CLEAN AIR
...CLEAN AIR
Only a few now recall the London smogs
The early Fifties, I think it may have been
When a man used to walk ahead of a bus
As schoolkids, it was a strange time for us
Almost every day...
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Categories:
smogs, age, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Saffron Skylines
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Silk-
starfish
of fervent
fate weaves soft-quartz
feathers of marshmallow metaphors that
croon with firefly's fluorescence amidst life's
claustrophobic
clouds, shading
bitter
smog...
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Categories:
smogs, deep, dream, emotions, life,
Form: Tetractys
Blinded By Synthetic Sun-
...Sore is the vision in front
Of heavens day gaze
Brilliance shines the dawn
Blinded by the stars
Morning lists summer smogs
Smoke stench tarnishes the air and wind
Blinded by the synthe...
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Categories:
smogs, adventure, analogy, environment, introspection,
Form: Light Verse
Selma and Her Puppies
...Selma started out with a little pup when she was nine.
He was a darling fellow, and best of all “all mine”.
Her parents thought the couple was sublime.
They let her get a new puppy all the time.
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Categories:
smogs, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Nature At Rest
...The soil is dreaming in a silent technicolour,
peaceful and alone. It exhales, gently without the tragic
trampling of mankind snapping roots, without the world above
and its usual stampede. Go...
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Categories:
smogs, analogy, animal,
Form: Free verse
Love In Black Or White
...When the time came
For me to understand
The footing of thanks
Thinking you could send
Heavens eyes down upon
Me crimsonly. Love spilled
Forth and brought colour a
New definition seen as be...
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Categories:
smogs, time, trust, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Forge of Fear
...Why for oft' aflutter in fear, oh oftener of the fiery forge forelorn,
By which binds in bronze of a metallurge, wears the neck around ye sworn.
The anvil awaits the hammer whose smith has struck...
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Categories:
smogs, evil, fear,
Form: Couplet
Old Salt Prayer
...I’ve seen the seaman’s life around,
So, when I step on solid ground,
Where I’ve forgot how life self goes,
Who rules this world and how grass grows,
I have a feeling of distortion
Of everyt...
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Categories:
smogs,
Form: Rhyme
Apartment of Gore
...we squeeze in the moment, breeze by the apartment of gore, go to the store with a nail and a 2x4 , flip the sign on the door, excuse yourself coz you're poor and ignored so implore to expose the clut...
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Categories:
smogs, beauty, dark,
Form: ABC