Observational Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about life, society and the natural world
Cutting it fine - NaPoWriMo 13
Why exactly do we cut the grass?
This,
and other such musings
run through my head
as I push the lawnmower around.
Doing a two step back shuffle
to avoid cutting the electric cable
and thereby cutting my lifeline.
Well,
it cant be for the earthy smell,
a nicely trimmed lawn looks nice
but it is somewhat short
on the natural enjoyment.
At least it is an excuse
to catch some Sun
and feel like a hard-working manual labourer for once.
This,
and other such musings
run through my head
as I push the lawnmower around.
Doing a two step back shuffle
to avoid cutting the electric cable
and thereby cutting my lifeline.
Well,
it cant be for the earthy smell,
a nicely trimmed lawn looks nice
but it is somewhat short
on the natural enjoyment.
At least it is an excuse
to catch some Sun
and feel like a hard-working manual labourer for once.
#NaPoWriMo2024
#nature
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Spring Clean
Spring is in the air and for sure it works
I'm busy with dusters and suchlike stuff,
this sap's rising and for once I'll not shirk
in shaking the house free of dust and fluff.
And the cobwebby clutter of my mind
blown clean with wide open window of eyes,
my melatonin induced sleep, seemed kind
during cold nights, till I woke to spring's highs...
And, NaPoWriMo Twenty-Twenty-Four,
proving their dedication to their art,
with new poetical subjects galore,
as I, again think, next year, I'll take part... ...
I'm busy with dusters and suchlike stuff,
this sap's rising and for once I'll not shirk
in shaking the house free of dust and fluff.
And the cobwebby clutter of my mind
blown clean with wide open window of eyes,
my melatonin induced sleep, seemed kind
during cold nights, till I woke to spring's highs...
And, NaPoWriMo Twenty-Twenty-Four,
proving their dedication to their art,
with new poetical subjects galore,
as I, again think, next year, I'll take part... ...
#sonnet
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What is sin doing among you?
If you belief what is sin doing among you?
you carry cruelty within your hearts
you carry hatred in your breathe.
yet you say you belief,
what sort of belief is this?
when sin lives among you?
how many must die in the name of your god?
how many must suffer under the tyranny of the cloth?
How many cries must echo in hallowed halls?
How many prayers must falter,
how many tears must fall?
Yet you claim to believe,
What is sin doing among you?
with conviction so hollow,
When sin casts its shadow and sorrow...
you carry cruelty within your hearts
you carry hatred in your breathe.
yet you say you belief,
what sort of belief is this?
when sin lives among you?
how many must die in the name of your god?
how many must suffer under the tyranny of the cloth?
How many cries must echo in hallowed halls?
How many prayers must falter,
how many tears must fall?
Yet you claim to believe,
What is sin doing among you?
with conviction so hollow,
When sin casts its shadow and sorrow...
#despair
#faith
#morality #TruthOfLife
#morality #TruthOfLife
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Job.
Crompron37 .47
#forest
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When you punish innocent people they usually tend to fight back!
By Stanley Collymore
If another nation attacked a British or USA Embassy or Consulate or, for that matter, any of the NATO member countries killing diplomats and staffers within that said establishment, which in international law is part of its own sovereign country, what do you quite honestly think, and no virtue signalling bullshitting please, the country that owned that targeted consulate or that embassy, including your own, would do?
And to asininely claim or even distinctively disingenuously state that Iran had military personnel as well as diplomats in...
If another nation attacked a British or USA Embassy or Consulate or, for that matter, any of the NATO member countries killing diplomats and staffers within that said establishment, which in international law is part of its own sovereign country, what do you quite honestly think, and no virtue signalling bullshitting please, the country that owned that targeted consulate or that embassy, including your own, would do?
And to asininely claim or even distinctively disingenuously state that Iran had military personnel as well as diplomats in...
#hate
#dark
#greed
#denial
#emptiness
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Take your time Wills - no rush!
By Stanley Collymore
Didn't some of you monarchical sycophants like the racist and pseudonym named Politok 101 in the Daily Mail, allegedly of Noorico South Africa, and still daringly, asininely I would say with their avowedly racist views, living in post-apartheid South Africa, get the memo that briefly William is temporarily, purportedly going back to work? Curiously there's more about Meghan and her jam enterprise than there's actually about William, some of the latter's royalist fans are openly gloating that in their, my interpretation of things sick minds, the said William is...
Didn't some of you monarchical sycophants like the racist and pseudonym named Politok 101 in the Daily Mail, allegedly of Noorico South Africa, and still daringly, asininely I would say with their avowedly racist views, living in post-apartheid South Africa, get the memo that briefly William is temporarily, purportedly going back to work? Curiously there's more about Meghan and her jam enterprise than there's actually about William, some of the latter's royalist fans are openly gloating that in their, my interpretation of things sick minds, the said William is...
#hate
#dark
#greed
#denial
#emptiness
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Hymn to The White Spring
In the beginning I saw nothing
eyes furiously adjusting
between day and night
a woman held my hand down
those gnarled stone steps
as I teetered on the edge
of nerves and darkness
then, as if a dimmer switch
gently illuminated sight:
hundreds of candles
moss covered horns
a huge central pool carved
out of simplistic stone
overflowing with spring water.
