Long Honourably Poems

Suffolk day Wednesday 21st of June 2017
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

There is going to be a Suffolk Day, I heard the news I did today!
On BBC radio...

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Snakes alive a boa constrictor
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned Poet

I spend my days in a coil curled.
Like a rope you could say.
Never get my full-length stretched so.
As there...

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>I have a blinking broken foot.  
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
&
Poetry soup honourably mentioned.

I have a blinking broken foot.
My left one can you not see.
The picture’s on my Facebook page.
For all of...

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Embrace this torso decaying in the wardrobe I wake up those skeletons laying in the warzone 
I make up the rules as I go along you all know so get ready ya better be set...

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Hello, poets everywhere, wherever you might be. As you might  know I take ideas from the news and occasionally what happens in life to I, me  not you, myself. Recently I decided as...

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Dopey painful I/me had a sudden desire to write!
By Stanley Russell Harris 
The new mad Author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

11-2-17 04.22 hours morphine (M)
04.25 hours on Sunday morning and I’m awake.  
I’m...

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>Are the best things in life free?
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad Author
& Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned

One of my cousin’s on Facebook one day.
Said the best things in life are free.
Then she wrote a list...

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Blood and now…
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

Blood and now…

Bite the bullet
taste the sweet blood near
near here flowing from the heart
free as life blood can be
free to give...

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June 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 74-77

Key Verse – Psalm 74:12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SAVIOUR...

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I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that now burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that...

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An ideal state?

The brazen blare of trumpets sounds.
As we approach the temple grounds
the rattling kettle drums compete
 with ominously marching feet.

The people gather here today
 in the old time honoured way. 
To hear our leaders...

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February 20 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 10-14

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 10:9 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy...

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Battle of Arras April – May 1917
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

I was not there.  I have to say.
I was not born.  I meant to say.
Had...

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Is there life after death?
By Stanley R Harris
The new mad author
& A poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

Is there life after death?
Did Christ rise from the dead?
If you are a true Christian!
Your faith must not that...

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Football how safe is it to play?

By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet



The following poem was inspired by news recently that schoolchildren and even professional footballers could become injured...

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>Blood tests
22-12-16
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author.
& Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned

Have you ever had a blood test?
I have lots, you know.
Everybody wants them, why I don’t really know?
And I watch the needle and syringe.
To...

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FIFA V The Poppy
by Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& a poetry soup honourably mentioned poet

I wrote the following poem, when I heard FIFA were going to fine England, Scotland and Wales for wearing a...

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February 1 Scripture Meditations Based on Numbers 15-18

Key Verse – Numbers 15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a...

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What did I do today!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

I looked on the Facebook BBC News.
As that’s where I express my views.
As it does say, ‘write a comment,’...

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We praise You, Lord, for providing us the best gift*
Such is everlasting life which does our souls uplift
With Your offered reconciliation midst sin-enmity’s rift
Making us heaven-bound, and from hell’s flames, adrift.

We praise You, Lord, for...

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We’ve laid down our swords
And hanged up our shields
But the war still rages on in our hearts

We’ve tamed the warhorse
His saddle rests in the stable
But his stride still charges our frontlines

Our trenches buried
A soldier never...

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Fatema beloved special daughter of the Holy prophet 
In an age and place which treated daughters so brutally 
our prophet stood up to welcome Fatima 
whenever she entered 
and kissed her honourably, fondly.
Known as the...

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>The 44th and 45th Presidents of the United States of America.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author & Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned

In this, ‘our world,’  of doom and gloom.
Two opposites sit in a room.
Just...

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The nineteen sixty
of my memory
The white label was
changed to black.
Then came the black
lions with a
sharpened teeth
And mouth so wide to
devour the economy.
They sang to the
whites that we could
handle ourselves
But all their dreams
were to mislead and
embezzle...

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A mouse!
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup honourably mentioned poet

No one lived inside the large house.
Well, no one apart from a tiny mouse.
There once was a large family.
But they moved away...

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