Long Scanty Poems

POTD 9th April 2018

Synopsis -
A story of selflessness without jealousy or rancor that is often evident through the ages in all walks of life, even in modern times. 

She’s a queen who sees her lover...

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“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his...

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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.

Deforestation dehydrates the caliginous evergreen region,
scorching heat changed the water cycle irreversibly.

Locking in scanty rainfall and...

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"O Please don't be late and seal your fates
O Please don't be late for this ole world's
greatest escape cause you'll all be really
sorry if you just happen to be left behind!

Many of you all are...

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In numerous locales countrywide, they hold sway
Pirouetting at intervals like ballerinas from Bolshoi
Beauteous, feline and very feminine
Slender to the point of emaciation, not quite
Cultivating the undernourished look on a frugal diet
Decidedly austere for a longer...

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Poetry knows no age, as thee Marcia
Abramsohn (the former ex lady friend
of my late father corresponded with me
some years back)
wrote (by hand nonetheless,
a long lost art) inlaid with ambidextrous
zealousness impossible to identify,
which hand crafted artistically...

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In the setting sun the Sioux Tepees look like vandalized pyramids,
the Tetons themselves appear as though angels raped
by the savagery of centuries yet noble in barbaric beauty and warrior ethos,
a Scalp Dance is begun, torches...

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The auction began ------------
Black, bronze, yellow and other girls were there,
Only the most lovely and fair.
They were brought in from everywhere.
Shackled, 
They formed a human chain.
Baffled,
Their eyes revealed their despair,
And tears their pain.
Mothers separated from...

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My days in the streets of despair took me from scanty shanties
Intermittent through dreams drinking the syllables of books
Cast before my eyes, I was at the bottom of nooks and crannies
Hiding in barren valleys of...

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A football star with super speed,
Our prom king, Kyle, has gone to seed.
No longer likely to succeed,
He's out of work and hooked on weed.

Behind you's Jennifer, the one
Who led our cheers and planned our fun.
Most...

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SHE'S MY CHOICE AND MY CROSS. 

You told me beauty is merely skin deep
Wasn't that the reason I wooed her in the first place
Said it doesn't cook afang soup
I've not forgotten my way to mama...

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Wow is this for real, my boy lollipop,
My best ever destination, da, da da da,
Is a trip to the park
I love it when it gets dark,
Da da da da,
My boy lollipop.	
I want to see the...

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How has it dawn on us so soon when we hadn’t even achieved much?
Why has the marketplace ceased to buy and sell so scanty the streets wither away
The clouds becomes more darkened as smokes ascend...

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1. Today’s rains make me feel a drought
All the more thirstingly. A drought
Of all that is not unwanted
All that is not love, that is.
In times when farmers kill themselves
Due to debts, a rash truck kills...

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Sleeping was an effort. Humidity draped
my skin like wet clothing as if I had 
spent the night in a steamy rain forest.
 
Gradually, I rolled off the ledge of 
consciousness into a sound sleep, waking...

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I didn't do nothing
I didn't do enough

I was after fact;
 I was feeling inadequate;
I felt like I didn't have a chance to help you out;
 I was deficient, faulty felt incompetent ;

I didn't do anything
I...

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A teenage girl in scanty garb was strolling through the shadows, glancing back from time to time to check the street behind,
Seemingly expecting to discover someone tailing her...leaving me to wonder - as I raised...

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Twenty fifth of December, three thousand and four
and already I'm down in the dumps
we're round at the neighbour's via tubes that save labour
propelled by some hydraulic pumps.
We've exchanged all our presents and got them unwrapped
once...

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'Twas the night before Christmas
when I and my groom
finally found a motel 
but with just one room.

My groom was in the bathroom -
leaving me alone-
so that he could douse himself 
with some cheap cologne.

I -...

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- -     Deplorable Dora    - - 
                  
Destined to request the...

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Wide road seemed too narrow for both,
Two frail humans taking sweet time
Man and woman, hands clasped tightly 
As if afraid of losing each other
On a stroll to appreciate life's outcome
And earth's contagious beauty and zest
As...

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GHOST AND THE DARKNESS

Daunting, a late night movie, just before the verge of night spills into your lair. You can’t bury the dark at those times. The roar in the blackout. The snore at the...

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Life is a combination of different strata and classes
with the upper classes feeding on the states of the lower
which is the usual, displayed in most societies and cultures
and such a web between nations even more...

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A trifling sum of clamour during the crisis of my faith
Bedazzled by immortelle, or steamed away by Nuevo Fidelidad
Down the muddy river where splinters in the brain
        ...

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If human brains hold such high capacity
Why is the use of intelligence scanty?
 
Some claim telekinesis and ESP
Are available to them quite readily
 
While others have trouble writing and reading
Is intellect defined in unborn seedlings
...

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