Long Spangles Poems

'Fragments and crumbs of life, all little pieces'

           John Ruskin   1853  




      FRAGMENTS OF LIFE

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I glance up from my mask while the sky is still dark, and it resembles the shape of a question mark.
 It curves where the people are going round and round, then it nosedives like...

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We all think that when we were young 
The sun shone for 23 hours a day
Not altogether true
But it seems that way in hindsight
But things always look better looking back
They were more innocent times
More naïve...

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Palatial building of my Grandma, once in grandeur and pomp
            ran full of kith -kin -cousins on extended family.

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HOUSE OF GRANDMA

         Huge house of Grandma once in grandeur and pomp
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Tale to  Tell

    It is a well known fact that walking is a very good exercise. So I walk  
     regular to keep myself fit perfect....

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BEWITCHING  NIGHT        

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Round Up
It's time to do a round up
Not the kind you think you know
These aren't like the ones in movies
You may not want to go

You're up before the sun is
You saddle up to start the...

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Space Hoppers, Power Cuts, Texan Bars & Playschool,
Record Players, Tiny Tears, Ford Capri’s (I thought were cool),
Bag Puss, Mrs Thatch, Wonder Woman, Rainbow,
George, Zippy, Rod & Jane, Bungle - have I got them all?
 
Dial...

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Flying Saucers, Flake, Bar Six
Country Style, Gobstoppers, Twix.

Toffee Crisp and Dairy Crunch
Grand Seville and Milky Lunch.

Arrow Bars and Sherbert Dabs
Caramac and Lucky Bags.

Bluebird Toffee slabs in trays
Milky Bars and Milky Ways.

‘99’ Flake ice cream cones.
Zooms...

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Assailed and held prisoner in my bedroom, I fret
Wondering why mad blood seized my head
Inserting an undue threat
Concealed in the seal of the thread

Running through a bevy of thoughts
Silly at best, folly at worst
Waltzing in...

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Pocket Money.
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Pocket money
Was a way of shutting us pesky kids up
At least for the rest of the week
If Mum and Dad
Had the luck
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Fifty pence
Was quickly spent
Out of one hand into another
A race to the ...

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NURTURE NATURE 
   
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For your (Turkish) Delight party invite 
Sweetshop had shut up for the day
The Maltesers decided they were going away
They packed their gear in a Dairy Box
To climb a Glacier called Mint Fox

The sweets were now...

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Jewels of Africa.

The saffron Queen spins the lilac sky,
her rays flick crimson cinders into Royal Blue Oceans.
Submerge, sizzle, frizzle...going, going, gone! ...But Not.
Cumulus clouds drizzle pepper fog over pink Flamingos, homeward bound.

Tea-green Botswana bush,
teeny, tiny...

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There was a homeless lady,
one afternoon, outside the hospital.
Was she homeless? I don’t know.
She had a ladened shopping cart,
which, on TV, is kind of a signature.
We were inside, waiting for an Uber.

She was outside, in...

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While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the sunrise pulse, the whitecaps throb and ache.

Along the crests crawl...

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Fancy

Fancy rushes by in silk dancing shoes,
Stars within her steps,
All plumes and feather boas 
Leaving clouds of spangles, bits of sparkle,
Floating in the air -
Trails of rainbow ribbons,
Sequins grinning as she passes,
Ignoring glares of mauve...

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A Nightingale sings

            Nightingale: The night songstress 
            Sweetest songbird always to impress
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Sky at Day and Night
     
         Day ends, eve fades dusk enters with dusty mask
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XMAS CELEBRATION

        Christmas Celebration going on global
       Smiling face of Santa Claus showing wrinkle.
       Christmas Tree...

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STARRY  NIGHT

       Fading twilight greets grave dusty dusk 
         wearing misty mask .
      Cerulean dream...

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An Eve Merging in Night

  Setting Sun made sky auburn spreading hues in delight.
  Wearing charcoal mask, appeared dusty dusk chasing twilight.
  Sky turned dense dark, polka stars to spark, darkness to...

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SANTA IN CHRISTMAS GLOBE
   
         Scarlet dress, stressed face, Santa stuck in Christmas globe.
         Red robe hanging...

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HUMAN NATURE CONTEST

NATURE AND HUMANITY

There is no beauty like the waterfall
Gushing from the high rock face
Showering its crystal gems in spangles
That the girls would see as your eyes call
To the green lush growth as it...

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