Long Hoists Poems

Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. 

"I'm going upstairs," Hubert tells Ruth as he hoists himself out...

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6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...

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Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth

(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André FONTAINE of Le Monde; an illustrious  Academician poet, Pierre...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...

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Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I grew bigger
I witnessed the 50th too:The Golden Jubilee
The country...

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(Isaiah 50: 4, 5 /  Song of Solomon  /  John 11: 23 – 27  /  Revelation 21: 3, 4)


Out of Cold Shadows On A Highland Moor
Will You Come Walking To...

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In the vast field of beings, some are stars that cast kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy from within.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure essence,
While others, with kindness veiled under...

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June 23 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 60-65

Key Verse – Psalms 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR...

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Disrupting the general flow of the ruby blaze,
As ghosts, there are shadows in the haze.
Air-filled skeletons, bone-filled skull,
Sneaking in the shadows, stained by the dull.

Alluding to cruel as zesty and delicate as sour,
Lying expertise of...

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June 13 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 6-10

Key Verse – Psalms 6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEARS OUR SUPPLICATION	

Praise be...

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Scent of men and sweat pervade this little space
away from vast expanse of exercise machines at this gym.
Here they strain beneath laden bars
or lift and lower black and silver weights held in their hands.

A delicious...

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Colours of the rainbow !!!
Come together as one !!!

Dedicated to my Friend Dee !!

From out of the Dark Continent came.
Forced to become, was the game.
Oppression, submission its name.
Four hundreds of years, it remained the same.

I...

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He walked up from the lake
Throwing open the door of the glorious day
Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves
With a toolbox in hand
Delivered to my dad the good news.

“I’m certain this new ignition will...

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Victory*… 
…genuinely triumphant…
is and can never be achieved alone
since it needs a driver, propeller, motivator, instigator.

Grateful am I  
for my victorious life-phases
brought by enablers… significant, remarkable 
who have helped me become who and what...

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I wonder why a setting sun upsets, 
Departing, a fellow passenger, 
A belated monsoon when hesitates, 
Why good fragrance fades like a stranger. 

But then, the sun at dusk is ought to set,
Travellers board only...

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Villanelle : In what way has the Sexual Revolution freed Man

In what way has the Sexual Revolution freed Man
One man's still at the helm where one woman pulls the purse strings
Political structures still rest authoritarian

Is...

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For life's bright glow, I spend each day with grace
Braced up by God, midst hope, to win this race
Wrought care’s breadth that seeks, helps and props the lame
I'm geared through faith’s strength to fight doubts'...

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What is it called?

When thousands of bats
Come pouring out the mouth of a cave
For the black gold of sunset?

Like that
The late autumn leaves tear from their branches
In a spooky warm gale
Misplaced this Halloween night

Buries the...

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When discontentment grips my soul
stricken with “if only” litany
midst tormenting doubts attacking…
…helplessly beseeching for escape flight
while wallowing in failure along frustration angst ---
My Lord hoists my faith, reviving my heart
toward triumphant service. 

Cognizant of uncertainty-filled...

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Lament, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem : Lamento

					Ma mie est morte.
					Plourez mes yeux.
(from an old poet of the fourteenth century whose name escapes me. Paul Verlaine)

The town hoists its high roofs
Of a thousand zig-zagging hoods.
A...

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No reason to sink into dumps
When your spouse scrams from home without leave
Financial muscle into the red jumps
Joy from chaff you can’t sieve

With a head shrinker you may disagree
When mental health strikes
All trial and tribulation...

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The curious neighbor always looks over the fence;
        Enough cause to bewilder me, and I spend a thousand in defense. 
       ...

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On this night, bleak reminisces grip
               My heart   and on my pores…these sorrows bring,
Pained deceit--- lies hiding a false...

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Affirming mind’s fondness for words
Bonus moments balancing busy hours
Catering to intellectual indulgence
Delightful de-stressing habit
Exposing wit to connect letters
Forming words freely
Game of WORDSCAPES*
Hoists me up against pressures…
Invigorating with levels of “brilliance” 
Joyously jubilating my sight midst...

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In the chartreuse lawn,
the music of rustling leaves I hear,
singing the song ‘summer is gone’,
I listen the footsteps of autumn clear.

The screen of summer dust drifts away,
satin sky radiates aquamarine allure.
The cloud clumps turn white...

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