Long Tonnes Poems

Good evening to all out there this is wabc radios late night slot call in show with your host Tom Morrow, the theme is on pesonality traits and how we percive them
not myself personally.' I...

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........Cactus
....Water Towers
Isolated desolates
Wrapped in spikes
Fluted aqua Greys
Or in military green
Reaching the skies
The desolate cacti 
The desert fingers 
Withholding blaze..
Desicating breeze..........
.Blistering freeze..................
Where not a blade....................
Nothin' germinate......................
Them root in dust.....................
Wasteland, gravel.....................
The fluted barrels......................
They shrink in dry......................
Bellow up...

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Virtue, thou art old wine of vague value
Admired even by vintners nary more,
Nor by the adherents taking time’s cue,
Ye decorate archaic ancient lore.

Watch new high-fliers that surface from shores—
Go-getters getting tonnes in rare offers,
Tiger stripes,...

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We Are One (Nigeria Remix)

Ever seen an eagle feeding like a vulture?
Dignity trampled on, where corruption is a culture?
Darkness threatens her future, cause of her shapeless structure 
it’s saddening 'cause she’s been richly blessed by...

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Happiness, happiness, happiness
The one thing we all seek
What does it really mean
The million tonnes of gold we hoard
Or the millions of cash stashed in a bank’s vault
Fleets of expensive cars cruising the streets
Or diamond ornaments...

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Now Buxton is the place to stay when hiking in “the Dales”,
But your schedule’s shot to pieces if you’re troubled by strong gales,
On a campsite in the Pennines the wind was blowing bitterly
I confided to...

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We have been friends ever since I was born,
 mother even dedicated me at your altar in joy,
Fear of you and your love make my heart peaceful; for I know with you I need no...

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Our Felicity knows no rest and was
Often admonished by her Head Nurse.
It happened one day she was out for an errand
When a small boy was admitted to emergency.
With little thought she hurried to help,
forgetting she...

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As thunder and lightning shatter the night
I feel safe in your arms, held so tight
The rain pours hard, the earth could drown
That mountain rumbles, we hear no sound.

We lay naked by soft candle light
Our bodies...

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Once again the Supreme Player has dealt the unfortunate card
From the famine in my lands
To the quakes in Haiti, and the other parts
Then the floods in Australia
Now the quake in Japan

I wonder what to make...

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She dances through the winter snow, 
The sky is overcast, threatens to fall below, 
She's a beauty with a dream, 
With a doggy for a friend, 
I see her from a distance, 
Can't believe she's...

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The universe rests inside the palm of a giant hand
and a god like breath blows across the top and through 
a trillion stars planets and exploding suns.
A celestial storm rages to the magnitude of which...

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When hundred's one hell of a count, 
To reckon crore, a long sentence, 
And five times that a long penance,
Almost a live tiger to mount, 
Wonder, many a dot must make a crore, 
A mouthful...

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.... Human desire for adaptation, I foresee .... 

               - A solemn ongoing enthusiasm for - 


Becoming parallel with those who...

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Hey, thanks a heavy bunch for the welcome
Hey, thanks a larger lot for the welcome

My heart is duly enthralled
My mind has been positively stirred

Two days ago I had a lot on my mind
Now ‘coz of...

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did you know?
 
if

radio waves were seen... 
that is all we would see

did you know?
 
if

ants' could reason
they would rule planet earth

did you know?
 
that

plastic pollution is the
last nail in our coffin

did you know?
 
that

the...

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This factory has the bales delivered. Bales of unwanted, disused, thrown about, torn up, ripped and antiquated clothes. Once loved but not now. Bales measured by tonnes. Bales needing the forklift. Bales delivered once a...

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Benedict was tired, he’d been driving all day.  
This was his last delivery, 2 tonnes of eggs delivered to Safeway.  
The kid came out of nowhere, stared Benedict in the face,
He tried to...

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We had made one on the day of our nuptial knot,
Folding hands, most humbly, divine graces we sought;
Being one for good and bad; in sickness, and health,
To love and serve till death, with no intention-stealth...!...

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My dream holiday on an Island so far away
I’ve wanted to go there for many a day

‘Kon-Tiki’ film by Thor Heyerdahl  caught my eye
Now Easter Island is a destination I dearly want to try

A...

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(dedicated to Naija, my countree)

Naija, I hail o
A house horrorful than
The Hammer house of horror!

Naija, I hail o
An animal dreadful than
The dreaded white shark!

Naija, I hail o
A den of animallike humans
Who prey on all preyables!
Naija,...

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My LORD,MY GOD.
Aye ave seen wat you do,
Before and even now,
Can any man stand before you?
Demanding any sort of redemption!

Each one has their loads,
For each carries big tonnes,
Gone are the weights that they had,
How merciful...

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Brown eye to black eye
The movement of colour when you lie
Less conversations,more fights
This tension between us is really pushing me above my height
No good morning texts,nor goodnight ones
The stress makes me lose weight,tonnes and tonnes
Sleepless...

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That rambling castle across the landscape bewitched my heart
As though divinity has signed, gorgeous is its art.
Are the cherubims relaxing, spreading out their legs and hands?
Are these archaic, ornate boulders on mountainous strands?

Cave-like, carved curvy...

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It takes my life,
through a delicate, plastic pipe.
I lie here. Knowing
I am punctured.

It takes my life.
Straight from my feeble heart,
that flutters,
as the red stuff flows.

My eye's open.
See chest moving, and a rose 
pitifully blooming.
A spark...

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