Long Leveller Poems

NA Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Ink Empress


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By Stanley Collymore

Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is the lame and unconvincing excuse
that’s...

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Though the sun had begun bleeding in the West
With an explorer’s gait, I walked jumping over gutters
My track, flanked with knee high grass and nettles
Also, wild bushes of all kinds that grew in clusters

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COVID 19: A LEVELLER

Apocalypse! Armageddon! Ragnarok!
Deadly spread of  COVID 19
Caused by human misdeeds 
Confusion. disaster cover the land
Death now becomes a reigning language
Both the cause and the cure brew conflicts
But can men stop transgressing...

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Placed third in :
Any Topic Any Form Poetry Contest 
Sponsored by Sotto Poet

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If anyone’s reading this poem, your somewhere in my past
       I’m in the future for these ‘right now' moments never last
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I am the reaper man
and I’m always here,
striding through an ambience
of gut rot and fear.

I am the reaper man
with touch as cold as snow,
I stalk the darkest landscape
where angels never go.

I am the reaper man,
neither...

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I saw you from the distance ;
I saw you in my dream ;
You are the queen of my dream.
When I saw you in actual;
You are far and behind from me.

Consciousness run in search of you;
I...

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DEATH   OF   THE   SNOW   HEAPS


Like full-bodied youngsters they ruled the street
For a while - rude, unchallenged strength sweet;
Their short life  -    immaculate seeming....

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This game of golf as is this life, 
Played all life, perfect still can't be, 
Ever reminding of one’s wife, 
Put on pedestal, upon tee, 
Handicaps, roughs, bogies stay rife, 
And played as if on...

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CLEVER

One likes to think oneself as clever
Always ironic, and with a wry grin
Yet the great leveller is often poetry
As it sorts the wheat from the chaff
And rhyme and metre can be a faff
All is fair...

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Have you heard
Of the ravaging virus?
That equal leveller;
That conforms everyone to the same corner
Some say it is the disease of the rich;
Some say it is for the poor,
Just like John 10:10
Its aim is to kill,destroy...

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As hour piled on hour and day on day,
Several years drove past as decades.
Past now etched in the sand dunes of time,
Displaced by the winds of a bygone era.

Sweet memories fondly remembered;
Several dreams now lived...

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LANDING

Big Brother's eye
beyond the sky 
Saw it not sneak nigh, 
round valley and hill,
gripping necks at will;

No Global Hawk, Predator, 
Brigadier, Mirador,
nor fortress and tower high 
Could site it here or there,
abridging lives to spare....

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Prolonged illness
Doctor forewarned
‘Might prove fatal’
Family was prepared
“When time comes
Royal send-off
Matching elite status
Grand plans
Cavalcade of cars
Who’s who of society
Wearing unblemished white
Engaged in 
‘Animated’ discussions on ‘Death’
Everything better than
That death in Mr X’s family”
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Old man’s wish-
Visiting...

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Some suffering does not aspire to the Buddha’s kind

When the pound shop closes which is an ominous sign

Thanks God the jewellers continue to open their doors

Angry unwashed masses are difficult enough to restrain

But the bored...

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SNOWFLAKES   

Lightly loaded  on the branches
Filigree fingers of delicate white
God’s winter  sky-buds starry bright
Made  with frosted feather brushes

Fragile frigid  frost  creations
Graceful  lace of white - behold
Their ...

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Death is a great leveller
A balm for all our ills,
Frees us from every sickness
Without a need for pills.

Old rivalries forgotten
Buried under the sun,
Enemies turn cherished friends
For the role plays are done.

Know ether world is richer
With...

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Death! Oh Death!!
Thou art the leveller 
par excellence
Thou who kills without 
mirth
Taking all souls from 
hence and thence.

Pity is not in thy nature
Cruelity is thy second 
name
Thou tread where no 
living dare venture
Stealing souls all...

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