Happiness Depends Upon Ourselves 1850 Current Version
Who ask joy, who'd mask ploy, frequently find
heaven or hell enjoyed through choice defined.
Thus happiness explained seems plain: each mind
dreams scene idyllic sensed, not predefined.
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Complicity
COMPLICITY
Cupid wears no double face
as two united hearts may trace
complicity in love's embrace
27 June 2008
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Complicity poem (c) Jonathan Robin
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Even in Sleep
Even in sleep she seeks his finger
as if, nursing its tumescence within the palm of her hand,
she could extend the intimacy of intimacy...
© Jonathan Robin – written 10 April 2001
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Pillow Words
Roman alphabetical lucubrations,
left brained hierarchical,
appear awkward concatenations
long-winded, farsical
compared to pillow word pictogram self referential
synthesis
(8 June 2008)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Vanitas
May praise aloud from crazy crowd suffice
to raise the proud endowed with mazy vice?
Dance on! Advance, leave shirkers low their lice,
and, unforesworn, work for new dawn's fresh spice …
poem by Jonathan Robin
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War - 0065 - Initial Version
With world at war the waisted women pale,
drops of wasted water plop without a pail.
Civilians weep and wail while harms assail,
physicians, profiteers, have arms for sale.
(23 March 1975)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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See Sea Calls In C Sharp
Onshore mind music finds
sure harmony unwinds
when sea horizons call,
senseless shackles fall.
Notes take new meanings, leave behind
all artificial blinds, self-centred pall.
(28 April 2012)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Lifelong Learning 1649
No duck[l]ing responsibilities.
Free flight.
First impressions underwrite transformation.
Nestling's metamorphosis into personnified 'urge to learn' eggs on future generations.
(13 July 2007)
poem by Jonathan Robin
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Salesman
There once was a salesman who swore
he could ope, without keys, any door,
the police called one day
to take him away,
he won’t be seen here anymore;
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Childsplay
Dreams wing, wring ring doubts
whence fate dates coincidence
sense swings, roundabouts
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Swings and roundabouts
of Fate or coincidence
wing dreams, wring ring doubts
poem by Jonathan Robin
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