Long Practising Poems

Soliloquio del Individuo by Nicanor Parra, Translated by T. Wignesan


(Homage to Nicanor PARRA, 1914-2018, the Chilean ANTI-POET, winner of the "Cervantes Prize" (the highest literary honour for writers in Spanish), four times nominated for the...

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The New Man, a Human being in transition.

The New Man is not a softie but knows the healing, creative power of vulnerability, how to melt and let his heart be touched. 

He knows how to...

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Obsessed

Hours and hours practising 
“Practice makes perfect!”
Others have described Antonio’s playing as perfect.
He has played in spectacular locations. Even before Kings and Queens. One day Carnegie Hall, 
the next day the Britannia Panaopticon Music Hall,...

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There's an event in the country that few city people ever know,
It's called the Greasy Pig Competition held at the local show,
It's a novelty event put on when the riding's been all done,
A greased up...

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Wed, 2024.05.01
By May, three months went passed,
We enjoyed three day trips to the nature.
We respected and polite to each other.
Somehow I started having feelings for you.
I knew from the beginning,
Our relationship could not go beyond...

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Part Three

  ...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering heat by the thatched fly-buzzed hole

your low under-the-breath warning tones...

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CECE YA FAMILIA, HONOR, LIKE TWINS

She is looking at mi with love.
in her eyes and a look..
concerned about her bro...
i try to second guess her
today she inst playing ball
she stares back determined..
hedging me between a...

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To say this metabolises my heart.
Luckily, I still have my brain and my sight,
to rectify and do what is right.
How did we get here, from apartheid to this violence?
What kills us the most is the...

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Why do people talk to babies as though they were stupid?

Isn’t he lovely? the old woman said
And doesn’t he look the spit of his Dad
Is he on solids, how long does he sleep
And how many...

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Cages of Angels



Have you hungered enough
As you lay bereft of sleep
The changing seconds in dead red digital light
Stare you blankly into thoughts
Seeping from your pours like tears

Afraid to close your eyes
Shutter your lids into another...

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Our voices linger on this line desperate to stay together
Sending requests to our nervous systems for any information we can gather
We hold relationships accountable for not practising this method
They tap our line hoping to record...

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Tingles
    down my spine
for me it’s nearly time
my very first performance
in the Parkinson’s choir

Practising the songs
    morning
        noon
    ...

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I think I can remember, maybe dreamed, 
a bright green field one handsome summer day, 
the Duke's blue tent resplendent with its flags, 
his drummers practising for Festival, 
a sense of things to come -...

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Man loves man
Man helps, and cares of man
Man wishes and prays for man
Man does these for human betterment,
I don’t negate these but say for some reasons
I see what man does well for man
Man gets that...

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From now on

I must gain some focus

Find a way to be motivated,

Study and find the light and love

I wonder if I've been practising enough,

Nothing comes easy, that's a fact

Got to try and improve and up...

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THE   SEVEN   DISAPPEAR

So the Prince asked Snow White to marry him, 
And the dwarfs said good bye to Snow White. 
From that day on, Snow White lived  in a castle....

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PoetrySoup may need to re-think how it allows writers to act as unelected Tyrant of POETRY here. July Morning reads one item, & wants to dictate how I may think, write, worship .... Are we...

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Nigeria, who knows
whether rivers of Africa
are like your own rivers
so that when planning
you will consider something about rivers
Nigeria, who knows
whether mountains of Africa
are like your own mountains
so that when planning
you will consider a thing about...

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Family ought to be high in Church and State, a place for practising His way
Forgiveness is hardest at home, as in sharing religion, or charity there ...
Let us go Home now Jesus: this world holds...

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POEM BASED ON AN OLD JOKE 


A village copper was on his beat
When he saw a parked car rocking
The rate that it was moving
It really was quite shocking
 
The windows were steaming up
He flashed his...

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I, The Clone

     So that I would not live alone,
     My parents thought I should be a clone.
     They cloned at first two...

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“Cerebral Palsy affects all my limbs -
particularly in my lower limbs, [my legs] 
and slightly in my upper arms, [hymns] 
…it limits [how far] you can walk, [pegs].

But I’ve been [doing] sport [since a toddler].
I’ve...

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RUNNING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY

Three running down the driveway in delight
Or two racing around in one baby walker  near the fence
Or one practising the piano  at night :
They  were the end reason for...

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The darkness settles in my chest
like a heavy beast crouched
waiting to pounce
patiently he counts
the minutes that add up to years
storing the repressed tears
and smothered hate
that only add to his weight.

He keeps the dark memories alive
catches...

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U F O is a W d o p u y t r e s a d f g h k l k m n b v c xz q?

Feeling ill cam be understood to...

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