I sat a little.
Watched naked humans climb
in and out of that...
eyes furiously adjusting
between day and night
a woman held my hand down
those gnarled stone steps
as I teetered on the edge
of nerves and darkness
then, as if a dimmer switch
gently illuminated sight:
hundreds of candles
moss covered horns
a huge central pool carved
out of simplistic stone
overflowing with spring water.
I sat a little.
Watched naked humans climb
in and out of that...
#God
#pagan
#magic #Britain
#magic #Britain
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Thugs in Hot Soup
They are always the victims
one silent
many loud
imposing views
by smothering kinder voices
some cheat
some yell
some kiss the Zionist bell
some are just plain mean
Their minds are closed
narrow
brains where no blood flows
only Tom the Petty
who breaks bones not hearts
some cheat
some yell
some kiss the Zionist bell
some are just plain mean
They wear the doves white wings
while they eat all human flesh
Ask little red riding hood
she has felt the abuse that does...
one silent
many loud
imposing views
by smothering kinder voices
some cheat
some yell
some kiss the Zionist bell
some are just plain mean
Their minds are closed
narrow
brains where no blood flows
only Tom the Petty
who breaks bones not hearts
some cheat
some yell
some kiss the Zionist bell
some are just plain mean
They wear the doves white wings
while they eat all human flesh
Ask little red riding hood
she has felt the abuse that does...
#disappointment
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Growing Younger
I'm getting younger
every day
I gave up work
to go out and play
I look in the mirror
with a smile on my face
I can't see a wrinkle
there's not a line to trace
I used to walk with a stoop
but now I stand tall
my best friends
are a bat and a ball
I eat what I like
and don't watch my weight
with plenty of pudding
to fill my plate
My hair's growing back
and my abs are tight
my girlfriend tells me
I'm doing alright
We make love at weekends
and pick wild flowers ...
every day
I gave up work
to go out and play
I look in the mirror
with a smile on my face
I can't see a wrinkle
there's not a line to trace
I used to walk with a stoop
but now I stand tall
my best friends
are a bat and a ball
I eat what I like
and don't watch my weight
with plenty of pudding
to fill my plate
My hair's growing back
and my abs are tight
my girlfriend tells me
I'm doing alright
We make love at weekends
and pick wild flowers ...
#unicorns
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War
Let's have conversation
Not a confrontation
But sadly we've been programmed
We are divided
And not united
The media and government has scammed
Our thoughts our minds
These trying times
Filled with hate speech crescendo
Chaotic commotion
Our religious devotion
Its all gone out the window
Lies are exposed
But our minds disposed
As we recklessly anchor in our stance
As we prepare
We are unaware
Of the impending circumstance ...
Not a confrontation
But sadly we've been programmed
We are divided
And not united
The media and government has scammed
Our thoughts our minds
These trying times
Filled with hate speech crescendo
Chaotic commotion
Our religious devotion
Its all gone out the window
Lies are exposed
But our minds disposed
As we recklessly anchor in our stance
As we prepare
We are unaware
Of the impending circumstance ...
#sadness
#greed
#disappointment
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Town of Dust and Bones
The street light buzzes day into night
yesterdays stench lingers in the summer air
wrinkles on my face from many days gone by
I say goodnight to Kelly Jo as she flips her sign to closed
Gailan holding onto the hope tomorrow may bring
no good answer for what comes next
still got fight left in us so we battle on
Theron gives me a wave and a smile
walk into Benny's he pours me a malbec
Rob at the end of the bar calls me a snob
raises his glass rings out an old Irish toast
the pet store closed so did the grain elevator
got a grant for...
yesterdays stench lingers in the summer air
wrinkles on my face from many days gone by
I say goodnight to Kelly Jo as she flips her sign to closed
Gailan holding onto the hope tomorrow may bring
no good answer for what comes next
still got fight left in us so we battle on
Theron gives me a wave and a smile
walk into Benny's he pours me a malbec
Rob at the end of the bar calls me a snob
raises his glass rings out an old Irish toast
the pet store closed so did the grain elevator
got a grant for...
#identity
#America
#tradition
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april songs: journey of life 4
april song 04—foetal
offspring of a fallen father,
well might every child aspire
not of broken genes to gather
harvests of unspoilt desire.
post-coital foetal pleasures
nurse the womb of every mom
whose gestation days are measures
of the days of femme et homme.
through the dark, unfolding ages
of the journeyings of man,
comes the Ransom for sin’s wages—
liberty for everyone!
thus the specimental blueprint
nurtured by umbilicus
comes to terms with awesome foot-sprint,
whose...
offspring of a fallen father,
well might every child aspire
not of broken genes to gather
harvests of unspoilt desire.
post-coital foetal pleasures
nurse the womb of every mom
whose gestation days are measures
of the days of femme et homme.
through the dark, unfolding ages
of the journeyings of man,
comes the Ransom for sin’s wages—
liberty for everyone!
thus the specimental blueprint
nurtured by umbilicus
comes to terms with awesome foot-sprint,
whose...
#birth
#motherhood
#LifeChangingMoment #NaPoWriMo2024
#LifeChangingMoment #NaPoWriMo2024
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