If I can
...If I be what I’m and stay ever so,
My cares and concerns if live a bit low,
If painful memories vanish by morn
O to wipe out my life’s whispering woes,
If I can forget pains like a newborn,
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Categories:
shiploads, life,
Form: Verse
No Title
...I have slept but I have not slept
I have not slept but I have slept
For the first time in two years
I slept without a word of care
No codes, no crossroads
No railroads, no shiploads
No lizards ...
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Categories:
shiploads, america, betrayal, character, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Purge Our Consciences
...From my lowly bachelor’s house
Proudly christened ‘Embassy Fair’
I woke up to the chirping of birds
On the trees above and across the vale
And the riverine bushes in-between
I woke up to the crowing ...
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Categories:
shiploads, prayer,
Form: Free verse