Long Wain Poems

[Just a little note to help maintain the peace on Soup.          
To cause no animosity among our friendly group
I myself am partial to some tasty asian...

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There is a water glint,
just shining through the copse beyond.
Autumn's sinking sun, 
barred by spindle trees and the last 
of summer's brindled reeds 
and sedge and rush that fringe this stilling pond.
.
 
Damp leaves hide...

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Acute advice for those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL: Valiarithal - K475
[*like presidents, prime and chief ministers, dictators or even modern-day "emperors" under the guise of revolutionary leaders of oppressed peoples]

Note: In this...

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Whistle train, off in the way

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Alan Shepard, astronaut, took golf balls to the moon
He whacked them only when he knew that he’d be leaving soon
‘One flew two hundred yards,’ he said, ‘and as I recollect
one came down in a crater,...

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Sometimes you may feel like you're stuck on the benches of life 
Not knowing if you'll ever get in the game causing you anquish and strife 
Dismissed and unused never getting a chance to play...

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The Land of Nane

Once upon a long, long, L O N G time ago
Far, F A A A R R away...an island 'rose
Out of an icy blue and crystal sea...
Far north of Africa. Far north...

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Forsooth impeachment hearings appertain
blood on hands of
self important president,
though alcohol he doth abstain,
nonetheless permanent drunken stupor
doth wax and wain
finger of guilt
damaging democracy points

to him as chief villain
groomed since... time immemorial
atavistic primate brain
bathed (courtesy Frederick Christ...

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Becoming a mother is the best feeling ever
An unconditional bond we share
To be a good mum 
You always need to be there.
Watching our children grow up through the years
The joy and the happiness to the...

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Two Moons

‘I am the Goddess of Hellfire in spitting disguise when I travel alone and 
                   need...

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Oh! Do see and behold
Of  mother and womb
The writings on the wall 
Crouching about the world so high
Their presence you can't deny
Hallelujah,  
         hallelujah,  
                   hallelujah...     
                                           Hallelujah 

Is Your faith  draining now?
As doubt begins...

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Morning Sun calls from behind the occasional cloud above seeking those willing to rise and face the drudgery of yet another day’s fruitless effort. Uninvited rays of warmth intrude upon my slothful desires finding me...

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My list is all done, I stand in the kitchen and stare.
To the Supermarket I'm off, It feels like a dare.
The very thought of that place, brings a chill to my bones.
Walking up and down...

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In slumber I was but now am waking,
stirring again as I have always done.
I lift my head slowly, aware of the life awakening in me
and shake my tousled bronze gold hair.

With rebirth comes rememberance
of all...

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Alone candle flame
Burning into the night
Burning deep in the heart
The endless dark
Waves of ink crash upon 
This island of illuminated shores
Bleak hours of lost sorrow
Love nevermore
Wings of shadowed sparrow touch, not evermore
Emotions grow forever 
Narrow
In...

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The gray bearded wizard in its night blue cloak,
two ravens and a wolf are his recognition flock.
He has the ability to shape shift from the dead,
into animals speaking the language of same is said.
In midwinter...

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OLD TOWN ELEGY
  
The bridge still spans the road - with what design?
The rail that once crossed Ridgeway and vale to the sea
Erased and gone, with scarce residual sign
And barely more trace than near...

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He’d been on the trail many a month,
When he reached the town of Gulrith,
A mining village high in the peaks,
His named was Wainwright Smith.

He searched the west, looking for
A sister by the name of Henrietta,
Who’d...

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Wandering the cobbled roads of Boston’s misty night
The stars spun like dew in spiders’ web glistening with delight
Low I came to a bridge, stone and fair and white
Over Charles’ river dark it reflected pale and...

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The say twins think alike, but Cha and Chee
were poles apart
For all the kindness Cha spread
Her sisters cruelty matched
Cha painted sunflower balloons
Chee blood drenched moons
Cha looked for friends to meet
Chee alone just seethed.
Cha her sisters...

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Unwrap that silly Cellophane,
Present my aspect, "Hey, Arkane!",
Should I dare that old window pane?
Let's laugh at that ol' weather vane.

And, who are you, my Crazy Jane?
Am I your target to attain?
I'm not so simple as...

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...What he saw there made blood run cold,
His sister naked in the light,
Chained to a bed, soiled and stained
Her stomach swollen and tight.

She was covered in refuse and blood,
Her eyes saw him but didn’t see,
She...

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Neighbor
Babul Ahmed

We have two well
Everywhere in the middle of
the Virgin River flowing.
Your home on the north side
I, along with the southern windows.
Every morning, facing East
We see both sunrise,
Road, the western horizon
Scarlet red beam bent-law of...

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Before the last of the Ancients from Eden had returned to death ,
It was decided that with  their direction and wisdom Stones of meaningful proportion and weight should be used to measure the cosmic...

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Before the last of the Ancients from Eden had returned to death ,
It was decided that with  their direction and wisdom Stones of meaningful proportion and weight should be used to measure the cosmic...

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