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Best Poems Written by Leigh Haynes

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Addressing the world today

As I sit here in my home and watch my children grow
I worry for the future and wonder what will come
I take the time to educate and teach my child to know
Of the differences within this world and what person they'll become 

We talk about the things in life that they will come to find
That unfortunately their world is full of injustice and poverty
I teach them about empathy and how to become kind
And encourage them to think about the world they want to see 

They'll witness racism on the streets and won't just walk on by
They'll feel the indignation and anger of being ridiculed
For their sex or gender type but they'll hold their heads up high
They'll stand for justice and equality and they'll not be fooled 

If they want peaceful lives and the world to keep on turning
At every opportunity they need to embrace and give love
They need to build their knowledge and always keep on learning
But also to promote this peace and give hatred the shove

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Petals of pain

A fusion of fuscia 
An explosion of love
A full bloom of petals
White wings of a dove
The peal of the bells to ring out the day 
Of loves new awakening in this sacred way 

The steady mundanity of life
The balancing act of respect 
Takes its toll on the husband and wife
More than they would expect 
The years become chores 
The petals doth wilt
The separation of spores
Of the dreams they once built 

The ending begins
Signifying the doom
The petals of pain
Slip from the bloom
The peal of the bells to ring out the day
Of the death of the bloom; wilted away

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Birds of paradise

Brightly coloured plumage; exotic and appealing
Birds of paradise conveying visions of pride
The multicoloured duplicities hide
The truths that they are stealing

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Watch how you go

Watch how you go
As you rush home from work
The speed of your ride
Spawning dangers to lurk

The curve of the bend
As you screech to your goal
The curse of Diablo 
Is taking its toll

The bus up ahead
Holding valuable souls
Has stopped at the sign
To offload them home

Your thinking is quick
The braking is harsh
The vehicle careers
Into the slow cooling marsh

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Perfectly Poetic

Perfectly poetic is what I propose to be
Predictable perceptions for all the world to see

Posthumously parodied a name on all your lips
Profanity prolific like sailors on the ships

Premeditated problems fixed with ire and humour
Predilected preferences are true and not a rumour

Prospective prosperity in spirit not in money
Perfection personified for rhymes that can be funny

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The world today is scary

The world today is scary
There's lunatics in charge 
The views of people vary
And egos are enlarged 

Why can't we share a vision 
A world where we all live
And make it our own mission
To understand and to forgive 

We all are our own enemies
We're quick to judge and mock
If we quickly forget memories 
We all will run amok 

We need to build a future
Together as one kind
To stitch and mend our suture
And start to use our mind 

To build a safer place
We need to make a plan
We need to show good grace
And live as one big clan 

If we do not unite
Our time will surely come 
We'll end in one big fight
And our world will come undone 

There will be no redemption 
The war will end us all
The will be no exemption 
And the human race will fall

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No trick or treating

There was no trick or treating tonight
The weather had made it too light 
So they went to a show
Where the dead tend to go
Which gave them much more of a fright!

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Let the words of my mouth

Let the words of my mouth fill your ears with sounds of hope
Listen to my voice gently rouse you from your slumber
Hear me speak of the magic that you bring into my life 

Let the sight of my eyes offer clarity and grace
Pools of perception guiding you from darkness to light
Search through open windows to the truthness of my soul

Let the touch of my hands profer shelter from the storm
Feel the soft and gentle tendrils strengthen like a vice
Sense the healing touch of love promise sweet protection 

Let the warmth of my heart melt the fear you hold inside
Offer heat so intense that you never feel the cold
Breathe the air that I bestow and live your life with love

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Bone beach

As the rain pitter patters on the rough terrain 
The debris is washed upon the shore 
The seaweed’s olive pods afloat 
Driftwood intertwined with hardcore 
 
They look like sticks upon the beach   
Speckled through the golden sands 
Scattered here in disarray 
Displayed like praying hands  

The ivory sticks can be seen beyond reach 
As they emerge from beneath the sea 
The sheer mass of bone; an exquisite display 
When venturing down to bone beach

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An elegy for innocence

Historically the books are written by a well-known writer 

The characters are formed to choose the sense of flight or fighter 

The library of the mind stows away the facts from the fiction 

The sequence of events unfold, memorised with restriction 

 

The nature of the story, can cause the mind to cry 

The loss of peaceful innocence in those days gone by   

 

The imagery of barricades in a crowded stark front room 

Foreboding silence and tension create a sense of doom 

In the old terraced house, there’s a closure of ranks  

As the fighter steps forward and the other flanks 

 

The pushing and shoving in the silent stark room 

The circle decreases and a flash warps the plume 

The memories jagged as they cut like a knife 

As she’s hit by the boxer and fights for her life    

 

The dry autumnal street carpets red and gold 

The crunch of the leaves cushioned the blow 

The flash of the memory vivid and sharp 

Innocence held with such disregard 

 

The nature of the story, can cause the mind to cry  

The loss of peaceful innocence in those days gone by