Short Sojourned Poems

In the deep pond
What is being sojourned 
Between Valentine’s rod?...

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In the deep pond
What is being sojourned 
Between Valentine’s rod?...

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Broken
Cloven


Hidden
Within

Covert
Revert

Surveyed
Journeyed

Sojourned
Missioned

Wrestle
Vessel

Tempest
Life’s test

Good night
Last fight



March 13, 2023....

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Visiting like an old friend
the song returned
Carrying memories
of time sojourned
Freeing the past
with lyrics sublime
Embracing the future
in melodies of rhyme

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

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A canary sojourned my garden
the hunger whispering from its eyes
greeting my palm with 
affectionate nibbles of gratitude
whilst circling the symmetries
of my palm
it sprang forth in merriment 
a concluding chirp transpired 
and away it flew...

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of a morning
of a window
singing freely
/once heard

of a longing
of a distance
in the memory
/wayward

of a darkness
of a warning
that prophetic
/sojourned

but a vow
but a promise
a betrothal
/returned

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)...

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Smokey stop pell,

hovering on the station sail,

policy of the ram hitting in a jam in their whole man-
the self assured meander un~spell.


Yes, yes it's a 2000 time tell,

it's so sojourned now we can't expel-

that leader had his mound,

and his following the overt round,

but we had face that was sound?

What is the mettle now?...

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Down he sojourned
On life's journey
Encounters upon encounters
Mistakes he made
Even offences...
To the people he met
"Apologize" ...he was told by some....
This he did
To erase his misdeeds
"Am I forgiven", he wondered
For others could not yield
To the gesture, so human
"Go get some counselling"
They advised...
Insinuating insanity
To such he said
"Apologize as well"...

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THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY
(Grappling with suicide)

you just have to remain 
being alive; I suppose
and not to
die

with the trashed out
claptraps; but to gasp
out a prayer
cry

to persist while forming
rainbows; from tunnels
where demons
lie

as nought will miss the
substance; of hearts
sojourned last
sigh


© Kim van Breda—29 June 2014...

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Dutiful
Dawn invigorates her hands
Diligent
She's chauffeured by her goals
Daring 
She doesn’t rest on her oars

A woman who has sojourned
Conquered and returned
Cloaked by midnight
She battled fiercely and prevailed

She watches over her house
She retires to her chamber to ponder on the day
Aged but not caged
Slowed but not stopped.



January 29, 2023....

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We left the light, 
We sojourned in the night, 
We journeyed in the dark, 
The night held sway. 

It was so long a night, 
It was so prolonged a fight, 
We traversed shrivelled meadows, 
Followed by our shadows. 

An absence of light, 
Wearied our hearts, 
An unwritten absence, 
Chauffeured a gloomy presence. 

We saw light afar, 
As we moved closer, 
It dimmed and died, 
Like a falling star. 


September 27, 2023....

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It was there when a serous sea
Spewed out its only occupant
Through a very narrow fleshy
Cave into a harsh world of light.
It sojourned during the long days
Of never-ending crying pleas,
Assuming only a bright smile
Throughout it all uncomplaining.
It witnessed the sound of three words
Coochie, Coochie coo vocalized
While the alien, helpless, squirmed
Under ten soft probing fingers.
It was present when the first two
Steps teetered into outstretched arms....

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