Short Remand Poems

God without religion
truth without command
Salvation beyond what’s been decreed
—faith in His remand

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Water: wonderful sustainer of life-

Always taken for granted- an epicenter of strife;

Trickling toxins make it unsafe-

Eventual Love Canals all over the place;

Remand the polluters to a healthy jail space!...

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The cues to joy that souls employ, meant to remand the dark,

Exquisite things our spirit sings extolling pleasure's kiss ...

All acts of worth creating mirth are lit by Heaven's spark,

And seeking smiles within our trials, the key to finding bliss....

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Remand


A desperate prisoner
Out on remand
Am I
Till sentence do us part
On her hand 
Lamely hung;
Inconsiderate
And
Irascible woman’s
Husband-
Suspect of love
 Treason
(Heart’s betrayer)
Defying reason
To forever wear garb
In a wrong season.


JM

05th January 2014...

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child of tender years but her colour, black
thus held guilty
of a crime
minor
theft

truth 
was veiled
by cold hearts
plague of our times
so off to the child remand home she goes 

06-February-2021

Double Tetractys 7 poetry contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper

Picture # 1...

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Road stop
By cop

Perceived
Car weaved

Two Beers
Cop jeers

Slurs talk
Can't walk

Clyde weaved
And heaved

Ker splat
Fell flat

Clyde drunk
As skunk

Tests muffed
Handcuffed

To jail
No bail

Transport
To court

Demand
Remand

Severe
One year

Oh dear
No beer...

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Love is not a thing
To admire, or look at
If you keep peeling
As you do an onion
To undress or uncoat
To figure it out
You'll end up with nothing.
For love is an action
Evolving, growing
At every tender
Feeding, it's a feeling, so
Free yourself from your demands
And love, with no remand....

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When I am ready
To befall your name
And the hand's
Of God are true
First, give thanks
To Jesus,
Fpre his persuasion
Is true,
Revile in his name
In glory,
Fore He come's
To receive us and retrieve us
Rapture us and redeem us
Remand us to
The promise land
To restore the Soul
Once again
AMEN

           GF...

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Refusing to obey
he took command
The power not given
but by his hand
Looking no further
he forged within
The years and the seasons
aboriginal sin

Broken commandments
rust on the gate
Eyes burning inward
past-futures abate
Refusing the mandate
of time’s desperate plan
He slew first the minutes
—as the hours remand

( Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...

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On yonder strand
In bridled land
A motley band
With vigor fanned
Across hill, lowland
With self righteous brand
Seeking brigand contraband
From each licentious hand
To forthrightly remand
Every highway spanned
Tolls, tribute to demand
Each pilfering cleric did reprimand
Then every bloated collection was 
panned
Every royal vestige scanned
Gratuitous coffers to expand...

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Weave that spell of magic,
Wean away everything tragic.

Where in the world were you so long?
Well, for you I could have always walked that extra furlong.

When moods are in the upswing,
With it well being it does bring.

Wading troubled waters hand in hand,
Weariness beware, we will send you to remand.

What does love mean to both of us?
One factor that binds us without any fuss.

Why for Valentine day would we need a reminder?
When we celebrate love every day of the year....

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