Short Retinue Poems

holy retinue
to serve on earth, call him Jew
secrets, known to few...

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mundane 
dull  
ordinary 
mind numbing 
retinue 
encounters 
became the
name of the game
constantly questioning 
what has it became 
became the norm 
within the subconscious mind...

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Pottery from Stone
who stop this retinue for me ?
Raised on hope
is all we have got
No use being exaggerated
from the shelter of the storm
The stones are clear from the rain
Something mysteric roams
My mind ruled by the weather...

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Hear ye hear ye o vainglorious creatures
This day have I weighed thine lives in measures
Know ye not thine retinue will not last?
And all becometh old as of the past?
Repent ye of thine evil ways  this day
For it cometh soon to an end - mine stay.
For of nothing but debris art thou made
To it thou surely returneth someday....

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yon full-throat’d weaver –
she comes home, thither! 
again & again
oh, by the shores of my niger
& she comes, singing
like the griot of my old clan –
again & again
she vibrates her clan-famous tunes
with her eden’s golden voice
softly high & loudly calm 
by these niger chambers –
& the weaver sings, again!
with her retinue of songs
& her voice awaken the moon....

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Call me a Poet,
but I’m just a writer
these words that I breathe
respoken much later 
Call me a Poet,
my couplets in rhyme
each stanza to shorten
with meaning sublime
Call me a Poet,
my retinue sounder
to live by the moment
my squares getting rounder
Call me a Poet,
I’ll call you the same
if one phrase you’ll tender
—attached to your name

(The New Room: March, 2022)...

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A titanic yelp sweeps through the airs of the universe
And halts at the gates of paradise; 
It burns it before the thrones of grace
And wafts its incense across the omnipotent nostrils, 
A dutiful retinue of an angelic jury;
And waits for a celestial verdict.

The gigantic hammer sparkling justice, 
Falls upon mean mortals huddled in a lavish spot, 
Invisible from the seats of glory!...

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hers are paradise-measured steps
an escalation of the clan’s delight
in a sitting duck of the stream-lets;
& maidens awaken by the twilight
virgins of niger’s hidden chambers
meeting with ancient praise-singers;

“nduru has arrived! nduru is here!”
the echo of the clan’s piper rings
“o, she’s come! o, she’s here!”
seems with her a new life springs!
she: a clan’s fair-haired & elegant bird
with a retinue of songsters furtive & weird....

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Making Things Happen
Written: by Miracle Man
11-26-2019

When we’re not renowned we have no retinue,
So making things happen is what we must do.
“where there’s a will there’s a way” even if we’re late,
Being late generally happens when we hesitate.

Some days we can’t catch ample wind in our sails,
Perhaps we’ve miscalculated what the task entails.
We let pride hinder us from seeking assistance,
and we only prevail when we practice persistence.
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Ocean rising--such silent splendor--
she stains a golden passage on the waves;
blushing not, though borrowed brilliance
is the only light she ever gave.
Lesser celestial lamps, bright retinue, 
honor her regal queenly estate;
yielding obeisance to her power,
seasons and tides bow at her gates.
Royally she rides the Milky Way,
stardust blithely trailing in her train;
lonely earth lovers, looking upward,
stabbed in their souls with longing pain.

Copyright, August 12, 2014...

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