Long Ludo Poems

Make Do and Mend,

Years ago we had jobs
We had fun and money in our pocket
Things were much better then
Once you could go out the door
And never ever lock it

But still so many struggled
To buy food...

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It started one evening, simple and bright,  
Two strangers met, beneath the soft moonlight.  
Online they crossed paths, not long ago,  
With laughter and fun, their chats began to flow.

In the midst...

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Yesterday, was an adolescent, 
while we where the innocuous fluorescence that lighted up the floral hopes of the sun and transformed it's smile, into a cheerful full moon.

The sky was always brightly dressed up with...

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Billy Carts and Marbles

Yes, we all played marbles when we were just kids,
Had a big ‘Tom Bowler’ and a bag full of migs.
Held onto your marble with fingers and thumb
No fudging allowed, and your eye...

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YEW TREE LODGE - Story poem 

When I was young we had a local witch, or so they said.
Meg Reid at Yew Tree Lodge. That’s the legend we were fed
The lodge was dark and forbidding,...

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Adieu the king,
Long live the king:
The crown was in the grove
Where his forebears dwell
In their majestic transfiguration;
There he would inherit the fiat,
The power to say and to be;
In the grove of royal tutorial
Where prince became...

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Stuffed Toys And Boardgames 

A tinker mending 
     clockwork trains
And other broken things, 

Peered over his 
     wiry spectacles 
Scrutinising unwound springs.

Between the jars 
  ...

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Million doubts, hundred solutions,
Then why can’t I sort this confusion?
Stuck between the angel and the devil
Digging my own grave with the shovel.

This may sound very dramatic,
But the reality is I want to be ecstatic
Carrying that...

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And you can't paint him a laugh

his face is a metal curtain
with attached sign -
no emotions allowed

you can't
nor you know how
and you gladly would

breathe life into those cells
the same way that life spat in your...

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The attic holds such fascination
I climb the ladder in trepidation.

The attic is a time machine
Most things hidden and unseen.

I lift the hatch and take a peek
The old rocking chair begins to creak.

Dust coats the old...

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I met her in a bar in Trinidad,
  a mother to the sisterhood was she -
three little girls what merry fun we had
  and what sweet memories of you and me.
Madame Estrella, a...

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Cheap entertainment 

We didn’t need computers
To keep us entertained
We didn’t need no Donkey Kong
We had that Ludo game
We didn’t need no gadgets
To count the steps, we’ve gone
We just had a skipping rope
And the salt and...

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God allowed us to invent them: chess, mancala, Ludo, CC-saga;
And Candy Crunch Saga claims to be played everywhere
Methinks "On all seven continents, including Antartica."
Earlier I wrote about Candy Crunch, got to Level 300. No caveat...

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