Long Laboured Poems
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No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
laboured, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
laboured, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Categories:
laboured, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Blossom
Blossom
Just grab a seat on that stump lad, and I'll take centre stage,
With a yarn about a small brown donk, and a lad about your age.
And thanks much for the offer, but I'll give...
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Categories:
laboured, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
No God of Mine
Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.
Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...
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Categories:
laboured, halloween, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Dirge of the Last Lap
I
The loud, cruel laughter of dirge
besieges us so greatly in the face of
wanton humiliation.
It comes mightily, crashing our aged
city walls, unearthing the foundations of
churches,
tolling bells in pulsated grief . . .
Dirge comes with thunder,
like the...
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Categories:
laboured, dark, death, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly
knew... ...
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Categories:
laboured, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bungle Bungle Look
The Bungle Bungle look
C’mon she says, or we’ll be late The bus gets here at half past eight “What bus says I”. (With that look of hers my gaze is met) To the airport dearest,...
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, funny, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Appreciation
Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.
Anne Rice
From the deepest recesses of the crowded hall
Came a thunderous applause that shook the walls
An artist par excellence was on stage...
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, celebrity, dedication, emotions, goodbye, motivation, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Up and Down the Hill
She, the queen of glamour, they say,
Loves making things flow her way.
Fortunate she was, having earned
A prince as he, so delectable,
Amidst the beauty of hills,
He made her, the dream castle.
As lovingly, She delivered to...
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Categories:
laboured, love,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Beauty In the Hell 2
In some point of your life,
Which has been pain of your living.
It can be at any point of your life...
A sudden refresh of all yoursef,
Pops up as a regular coincidence.
Suddenly, all the weight of...
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Categories:
laboured, art, beautiful, blessing, care, change, color, inspiration,
Form:
Ballad
The Bath
An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's Own"
Into this swirling maelstrom they were duly thrown
The Great War...
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Categories:
laboured, world war i, , western,
Form:
Ballad
Save Our Souls
It was three in the morning and I had to get dressed
The radio had crackled out, another SOS
The fire flickered slowly, it was to cold to gain heat
So I pulled on my old boots and...
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Categories:
laboured, dedication, me, old, tree, fire, fire, me,
Form:
Verse
Odyssey From Africa 12b
Odyssey from Africa, Chapter 12 The Fireflower (continued, b)
Finally a tired Ipiki
Flew back to his owner Matto
Hanging from his fern-frond necklace
Starting late his daytime sleeping
Matto went into the mansion
Back into their...
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Categories:
laboured, adventure, africa, animal, history, mythology, nature, voyage,
Form:
Narrative
Khatia Buniatishvili's Piano Concerto 1 By Tchaikovsky
Khatia Buniatishvili's Tour de Force of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto N° 1 in B-flat minor on Zubin Mehta's 80th Birthday*
… the caged-beast terrified defying the donderbus blasts vollies of muskets and cannons heralding the charge cavernous...
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, inspirational, music, war,
Form:
Free verse
Little Red
It was a waxing, gibbous moon and Cassandra felt calm and at ease
as she stepped out that February night with frost upon the trees..
It was only a mile to grandmothers house, she'd walked it many...
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Categories:
laboured, allegory, dark, emotions, evil, fantasy, mythology,
Form:
Ode
Ways of Providence
My mind shudders at the memory of a dark day in my life when our son, a late boon into our arid life- (the one born to us after twelve years of long waiting,) was...
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Categories:
laboured, angst, fear, god, inspirational love,
Form:
Haibun
1947-The Peeing of the Peaked Peasantry - a Mocktail
Monah Kaur and Robert Kumar fled from London, came to ‘Hindustan’; tied the knot
The 'Singhs' stopped their songs and 'Kumars at no. 42' burnt their studio; this rebellion; they will forget not
A petite piece of...
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Categories:
laboured, culture, grief, patriotic, war, word play, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Ugly Son
Ugly son, ugly son;
lashed out by everyone.
His mother's grey hair turned white
loving him.
He has travelled around the world.
His father wallowed in pain,
as he walked away into the plane,
they drove back home leaving him
to now lonely...
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Categories:
laboured, endurance, family, farewell, life,
Form:
Free verse
Something Different
Oh God! thank you for giving me all that I have.
But bring me something different!
Good morning, good day, see you soon.
Oh how nice to hear you, to meet you.
Thanks for the nice evening, the...
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, devotion, family, home,
Form:
Free verse
Botched Artwork Saves Town
Botched Artwork Saves Town
Sometime last year, in late August 2015, something unusual went viral..
It was an ancient picture on the wall, vastly unlike its original art..
A piece of botched artwork, unfinished, and yet all over...
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Categories:
laboured, appreciation, beauty, blessing, celebration, community, happy,
Form:
Free verse
The Last 39 Minutes of My Life
Hello so quickly turns into goodbye, in my last 39 minutes on this earth,
Memories swirl through my mind, starting at my birth.
Childhood dreams and meeting my Prince Charming,
Days of rising early turned into years, quite...
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Categories:
laboured, angel, birth, blessing, children, death, journey, love,
Form:
Rhyme
These Are the Words
Whilst cute quotations, and perfectly formed sentences have been reared and pampered on the lawns of perfectly kept estates...
These words...
These words have been sweat.
These words have been cried.
These words have been bled.
These words have been...
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Categories:
laboured, poetry, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Questions of Balance: a Jeremiad
QUESTIONS OF BALANCE: A JEREMIAD
Why is it at 70 politicians are still underage
To assume political offices
And at 30 youths are overage to begin a professional career?
What divine strength hath a leader at 75
When a mandatory...
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Categories:
laboured, abuse, africa, anxiety, corruption, irony, satire, society,
Form:
Free verse
What Happened
Question frequently asked by
those who did not join the liberation struggle
Nothing. When we realized you weren't with us in exile
We invented a rainbow nation but lightning struck it
Shattered it into the trails of our political...
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Categories:
laboured, africa, allegory, allusion, angst, betrayal, conflict,
Form:
Political Verse