Dangle A Backdrop
...Fountains sprinkle summer city rising steam spiral,
wet dispersed and raucous shrieks from children,
pavements, streets. lanes, byways imbued,
with that June to September jubilance,
jovial spiri...
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Categories:
remit, adventure, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Curious Coif
...Enigmatically stubborn to style, the coif
Some days it can be easily pulled off
Other days it requires an exorcism
Like Zoolander it can look like ‘Magnum’
Hides my receding hairline like a cha...
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Categories:
remit, fashion, funny,
Form: Other
captivate
...wandering past the same tree twice—
would remit that one was lost,
but like a book,
maybe it’s the one you picked up again that you never finished,
but why didn’t you finish it the first ...
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Categories:
remit, love,
Form: Free verse
Thrust In The Centre Of The Storm All I Could See Was You
...Serrated swathes of overwhelming savage gusts without compassion,
directionless dilatory daydreamer that I am ostensibly vulnerable,
to the serendipitous intrusion at a wispy sapphire cloud flacc...
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Categories:
remit, angst, anxiety, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
An Altruist Unsung
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She lived beside the old temple that has stood
For years on the rocky bank of the silent river
Flowing all through the lining greenery cover ,
The woods and the arable land rich and goo...
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Categories:
remit, life,
Form: Narrative
For the Life of Me
...I swore I'd turn and back away,
Resist the call, from the lurking flay.
For the life of me, I could not allay the stay!
Before me lay a morsel, a mere tit bit.
A taste I took, another, another,...
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Categories:
remit, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Press-ed into serfdom
...New York times and Washington post, better watch
The reports in the columns you host, keep within any
Remit, for the wokesters wish to poke' specially those in
The big-house, who'll treat as serio...
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Categories:
remit, appreciation, community, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
The Ghosts of Lime Kiln Road
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Summon your demons, devils, and wraiths,
visit moments of hurt and loss.
Replay what might have been, wrestle with regrets,
Do “if only” scenes haunt your past?
I follow the faint ribbon of s...
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Categories:
remit, dance, death, grave, history,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Spirit
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Christmas Spirit
Let us hail the Christmas Spirit*
That love for all men does che...
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Categories:
remit, christian, christmas, god, religious,
Form: Quatrain
Matthew Henry 1662 - 1714
...Matthew Hendy lived centuries ago
a non-conformist minister in England
although Welsh-born lived across the border
lived 51 years made true Christian stand
His greatest piece of work by far
wh...
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Categories:
remit, bible, spiritual, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Tortured Poet Extolling Rhetoric
...I am not a Poet
I know this fact true and full well
In the orthodox conventional literal way
As I am not able to use set standard form
So what I write
Therefore does not conform
S...
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Categories:
remit, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Wounded Whisper
...Thoughts regurgitated though repugnant,
coil of self loathing tightens its noose,
venal thoughts a fragmented whisper,
to sabotage, undermine, disrupt,
one’s frail ego under siege,
wounded whisp...
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Categories:
remit, care, character, cry, deep,
Form: Free verse
Reverand and the Maker
...See I told you so
That I could somehow or other do it
It was always in my remit
Unfortunately for some or other
reason unbeknownst to me
Kept so well hidden I had to
search deep inside...
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Categories:
remit, judgement,
Form: Free verse
They Heard It Screamed a Damn It
...When they heard it screamed a 'Damn it!'
One of them had dared to submit
That Charles, Incurable Hermit,
Chair their forthcoming First Summit
"I'm not shocked, his own dad Hermit:
Why wouldn't h...
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Categories:
remit, change, community, hate, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
I Let It Slip Away
...I let it slip away, that final day-
with judging soon to come, it waited there.
This prize I'd captured in my special way
went flying instantly into the air.
I'd held it in my heart for a long ...
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Categories:
remit, conflict, judgement, writing,
Form: Sonnet
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