Long Underpin Poems

Hilda my partner turned in her bed as the early morning train hurtled by at breakneck speed sending tremors round our dwelling.
Those long flowing tresses embrace the shafts of first light so enthusiastically.
An otherworldly spot...

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they disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
  ......
  retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
  vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
  fresh slants on shadowy delight
  the foreboding, ominous,...

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A synchronised swan chime is very pleasant in a cool breeze but sampling an electric blanket supper is just not that amazing. Nor is it justifiable in a spring turreted garden. Gardeners grabbing gates greedily...

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FM
“ShallowMan, if you’ve conflictions
owing to your mind’s addictions
to subconscious maledictions,
due to doubt in old convictions;
tell me now of your afflictions.”

SM
“FactoidMan, I must confess
I understand you more or less
though subtleties provoke distress,
and even more your fine...

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The death penalty, a practice rooted in antiquity, continues to evoke controversy and ethical dilemmas in modern society. Despite its purported role in deterring crime and administering justice, the death penalty stands on shaky moral...

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I me 2 

Am fiercely competitive as well

Suppose that is not so much a new

But commonality thread

That bonds us together

Surely makes us in fact human 

Like string flaccidly detached from
an ailing kite

Floating slowly ebbing away...

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Courtesy the miracle of modern medicine
above named prescription medication
expelled, dissolved, cured... out ma skin
involuntary telltale twitching, thrashing
flagging, sacking, tackling... -

scoring field goal and unexpected win
allowing, enabling, and providing therein
peaceful easy feeling twin
affecting yours truly and...

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Assumed best in all people under sun,
Generous with love, the Fish never done.
Every true smile was his only desire;
Never thought to be target of fire.

Truth be told maybe some were just evil.
Scurried around, these rats...

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For Shame
Their cold bronze eyes stare out at us from busy thoroughfare
 Heroic gaze and presence met with apathetic  stare
The marble plinths now stained with piss record with misery
Of truth and Kings and Glorious...

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LONGEVITY
a radiance
to
enlarge
  with time
the  symbol
 of continuity
to
flourish
 &  shape
imagination
afresh
to amuse
  perhaps
unexpectedly

 casual
affection
in  an
 encounter
listening
 attempting
to create
 openness
to  underpin
a
 growing 
  sympathy
 of the
experience
 of the
contrast
to the
 prevailing
 present


along
the shift
of
thinking
once
 marginalised
by  
  modernity
now
respected
 in  the
 spiritual
 repositioned
in the
   contemporary
between
the controversy
of
the
valid
&empirical


reaching
     backing
 to the
    past
&a 
   nostalgic
look back
 to 
   simpler 
times

NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open'...

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Bones and their ash remain,
retain and nourish
the under-croft, the terrain.
The meadow green.
Bones replant.

The dead feed the living,
and the living cut down the living
to feed themselves.
The world must eat itself.
This is called husbandry and farming.
It is...

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I left barefoot
to reach you.
So far, of stones,
Barefoot,
just to reach you
before  sunrise.

Walls loaded of mildew, 
Turgid back coat, I can’t underpin myself,
not even to touch them
Is easy, I’ll build a house,
sometime from fir wood.

You...

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A blow is smote, the poet wrote
Lines appear, almost innate, from pen upon
The paper
A yearning presence presses in with thoughts
And visions; senses spin, much to ponder? The coldness
So impersonal, prevalent now in people for the
Doctors...

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Victim written all over me
But strength lies deep within
Unsure who I should set free
Whose heart my actions underpin
Which ego is my alter
At which altar do I pray
Who holds me when I falter
Who'll save me from...

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Numbed by the horror portrayed on TV
Shocked at the carnage I can clearly see
People in the sunshine simply mown down,
Senseless slaughter against democracy and crown.

Extremists do exist of many kinds,
We know that they have damaged...

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