Long Rashness Poems

Of Treasures Sought, Diving For Forbidden Dark Pearls

I shall weave you, dear reader, words true and sincere
tho' will not be as great as those woven by poetic peers
It's truth from a life long-lived, too fast...

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Private Residence

Sign at the gate – no solicitors –
Beyond the rosewood door sanctuary in seclusion
Untouched by hands racing round
A face framed by chimes and alarms –
Measures of mincing minutes
Exiled with suitcases packed
To astral planes of...

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AFRICAN CHILD

 

 

Specie with a complex destiny

An offspring endowed by divinity

Even so, a victim of circumstance

This is the tale of the African child’s chance

Rising above many odds, he is a voice

Conflicting with loads of...

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My world burns,
Its cities, towns and villages,
Plains, valleys and hills,
And the tops of mountains,
Smoke and smoulder.


No one knows whether he will return safe,
When he leaves his abode.
The mosques, the temples and the churches:
The sacred places...

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Written: November 08, 2023, For John Lawless Contest

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. Quote by Zig Ziglar
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Along...

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Death of Morale 


True, I do practice the act of introversion quite a bit,
But why should I be blamed? To what am I to admit

When I am not the transgressor in question?
I am not typically...

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“An impulsive action done in haste and without forethought can cause trouble and there is no point in feeling repugnance” - By Poet


 When did she have a quarrel with life,
That left her mind with...

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A-gile she walks,
taking stock of
every step her
B-rashness emitted
in
her long stride
C-at is a coy and
confident girl and
the
D-oves have a reason
to fear her
E-very bird from
Blue
Jays to Sparrows
avoid their
F-eline foe when she
is in the yards
G-rasses are tall
this season...

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Refusing Diligence, To Do Even Basic Math

Why do we too oft blindly walk a deep, darken path
Through the volleys of arrows shot by Fate's mighty wrath
When in this wicked world, we could accept light's reprieve
By...

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I don’t want to be the other half of 
something someone lost a long time ago.  
I’m not interested in being 
the better part of valour.  
Everybody learns the hard way,  
one...

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Ours is the Choice


A land of hopes,
A land of fears,
A land of laughter,
A land of tears,

A land of love,
A land of hate,
A land of doubt,
A land of faith,

A land of joy,
A land of sadness,
A land...

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Consider the definition others have of you
what’s the first thing that people would say?
is patience the first thing on their lips?
or is it rashness that describes your way?

Patience is hard to find in so many
but...

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Come now and follow me into the depths of my sacrifice 
What a lapse you have made to think I put My life before your life

How great is your strong arm and how far do...

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I am both wind and whisper
as the tenderness of life's rush
mellows the passage of posterity

I am both forgiving and fiery
to the softening of obduracy

I can be sorrowful and somber
or a paragon of felicity. 

I may...

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Please, your journeys suspend in winter
Death's Cold on The Body A Printer.
Correct! To Death speedily freeze, 
Not salubrious Winter's chilly breeze.

This you tell Your Dearest Jacinta, 
I could same say to Christ, The Carpenter; 
Asthma's...

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You, sure, can walk up to that car
In front of the house with a star
And, sure, can keep moving straight


You'll get to a proud sign post
On which is inscribed "West Coast":
I dare say Men of...

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Exceptional times require exceptional measures
In our everyday lives we experience this truth
Times of stress, or, in rare incidence for pleasures
A challenge from our peers sparking curiosity,
Provoking us to engage in the most insane ruse
Wisdom shows...

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May 4th

On this day the war
Had finally come to our door
The decision-making was poor
Because the night before had been fiery
But it was an overreaction to call out the national corps
This rashness would lead to the...

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