Long Unremembered Poems

In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors, 
illuminating like spring's moon,
who sunk like winter sunset,
but arose like summer sunrise -
my last...

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Past unconcerned hens that distractedly 
Scratch
Under frowning protestations from the
Sheltered Lee;
Into the cloaked shadows lain across the 
Cobbled courtyard,
Behind which squats the twisted form of
The old brooding, arthritic apple tree.
Past the neat little cow-byre 
Hosed...

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Please, don't sell out your immortal soul to the devil!
Because he doesn't have any thing to offer you that
You really want or you really need

Why have your immortal spirit temporarily incarcerated
In the fiery torment of...

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An old man ravaged by age
His gangling frame impelled against the cancerous bark of the forever weeping willow 
Lined with wrinkles of time, his ashen face unshaven
Cast down among creeping shadows

Folding my legs, I sit...

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a ball is stuck in rafters by a pool waiting
as long as I have been coming
   for 7 years on tender hooks as clouds drift by
       ...

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It is the awakening.
After long dreamless sleep,
my mother has lot to explain,
in labor pains, aunt and her,
passing by the dark thick shinny woods,
my time has come to born! ! !
Through endless cycles of night and...

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Little friend
I have tried my best
Here in this cathedral of pines
Too much red stain ...

Too much of your warm blood
Has run to melt the snow
I have bound your wounds, tight and sure
But it is too...

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Written: November 17, 2023

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. By William Wordsworth
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If just...

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Shizumanu Taiyo
Japanese Flight 123 

[Verse 1]
They say you are a sun that never set 
I thought the time would never come 
Remembering the unremembered, forever without beauty 
Now, I sit and wonder what it would...

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Dawn hurls
Magic aura;
Song birds sing

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Cheery sunrise
Poetry of light;
Ceremonious new day

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Awakening
Dreamy lines linger;
Unremembered glimpses

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Brisk walk seeking
Wet market food supplies;
Fresh vegetables greet

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Busy food court
Crowded queues;
Hunger strikes a pose

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Early morning queue
Banking transactions;
Money on the move

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Friendly fruit vendor
Skins three...

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A 1952s

I pulled the penny from my pocket to toss it
In the change jar. All my change goes immediately 
Into the jar upon arriving home. There it collects
Until I go to the bank and have...

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We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock,
amid the shattered stained glass of desolate factories, where the echo of emptiness reverberates,
in taverns where silence bears the...

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Your becoming a crave
More needed than chocolate
A pleasant scent to my nose
And a filling to my stomach 
 You’re a story with a great beginning
The end I care less to see
For knowing that my upcoming...

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Should i have said something 
   Did I miss a memory 
 In this hierarchy

Did I understand 
  On the other hand
     was I misunderstood .. 

Was that...

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Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?


“Why Hast thou”?
My unripe hairy-brain makes its claim
to be the image of its Father.

My vision today 
could turn a green leaf brown, 
or scorn itself, seeing only 
the thoughts that feed it.

Forsaken…...

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(Author's note: It has come to my attention that the U.K. has decided to eliminate Holocaust 
education from its curricula, on the grounds it may "offend" some groups)

So, for fear it may offend,
The truth is...

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“Who touched me?” Jesus asked... 
“Someone touched me; I know that
power has gone out from me.”
Luke 8:45-46 (NIV)

There's a beach ball stuck in the rafters of the pool.
It's been there for the 7 years I've...

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Dreaming

A king of once dreamed about cows, of which some were fat and others lean.
 If you are like me, you often forget your dreams; but I suspect that we all at some point have...

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It is the awakening.
After long dreamless sleep, my time has come again.
Through endless cycles of  night and day, of heat and cold
I have lived throughout history.  My birth unremembered
as is my youth. ...

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There's a beach ball stuck in the rafters of the pool, 
Its position unchanged 
               for the 7 years I've been...

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“wundor weardh on wege	water weardh to bane*”

Across the path of fallen leaves, dark and unremembered,
Millions of white crystals teeming from a leaden sky
Darting like tiny daggers into my eyes, blinking, smarting,
Over frozen ground, rapidly white,...

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She loves me she loves me not...

Just my luck that when juiced a lad
din grammar school, aye own every
rhyme and reason tubby mad
every friggin time boyhood fingers
plucked petals off flowered daisy...

just as well, a relief...

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There’s a story I heard of a famous lost chord,
although why it was lost and just who did the losing,
true or not, perhaps no one can tell,
but piano pursuit served me well as a child
as...

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There's an old red beach ball stuck in the rafters of the haunted hotel pool. It's been there for the 7 long years, I've been coming here since I was a child with my parents....

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I met this man, a father, grandfather, a man of substance

A wealth of life, success from nothing, earned respect

No easy path yet won, built, from ruins to riches you might say

Not alone, side by side...

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