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A Left Wing Rant in Blank Verse
This is my first serious attempt at Blank Verse.
It rambles on a bit, and it's rather long, for which I apologise.
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Sunday 4th June 2023 1:32 pm
Conflicted
The loudest silence I have ever heard,
and dark, so black I hardly see the night.
No moon, and just a smattering of stars
whose ghostly glimmer casts a shimmered shade
among the trees, where night-birds sound their cry.
A rustle in the ferns belies the breeze
that barely moves the leaves, and signals prey
that prey themselves, and so the chain endures.
For I, who spurn...
Tuesday 17th September 2019 3:59 pm
Seasonal Speculations
Welcome to the season of excess,
When insincerity displays a mask,
A false façade to hide the public face,
Disguising with a smile revulsion’s rage.
This travesty of tolerance and care,
That lasts but for the briefest tract of time,
Discarded when the fateful day has passed,
Resuming the routine of disregard.
A festival of friendship and goodwill,
Concealing the percepti...
Monday 25th December 2017 8:37 am
Four seven sixteen
Dark woods under an evening of a perfect golden sky full of stars
Wind in our faces,unspoken words,and a few exchanged glances
Everything feeling so pure and beautiful with each drizzle
Yet closer than ever
........And then,I missed you even though you were right beside me
An aura of magnificent & heavenly
instance
Like Time standing still
in that moment and I swear
Our souls sparked and...
Monday 15th August 2016 5:15 am
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