Long Trooping Poems

RESURRECTION OF A HEROE:

CHORUS:

Far from comparison, far from fear.
Failure part of the journey; shed no tears.
Man...do... the best you can do.
Talents in your hand's only for you. 
No body cares...what you goes through;
When you succeed,...

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London

The tour of London begins
 In the streets of my mind,
  Through past and present
   Intrinsically entwined,
    Through people and places
     It's heart we will...

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The moon rabbit is chasing a man on the moon                         ...

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After a meal of;
'Lamb steaks and Baccaroni,
Embroided with sweet potatoes'.
Life tossed him around and
Dazed him with threatening pleasures.
Then did he take up a tag to himself,
Proclaiming; 'JESUS WILL COME TOMORROW'.

The deceived that perceived
The air the...

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(Charles Philip Arthur George - b. 14 November 1948)


I had a cousin called Charles, said Aunty Olive.
Nice young man. That's him on our TV.

That's not cousin: it's King, said Aunty Lucy. It's King Charles.
Now watch...

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Reverence affects yours
     truly with unmeasurable
     infinite jubilant zeal,
sans unbeknownst world wide
     (web stirred) fans enamored
     with me poetry...

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You are extreme in beauty
perfected by builders who constructed all
your planking with pine trees from Ivory coast
and made a mast for you out of the combined crafts 
from brown ebony and snake wood. 
Out of...

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I saw the herons trooping across the evening sky
And wondered how far their white wings flew
What perils neath cosmic clouds their patient path defy
What change awaits them none ever knew
The call of summer seduces them...

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Wherever there is carcass, there the vultures will gather -
Jesus stated this; there is nothing in this to blather;
There are reasons when eagles fly around; pointing danger?
Indicating birds or animals or human stranger...?

Yet, why do...

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I saw those men in solemn chain trooping from the line
hand on shoulder, link to link their bandaged eyes gas blind.
The image burned upon my soul, and tied me to their chain
A scene imbued with...

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(The UK Queen's Platinum Jubilee was in June 2022)


You're at Trooping the Colour now, Dominic.
Were we not friends when we were schoolboys?
You look so smart now, Dominic, guardsman,
wrapped in the shining redness of that costume
under...

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(Elizabeth II 1926-2022)


Are we - crow, blackbird, sparrow -
aware of what's occurring?
We cannot tell, they assume,
but gape and gaze from up here.

This is a land with a departed monarch.
We - sparrow, blackbird, crow -
flit or...

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Bestow on me an incorrect
3 leafed clover ephigy of 
buttercup due early spring May 

With I meandering through a maze
of cotton wool field lost
Trying best to avert the gaze of
the virile bull's with Horn's poised

Whilst...

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Like a stillborn child they slept;
Their good and evils they 
couldn't do again.
In a place quiet, dark and 
lonely,
Where even prisoners are as 
free as kings.

Many hopeless people desire to 
go there and live;
Those who...

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The so-called Rubber Bullets are live 
And are not to leave hit victims alive…
So, Shooting Time, do not ever drive 
And ‘Spraying Hour’ you try to dive,
If really you wish to survive.

Better so than their...

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Rise  upon the trucks by dawn,trooping the soi`s (streets)
              soaring heat upon their gowns,shouldered a colateral urn
    ...

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Poetrysoup collective odyssey 

If ??

Popularity,  Adulation, Admiration 
&
Affirmation 

Are what you are seeking 

Then I fear you best look or seek solace elsewhere 

For a True Poet doth care more about 

Inspiring other's than...

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The Musical Ride by the RCMP
is a Canadian tradition for all to see.
Thirty-two horses of black on parade,
riders in red with lances portrayed.
To see this troop perform their drill
gives all that watch a sudden chill,
Here...

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