Long Tussled Poems

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Janis

They called her ugly, fat and stupid
Hair tussled and unkempt
She was laughed out of her home
Chased across desert and mountain
She fought back
Found a world where she fit in
Hippies, drugs and sex filled her life
She sang words of her torture
Traveled the world telling of her life
Everyone listened but no one cared
She died all alone
Everyone mourned the world’s loss
Her words and music live on
Sung by millions who do not understand
The pain that went into each word
Feelings that only she knew
A life that ended way too soon
And gave us the Janis we all love
Years after she left this world.
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Premium Member Echo

The power of your name
Is stronger than the truth.
The magic of your voice
Conjures our torrid youth

When love was tussled hair
And eager searching hands 
Upon a moonlit beach,
And blazing eyes entwined,

Just one small “I love you”
Was all we needed then.
It seemed to be enough
To share and share again.

Unable to hold on
O what a pair we are:
Fear dressed up as beauty,
Foolishness clothed with pride.

When the truth is spoken,
Although our loss is plain,
We have not let us go.
We will not face the pain.

We are opposite ends
Of the rainbow’s promise,
Linked only by the sun,
Refracted by the rain.

Premium Member Turbulence

and then the wind 

took a deep breath

and exhaled gently


cradled the salt on the earth 

and the skin of her mind

touched and went as she could not

hold on to the soft caress

but the motion tussled her hair

and for that memory

she was grateful


a silent tear 

quiet droplet of thirst

drawn out by a breeze of suspense

from her face 

made her smile


the smirk assured her

that a tender

kiss of life

would save her from

stagnation and 

while her existence 

seemed motionless

nothing would ever

be the same and

she was ready to

embrace any storm


09th August 2021

Solace For My Southern Land

PLACED 9th : Premium Contest 
Sponsor: Mark Toney : 2025
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A flaming circle alighted on  
       fertile soils near a fig tree and 
             harbour of hope to savour
                  struggles for freedom 

Love here was arrowed 
       steadfast or ephemeral 
               I disembarked to open 
                    cultures at deeper dimensions

Mastering spirals of colour
         I soldiered well trod streets
              where priests and imams laced 
                   fingers blessing ardent marches

My soul tussled with unshackling truth
        a flat mountain strewn with coral proteas
              was my purple majesty to manifest
                   dreams from fearless courage

In this land of deserts and waves
        Love opened hundreds of doors
            to deliver itself in all its splendour 
                and all its pain as it ignited gain
 
My atoms weaved history and heritage  
       traversing an incredulous African reality 
            where life illuminated piquant fruits of
                 my own making to relish or relinquish 

Embalmed by a Creator who guided
        sure footsteps to an axis in a spinning 
           crystal at heart’s core where joyful tears
                 are a solace for my Southern Land

Engraved in Sweat

That man stirs before the sun, dashing hopefulness, 
Hopefulness that his son will grow, not just mature, 
Mature into a man, who lugs his name, 
Name engraved in sweat, not pursuing eminence.

Eminence never suckled the ardor of his soreness, 
Soreness from scuffles tussled in quietness and pain, 
Pain he credited so his child treasures concord, 
Concord cleared through hurricanes, never ephemeral.

Ephemeral is the joy, but enduring is love, 
Love that drains through detriment and scabs, 
Scabs that murmur, “I bequeathed all I ensured,” 
Ensured bravery enough to silhouette the celebrities.

Poem by Mugisho N.


Premium Member Horses

Fine tussled forelock hides unbridled pain
from stifle-lameness acknowledged too late,
withering lesser those few that remain
watching as Stormcloud takes one final gait.

Soft drizzled rain-drops accompany booms
heard where each hoof tramples dirt into dust.
Mist escaped muzzle while ignorance looms,
glistens sheen gaskins long aching to bust.

Once thought sickle-hock due to fetlocks swelled
above coronets seen infected ill,
was quick dismissed by an owner compelled
to squeeze one dollar more from Stormcloud’s till;

Then came three races, one after the next,
which saw champion-spirit’s finest display;
Torturing sandscapes while weary croup flexed,
determined as anguished frogs made ovals pay.

He gave all he had and had no remorse,
For ended trots brought by one greedy soul –
Stormcloud indeed was a hall-of-fame horse,
erased when friendship went out at the poll.

10/2/2016
Form: Quatrain

Working the Shadows

Under the cover of daylight, beneath the mill
and hustle of teaming crowds; a need
and a life-grinding poverty
swept her down a wrong way.

She strayed into streets so narrow
entered them as a shadow-less shadow
stayed where rank rooms were rent by the hour
where tussled bedsheets her only ownership.

A small child might have slipped past
the ranks of pot-bellied loungers,
but the pimps were as thin as switch blades
and their eyes scavenged
for any walking flesh.

No one kidnapped her; abused her much,
she was taken by her own weakened self,
nabbed by an ever willing surrender.

Did she come to a dark end?

Only the flickering city lights
at the end of a day
can both ask and answer
that long searched for question.

Virgin Snow

The snow lies like a virginal white quilt
Untouched by man nor beast
That’s where I’d like to be right now
No need of blessings or a priest

It looks so pretty fresh and clean
The virginal quilt bed linen of white
To get under that quilt with you is a dream
Soon tussled and warm from lovings delight

To feel the cool white sheets slip down
To feel your skin close to me
To watch your face turn from delight to frown
As the clock ticks on so speedily.

A dream watching the snow as it lays down its quilt
A dream between the sheets, waiting for the guilt
A dream to come true, what a dream that would be
Between virginals sheets, my dream lover with me.

© 20/01/2013 ~GG~

Raising the Girl Right, Part Iv

Sally saw his expression, and smiled at him.
“Prent, I never thought you’d be back.
Whatever happened to make you return?
Whatever blew your great plans of track?
What was it that the big city lacked?”
He nodded his head, and said it true:
“Boston has much, but not women like you.”

Sally’s jaw dropped, how could it not?
She stared at him, fixed on his eyes.
He said,”If you’ll have a foolish trapper,
I was thinking we might give it a try.
You’re the best girl I know, that’s no lie.”
The café went quiet, all looked on
Then Sally his lips brushed a kiss upon.

“Well I guess you leave me no choice now,
We’ll just have to go and get wed.
You heard me folks, the café’s closing!
Find somewhere else to get fed!”
Nell squealed, and Sal tussled her head.
Prent wrapped them both up in his arms,
vowing that he’d never do either harm.

Within an hour the preacher said the words
and together the two were bound.
Word spread quick and folks came out
from all of the buildings in town,
to see the new couple riding down.
Prent he ignored them, just kissed his wife
knowing together they’d raise the girl right.

Along with any others that might come along…

Premium Member Passing Ships and Fools

Passing Ships and Fools

When you define yourself
and bare all to see,
the truth revealed
is that they’ll see a fool.

When I was young,
they said I was foolish,
and now that I’m old,
they say I’m a fool!
“No fool like an old fool,” they say,
“clinging to the past!”

When we were young
and tussled in the grass,
some cried uncle, some didn’t;
most of us wavered.

With age, you’d think
we’d learn and get smarter,
but instead, we got dumber.
“If only” woke up
and walked out the door;
chalk it up to experience.

In my youth, I was a sailor
who sailed the seas.
Today, I make merry
and tell stories.
                    ***
Form: Verse

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