Long Harbouring Poems

"Cocoon"

They say...
a New World 
traces over the old,
leaving the unaware,
erased, far behind 

the old unaware, 
left far behind,
crawls the walls
in its web of lies
spinning suspect 
strings of silk 
in the air

glistening diamond nets
slick and sticky...

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The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men ….sad
Twisted, fuming with anger, and consumed with rage
Callous and cruel...

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While sitting in my bed, different thoughts raced around in my head; there was one that stood apart from the rest. With it came a moment of clarity, a deeper understanding, and a sense of...

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Meandering meadows broken by a tossing garbling brook…boulders embossing...marbling and moss flossing

Awoken whispers spoken..cantankerous coughing eddy wheezes..then a curmudgeonly icy mirror hush

Reckoning breezes yield cats' paws beckoning…teases across the flanking field

Fairies’ wield spells conveyed in...

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A rare Arab and Asian identity which is distinct in topography;
blessed with an excellent human resource in health services;
its heart, destroyed and rebuilt seven different times;
having a name unchanged and sustained to reach historic zeniths;
surviving...

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We snapped memories into photobook
Watching the edges of songful hedges
Draw  a hopeful singlet of grace of
Testimonies conquered in neglected verses. 
We played from the check of honoured
Dimples crossing routes of perfections. 
Here are tunes...

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Does doubt enter our minds 
only when we are 
unsure about something
when we think about something
see something
hear something 
or are told something 
that gives us pause
do we learn to doubt 
like we learn our A...

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Dee and Me

The years have so quickly gotten by.
They have stepped in-between you and I

The years have slipped quietly away.
You, it seems, have drifted further than they.

There is nothing left of what once was,
and I...

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The flame of awareness is held by God,
which we cognise when fickle mind is still,
that ego vaporised, frigid heart thawed,
dove of love perches on soul’s window sill.
There is in truth nothing we need to do,
save...

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When the chilly wind starts blowing from the North, 
                          ...

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I want to share a bit of info I think everyone should know.
It may make life a little easier as through life you go.
People come equipped with a number of traits, good and bad;
With some...

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Case closed

I was locked in my closet
Thinking deeply with so much fear
Eyes pregnant with a load of tears
In between the four walls, I sob
But my mind insists, saying
Peace be still
If God is involved, then
Case closed!

Arise,...

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“Step into my office, young novice
Clear off the tears from your face
Because they’re pointlessly burrowing into orifices
Tuning wounds that will bloom into a fixed gear race
Shift from fifth gear to disgrace
And if you don’t have...

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As I lay in  meadows green  outstreched on the grass
 Ignorance comes blinding as the fleeting day goes past. Blissfull blindness leaves  ignorance to the fading light. 
Approach the dark let all of day demise...

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The throne of the crow 
Dominates their subjects below
Scanning each plot of sow 
For the murders they can overthrow.
The two withered branches from the tallest trees
Seat the crow and its eyes to see that vast...

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I stood in awe as she alighted like a bird upon some branch,
Belisha beacon to the abyss bound  clochard.
Bonfire for uncanny scion  adrift,
 ignited by her
incandescent eyes.
Chanteuse  of Arcadia  on song...

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The weeping of souls and Heavenly joy abounds
Succumb to the raptures of that moisture upon a cheek
Transcendental souls speak their own language of tears
We are just their harbouring hosts as each other they seek

No longer...

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Thank you very much
For having such a heart,
such a blooming heart,
such a bleeding heart,
and guiding and guarding
that child from them,
from that pack of wolves. 
 
A decade ago, it happened, 
and it happened for a...

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Oh! I'm tired 

Drained by this charade
This masquerade of a ball
An illusion empty of dancers, 
no costume, no mask

Fatigued by an endless series of mirages
Hope has finally bent 
Dragging me down, 
weighing me down in...

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Demise of Summer crushed by time
                 Impatient branches bare themselves 
        ...

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Lying silently on my bed, eyes open wide.
Watching as darkness moves in like a heavy fog.
My breathing seems to echo against the cold walls
And my heart beats rapidly as I’m plagued with thought.
Prayer like questions,...

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I am tarnished
I am stained 
I am damaged goods
I need to be cleansed, wiped clean of the darkness that envelops my body and mind
The daily cycle starts 
Anytime night or day, as I close my...

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The warmth of sunshine,
is like a warm embrace
A gentle hug from a godly image.

The warmth of sunshine,
is like hope’s gentle grace
to a man who viewed
not light in the dark

Feelings from eons before
reach this splendid blue
blessing...

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An old stone cottage stands on the seafront
Abandoned and alone
Windows covered in sea salt and cobwebs
Its history and story unknown

A small white cottage with good bones
That has weathered many a storm
Now unloved and neglected 
Still...

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The orange globe hung over the horizon ready to hand over the torch

To a waxing moon ready to watch over the cycle of disbelief and hope

An epilogue to old beginnings and fresh start to the...

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