Chirp
Budding storms frighten
foetal petal waiting sun,
sparrows' chirps brighten
Sweeping storm frightens
foetal petal waiting sun, -
Sparrow’s chirp brightens...
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(12 April 2005 alternative version above 28 January 2012)
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Bliss Beams Light
Bursting bright, baring intimate enlightenment,
ecstastatic surprise spans souls sharing insight.
Light weaving laughter assuages inhibitions -
henceforth superfluous - brings belonging's magic
Eternal bliss personnified, naught denied: Song of Songs is this.
poem by Jonathan Robin
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La Nuit Blanche - Parody Rudyard Kipling La Nuit Blanche
I felt green as night was falling
as I staggered out to work
while the neon lights were calling
‘work is joy, so never shirk! ’
But the doom-lit tombward motto
set me thinking, cleared my head, -
(was I sane or blindly blotto?) –
back I staggered, back to bed!
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The Answer
Our brief sojourn on this Earth
draws so swiftly to its close,
and only Death right answer, -
if there is one, - might disclose.
Answer
Where of Love there is a dearth,
‘tis in vain that mankind sows, -
Love is life and hope, rebirth,
what a pity no-one knows!
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Reign's End at Land's End
REIGN'S END AT LAND'S END
Nature's piper must be paid
sinkholes swallow Man's parade,
several thousand years' charade
swansong sighs, dies, leaves lands pristine greyed
8 June 2008
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War - 0065 - Current Version
When men pl[a]y war worn waisted women pale,
wasted water drops, leak plops through shattered pail.
Civilians, weak, weep, wail, still ills assail,
harms way, mines, undermine calm's shell-shocked tale,
physicians, profiteers, have arms for sale.
(20 September 2008)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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What Is, Was
WHAT IS, WAS
What is, was, what was, will be, -
The wheel turns while Time cheats
Those who'd cheat time.
5 September 1998
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Seeing the Light
No longer languish, light returns
defeating darkness, soul healed whole
successful transformation earns
serenity's transparent goal.
Depression disappears, fears fade,
encouraging rebirth,
Bask maskless, joy's felt unafraid,
celebrating optimistic Earth.
(15 April 2012)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Free Flight
Free flight despite dark devils of this world
needs no fixed wings, but inner flag unfurled
as emblem which no blame need stitch to show
in, out, high, low, both back and forward flow
depend on balance, yin and yang uncurled
together twining, gilding inner glow.
(21 May 2010)
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It is Easier for a Camel
Poor people pledge their petty pile
as agile agents act awhile.
Revile them as, with smirk and smile
the Temple they defile in style.
Their wile our rile, their guile our bile!
In fare facile, in fear febrile,
where faced with facts, futile!
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