

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I started chemo yesterday
A little scary but I’m OK
We got there maybe half past eight
Stayed till two with lots of wait
They used the port they put in last week
I’d show it to you if you’d...

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