Long Trooped Poems

The First Gift

There’s news for the young and news for the old,
And news for a world lonely and cold,
And down through the ages this story’s been told
How Love was revealed to all.

Into the world that...

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>Finding myself with a few moments free the other day. I thought I would let Dragon my naturally speaking addition, have  a free hand with a poem. However I just had to add the...

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I Cooked the Book that Would Not Tap
 
A Doomsday, a nightmare gone wrong,
My hand shot with pain and didn’t stop,
Bandages hid the wound I wove for kong,
The silence echoed round the wheel fop.

I screamed...

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			Naked death


…the barred and sealed cattle wagons
							disgorge
at the Konzentrazionslager
						            the faux pas relief
    from urine mud faeces sweat and tears
unkempt armpits...

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The Walk

Roans, chestnuts, blacks and greys
Stand the line in perfect swathes
Tunic buttons and brasses glisten
Brave men sit and for orders listen

The finest horse out on parade
Six hundred men, the Light Brigade
Speedy chargers of sword and...

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Please help me in my confusion 
Come to my rescue and
Do not leave me sitting all alone
On this lonely beach of abandonment 
Help me my brothers
Help me  my compatriots
Help me you all men of...

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Incense hung in the evening air
like the mist and the chains of prayer cranes.
Ferocious gilded guardian framed the gate
through the aged arched travelers trooped
Pilgrims all.

Monks diminutive in form,
draped in square clothes 
of sacred orange, bow.
Prayer...

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I spied a valley low
Across the road from the cemetery
A Columbus monkey swinging by
The trees of the valley
Stood tall and forlorn
Observing the crematorium
Covered in light gray smoke
As morning traffic streamed by
Giraffe reached for the tallest...

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Adorable Pink Mouse Ballerina was as flexible as they come
She had entranced most of the men, my brothers were some.
The rest of us trooped out of the mouse hole that warm summer day
To watch her...

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Unless you've only got one,
Both your eyes see these words,
Are you really understanding them,
Or are they just a bunch of letters that make you bored?
If you're still looking then I've got your attention,
That's all I...

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Spirits that hover o'er the surface of the earth
Disatisfied with thy untimely demise
Regretting and cursing the cause of thy death
But that unholy life ye fail to reminisce
 
Copious words of advice trooped in from far...

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We all avoided Miss Kay’s house; she was an old maid.
No one wanted to get moldy cookies or pink lemonade.
We ran past her stoop, not wanting to ring the bell as it stood.
We knew whatever...

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They sang as they marched

And boarded the trains,

They sang as they set out to sea.

They sang as they trooped

Down french country lanes,

They sang of a great victory.

But where they were going

Was no place for singing,

No...

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