Long Strictest Poems

AN ILL-FATED ADDRESS

Being on holiday in Athens was truly the best 21st present 
my parents could have given me, stayed with my granddad,
felt great, I traveled on my own, no more an adolescent.
Sad that I...

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I know of a river of more than average 
Sorts...
Meandering, when not dallying to maunder,
Between many differing contours 
And unruly contorts;
Where a privileged youth once
Happily sought -
Pursuing about his passions
In the traditional methods 
By which...

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Marry Your Best Friend To Get the Best of Both Worlds

Not many can claim they met their spouse in a battle of wits
much less the fabled (don't believe a word of it!) Internet.
But my uncle,...

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Well, I remember my Mom as the Iron lady forever
I fear no more her strictest rules
I am now back on stage with this clerihew
I was a victim of the Iron lady's strictest rules
Probably herself has...

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The ocean is vast and cold and very deep
Powerful waves can sink the toughest ship
On the land herders before the storm try to hide their sheep
One lone island rocky and with mountain that’s steep 

Extends...

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Floating fluttering fleurs
are jewels in fuchsia and magenta
transmuting into taffy hue
with the kiss of dappled sunlight
like her cheeks that blush in pink
with his wondering wink.

The willows are stalactites 
seducing newly bloomed nympheas
slumbering in Egyptian blue...

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IF ever I had a country : XXIX - XXX

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Always beautiful, certainly Donna,
She has been through hell and back.
Always the fighter, never giving up,
Prepared for any kind of attack.
She’s sensitive, kind-hearted, and very loving,
But don’t find yourself making the mistake
Of taking her kindness for...

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I lie on a bed of grass, huddled beneath
this vast expanse of night sky
with the breeze passing in light swirls
over my upturned face,
all my senses alight.

I gaze at that smooth disc
of ardent argent,
unmarred by confining...

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Since my birth time has been pesent, fluid, tapping its flat feet in the shadows
Clueless was I as to its definition, or what its relevance was to life
Yet, I recall the joy of rainy days...

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Jimmy warned Pinks of her dangerous inclinations 
of chugging too close to the capricious edge, but she kept laughing 
and refused to listen until she skid and bounced down the hill.
Jimmy retrieved her in an...

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with unseen bloody fingers she sings a melody but with
purely visual aesthetic and woos even the strictest stoic
& with subtle soft petal bells hanging,
now 2 years old, standing nearly 8 feet tall
you may very well...

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Pray before you're being prayed
Learn before you're caught ignorant
Do good and you'll be repaid good 
Do bad and you'll got the lesson
What's behind a religion
Now people are making use of 
A religion's loophole
To escape
They do...

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London’s Guildhall, John Lilburne is frogmarched in
A man Cromwell considered a friend,
To stand before him accused of high treason
His actions against parliament to defend

As radical leader of the ‘Levellers’
John opposed Parliament fervently,
With his clandestine printing...

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"Oh' What should I call you 
my darlings letters gather
O'together with all of you
sisters and brothers what 
what is and what are that
So the shape of things to 
O'Come words rhyming in
designing to make a...

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Sahara the world's largest - the strictest and warmest desert 
It is an ocean without water - a place of fear blast knuckles on the desert floor 
Eight nomads on camels shrouded in white cloth...

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I want to write a poem about control
When you think you are in control
That is when you lose control
Life has the opposite effects 
When you think you have it
is when you don't
It will be pulled...

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The hosts of Heaven wept

The Father held His ground

The Saviour hung in shame

With coarseness all around

The crowd saw only loss

Disciples hid from view

A Mother watched her dreams

Dismissed like morning dew.

And all the Man had said

And...

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Blunt brain such stale dogma holds
Tighter than crags hug dewy molds; 
She spurns sparks Reason confers, 
And terms sanest wit profitless fuss. 

Sweetest rank her outmoded views, 
Above strictest sense and full clues; 
Cherished most...

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Mightily buoyed by cherished blood,
Brazen struts laxest wit undeterred;
And fair nobles her giddy vinos swill
Oftener than mild sips of ironed skill. 

Sometimes charmed by gilded gold
Slack sense glues tighter than truth,
Icing to death the latter's...

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Someone perusing all the lines I penned
before this century would surely think
I must have signed a contract to produce
just poems with the strictest rhyming schemes!

It seemed my mind was programmed to create
rhymed couplets or a-b-c-b...

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Dislike and Hate

 
I’ve learned of the difference
Between dislike and hate
When one takes your heart
There is little debate

Dislike is for people
Who don’t pull their weight
They’re lazy and self centered
But they are a long way from...

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Games
A fun seeker’s unfolding thriller
Forced to describe it ‘Time killer’ 
But it might well be a healer 
Of wounds to others no feeler…

Some games with the strictest timing, 
Their players chiming clocks minding, 
Others to...

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Our news fare, served up every day,
Is like the strictest diet
Of Covid stats, but now we have to 
Add the latest riot.

You’d think that a pandemic
Would unite us but we seem,
In this country, more divided
Than...

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