Long Gone but not forgotten Poems

POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s book
A brightly coloured crayon of an unknown hue

A footprint in...

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I see big changes, everybody's walking around,
heads face the ground, you made us so damn proud.
The eleven man crew's one man down,
gone but not forgotten in Bath town.

I pinch myself at the thought of you,
I...

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"Please don't cry,"
I said...
"I want to be there to wipe your tears away, put them aside
and make everything better, think of some happy thoughts
and make you smile and laugh like no one is even watching...

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It's odd to call you that but to be fair that is what you are. 

I only have three years of memory of you. The rest are just stories I've heard through the years.

That's all...

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I’ll never forget my first day at primary school
You bounded into the classroom, flashing a gap tooth smile
With your blonde curly hair and blue eyes, I was smitten
My first crush at the tender age of...

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Wild Cherries 
A giant snowball in springtime
From twenty yards out the sound and smell
Closer now; breathing her numbing scent
Listening to the drowsy hum
of greedy and jealous bees
forced to share her bounty
with Tiger and Zebra Swallowtails
School...

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Oh, how we loathe those who drink,
Such sinners, such losers, they are!
But we think we certainly are far more than perfect?
As we drive high on pot, drugs and booze zooming our oh, so saintly cars?

We...

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Since the beginning it has been here.........
When we get up,weather its at the crack of dawn or before the roster crows its ahead of us.
We look to see it but it somehow evades our view.
Mere...

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The kiss of an Autumn’s Orchard.
The peaceful land welcomed two young hearts.
Entwining their fates amidst the trees.
Underneath Apple’s Sweet Sign.

Maid With Azure-coloured Eyes.
A young fellow who dreamt as far as the blue of the sky.
The...

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We are here but a short time
yet we met and love many people
some we make mistakes with
find that they weren't real friends

yet even when things go wrong
move on taking the best with you
leave all the...

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The old black man plowed the ground in that baking sun 
And sang all those old gospel songs 
The rows were straight as an arrow all through the field 
As I knew this was where...

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The Idiot

A long time ago there once lived a man
 Shallow spring next to his pool had a plan
 He had a dog named Jenny who used to bother him plenty
 Shaped the dreams through...

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I may be gormless
And it may be true
But just how many were there In the band?
I forgot
So I'm asking you?

Their beautiful music is a gift to me
And a part of my life growing up
And made...

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Connecting In Cyberspace


One day I opened up an email that had been sent my way.
They were searching for their relatives who they had never met.
Growing up and thinking their was no one else around
But they...

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The north wind blows cold, and the snows fold over like blankets in the closet.  Spirals spin in acrimonious dances, prancing madly at unheard music.  The tune is soon gone and, as the...

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I'm still stunned, numb and short of words. I find it hard to believe that you are gone. Just like that, like a wisp of smoke, Caesar is gone. This was not the plan. You...

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Great sun, your day is drawing to a marvelous close.
The horizon seems ablaze as you slowly spill into the turning of night.
Tomorrow we shall see your return,
as you stir sleepy eyes and herald the dawn.
Your...

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Sands of time, a world sublime
This unforgiving life
Try you may, and though you pray
The pain cuts like a knife

Easier each day, or so they say
Time will heal the saying goes
Tightening rope, losing hope
Despair that no...

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Death Is Not The End


Those gone but not forgotten shall endure
in living memories in each loving heart
A testament to great love that is truly pure
crossing death's barrier keeping us apart!

Resting in meadows across the great...

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The towers are gone but the ash and blood still whirl around...
Gone but not forgotten.. 
our mantra...
our pacifier
our breath for the next war.

They want to build a mosque in the shadow of our horror.
They say...

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Dearly beloved  those gone but not forgotten  masqueraded in blood and  gore  wrists slit themselves in protest they were being optimistic. In a peculiar protest took one for the team, fully...

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A Warrior's Blood In His Old Age

Warriors bled, most now are dead and gone
tales read of blood, guts and dried bone.
Those that found residing in sad old age
were few comforts for lost youth's bitter rage!

Tired...

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For My Mother

Although you are not here with me today, Mom
On quiet nights, I sometimes remember
How you held my hand and led the way           
Those...

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This was written by a captain when he saw his fellow soldier lynched and burnt to death by his native civilians.
Cpt Kommoldomo Edmound writes :

When you go home tell my mama 
that the very people...

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Mother I salute you
 Thank you for giving life to me
 Threw your eyes God saw me
 God chose you and I am honoured to call you my mom
 Yes you are Gone but not...

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