Long Lushness Poems

When your befuddled mind
Forsakes upon the ragged edge
Of swirling darkness;
Where eternal night awaits
To sate upon purest innocence
Besides an open grave!
When the gravity of your perils
Be foully whispered within
Dismayed
And abject earshot;
Where salvation for despairing souls
Be so...

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Take me away with a wave of fantasy
To an ocean of wonders so full of glee
A world where I’m empowered and free
Where no sorrows can bother me.

Traveling in time, to different places
To many eras, filled...

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HOLY IS THE NEW FLESH

burning the rights of an ancient Sacrifice 
by ancestors holy and profane 
the offerings of an Intellectual ape 
hairless and Afraid 
of the indiscriminate night 

unknown regions far from human sight,...

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1.	Shall I narrate you a tale or may be a thousand stories,
Of a lost love and fervent devotion?
Or chronicles of longing and separation? 
Mayhap I, relate both as you wish, open your eyes and give...

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Africa the continent…of incredible wealth …?
Through exploitation, corruption…and stealth…attrition felt…?
Called the mother land…are you a fan…?
The significance of tribes…the subject of their lives…
The stark of their marks…to the ranges in their talks…
From the spears that...

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Written by Mpho Leteng(Botswana), Donald Kuutsi(Zimbabwe) and Blessing Masora(Zimbabwe)

Mountains stand like sentinels,  
guardians of secrets whispered in the wind,  
the baobab trees hold tales in their gnarled arms,  
ancient stories of drought...

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Since a little girl, I have been sensitive.  Hiding behind mother was my place to be.
Mother used to say that I was born different.  My eyes were pools of sadness, dark
brown and full...

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Written: February 3rd, 2024
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Existence for him,
should be the shivering,
a fantastic cymbal beat,
beaten with a firm stick,
then, at the...

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My heart will gladly express gratitude for yielding.
The day's fulfilments grasp an epilogue wielding.
At the point when my eyesight would rest placidly.
Distress is being waged elsewhere so abjectly.

Through the ambiguity, a sparkle of spirits is...

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When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease your breathless sighs,
so softness of her voice soothes suppressed sorrows...

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Invincible craving for the relish from home, 
Laughter in deep dimples sets as lava, seats silently with desires.
 Mother’s medicines rejuvenate,

Food, Bring them from Africa.
Especially from Mami’s kitchen, 
Where the aroma helps develops patience, 
The...

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When I grow old and leave this world 
Within my eyes will be held 
The beauty of this Island home 
Where I have forever dwelled 

The lushness of evergreen trees
And salt upon the endless sea...

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Euphoric growth and gracious space, could no one lay a finger on Scarlett’s place
The daisies breed and seed sunshine as if the heavens hovered and covered the 
saturated earth
In her world she inhibits sleek habitation...

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He'd made the world, the flowers the trees,
invented weather, the rain and the breeze.
The fowls of the air, the fish in the sea,
the beasts of the Earth, the ancestors of we.

He'd made the streams, the...

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When caught mid-flight
End to bloat against gravity
Thanks, rejection is not of the earth

My eyes are welling
I won’t hold back with shame 
Even warriors often times loosen, weeping

A good mother’s breast thrust
Not in for the oldest...

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over occupied world
bewildering hodge-podge of people
pushing stress where it ought not to be

in the slim rays of late day
in the splattered mess of guttered streets
a homeless man asks for a light
for a half burnt cigarette...

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Society's shoreline shifts
with storms 
and unpredictable periods of calm,

at times only rocks can be found,
while at others white sand 
stretches for miles.

These changes brought on by weather and tide
affect the very elect with private gardens
as...

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My only regret is never learning how to fly
There seems to be so much freedom in the sky
On a vertical, diagonal rise guiding the wind
Piloting my destiny on the glide

I imagine I was a rocket...

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Not a true vacation just an afternoon away from home and have lunch out of town.  All along the wayside the lushness of summer spread out verdantly on each side of the road. ...

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Tis' timeless this cathedral green
A constant play of exquisite transition
Lofting tribute with flawless composition
Unerring to the senses embellished serene

Above the hushed and restful peace
The thunderous water speaks aloud
And falls like torrents from Neptune's cloud
Transcending its...

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A Story of the Unsung. 

Man, horse and cart wait at the railway station, picking up wares
 and delivering them to local shops. Every July the man and horse 
go on holiday to the country...

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Written: August 3rd, 2023
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Through the shallow depths of my soul,
I sail on a wild surface with no control.
Passengers of dreams, we set sail,
With the wind blowing through, we prevail.

In this journey, we navigate,
A lushness of...

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The ghats,grey serpents in green thickets
cool and moist, dampens restless midgets

There ,in  a hotel ,in the lushness of the tropic's crown
are trees mighty tall with neat flights of stairs hanging down.

stood  perched on...

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Start

The setting sun kisses the distant hills
Spreading its last rays before it spills
Into the forested abyss beyond 
Bringing in dusk with its magic wand

I stood for years a mute witness to this show
My bare branches...

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I found a chateau lawn once, teeming with charm
A  MAZE it was,  growing cluttered yet it had an air
Of much lushness TURNING the space into a hued mantle;
Where PATHS of herbage, bluebells, camellias...

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