Long Recognisable Poems

Time to go home there’s that cursed bell
Excitement for most - for him an impending hell
A torturous journey - that takes him down life’s dark path
His old friend ‘Panic’ enters causes a disturbing wrath

‘Humming the...

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Beginning with what it is not
Being certainly not transience we can slot

Calling a spade a spade
Love not an exchange or trade
‘I love you provided you reciprocate’
‘If your look is not endearing, my love will abate’

Moving...

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What is human nature and how can we define?
Human nature is adorable and understandable.
Human nature is actionable and appreciable.
Human nature is appraisable and affectable.

Human nature is affable and affectionable.
Human nature is admissible and admireable.
Human nature...

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His eyes were wild with angry 
He roughly shoved her out of the vehicle 
I froze, terrified 
Her life was in danger 
Or was it my life in danger 
Our lives where in danger
She was...

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Maybe this can't be saved.

One more short year and I'll never see her again. I'll always be wondering about 
her but it's better left that way. Never been able to face the truth. Even now.

We...

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Second sight in some infants, short tenure belies
Unbiased newness unpicks societal manufacture
To passers by, lurking spiritual assets recognisable
Pervading expression classifies their clairvoyance

Such was toddling dandelion darling, Aubergine 
Unphased, observant, chillingly serene in nature
Cherubic smirk absorbed...

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Magnetised emptiness 
As pulse of stillness 
Life itself throbbing
As Ohm reverberating
The very aliveness 
Of consciousness 
Present at any coordinate
In blissfulness sedate
Is-ness within the flow
Innocence all aglow
Constancy in all variables 
Renewal of Gods miracle

In & within...

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“wundor weardh on wege	water weardh to bane*”

Across the path of fallen leaves, dark and unremembered,
Millions of white crystals teeming from a leaden sky
Darting like tiny daggers into my eyes, blinking, smarting,
Over frozen ground, rapidly white,...

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Picasso, oval face and olive eyes, 
always solemn and searching.
Pushing boundaries, challenging authority,
his artistic torch cut through the fog of life.

At times his scrutiny turned inwards.
Self-critique of the physical and the psychological took hold.
Could it...

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Buried in the depth of mother earth
    the labor working hard on the innards
      the steel and iron cracking the intestines
      ...

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Every step forward brings an 
energised momentum. Leading
me toward a portal which leads
me to the Styx ferryman

I am confronted with this resoundingly
unique shape, the emblem of its industry.
His coffin puts out its tentacle seeking my
name

Past...

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Boom! 
There goes his dignity,
There goes his life.
How do we tell his mother? 
Who's going to tell his wife?
His frail, broken frame 
Stretchered away.
Only recognisable by 
An obituary and tags with his name.
"He'll never make...

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Spooked !

Unknown alleyways
Where slanting darkness
Camouflages corners and discovers threat
Lost in a maze
Of dead end shadows from fickle moon
Dissembles direction
Turning left
Straight ahead
Turning right

The tourist map of instinct
Points north
But thinks the exit
Lays south
To edged near a wall
Hangs...

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For forty years she stood there
On watch every single hour
One tentacle of defence against
A perceived enemy power.
There is  now a new golf course
Where the aerial field once stood
They’ve  long thinned and chopped 
It’s...

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I left you in the corner of my mind 
with teenage memories of my puberty. 
I put thoughts of you in a box in the 
attic of my recall, along with others from 
that time,...

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Cage a soul
Cage a tiger
Tiger has claws
Tiger had claws
Claws leave a mark
Claws create echoes through time
Time occupies thoughts
Time thoughts empty time away
Away to where I could chase
Away to be lost forever
Forever lost
Forever existing
Existing as energy...

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noun
noun: style; plural noun: styles; ?a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way.
Example; “different styles of management”

Style? Do I have a style?
Quite partial to lists
They’re easy to nail
Once you find the...

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sensitive awareness
                    being there
            ...

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On the time scale of the Maker
Just the blinking of an eye
But on his latest Creation
Millennia had passed by.
The ko-ko-ko birds no longer
Did their burnished daily run
Circling the World under
The steady square Sun
For they, like...

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Where did she go, that girl in the photograph?
Suspended in time, preserved like a fly
petrified in amber, and petrified by life.

Where is she now, that girl with furrowed brow?
Beautiful yet fighting for survival. Youthful
but prematurely...

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Vincent Willhelm van Gogh
a difficult talent to truly know
unwise love choices-Eugenie Kee&Sien
made him stick to brush not pen

Finance support from brother Theo
loosed his giftings to flow
in dark landscapes&still life
too bad,  without a  wife

From Ecole de Beau Arts a matric
In Antwerp he creates his pics
Then to Paris to mix with the best
lived an artist  life with great zest

Upon the death of Pa Theodorus
Vincent does portraits&busts
as his love life to Margot ails
so also his pointillism fails

He then met Agostina Segatori
& a brief affair the world did see
An interest in all things Japanaise
then to Arles were the sun does blaze

The artists colony  was not a success
Vincent cut off an -ear-but I digress
progressively VG became deluded
'a mad redhead,'the locals said

Genius & delusion marries as one
but a recognisable usp is done
with broad brush& wavy line
a reputation to outlast his time

In Arles he is hospitalised
&unique art realised-
then with a gun suicides
on canvas though his genius resides...

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DISCONNECTIONS

harmony order
reason &
beauty

&
incidentals
severed
by
upheavals
cerebral &
 austere

a purveyor of
dimensions
to catalogue
&measure reveals
 the obsessive
 elaborate
  laboriously
constructed
tableaux
of
destruction

so instantly
 recognisable in
impressive &
immaculate
artefacts
to
specifically
fire the imagination
&
 concentrate
the interplay 
of
reason in
perpetual motion
 in grappling
&
 conveying
  the painstakingly
drumbeat
of
sensation
amid the melee
of the
orchestrated
  ensembles
   at a distance

the measured
mood
detached
 artificial
yet in
symmetry
 knitting
everything together
in
  cool respect

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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Twitching limply atop an Ulster lamppost
Like a hung man, legs kicking in spasm at the last seconds of life
Its bigoted purpose now spent and now abandoned to the elements
No longer recognisable as the flag of...

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His years spanned 1908-1997
reaching the grand age of 89
played many a character in his life
giving each one his special shine

My memories of Jimmy Stewart
goes back many a year for me
'Dear Brigitte' was the first I...

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Zebras 
are bestowed
Black-n-white 
striped coats 
by Nature
to help them
confuse predators 
keep horse flies away 
But, it also makes them
more vulnerable
most recognisable 
mammal even
from long distance !

Humans 
are not bestowed
with unique identity 
which can stand out...

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