Long Grails Poems

EULOGY TO MRS (Ph.D) ALIHAJA, AMINAT OLABOOPO                            ...

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Before my fallen wings I plead
Let me carry out this deed
Find a love in desperate need
Of a white knight on a steed

I already have a girl in mind
Are souls have met forever bind
Lost in chaos,...

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Thinking it sophisticated, he declared himself a sophist. 
Dwelling deep in Plato’s cave, he became learned in the shapes of shadows. 
Enamored by their dim dancing, he concluded there can be no truth.
One day he...

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It’s deeper than words, for she arose more glorious -n- prettier than any earthly rose, 4 I lay with inside her pink abode, it’s deeper than life, -n- more intricate than when day meets night,...

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That you are, 
In the shades of a bulwark 
Twilit by weakness when I demur,
You’re that (!) – Amor fati, 
In the refusal of capriciousness, 
As I create what I create.
I’m your pain, 
And your...

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Rare, essential expensive minerals embedded deep down in the core of 3 
dimensional mountains, silver owls, platinum falcons, waterfalls-n-streams, 
poisonous leaves tufa fermented into stream, a tongue less unfrozen tundra 
evaporated from hunger, copper chocolate-n-brass...

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Augury – 2-20-25  Edward Ibeh – Sponsor; Title Chosen - Augury; Pick a Title No. 49
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Augury

Embers of prophecy rise
In the haunting omens of owls
Divining tea leaves
Heralds speak future through opaque signs
And signals of frantic...

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Starlit Memories

“…recently scenes of early life have stolen into my mind like breezes blown…”
Samuel Coleridge 

Midnight reveries tickle my memories
When I see bright asterisms ascend
Through rivers of stars summers past I see

Constellations retell their starry...

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Villanelle: Hoist not the flag of your hidden vices

Hoist not the flag of your hidden vices
Wonder not why enemies pick on entrails
No foe will salute nor sing your praises

You cannot make curry without spices
Worst not...

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 The Kundalini Is Rising, now I'm Flying High on Wings Of Wisdom
 Full Power Up On The Chrism,
 Ever-Upward in Fully Blazoned Life
 Fear No Evil, Fear The Regal Like....
 I AM Spirit, I...

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Let larking bliss on zephyr wings descend
And meadows fill with gleeful mirth and song;
The proud aurora’s sparkle then amend
With daisies spread in an ambrosial throng. 
   The cheerful gods pour nectar into grails,
...

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DENTED CANS

At first pristine in form and colour bright
They glittered in the clear warm air of youth
With dreams and goals attainable in our sight
Then framed in words unstrained by filtered truth

To have, to do, to...

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You heed what’s preached, I observe beyond the pale 
We play cat and mouse, searching out our holy grails

I see blackness and stars, with no end in sight 
You discern an inner sanctum, and eternal...

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