Long Landslides Poems

Unquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI

Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...

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Although born in Scotland I have no memories of there as we left when I was two.
My first recollections are of Las Palmos in the Canaries.
I recall the donkey passing daily and being told he...

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First Version   -    (Posted 5/11/14)

Towards the end of late morning,
As noon was approaching,
And people went about their usual chores
A mighty rush of water
Swept them right off their feet.

No one knew...

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We are fire.
We fire.
We consume and produce warm memories,
and colder dissonance.
Where were we before first flicker of flame?
What were we before our warm time?

After our last flame expires
is our enlightened distinction
now extinguished?
Or this same where...

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You're the flame around my heart,
am I still your smile
when we're apart?

As you leave your flame flares up,
but when I look into your face,
I miss your lack of smiling place,
You are my fire!

Where were you...

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I am so lucky that my parents are adventurers
At three we went to Los Palmas and stayed there
until I was five living in a wonderful house with 
a flat roof that hosted our garden and...

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When alabaster twilights 
rain upon celestial roses,
with tear-soaked trinkets 
of ancient aromas ~
I wear their amaranth scents 
upon acrylic wrists, 
and tie my terracotta threads
of twinkling trust
with those topaz ribbons 
of reminiscent tales, 
slowly floating...

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Himalayan  Trip-Trap

They poured in,  before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their  cribs -through-hearse  stages, 
trusting like kids,  a burnished sky,  blue-white, 
a cocktail of the wrong...

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This struggling accomplished path winds,
Spiral like stairs leading us to the point;
Average wingedhipsters today more like
Displaced thugs. With no sense.
At every corner, we're speaking rigorous
Reminders.

That we all eventually yawn.your wombs

America, I'm wore out, worrying about
This...

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The memoirs of an ashtray should be written by the giggling pot pourri for pot pourri are neither properly printing nor are the proficient professional photographic petals. How exciting is the table today? Not very....

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In the fascinating life journey of a couple 
When clouds darken in their midst all of a sudden
With murky grey shades in their relation purple
Many a storms begin to twirl their souls ‘n burden.

Clouds of...

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Think globally, act locally,
The desert shall rejoice
And blossom as rose,
Man has been endowed with reason
With the power to create
So that he can add to what he's been given.
But up to now he has only been...

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We all have voices
They are strong and loud
We can use them to start 
Landslides and earthquakes
We can also calm the storm
Take that roar and turn it into 
A gentle hum
We all have words
And it's time...

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And he pacing about the house
Had all the time to do
The things he lost time for before
To keep the promises 
He made to himself in each ritual
Morning of his nine to five
And yet as if...

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MISS CLITHEROE

by Robert Davidson

And They Thought She Had Missed Out On Love.

They called her an old maid
Said Maud never had the chance to test her virtue
Said she was like a pressed flower in a book.
But...

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Phoenix Defrosted

Given by the Sun God the good of the moon and some lucky stars
he sits full of fortune love and still in miraculous amazement under 
the bright rays of southern soil soaking unbelievable kindness...

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Yes Yes.



Yes yes has been development I believe in dreams I have ridden horse race
I have seen and read in daily paper distribution of prizes in awakes  
Tall buildings are giving same messages I...

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The musical of the rain
                              ...

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God Shook his Head Today

In the public eye you spew lies from the table cloth, with fake humanitarianism.

A sort of façade one puts on at a mardi gras parade; whimsical and alluring.

Yet, your goodwill proves...

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Towards the end of late morning,
As noon was approaching,
And people went about their usual chores
A mighty rush of water
Swept them right off their feet.

No one knew what was happening,
Innocent children drowned
Into the deep depths of...

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From seed to sapling it grew non-stop
On the tall majestic Mountain’s top
It spread its boughs and sank its roots
Deep into it’s fertile boots
But fear it did, though strong and stout
“What if the rains cease an’...

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“The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul”


           I remember the valley rolled with thunder 
       ...

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Natural calamities have been
With man since time immemorial; 
Frequenting the earth's face, 
Standing as one tall trial.

They ravage places at random, 
So unpredictable; 
Like invincible enemies, 
Wreaking havoc so powerful.

Nature unleashes its wrath
In many forms;...

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IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS





I am demanding my own star in the sky when I die
I’ve handled all the hardships no judge can deny
I survived the obstacles nature placed in my path
Withstood the inanity...

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Beyond the escarpment of love a 2nd hand rose thrives, trying not to die  
the gardens are pregnant in bloom as Mei in her China gown asks why 
the authentic sun shines both to...

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