Long Recognise Poems
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The Spirits of CullodenThe Spirits of Culloden.
This is like a pilgrimage, a try tae come every year,
Gather at the cairn, meet old friends, wipe away a tear.
Standin on that moor, that once with blood was sodden,
Paying respects...
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Categories:
recognise, anniversary, death, dedication, memorial day, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
The Reptilian Anthropocene
"The Reptilian Anthropocene"
The Reptilians
war daily
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts
and oily palms
profiting from all
the soft-boiled
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...
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Categories:
recognise, horror, humanity, war,
Form:
Free verse
1856During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
Tomorrow I'd...
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Categories:
recognise, dark, dream, surreal,
Form:
Narrative
My Kundalini AwakeningPart-1: Preamble
God loves us, so He split Himself in two
Motionless as space, kinetic as time
Shiva and Shakti; truth known to but few
As the word of God - Om sounded life's chime
God's vibration caused a ripple...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
A British Diary Passing MilleniumThe ask of cultures.
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They decided the...
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Categories:
recognise, culture, time, travel, true love, trust, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
In simple wordsEmerging from a fulcrum deep within,
arises a humming, magnetic pull,
which in each moment does afresh begin,
drenching us with bliss, making heart feel full.
Rapture ignition, thus in renewal,
becomes the new norm, just like our heartbeat,
love’s elixir...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
recognise, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
The Ultimate Truth“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”
“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...
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Categories:
recognise, god, religion, spiritual, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:7
15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”
The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhymes For Shared TimesRHYMES FOR SHARED TIMES
Maintain shared possessions - clean, tidy and in working CONDITION
Share responsibilities, or allocate them in a fair and balanced PARTITION
Keep your promises and earn TRUST
Be as truthful as possible and do not...
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Categories:
recognise, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Who Needs LoveWho needs Love?
If we all need love, how do we get it?
My Angel strokes my cheek and says
Your abandoned heart, so hungry,
Maybe it’s time that you fed it.
My head looks up and says:
Don’t...
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Categories:
recognise, deep, feelings, heart, hope, humanity, peace, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Valentines Day Me Myself and WhyValentine’s Day here you come again,
February 14th lord have mercy on me amen,
You just have to rock up every year without fail,
To remind me to celebrate the fact I’m still without a Male,
And...
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Categories:
recognise, boyfriend, i love you, love, passion, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
MomMommy, you are the master of matters that I manufacture
The Queen that queued for nine months to receive me
You are the fleece blanket that warmed my days in the dark
The pillar that strengthen my backbone...
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Categories:
recognise, daughter, dedication, for her, girl, mothers day,
Form:
Name
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11:6
“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession—
I am Awareness itself.”
One who realizes this for certain
has no memory of things done or left undone.
There is only the Absolute.”
We now enter still...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Rwanda's WhyI'm driving through such beauty, this lush rural countryside. I find it hard to believe that my
career has taken me to here. Being where I am is so much different to the Highlands from...
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Categories:
recognise, africa, death, people, places, world,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Joseph and His Coat of Many ColoursHistorically and biblically true, first Abraham, Isaac,
Then Jacob, who loved
Joseph, his 11th son more than any other,
He was his beloved.
Joseph would interpret his father’s dreams,
But the brothers were terribly jealous it seems,
For the first dream...
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Categories:
recognise, family,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Ne Soyons Pas Rancunier - Translation of Oodgeroo's Let Us Not Be Bitter By T WignesanNe soyons pas rancunier – Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Let us not be bitter” by T. Wignesan
(Note : The fiery fearless rebel of Where we going (1964) and The Dawn is at Hand (1966) –...
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Categories:
recognise, change, forgiveness, future, heart, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
Lead Us From Darkness To LightIn the beginning, all that was, was living light eternal
Vibrant in time and space dissolved ineffable peace
Pulsating endlessly in a singularity transcendental
Sans identity, with no attribute, we were and still are
One without a second,...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Emmett TillEmmett Till Emmett Till
Why was it you they had to kill
Why did they drag you from your bed
Why did they pistol whip your head
What exactly did you do
To make them do this thing to you
Just...
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Categories:
recognise, black african american, dark, discrimination, grief, mother
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Determined To Be HeardI'm determined to be heard
Through the walls
Beyond all That
Deafening windfall
My voice never deterred
Tasking freedom
dispensing wisdom
Offering up hope
I am the force, overheard
A solid speaker for the mute
Constant presence for the Word
I...
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Categories:
recognise, change, culture, hope, humanity, imagery, peace,
Form:
Free verse
HeavenFour siblings eagerly awaited the arrival of
their baby sister as mama entered the hospital.
Each had plans of the fun they would share
caring for this unexpected but very welcome
'change of life' baby.
Our mother suffered...
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Categories:
recognise, heartbroken, heaven, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 5:1-5:4
5.1
“You are immaculate,
touched by nothing.
What is there to renounce?
The mind is complex—let it go
Know the peace of dissolution”
5.2
“The universe arises from you like foam from the sea
Know yourself as One
Enter the peace of dissolution”
5.3
“Like an...
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Categories:
recognise, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Time To Choose - Time To ChangeTime to choose? Time to change?
When I feel Love
It feels like I am falling into a deep blue lake
Of a baby’s eyes.
When I hate,
Darkness consumes me like smoke,
Smothering light and extinguishing all hope.
Knots in...
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Categories:
recognise, conflict, emotions, humanity, i am, love, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Beate's Last DanceBeate’s last dance?
She has the graceful air of a benevolent Queen,
Walking tall and fearless in the rain,
Focussed, yet completely relaxed and serene,
Even though, she knows her fear and pain
Cannot be unjust, bitter or mean
And:...
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Categories:
recognise, appreciation, death of a friend, inspirational love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Invisible Man Returns 2 21I wrote the Invisible man poems many years ago. These poems, and I have not submitted them all, was for a little girl who died in a road accident. They are a tribute to her...
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Categories:
recognise, depression, me, old, change, me, old, poems,
Form:
Prose Poetry