Short Uncorrupted Poems

The palm 
that holds the truth
     is
     unlined

uncorrupted by evil
     pure in its
     self

chaste of defiling
      untarnished
      shining

straining forward
     I reach to embrace
an
     empty
     hand....

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A 
new born
has pumped life
in our dull lives.
Each one of us is
keen to catch baby's eye,
to watch it smile innocent;
pure, uncorrupted joy fills hearts;
making us fly in blue sky heaven,
amidst angels, making us feel reborn.


23.5.2020...

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Beauty

A rarity chanced by one who sees
But a multitude by one who looks
Its pleasing hues to calm the mind
Scenes of charm by nature’s hand
Unspoilt, unmarred in natural state
With liberty to shine and flaunt
In uncorrupted habitat
And escape an urban ruination
Where human trespass blights 
The rules of nature’s kingdom...

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The silver birch
presides over the scree
A caravan of love
proceeds duly eastwards
I'm staking my faith in you

The wind whistles past
We are on the road again
to magic lands where the gypsy queen shows
the world her love

where you find
butterflies and buttercups 
smiling in the rain,
and hope waiting for time
our faith connected to the earth
uncorrupted...

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("Utopia and Terror Merit Badge", 2010, original oil)

The Unglad

Increasingly
You, me, us
Are part of the great
Unglad
People without much hope
Given the great
Inexorable
Tide of Unhumans
That from Marx on down
To today
Has morphed like a metastasizing
Cancer
Until all that’s left
Of the uncorrupted
Is the Unglad
Sick and tired, 
In need of safe harbor 
And solace
Before the gathering storm.

(8/1/24)...

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