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Prevision

by Aline Kilmer

I know you are too dear to stay;
   You are so exquisitely sweet:
My lonely house will thrill some day
   To echoes of your eager feet.

I hold your words within my heart,
   So few, so infinitely dear;
Watching your fluttering hands I start
   At the corroding touch of fear.

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The Life That I Have

by Leo Marks

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have

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Gone Fishin'

by Delmar Pepper

I've finished life's chores assigned to me,
So put me on a boat headed out to sea.
Please send along my fishing pole
For I've been invited to the fishin' hole.

Where every day is a day to fish,
To fill your heart with every wish.
Don't worry, or feel sad for me,
I'm fishin' with the Master of the sea.

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Dark Rosaleen

by James Clarence Mangan

O MY Dark Rosaleen,
   Do not sigh, do not weep!
The priests are on the ocean green,
   They march along the deep.
There 's wine from the royal Pope,
   Upon the ocean green;
And Spanish ale shall give you hope,
   My Dark Rosaleen!
   My own Rosaleen!
Shall glad your heart, shall give you hope,

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Talking Turkeys!

by Benjamin Zephaniah

Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,

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Recent Life Poems

Reason with Me

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

We have come a long way —
you and I —
sauntering along paths of tales,
narrow, slippery, serpentine, endless.
We crouch at spider-ways,
through the fustiness of late-rising dawn,
feeling the rapid beats of a stolen heart and the
entanglement by an unending network of
webs and encroaching thorns.
Cockroach feelers we rely on to guide us

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Parole

by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

Let me state here, in this wintry oubliette,
with its chains, gyves and manacles,
and with its parlous existence of
strain, stress and red agony,
that I shall make no attempt to escape,
but shall go only when I am released.

Surfing

by Elijah Dimitrios

Surfing in the ocean,
Coral columns,
Blue and green stones,
Silver on the waves with emeralds,
The sunset above,
Golden olive oil,
Ark of Noah,
Mont Saint-Michel moving,
Cinderella steps on,
On sapphire floor,

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Life and Death

by Raven VanBrunt

Life

Life is pointless

Life gives hope and pain

Life takes and takes

Life hopes for living happily but there's no way

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Under English Channel

by Elijah Dimitrios

The entrance, the door,
A pale indicator,
The pick lock,
On the chest of the phantom,
Mercury steals the golden crown
From a young girl,
Policemen help the outlaw,
Full of crimes is the state of this town,
A priest winks at an esoteric sorcerer,
Square of Concorde,

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