Long Photographing Poems

I had an old auntie called Mable
Who could drink men under the table
She’d tell folks of her gout
Sup up six pints of stout  -
then stagger to the loo when able!

11~23~16

WRITTEN BY JAN ALLISON


My paternal...

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We enter through the glassed-in porch
And I feel even more at ease, 
Remembering that as a child
My own room once had been a porch
But there are even more windows here
With glass on all three sides.
Old...

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"5" 

benevolence and favour
seemed to be absent
in the world 

grace, a name 
whispered before 
a meal shared

5 fingers 
on each hand
steeples, hiding people 

games played
in reverence
as a child

war paint 
bleeding 
signs

in the footprints
the number of...

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5...4...3...2......1..GO! 
Get ready to release yourself from deep waters
Land on high grounds
Thrills surrounding your awed temptations

3...2...1.. 
You are ready to take your first flight!!!    
To a wondrous
Space of wonders

Good morning to a space glimpse!

Luminous happiness sweltering
From...

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If I could wave a magic wand and make a fantasy week,
I would rent some cabins in the wilderness near a tourist town.
And fill each one with my family’s love…butterfly kissing cheeks. 
With all my...

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The common men do not like me
So you sit me down, my spree, spree
I light my cigarette, the fire blazed, ardor, ardor
I'll make a dramatic plea, the another day, someday
I should have fled, fled, the...

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We never know how nature will surprise us…what she has in store
what sights she may put on display…that we haven’t seen before.

One thing’s for certain…we need to be observant…because she always finds a way
to show...

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I know that's how death will come,
Suddenly flying into another orbit
when I am photographing flowers.
It's not a gentle transition.
No-one will know where I've gone.
One step wrong and I'm
off the high wire
And plunging into the no...

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all the pheromones circled around me
without knowing, we will gather you all
and we make a world
you draw like the silver treacherous snails
pressed intersections
some over others in translucent layers
ah, here, this is the time you said
and...

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I know that's how death will come,
Suddenly flying into another orbit
when you are photographing flowers.
It's not a gentle transition.
No-one will know where you've gone.
One step wrong and you're.
off the high wire
And plunging into the no...

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I know that's how death will come,
Suddenly flying into another orbit
when you are photographing flowers.
It's not a gentle transition.
No-one will know where you've gone.
One step wrong and you're.
off the high wire
And plunging into the no...

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It's on one of those cold Bengaluru evenings
When you've begun to contemplate
About how your life has led you to this point
of desolation.
Who are you and what have you done
To the energetic, happy-go-lucky boy
With dreams of...

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LIFE ON SUNDAY 
A JOURNEY

Into Mother Nature's, realm - this day - did I take a walk
Alone the river's edge - the edge of thoughts - with no one to talk.
Listen did I to the...

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REPORT CARD - FAUCI U. 

 I. Self-Reporting Section
   A. FEELINGS Engendered on a Daily Basis
         Offended often
       ...

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On caparisoned, filleted camels do they 
Over the great, soft, tawny sands 
Ride;
Unfurled flags and tribal standards flown amidst them, 
In the very midst of them-
Of they, who astride great tan camels,
Seem rather scandent and...

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Sacred and pristine Russian mountain;
here I am to ponder on your beauty;
From photographing you I cannot abstain!
Sacred and pristine Russian mountain.

Dear Russian mountain: 5861 miles plus
19 hours it took me to reach your home,
surrounded by...

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What Could Makes Me Happy

 I have tarpaulin over my shame,
 And instead of photographing un-wiped yarns
 I will continue to climb the ladder of laughter
 In case the eczema of fame spread abroad.

 What...

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Photography is a visual expression,
I love capturing images frozen in time;
Sometimes, I snap close-up details of the flowers,
I stroll city streets searching for the sweet sublime.

I love capturing images frozen in time,
photography is an adventure...

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Mushrooms

Mushrooms are fungi that come in many beautiful colors.
Unfortunately, some of them are deadly poisonous.
Some of the deadly mushrooms are similar to edible ones. 
Horrible tragedies occur when misidentified mushrooms are eaten. 
Rather than eat...

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X marks the spot
Where a young child had stood,
Enjoying his friends’ company as only
A young child could.

X marks the spot
Where the child lay dying,
Medics there to save his life, 
Desperately trying.

X marks the spot,
From which...

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X marks the spot
Where a young child had stood,
Enjoying his friends company as only
A young child could.

X marks the spot
Where the child laid dying,
Medics there to save his life, 
Desperately trying.

X marks the spot,
From which...

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Twas the day after Christmas
Throughout the North Pole, 
Not a creature was working
Not one Ho! Ho! Ho!
The elves were at home
They had the day off
Santa was gone
To Hawaii, to play golf
A little R and R
With...

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Age can never erase memories of yore,
For there's an old but lovely song still rambling
In my head as I love to go a wandering
Along the vales or up the mountain sides,
Fetching flora, photographing fauna and...

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The foot of the table
rose up to adjust the shape of my chin.

It was a glooming, looming 3 a.m.
when I saw the bedside clock
through that pitch dark
that occurs at the back of an eye
when time...

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a needle
charcoal-slathered and
dripping dreams into a river of broken skin

Cameron holds my hand
loosely 
says I can squeeze 
but the violence is addicting

the pigments 
bleed into my pores

I taste like venom and ash
the mirror above my...

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