Long Unfinished business Poems

Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s Twentythird Legal by T. Wignesan

Le vingt-troisième légal

pendant la guerre le peuple devient obéissent de nouveau
plein du respect (et) de la confiance les enfants naïfs dans la foi
la gouvernance nécessaire  ...

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Mark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...

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Choices my dear one,
So many choices, 
So few voices,
Some near,
Some far,
Some to fear.

A path.
Clear and chosen.  
The erasure of a closing.
The logos of math.
The trajectory of wrath.
The conciliatory legislation blindly ruling the cosmos of...

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[ For Contest : Ghost of Frankenstein 
Sponsor : Tom Woody
submitted: 9/5/25 ]

Many starry nights I lay
in my wooden cabin next to your 
sanctuary waiting for whisperings
from your past, wisdom words

I wrote odes about a...

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Blank pages scribed with hate 
Empty voices scream my name
Poison lingers down my throat
It was time to let go
Deep thoughts and shallow waves 
My heart screams of a pallid taste 
Made to be let and...

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I am standing on the Premis of time watching the year as it lingers on, I have a mission to complete and the whole village is rushing to feet; something magnetic is burning inside and...

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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
©Alfreda Williamson
July 2, 2004




Outside town boundaries,
bustling, noisy din,
Deeply in the serenity of peace, calm,
the country County,
Around a curve, sharp, blind.

There it leaped out at me.
Suddenly, unexpectedly
Catching me off guard,
Not foresightedly, not scary
Just by way...

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I think, therefore I am,
And of what I think
Becomes me out of thought,
Momentarily, memories make
More mad moments of me,
Be it reality of fantasy?
Physical or Metaphysical?
My paradox is my persona

Brain fires random impulses
From dead end to...

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Accosted many years ago
By the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe
I'm now obliged to come forthright
About that dark eye-opening night.

It's only fair to let you know
I've held a torch for Mr. Poe
It's all because of the...

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Life behind these eyes

This old body, harboured among so many artifacts.
My Spirit wanders the spaces within my four cornered rooms.

My Soul searches for meaning beyond the bars of my steel cage.  .
My heart beats...

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Words hang from rafters in cobwebs of silence

The candle flickers on a window sill in pain

Locks with no keys stare into closed chapters

The poet’s unhinged mind holds its threshold

Floor boards creak without pace like a...

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It's almost 1 a.m., and I, shipwrecked in insomnia,
lie with my eyes lost on the ceiling that silently tells its story,
listening to the monotonous murmur of a world that never stops,
even though within me, all...

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God Gave You a Second Chance
 Not ready to leave this world with unfinished business determining the souls color; you’re on borrowed time! Prayers to heaven and words spoken from the heart brought perspective to...

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When it came to love I would always act strange 
younger me messed up with an amazing girl
I'm sorry for all of the past pain 
I've only just realised you were the girl I should...

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(Dedication: In Memorium, Jane Reichhold, haiku poet)
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Once upon then
Only men wrote haiku;
Jane broke trends when?

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Eulogy lines
Fate oversees;
Suicide note

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Death by choice
Broken by water;
Drowning excavation

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Famous haiku poet
Pain drowns life;
Fibromyalgia

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So much reason
Drowns ripe season;
Decay instructs

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Pain gathers more
More than...

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I didn't say, "Don't do it," but I never knew it was on your mind.
I didn't say, "Things will be OK, even though the world is not often kind,"
and I never said, "What's the matter?...

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Festive party
Celebrate something;
Warm humanity

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One by one
People walk pass;
Lonely man waits

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Dog walking fast
Master in tow;
Barks fine command

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Two sparrows
Practice on wood bench;
Gospel of birdsong

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Sea of faces
Hurry takes a break;
Crowded lift hijacks

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Old shop houses
New paintwork shines;
Ancient looks new

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River...

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It would be a bummer if they said you were gonna die,
I dont know what I'd do,  just sit there, run or cry.
I'm sure my thoughts would be a jumble, my head all a...

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Civil War II

Perhaps if civil war comes, it will be broken into scores of guerilla wars.  
This prolonged agony is a reason General Lee surrendered!

The division in America—2024

Once again, they’ll vote him in
Unfinished business...

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Denzel
Denzel was a dog. He was a nice brown dog who loved to play. Running after his ball was fun. Everybody loved Denzel until it happened. The Neo Soviet leader, Putin The Dog, went mad....

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Did you think you were cool?
to call in a threat?
You Columbine copy-cat,
you coward, you fool?

Teachers hear the “code,”
Teachers who’ve been trained to
hope for the best
prepare for the worst, 
the worst that could possibly happen
at this...

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Strobe lightning flashes
when midnight strikes home
Blades of grass whistling
signals the brutal winter wind
that follows harshly
Shady shallow creatures
crawl out of their shells of unfinished business
Growls of hunger rising to wails of one banshee cry
 
She calls...

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("Red Skin", 2023, original encaustic)

Cantos of Love

Was it ever here at all…

Faces, eyes, lips, breasts and thighs
Parade through memory
Fading, fading fast
As years advance.

Maybe these closets 
Need more juice to unlock
Than these old bones hold.

Funny about...

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That people are great, 
but sadly they tend to be those under three and over thirty.


That everyone projects (their own hopes and fears),
but almost everyone is unaware they’re doing it.


That the generation gap is wider...

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