Short Harbours Poems

night
harbours
the ghost ship
pleasure cruise for
death...

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Solitudal sea
The secret it harbours
The epic clashes with self
Though moon its constant muse...

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her precious pendant harbours a secret
biological blueprint
pregnant with potential

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(C) John C Michaels, April 2017...

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Melodies cascading,
Rushing through my ways,
Landing and seeping
Into the harbours and the bays,
Time beat out by thousands of limbs
Made unrecognizable
Befor it begins....

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Art, Action, Death

Great Nebula
Stellar nursery
Cradle to grave
Clouds of infamy
Entomb Orion 
Killer of beasts
Born of Bulls Hyde
Stung to die

The peaceful sky
Harbours violence...

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We can single out the tenacious grass after a storm
And the most devoted officials in turbulence.
A bully knows nothing about morality and justice,
While a wise man always harbours benevolence.
(tran.)...

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Hutzpah

Helpless humanity

Heralds sorrowful hell

Hector heaps rebellion

Henceforth his chariot

Hijacked beaten hackneyed 

Haphazardly harbours

Hopeful hutzpah no more



17th February 2017

Written for Pleaides H contest

Checked howmanysyllables.com...

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A pauper begs at the town gate
and sets, each day, a date with fate.
He harbours dreams where riches flow
but morning finds him on skid row.

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Killing With an Epigram Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Margarita Lillico
    Placed 2nd
28th April, 2022...

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Time is a gracious thing, 
Not designed to be troubling. 
But rather, allows us to, 
Make ourselves whole heartedly anew. 
It promises a new tomorrow, 
When the past harbours sorrow. 
Allows us to learn more, 
Make memories like never before. 
Enables our dreams to soar, 
And understand life's precious core....

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LOVE WITHOUT HOPE....She is  his love.


Since teens,his love for her is perennial,
Thorns for him,no rose,few petals gone frail,
His kismet,twin time for her was ephemeral,
Fragrance lives,loner harbours memories to sail.




Contest:Love without hope.
Sponsor:Sara Kendrick.
30 March 2016

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ANGER

Anger is a kind of madness 
It can be controlled by kindness

Try to  postpone your anger 
Delay is the remedy for anger

Acid harms the vessel that stores it
Anger harms the person who harbours it

Avoid open your mouth when you are angry
Every word said in anger will give you worry

Learn to control Anger
Before it controls you...

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I am a vessel on a sea
within the harbours sanctuary,
its granite arms enclose me safe
and mask the waters stormy face.

Here I am moored in a small life
protected from the gales of strife,
the whispering sounds beyond the walls
I cannot distinguish at all.

Oh from taught chains I would be freed
then unrestrained I’d gather speed
outbound to the expansive sea
the synthesis of liberty....

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In an unreachable galaxy light years away
within a cluster of sparkiing diamonds
in dazzling array
She idly harbours her ravished bleeding heart away.

Many men have tried to reach her planet
board her shore
carried her colours to battle
for the Venus they adore
Swearing undying  love
at her tender feet for ever more
With no hope in store
She's lost and so far away.




Peter Dome.copyright.2014.Jan....

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Fear hampers success and innovation,
fears can often lead to stagnation.
Fear our happiness does restrain
out of fear we endure pain.

Most fears are baseless,
probability of others is very less.
We often fear the unknown,
such fears are best overthrown.

If we face our fear,
they might just disappear.
Negative mind harbours fear,
faith in God does end fear.

Datet 8/11/2020

HM in Brain Strand contest...

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Warm harbours spread their welcome arms,
  Endeavour to enfold the frail
And fragile form of he who breathed
  A primal breath of life's avail.
Arriving, wrapped in blanket blue
  And softer than ethereal cloud,
His right to own the given gift,
  Miracle seized and cried aloud.
Of womb dispensed and warm caress,
  To claim this earthly ministry
Of life and love and fated chance,
  Born just as kings are born to be…...

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the aquatorium’s legends speak
of a Captain Punishment
who takes with him
every recruit

his ship breaks waters uncharted
but familiar to all
the stars turn innavigable
yet constellations make image
we never see again yet never forget
and his harbours and ports?
oh dear
to his ports I've been
to his ports I've been

and you, young punk
may fret and yell all you want
but you'll too disembark
you'll too disembark.
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The weather is getting colder,
it's tea and sweater season.
I'm getting better and bolder,
I have learnt some real lessons:
The opposite of coldness is boldness,
singles' control of inner chemistry.
Sex is not just a source of sweetness...
it can turn a hero to a living history.
Couples can consume holy communion,
a bed undefiled harbours honour.
Singles should avoid defiling dominion...
Use tea and blanket as your armour....

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Admiration for you is easy to find
Admiration demanded can’t square in my mind!
Light even in dark you always find
Acceptance of people of any kind
My soul harbours darkness I can’t let control my mind
The contrast is so vast as your soul is the essence of kindness
Your soul is a glow in a world of darkness
You’re everything right in a world of madness
You have a quality so rare to find
Darkness can’t loom in your beautiful mind....

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Halcyon-    oh blissful 
        happy, calm and carefree,
 holding  ZEN  in my heart,
            harbours safe my shelter.
HARMONY  a gift . . .   where
     haunting anguish I leave-
         hope,  PEACE and love embrace.

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February 20, 2017

Poetry/Pleiades/Verse/Harmony
Copyright Protected , ID 17- 877-702-0
All Rights Reserved. Written under Pseudonym.

Written for the contest, Pleiades H
Sponsor, Kim Merryman 

Third Place...

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If you want to save the planet, 
It's not too late to plan it,
To give hope to the people while they still inhabit,
And haven't yet decided to can it.

It won't be easy, in a world now quite breezy,
That harbours people who are quite sleazy,
And others who are too lazy,
Yet not to try would be just plain crazy.

It will take something extraordinary, 
From people who are quite ordinary,
Who may feel a little guilty,
Around saving the planet by not spoiling their progeny....

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