Long Leisured Poems

Holistic position
simultaneously invites further co-passion
and celebrates having become ever more compassionate,

Inspired that Earth stewards hope to rightly balance
human relationships
with our wider ecological responsibilities.

These right relationships
and EarthCentered responsibilities
need not compete
with more anthropocentric views
of care-giving and -receiving...

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 Black Hole Beauty

Stay calm my beating heart for you will enter the vastness of the void
Consumed by a blackened bestial bliss that the demons have deployed
She comes amidst the narcissistic night devouring love like...

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Welcome to My Shopping Plaza
Reserved purely  for the best,
Entry initially is only by passing
Our Received Pronunciation Test,
Closely followed by meeting
Our test of  personal wealth.
(No well spoken impoverished
Slipping in by stealth.)
When it comes to...

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Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist...

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in Pando's shadow a young maiden sings
wander'd to and fro peat bog feet sloshing
auburn locks adorned in daisy crowned rings
quite unaware that something was watching 

one with thick skinned carion heart at core
to scavenge Middlemist's...

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What on earth did I do to deserve this fate ?
From my insouciance I  awoke much too late.

'Tis to Tomi  now in exile on the Black Sea
Augustus in his wisdom has condemned me.

Julia's...

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Gypsy soul born a wandering way
Bearer of passion age old and new
Who can tame your unbridled day
And live as Romani's do

Calloused hands speak not complaint
Who's bearings steer by twilights cue
A leisured life such charm forsake
To...

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Monoku is a senryu/haiku with a slight enigmatic  flavour written in its earlier as a one line form
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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden

A...

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Reminiscing on the times we spent together meeting you was a pleasure.

I can't hear your voice anymore and that's a complete displeasure.

But I know your smiling down from Heaven of course you got your tresure.

Seeing...

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dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears
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listen to the pause - silence is golden

A tribute to Erik Satie
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the school-bus departs - she eats the advent candy
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on garibaldi's retreat - the cookie crumbles
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moss...

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SYMBOLS OF SUNDAY

The Ille de Grande Jatte sans noise
filled with poise,a posie-in-paint.This
divisionist dog-day,a second of time
frozen in mime;a slow-motion frame
of a social game.The Seine sleeping
sailors boating,youngsters rowing
a lady fishing.trumpeter trilling,dogs
sniffing midst sunshades swishing.
A promenade peopled,gentility
strolling,watching,then,standing
still,and,taking...

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Like the oyster keeping its mouth fastened with pearl,
Her locket was calm with pearl of secret, treasured;
Link has loosened somewhere? Nerve got numbed? Sudden whirl…?
Once psychologically bound has now leisured...?

She held it to her heart;...

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Situated in an embroided spacious field.
Attracting fortunes,wealth and by honey filled.
Land moistured in peace and grace forlorn.
End of strife,struggle,sickness; Goodness un-turn.
Made for all that are drilled.

Second coming; Graced with heightened failure.
Amounting pleasant pressures and did...

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A poem written on the spur of a moment taken furtively
from another busy day slipped into a secret pocket of 
a too over voluminous jacket slipped on to cover a
favorite silk shirt. A mixing of...

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Born, far aloft on highest peak,
of glaze caressed by golden glow,
through ancient sculpted rock she seeks
fair journey forth to glens below.


Cool innocence; a virgin stream
unfurls her charm at leisured pace;
a bracken shaded lover’s dream
meanders on...

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On a Day Like Today
    by Amy Swanson 12/2008


On a day like today,
    I just want to scream.
This day is so cold!
    I'd much rather day-dream...

...of...

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CRAPSEY PHRASIS
To the heart of the matter,
windblown by gusty amazements,
a richness and complexity,fine
and delicate, the beauty of verse.
Co-existent speech by ‘ear’ and 
reason tested,not in arrogance
but humility and subtlety of form.
Questions,most alluring,novelty
foreshadowed by conscious perception.
Far...

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Foot on the gas
No time to slow down

Paddling harder
Not wanting to drown

Reaching for oxygen 
Atmosphere's thinner

Still in the race
Eat the dust of the winner 

Adventure not waining
For some skiing off piste

Soulful confessions?
Time to contact a...

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Funny how time and tide doth turn
For a fool who tries to mask a burn
In smile, in laugh, pretended peace
While maggots feast in leisured ease.

I knew my doom was tightly sealed
The day I dreamt the...

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