Long Time honoured Poems

Conquering Normans in siege they lay
waste to all England
to pillage and slay.

William the Conqueror rode overland
with nobles and ladies
of high ranking band.

Surveying all territories with equal measure
His decision unanimous,
and at his leisure

Decided on Londinium, the...

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The fading colours in a trembling leaf,
Perhaps a portent of the coming cold,
When the heavy hand of an icy winter
Will press hard upon gully, flat and fold.

The rose’s vicious stems will be laid bare
Making way...

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An ideal state?

The brazen blare of trumpets sounds.
As we approach the temple grounds
the rattling kettle drums compete
 with ominously marching feet.

The people gather here today
 in the old time honoured way. 
To hear our leaders...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord is with me too.
He whispers in loud soothing words
 ...

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Unbroken Love Shells

Do you remember the walls that stood between us like unbroken shells
of fully boiled eggs?
Do you remember there were no good reasons behind the periods of time we misunderstood each other when we...

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The sertraline queen of New Orleans
Getting high on her brandy and coke.
Perched on a bar stool, surveying the scene,
While she lights up another smoke.

Tom Waits is playing on the radio 
“In the neighbourhood”, plodding and...

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Walk through life with mirth
Laughing, loving, liberating friends and foes
Daring to enliven them as from my favourite firth
I breaststroke ashore and send a rose

To signify my noble intention
Meant to fulfill a wish 
I made to...

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There’s a time-honoured stretch of a river
that’s a cog in the natural wheel
flowing longer than mans’…
time upon earth
and home for the blackfish and eel.

They say that the time of the crayfish
goes back to the dinosaurs’...

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A moment in time

A so-gentle touch that was given in passing
Just 'Good morning', 'Hello', nothing more,
Saw the years fade away and raw feelings emerge
From a dusty and locked secret door.

The sea was caressed
By fingers of...

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The buffer and howling is strong through the night,
loose tin on a roof puts up a good fight,
something goes crashing; something flies past,
the moan at the window is ghostly and fast.

There’s damage at daylight, and...

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The throngs of relization bring out the limitless in humans.
Cognition flowing from all generic transmutation.
Survival is of the fittest, the time honoured essence.
Great horizons span wide, beauty churning in evolution.

Life forms brave along time’s cyclic...

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GREEN MAN

His whisper is there, from sapling and tree,
A lost ancient tongue but not lost to me,
Listen more carefully to rustle and creak,
Clear your mind, you may just hear him speak.

His origins veiled in the...

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Long gone are the golden
Dusty days!
Where once, like Blazons
On Armorial Shields,
The gathered bronze sheaths 
stood -
Cut through at the stalk...
Raised from time honoured
swathes.

Burnished like brushed copper
By high summers slanted rays:
That were sliced so thinly 
From...

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Jesus the Splendor, voice before any sound 
Earliest word spoken
Silent kind messenger of primeval joy 
Unending bright epiphany 
Shining as ageless wisdom who calls you in 

Classical wonder before any dim star 
Heartbeat before weakened...

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It's the first day of the rest of my life

I'm feeling reborn

Filled with great anticipation

Wondering what exciting things

Lie just ahead

It seems it's all up to us

We're the ones steering my ship

If things don't turn out...

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It's the first day of the rest of my life
I'm feeling reborn
Filled with great anticipation
Wondering what exciting things
Lie just ahead
It seems it's all up to us
We're the ones steering the ship
If things don't turn out...

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It's the first day of the rest of my life
I'm feeling reborn
Filled with great anticipation
Wondering what exciting things
Lie just ahead
It seems it's all up to us
We're the ones steering the ship
If things don't turn out...

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If only there was the time, poets would fill their world with rhyme.Quote - Poet’s own
Time
An instant in time’s a silent tick-tock
As the hands of time encircle the clock
When life's busy with never enough time
Living...

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Eat your veggies you'll grow up big and strong
That's what parents used to tell little boys
I'm wondering what they told dainty little girls
Must have used some other devious ploy

Like eat your veggies you sweet young...

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Is poetry only meant for teaching what is time-honoured
what is authorised
what seeks not to rock the ship of fate

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Eat your veggies you'll grow up big and strong
That's what parents used to tell little boys
I'm wondering what they told dainty little girls
Must have used some other devious ploy

Like eat your veggies you sweet young...

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They say that aliens once visited the earth
There's evidence that's been uncovered
Don't know about you but I'm starting to think
That one day it will soon be discovered

That we were preceded by superior beings
Capable of travelling...

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Remembering the days way back when
Baseball was what made life tick
Lived and breathed that wonderful game
With the Babe, Ted Williams, and the Mick

Jackie Robinson breaking the colour barrier
Sweet memories inhabit my brain
Jackie was the absolute...

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How many ways can we write about love
Without words we've already used
Could invent some new ones but most of you people
Would be lost and really confused

So we stick with same old time honoured phrases
Safe that...

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Love is like a warm wooly hat
On a cold and blustery day
A raincoat shielding from a driving rain
A cup of cafe au lait

The morning sun spreading its joy
The warmth of a child's touch
A sleepy hello...

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