Long Sook Poems

The sky was never the 
limit for those who sook 
to defy the norm. They 
soar to the highest 
heavens like eagles and 
become one with the 
storm. The staffless 
Moses of the black 
parliament...

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I got a phone call from a mate of mine I hadn't seen for years,
and I could tell by his quivered voice that he was close to tears
so I asked Ken what is wrong then...

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O Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew and Aramaic - as Mary called Thee
I tell my churches, my poets, family about YOU
They may suspect, "He lies, just a convert to Christianity,"
Dear Heart: Jesus is real, it took...

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Staking Claims: For Yucatec Maya & Native Peoples

The stones of the desert cry with me
They are brothers and sisters, but no bloody kin
New hearts see just cold rocks … no warmth or charity …
Might you...

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It never quite occurred to me, this silence in our house,
but now for more than two weeks, she’s been quieter than a mouse. 
And in our fifteen years of marriage there has never been this...

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A dream broken open left to decay away
Another undoing left to go through the skewing and the scathing
Called raving mad, angry, and sad

As above so below
We are what we know
I won't go away so easily...

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Laying in the bed beside you, early morning light, 
cascades into the window banishing all signs of 
night,

your sleeping frame presents to me an appetizing 
sight, I'll wake you up as only I can do,...

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Once upon an ancient time, 
in long gone languid days, 
when distant misted myths bechanced
in lovely rhym'ed ways, 
when time was so much freer, 
less allotted to the minute, 
‘twas then the mighty Big Mac...

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REFLECTION
I have often found respite on woodland walks. I listen, look, take every image as a point of view. On reflection, I think you do too. Often smells tell tales of what has been, flowers...

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Republicans’ son, from Kingaroy
Trained as a chef in the big smoke
Drugs and drinking delivered joy
Running thousand acre farm, a joke! 
Designer biscuit job was all he spoke


Bulk overtime on beginners’ salary
Folks raised his daughter, mother...

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I
Here lies a small brown man, maybe average, with heart, mixed
nationalities
Sounded and spelled AMERICAN, spoke always of Africa
nationalistically
Loved words, could not communicate career choices
realistically
Johns Hopkins Professors joined ones at Indiana University (Go Hoosiers!)
mercilessly
In noting his...

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Going bush

So I suppose if the world explodes 
With war and misery
I will go bush, 
Atom bombs will push
Me away from the great city

Return to the fiftys lifestyle
Box of matches an a pocketknife
To live off...

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"Many heed advices,
But neglect their heart devices."

They don't know that:
"A Man Thought is the duplicate of his sought."

1) He tells you to get a land,
And by now you're strand.
But because he told you to do,
You...

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This you shall call into mind. 
You are loved beyond doubt.

You are love by a love
That was tried and tested at Calvary,
A love too strong to be a fantasy.

You are loved to bloodshed,
You are loved...

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Bawling Mouse

He sits in the corner 
Of the house, 
He is known as 
The bawling mouse. 

The cat stole 
His piece of cheese, 
That cat gobbles it 
Down with ease. 

I have tried to get...

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My Aunty Stacey,
She's not very lacey,
She doesn't wear dresses,
Or have curly tresses,
She is never a sook,
But a really good cook,
Tough as nails,
Never fails,
I think you will find,
That she is very kind,
She had a ferret for...

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Regard " Those Good Old Days?'
Bring smiles in own ways,
Writing a book, Any Excuse,
Need my GSOH a'loose.
Went to football in past stage, 
Good book, turn each page,
"The umpire's a cheat!"
"Yep, our goals incomplete!"
"Game plan's still...

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A soldier
tottered towards the
path of the sea
searching for
only what heaven
can discern.
He's meant to
be at the battle
field kissing blood
spilted out of fury.
But here is he
ravaging like
a savage in his
own stranded land.
The turtle looked
beyond to get the...

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This madness I can feel in my heart,
overwhelming from the very start,
I feel like I'm going crazy,
this world is getting kind of hazy,
from this stark lonliness,
I see the sun,
I can feel the warmth,
this beating heart...

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Pickles Graham heard the woosh,
Amber liquid showered his moosch (face)
Startled by the sudden shower,
Aromatic pizzle power,
An Mooga Wilson going crook,
"What are you doing there Pickles,
At this time and hour?"
Empty piddle pot empowered,
Stop moaning theres no...

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