Long Organising Poems

Olena Rudenko met Pavlo Lavinski whilst at Kyiv University 
Pavlo told all his friends that she's definitely the girl for me
They got on well then fell in love and had planned to wed
But like the...

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CHAPTER 6 (d, continued)

Several times he threw the wing-form
With advice from Han succeeding
To produce a soaring flight path 
Then returning to his duties 
 
As troop leader; now the females 
Brought forth food they had collected
And their business turned...

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A Message from My Mother

In a dream I saw my mother welcoming guests into her home.
She had been expecting them and had been busy preparing and organising everything.
She rushed to greet with open arms and...

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A Comrade like Ben

A statesman like Mandela diplomatically
suspended the necessary struggle of opposites,
gummed his fragmented land together with reconciliation….
exploiters to exploited , murderers to martyrs
imperialist to invisibled indigenes  
lives in Sandton and councils Bill...

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The tortured poet has returned to cause chaos on the page 
With a pen full of ink that is sharper than Michael Myers blade
This is about to get horrific and bloody it's not for the...

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One time around the pickle mountain ensures that a fountain is required upon return but a round fish looking at a tree line is plotting and planning a way to make a watertight tree house....

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If this was my last participation in the contest 
I would use my last ink to say how much 
I love expressing my thoughts..

"I paste my words as it is from heart and mind for...

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Once was a vibrant community but that was yesterday...
Then the Coronavirus came along and took it all away.
Our freedom we took for granted, nor did we live in fear.
But now we are paying the price...

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We said goodbye to August, 2015, and in that year we shared
The day we met, our futures set, in unison we're declared

That Christmas came and went, knowing we'd share it soon
Eight Thousand Miles apart, it...

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Princes dart to take cups and cups run away very very fast. Fear not a well trodden cat and bear not a bead or a pillow when journeying across the lands. Knock at wooded glades....

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I sit alone and watch an enchanting sunset complete its day,
I want you to sit by my side until we become old and grey.
I relax knowing our love is strong and you are far away.
I...

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The reflections in a sand dune carries the ideological wisdom of a very sensual peanut. But should there be a sanctified mission on a cereal packet it is said to be the time for the...

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Can it be as hard as this?
A struggle of thoughts and feelings arises,
Not ever seeing a resolution,
Assessing the options that offer perhaps a brighter existence,
Weighing every pro and con against the alternative but always considering...

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She makes up the stories about things of the past, 
She lies about how things occurred, 
Happily rewriting stories of how life had played out;
History she tries to reword,

To make her the one organising the...

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Are the hungry laughing,
I think that’s not the case
Cos the pain of living
Means no smile on their face

But all things are possible
In the land of make believe
The hungry are no more and 
The blind can...

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From the moment you see the babies face the face you have waited 9months to see.
The immense love overwhelming you, the hopes and dreams to follow
These are the tender years.
The first smile even though it...

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