Long Terence Poems

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The Great PoetrySoup Poets in as of now
1.NoMatter What
2.Roses are Red...

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The Ever Shifting Pattern of Life by
Terence David Cooper. June is wife's
name and they are Basildon,  Essex, 
England.

As children we learn lessons clear
Broadly defined lines we hold so dear
Constants to which we can easily...

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Pirate Pete
Pirate Pete sails his ship
Across the seven seas,
He`ll plunder loot and pillage
And bring you to your knees.

His fearsome ship the Mary Jane
Named after both his wives,
Their figure heads adorn the bow
To protect the sailors...

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Serge Lyrewing                          417
Sharon K Gulley     ...

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-
Terence a Griffiths of Tyrone or Leitrim!
Did he know but later of 1820 he would be there born
A Flax Grower a renter from landlords of Lord Leitrim's domain
To thresh and sack and cloth and sow...

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I was attracted by your beauty, but I fell in love with your aura
On a lust-filled journey, I stumbled over some thing that means a lot more; you
Your youth and apparent innocence, drew me to...

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I left the pub one night in a bit of a tizzy
and saw some kind of being like a tin lizzie.
This turned out to be a polite alligator
now on probation for having eaten a waiter.
The...

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When love becomes heavy
When the weight of commitment is too much to bear
When the wait for  a time when things are easier
Seems too distant
When its easier to give in to carnal temptations
As no matter...

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We commemorate the death of our love ones
We don't celebrate the death of our love ones
Today is not a great day
Today is a very sad day
We don't care about wealth, avarice, money and cupidity
We abhor...

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My place

There also is my place, where I explore my understanding
Of words that are said and thoughts revealed, interpretations made;
Intimacy shared and dissected, speculations proffered and discarded,
And wisdom is given and received, the acolyte at...

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Bullets and Bars

There goes another one
Shot or put behind bars
Put behind bars with battle scars 
Scars from protests
Ones from which whites try to contest
These white cops try to put us to rest
But we just raise...

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As I write
I think deeply as I write, even though some of the my characters may be shallow
I write with love, even though the personnages portayed may be hateful
I write joyfully even if the subject...

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Pale Riders
(Not for the under-eighteen crowd, or the faint-hearted.)


Stars and Stripes waved in such bright glory,

                over bleeding children's corpses.

the...

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It was just past midnight. Another sleepless might. Wide awake, sifting through the memories, I felt an aching deep in my heart and soul. As I listened to the you tube playlist I had created...

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When I was in grammar school
There simply wasn’t any tolerance for students talking back
The religious sisters at our Catholic school were very strict (in part because they had charged over dozens of students per class)
Order...

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King of the Sky
Mighty bird of heaven,
        wing strokes like mighty, matched gales.
Flies through Sky World,
        like motion incarnate.
Air king your...

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yes, life is an ocean & i’m staying afloat like oil in water
protecting my soul & living the full potential of my breath & grinding harder
part 1 was me painting a picture of how no...

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If there is such a thing as reincarnation
you're born again after your death,
dear Lord can I make my requirements now
in advance of taking my last breath.
Since you can control how we all will be born
can...

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Keep the Lid On
There is no reason to throw away years of progress for a momentary,
    fit of anger,
        you will not obtain a profit...

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Earthbound Paradise

Ruby red sapphire blue blossoms stand,
    in the diamond stream,
        little silver fishes play.

on a sky of robin's shell,
    Cotton puffs...

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Flight by Terence Cummings-Smith,
I ride the path ballistic,
        in a screaming, scorching arc.
From perigee in flaming hell
        to apogee far beyond...

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Fields of Chaos
Amid the fields of chaos, we must establish some  order,
    we cannot let anarchists run amuck,
            we can...

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