Sanguine Patience
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False faces and pretentious promises churn my heart,
like what the desert storm does to the dunes.
I can’t calm down my mind’s twirling turbulence
as the friction of fury shatters the shield ...
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Categories:
rashly, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks
...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)
"Stares upstairs..
Angels’ weeing above..
Be a good chap..
Show some love bruv..
Turn off the ta...
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Categories:
rashly, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Lao Tzu: English Translations IV
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IV
The Roots of Turbulence
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch
Heaviness lies at the root of lightness;
stillness begets turbulence.
Thus the nobleman he...
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Categories:
rashly, courage, desire, life, peace,
Form: Free verse
Picking At Scabs
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Written April 11, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
Quote: 1/ “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? Rumi
2/ "Many times we pick at the bitt...
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Categories:
rashly, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Sleuth of Sorrows
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The lonely shadow aside from the worldly poles
Wrenching like an unhidden find to hold
And the horrible ink of dreadful poison swiftly mold
Eyes were injurious red like a bleeding bed
Tho...
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Categories:
rashly, allusion, sorrow, women,
Form: Free verse
Accusation
...My vast steppe blessed with treasures untold,
A peaceful land where labor unfolds.
Seeing this nation's abundance and peace,
Enemies gathered, their threats unleashed.
If a person’s hea...
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Categories:
rashly, child, mother,
Form: Rhyme
The Maxims
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THE MAXIMS.
Who understands the patterns of life? It is even he who from speaking rashly restrains his lips,
That man will know pe...
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Categories:
rashly, bible, deep, emotions, faith,
Form: Sonnet
Hindsight 20-20
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Once I shared a long hidden secret with the one,
I thought was my friend, through and through.
But little did I think it would hit back on me
Like a boomerang, breaking my heart.
She betray...
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Categories:
rashly, betrayal, friend, trust,
Form: Free verse
End Of August
...August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born.
The odd uneven time—Sylvia Plath
End Of August
The end of August is oh so near ...
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Categories:
rashly, anxiety, art, august, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
Look Back In Anger to June 2024
...Look Back in Anger to June 2024
You, current denizen of Number Ten
With gleaming Colgate smile and Gucci shoes,
Take serious pause for thought, reflect on when
The voters all reject you and you...
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Categories:
rashly, political,
Form: Rhyme
Exploitation of Researchers' Passion and Dedication
...In ivory towers, oblivious reigns,
Blind to the weight of scholarly chains,
Reports unread, insights ignored,
The fruits of labour, rashly scored.
Heads turn away from midnight oil,
Unseein...
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Categories:
rashly, crush, pain, passion,
Form: Free verse
Along Dry Path
...Am I fitful,
fluctuating, fluid?
thin compass waver
as I jubilantly weave
lilac tree vignettes
that weep or chortle,
rainbow figment curtain
rashly wished upon
in grain smudge zephyr
garne...
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Categories:
rashly, august, birth, celebration, character,
Form: Free verse
The Words
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The words don’t flow like they used to
and these poems go unfinished,
Normally what triggers my senses
To rashly type verse after verse….
Well its emotion; feelings, sentiments.
But now i've...
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Categories:
rashly, depression,
Form: Free verse
Freedom to Transact - Bitcoin Poem 078
...The core of basic freedoms
Is the freedom to transact
This underpins the other rights
In the Magna Carta pact
The crux is private property
To use, or hold, or trade
Our time, our land, our en...
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Categories:
rashly, faith, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Know Thyself
...~ KNOW THYSELF
Honest examination brings truth
~ KEEP IT REAL
It saves you from the need to convince others through a multitude of words
~ DO NOT MANIPULATE
It is an act of psychological vio...
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Categories:
rashly, character, courage, growth, humanity,
Form: Other
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