Long Unthinking Poems

A child passes by 
So full of joy
Life
A friend by his side
Broad smiles smothered all over their faces, a veil over childhood ignorance
Together they play, tumbling in the grass of the gardens of youth
But before...

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What is it that makes us human ? It's not something you can program, you can't put it into a micro chip. It's the strength of the human heart; the difference between us and machines....

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I Babies Had IT
Before the tomb, we must understand the WOMB
Where as babies we are ONE with our environment
It took time to assert, "Me and mine," creating "others"
Sadly, babies had no power, or voice, to...

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I
A queue to a doorway
No-one knows what´s
On sale there
It could be washing powder
Almonds or diamonds
You think this was some
Yesterday
Look out your
Ghost smeared
Window
This is now

II
Throw stones at the
Motorcade 
The pin pricked
Giant will barely
Pause
At banners & petitions
Faded...

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I long to see you       become forever well
filled with life and happiness  that from which we fell
I love you for the character      ...

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When I think of what to write
often the ocean comes to mind
Endless sea of pretty blue
and stretched out horizon lines,
impossibly flat

Yet when I actually arrive
it isn't the sea that my eyes
take a liking too
Rather it's...

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You were born to be a filigreed crown
to soar like the swift      never touch ground
but they gave you labels   suiting their thought
words sharpened like knives   ...

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While waiting but not watching for the sun to set, perhaps the bullfrogs are creating the shadows with their croaks, my friend screams out because he has been bitten by a fly. He is not...

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Between the craziness of politics and art my mind wanders
looking to find peace, 
but between the beauty of art and the craziness of this president
I die

But it improves my art
although it thrusts me between dark...

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Coasting on thermals where birds touch the sky
standing below them and watch do I
banking with grace above they ascend
fleeting to views I want never to end

Through the tall grasses do brown bunnies run
enjoying open spaces...

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I remember that day, my friend when you said: I will lead,
I left my leadership as a tree untimely leaves shed;
I was happy indeed, just like holding my father's arm,
What's more happiness than that of...

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Dear,

Dear,

Dear... Whoever this is too.

The collective unconscious, the universal "you".

Anybody who's listening,

I thought, but I never knew.

I Swallow, before I chew,

I'm a swallow who never flew.

Like how Jesus Christ was a Jew, and Islam preaches,...

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Lying in bed, the light of my computer bright
against the still images slowly changing on the silent TV across the room.
Despoiling the image,
nine seventeen, pm
stands out on the bottom of the screen.
My tired head resting...

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Tanka/ Haiku

Dionysian’s
Drunken Roman Bacchante (1)  footnotes 
God of the Maenads'  (2)
Female appreciation
Tainted murderous servants

Maniacal twist
Hold each- a sensuous kiss
Trained not by hubris
Phalli held in revere
His spirit flows through rapture

Beloved Bacchus
Honors Ancient Helena
Amathia(3) scorns-...

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Whatever stirs the tips of copper and urges buds to swell
comes with the suns expanding heat, a welcome spring induce,
for the urge is now returning from survivors of the winter
to prepare accomplishment in nature’s drive...

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BE KIND…
The world is an unforgiving place
Full of hurt and betrayal
Full of falsehood 
And two-faced people

BE THE EXCEPTION…
Don’t let yourself be dragged 
by the unthinking mass
We live in a world where everyone
judges and condemns you
Without...

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At 30,000 feet
During any normal flight
You sit relaxed after reading the pouch advertising
And realize there is little or no sense of motion
Only the engines causing a sort of mantra
This sets the mind wondering
Wondering about travel
Is...

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Overweighed by stresses and strains, like a wrecked ship, I move,
Yet, like a weighed-down donkey, burdens on me I approve;
I perform my work, like a worn-out machine, unthinking,
Preoccupied with cares, I've no time even for...

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Some words sometimes may create problems for
us, mostly we use words without thinking,
what exactly those words mean, with less care.
What comes to mind we just speak unthinking.

Sometimes forget process of thinking and
words used determines our...

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The subscription to fear is surrounding and growing.
Leaders without courage depend on exploiting.
I guess they never learned how to dig deep and resist. 
How many times logic and facts were dismissed. 
Shocking to me since...

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Walking on the varied levels of sand
I stood on the edge unthinking of consequence
It gave way
No one more surprised than me
Oh yes, true thing learned:
The edge is unstable
The footing unsure
In my youth what did I...

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Foreword: on 30 December 2018 one last straggling rose remained in my garden. Below it a daffodil flower was just splitting, ready to open. Now that can’t be right.


The Rose And The Daffodil

The rose and...

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When Aunt Geelah’s vanity case was found 
No one else but my daughter was anywhere around
I screamed with joy at this beautiful sight
The feelings I had were of instant delight.

I had buried Aunt Geelah in...

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Coming   Home - Journeys Of Broken Dreams 

Strange journeys,
Of broken dreams, woodland  paths,
And mountain streams.
Long long walks between destinations. 
Motorways and country lanes,
Railway  stations 
Taxi ranks 
Cities and towns, 
Villages.
Silent journeys...

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When growing a flower there’s a few things you need,
Water and sunlight and room for the leaves.
If you tend to your flower with warmth and with care,
It will one day sit tall with assured debonair.
But...

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