Long Naturedly Poems

HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand...

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Emergency Circumstances 

A heavyweight contender for the Consellation Crown
A ready to wait pretender of a serious genuine frown 
A street sweeping vendor in the middle of a mid-western town
A parcel marked return to sender while...

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So a lifetime went by
watching the silver screen
or just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie to start,
or fooling around on the back row
groping thrilling morsels of joy,
and all the time
denying God, or...

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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." 

She...

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Oh! The rivers flow quietly
The wind blown naturedly
Angels toured mvezo Village
Looking for a man
To bring forth, oh! To bring forth
Emancipation to South Africa

Noquphi Nosekeni the privileged woman
Answer to the call of nature July 18, 1918
Baby...

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Morning Coffee

by Edmund Siejka


The night before
A soft rain had fallen
Traffic lights,
Hitting the streets 
At just the right angle,
Transformed wet asphalt
Into long shiny ribbons.

Pulling into the Diner
He saw that most of the tables were taken
But there...

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Crushed coquina’s pains, salty air consoled. 
Mistrusting soul, my heart could not appease.
We met when life was brimming and potholed.
My spoken words were long lost memories.

Relentlessly the past remained in view.
Romantic strolls along the shore...

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I feel as one…now
With the grass and trees
Part and parcel 
Of capricious breeze
Feel the need to fall
Upon my knees
And beg…“let me linger
A little longer please”

I feel a certain sadness
Perhaps more sure
A certain madness
In my humble
And...

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Bili’s one of my two best chums. She's exquisite, cagey and ferociously funny - compared to her I’m tomboyish.

Her hair is a straight corn-silk that shines like black-enamel. When we watch movies, I get to...

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Who can understand why war still exists where
there are clouds reflected in water here

History has proven its futility
even the breeze has a peaceful touch

The graves of the fallen state “they died for us”
Lizards bask on...

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Who can understand why war still exists where
there are clouds reflected in water here
History has proven its futility
even the breeze has a peaceful touch
The graves of the fallen state “they died for us”
Lizards bask on...

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A lifetime goes by
just hanging about in the foyer
waiting for the right movie to start.
Then you realize
you have been the only theater in town.

Inside your play within a play
angels appear at various exit doors,
they have...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You...

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The seasons change and time dies go by,
but your heart is never gone;
you did not die.

Your spirit reigns over a thousand rivers.
You're the warmth when the darkness shivers.

You are the sovereign winds glorifying the skies.
You...

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The damage was done
he was hung on a cross,
a ragdoll now
his body crucified by last words.

Idle soldiers cast dice for his torn garments.
One stopped in mid-throw - a spearpoint of doubt
had cut his mind open...

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