Long Nip in the bud Poems

Fitness guru (grew)
     to an abrupt screeching halt,
     i.e. did dramatically abate,
whence significant block of time,
     I formerly did allocate
(within recent past)
 ...

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THE CARE OF A ROSE
(A Crash Course)

Lesson One
(Undone)

Today we begin
Not a sin
Not to know
Roses grow
(Who will sow?)
*
A knot
A vine
A pass
In time
(Who will go?)

It starts with a clip
A nip in the bud
Careless or
Cautious
In the make
For a...

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THE CARE OF A ROSE
(A Crash Course)

Lesson One
(Undone)

Today we begin
Not a sin
Not to know
Roses grow
(Who will sow?)
*
A knot
A vine
A pass
In time
(Who will go?)

It starts with a clip
A nip in the bud
Careless or
Cautious
In the make
For a...

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Wilderness and wickedness our lives stalk
When one circumstance slips from our wheels
Other unexpected glitches talk
Defeat, nagging at our heels 

In an imminent sense of fear
When blues in marriage
Spectres of a tear
Dysfunction assails the carriage

Our life...

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Speak the truth with intent to be helpful
Praise more, criticise less, with smile beautiful 
Reach out often, rekindling past moments colourful
Empathise without attempting to weigh or size
Accept loving gestures in childlike surprise
Desist from declaring we...

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From ‘Albions distant shores’
I heard the howling and growling and laughing; 
My extra-sensory circuit received
 Signals of the engineering of villains vile.
Texted I frequently – 
Both Roman and Brahmi Pegasus
Carried trans-continentally my emotion-freight
Pleading to nip...

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