Long Tie down Poems

(One poet's vision of what being indwelled by Christ's heart might look like)        

What makes me feel loved isn't easy to say, 
And not because the heart of...

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The True Story

A Poem of the time, when as a 16 year old young fellow, and fresh from Blighty I spent 7 years as a Ringer in North Queensland, Australia. A Ringer is the Queensland...

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Begging for money and food on the street
Dreaming someday her Prince Charming she’ll meet
Someone to love and sweep her off her feet!

Her prince has arrived, he stops at her spot
He chats her up nicely….she likes...

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Am I the only one to think
that a kite is such a sad thing?

Flimsy...frail...
never really free,
forever tied to a string

Yes, it can soar indeed,
so high, with the wind taking it places,
almost making it forget,
just enjoying...

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I am counting down the days when the clouds will break away and the troposphere in the sky will peel away the substance from the earth and the stratosphere in the atmosphere will cool down...

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You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating foreign cuisines and expensive delicacies
I’ve been taking porridge and traditional...

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A dear friend says I'm brave to go it solo in the city…
she has a husband - seven kids - two dogs - and a neurotic cat
        yet...

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Foreign On Wind And Word 

Tie down words in yesterday’s dilemmas, gondola soft
Send them off on feathers, light as weathers messengers 
What are words but air up there in winds
Let them fly, to catch a...

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(enjoy the puns) 

I happen to be a busy bee
always racing with time
since time how it flies for busy bees
Ah wish I could just lasso it
like a cowboy does his horse
and thereby bring it to...

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On the eastern grade of the switcher yard, down at Medicine Hat 
There’s a tendency for cars to roll toward the Dunmore hill 
Back when I was switching trains there, one got loose on me
Sit...

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What is born in the thermals of a barren land
A spiral of destruction sublime

(I feel its power seeping into the ground)

Across the seas, it comes with fury
With no conscious thought, it gives to its wake
It...

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The power of words is limitless,
Some like swords,
And others like feathers.
Every letter able to stab or sooth,
Strike with fear,
Or fill with hope.
Every dot made from a pen,
Able to do wonders other than just be read.

Though...

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Just about to thaw
Then the numbness blankets me
I thought we finally hit our stride
But it’s me who can’t seem to see

I’m the plague
The infection that spreads
Rusting the perfect simplicity
Taking captives and counting heads

I have to...

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Losing it... things don't mean . 
Can't just make it fit. 
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it. 
Time to get lit. 
Trust it. Don't know yet. 
 it.  Not...

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Losing it... things don't mean . 
Can't just make it fit. 
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it. 
Time to get lit. 
Trust it. Don't know yet. 
 it.  Not...

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Losing it... things don't mean . 
Can't just make it fit. 
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it. 
Time to get lit. 
Trust it. Don't know yet. 
 it.  Not...

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Losing it... things don't mean . 
Can't just make it fit. 
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it. 
Time to get lit. 
Trust it. Don't know yet. 
 it.  Not...

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With Winter, now the poacher's chain releases
while the hunters vane, their aptitude increases,
as still the mind sets edging, fate's receipt
the wait on wait, to kill mundane, bears thesis!

No thought of vestige pride, the eye beseeches
the...

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He left this morning after tea and time with me.
before the early morning dawn and between sleepy yawns.

He has done this all his life and the better part of
the past thirty years his wife left...

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A well-worn witch flits and twists through the indigo mist.
Gloating in genius, I look at my well-read list.
Bats shaken out of their sleep, come out to dive bomb.
I toast them with my dragon breath, singing...

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The fast flow of water that splashes past is the nature around us, hitting back 
After all the pollution mixed in the purity 
The river fights back using power and certainty 
Until it destroys the...

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Floating Sentries

Tie down words gondola soft
Pure is the paper, ink is black, stamped with approval
Dilemma sent, place letters in the box
Feather eloquent

Send them off with weathers messengers
Post Office offers services
Sentries who deliver mail
No matter what...

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Radiant like the sun,
Like the depths of ocean.
Lies the Epicentre around the coldness of void and the warmth of magma.

If the momentum is too fast,if may go out of control like the consequences of present.
Too...

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RODRIGUEZ THE TINPOT DICTATOR

“Hello, my name is Rodriguez the tinpot dictator of South American country A. I came to power and made everyone a communist whether they liked it or not.
Those who disagreed disappeared. You...

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Often wondered bout people down under
Do they have to stand on their heads?
Do they have to tie down all their possessions?
Is flying off into space a real dread?

We hope they all stay attached to the...

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