Long Happen upon Poems

The atmosphere is about to change 
In a way that can't be explained
Families will be reunited and fires will be reignited.

The most important things in life touch your heart the most, 
Have no currency and...

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Enter beside the hollow log mailbox.
Here the road leads through a profusion of leafy damp shadows.
Wild ferns are the underbrush
where Fairy Wrens flit from the slightest presence.
This driveway winds by towering bush gums flanked
on the...

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SYRIAN REFUGEES

I'm watching a programme on telly
About the Syrian refugees
Men and women and children
Humanity brought to its knees

I'm watching the desperate faces
The terror and hunger and fear
They're facing their ultimate nightmare
And me? Well I'm just...

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A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted snow;
Across the matted undergrowth
A bronzed carpet of copper coloured
Leaves
Whose rusting...

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The radio controlled emotion of a steel framed explosion happens not once nor twice or three times. Several sharp impacts equals a scrambled surface. Where no glorification of swamp residue exists for it glows and...

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I saw him before I saw her…(I believe she was holding the door.)
There was a far away look in his eyes as he shuffled his feet on the floor.

I felt a twinge of sorrow for...

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it's easy to imagine the moon fell out of the sky
but no, it's still up there, where it's always been
    I look around to see what chases me; nothing moves...
  ...

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"Oftentimes, sometimes I think of you. I drive by the street where you used to live. I don't know now if you're alive or not. Blessings to you I give. I don't  know if...

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Soft light of sunlight mists across the smoky gray
Of the blue ridges where colors of emerald pine
Surface in the distance, creating a brilliant waltz
Of cloudless dreams which signal to my spirit
Whispering silence and serenity through...

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In Succession

Queen's grandson has been happily married
She smiled each time future child was carried
By Princess above all who is as lovely as her
Who we wanted to see when taking a tour.

To fact a child was...

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(Line for line… tit for tat.)

1.

My house is kind of small
but bigger than my kitchen
And in my kitchen there’s a lamp
that’s bigger than my fist
Please don’t touch the dog’s food bowl
only I touch the food...

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"Bring forth the witch! Bind her to the stake!
It has been my wish, to trample evil for God's sake."
Teztelian verbalism, another veiled devil's play,
Actors in cassocks, in God's name harvesting away. 

Tolkienan wits, I rewrite...

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IT’S RAINING AND THAT ROOF SPEAKS

“That’s the way a cookie always crumbles”
And how sneakers in the clothes dryer tumbles
It’s also the way the ocean and its waves are tossed
And now I’ll describe the ways in...

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On a remote part of the beach we walk as the sun was bowing to the night
we happened upon a young couple having their picture taken…
A young couple dressed in white.

We smiled as we held...

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If you happen upon a stack of photos taken in Victorian times,
Look carefully for a post-mortem picture – they command a premium price.
Technically, everyone in those photos is dead – today
But if they’re dead in...

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Inspired by "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a leaf that falls,
unmourned, to the distant ground
I paused when I heard a far bird's calls
Magic I'd missed looking down--
royal Autumn...

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"Walking trough the woods,
I let my mind wander all I could

Hoping the shackles of a busy world will fall away, 
To lighten my step when this burden gives way

To allow the beauty of the forest,
To...

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    In my perfect world there would be no guns,
        or bombs, no terrorists and no wars;
    we would bring our soldiers...

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Speeding along a curved road
Eyes watching the asphalt’s twists and turns 
I happen upon a substantial rock
Lying along the road on my course
It takes a few seconds for me to realize
That big brown rock isn’t...

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He sits and scratches 
	With endless scratching
They cover him in patches
	Hope they aren’t catching

He struggles with them
	Longing to destroy their eggs
They darken and condemn
	Creeping and crawling with long legs

He dreads this affliction
	Which comes to him...

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Wandering through the badlands
of the great south western plains
I happen upon a great assembly of
fairy spires, other worldly
wonders of rocky pinnacles
that dot the high desert landscape.

Strange oddities, these creatures
with their solemn, stony faces
staring toward the...

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upon the throes of passion i lay before you now; i am not certain how to come to 
thee.  i do know that we must meet. so with my hand i have written to...

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     Of all the flowers- it is the rose I love the best,
And the most beautiful to me is the color red;
         ...

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Now lightly sweep the peppercorns in a harbour. No drama. But underground is not a gate nor a post for these are only really ever positioned on hallucinogenic coastal paths where time stands and the...

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Woman! darkly gleam is your work I esteem…love it!
From mountainous mountain top to valley‘s belly
I hear you pluck…on eagle‘s wings…onward pluck
How nice, your device visits and forces in their smelly
Glamorous cells, a glad evening‘s grief...

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