Long Harbours Poems

THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on the outside looking in 
Are the only ones feeling queasy...

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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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Wave a sea softened
                  and a pain and a tenderness
        ...

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'I think I know why the ocean flows'


When I watch the tides send spume and surf onto the poets' swaying shore

Caress the silken sand embrace high waters so quietly or with almighty roar

As tangled seaweed...

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One Week ?

Could be all there is?
Maybe a day, an hour, just a moment,
then what was, no longer is,
what could have been, never can be.
All becomes lost to the fears,
the uncertainties,
one harbours inside their head,
the...

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 She  felt the world  turned upside down in apace,
When he left her suddenly with his sad goodbyes in her last embrace;
She was so weak to endure the pain of losing him,
She thought,...

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My lateness once more has caused me immediate damnation,
and my unstable state, a product of my lost attention.
Overcoming the limitation by doing three person's work at once
resulted to a failed manipulation
of compressing minutes' activities into...

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Life from down Under

Beneath the turbulent, undulating seas of one’s life,
I have swam, against the ever changing, raging currents.
Many times, without foresight !!!, towards dire consequences.

Looking up from the depths at the underside of wave...

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She speaks in lingo
Like foreigners speak gringo
In all forks of the great America
Around and out of this awesome Africa

She comes online
Doing this shows she recline
On the dawn and night of her words
Designed to have faith...

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Let me take you to Venice
passing through the canals
all the alleys and valleys
gondolieurs,souvenirs,
saying cheers,drinking wine 
whilst we dine,full moon  
lanternes lightning sweet Venice,
its the place for romance
our place, shall we dance?
home sweet home ,we're...

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This is a land of lands where dreams
are planted in the longing eyes of a child.
Lives are redefined for societal upliftment,
children build castles in the seashore and
watch the passage of tradition and culture
from the custodians...

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When taking a stroll on a path filled with weeds the force fields are often not symmetrical nor are they aligned. But the shining synchronization of a sky lit sun cap can capsulize even the...

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Mother! you weep for your son, and another son
and yet another son! Fodder to the misshapen morals of this world! Shot in cold blood! Again and again! Each bullet screaming out the rage of hatred!...

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When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded by selfish acts from satanic spirits.
Featherless angels of twilight need...

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Climate change and its impact on health 


Modern world of changing climes, 
health now wanes;
As nature's balance tilts, 
our bodies strain;
Beneath a sky once calm and clear,
world lost balance year by year;
Now climate shifts with...

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It fell from a grey sky
That exhibited darker clouds
From the smouldering of the earth
Over the land of the rhino

It covered all with whiteness
And turned the tone of the continent
Into emptiness
The people and the wildlife vacating...

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SHACKLES

The loneliness wraps around me
Shackles me with its weight
My blood runs cold within me
I fight to stay afloat
The black dark clouds, they chase me
And try to take my soul
The tears flow freely from me
And I...

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The Highland Princess
Sails again
Its captain and dove
To the Mediterranean
 
Now so much in love
To an island they go
To celebrate their engagement
For their love truly flows
 
This archipelago of seven
In this sea of blue
Aboard our babe
As...

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Echoes from Adebayo

Make sure grandmother see your face,
tell her of the fastened ground which 
harbours me in promiscuous manner.
Prepared a gainful story in your lips,
my mother must not know that life has
made me one of...

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The drowned (man), Translation of Etiemble’s poem: Noyé by T Wignesan

( Etiemble who devotes some pages in this only verse volume to translations was a stickler 
to the practice of reproducing the original in its...

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*THE MIND*

I know a damsel who dances to the tune of circumstances 
Never believes in the power of positivity
Always quick to claim negativity
Blaming God for everything 
And asking questions in her insensitivity 
"Oh! Why is...

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     The beauty of birds has always been my fascination. Oh, the haunting call of the
Loon and the devotion of nesting Robins.  Birds symbolize to me freedom. The
whimsy of their...

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All that ever was is all that ever will be
   and its pass of years washed to the sea.
O’ death is woe, and I am as I feared
     alone...

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Like in a dungeon we live,
Full of dissatisfaction and high charges of stuff
With no sign of reduction but expansion
As if we were victims of famine
In a famished land.
The rainbows of intercession speak not,
And the markets,...

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BROWN EYES

With heartless, cruel intention
Vicious words rolled off her tongue
Like daggers sharp, they pierced his soul
And every word, more damage done

That moment tore his psyche apart
His self-confidence declined
An unrelenting hurt remains
Wounded both in heart and...

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