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Sonnet: Light

How can the wick of life rise high aflame,
When Pride’s mantle surrounds its dusky hue?
How will the man of ego take self-blame,
When selfishly, he denies others’ due?

Light is to dispel darkness from the earth!
Light is to shine aloft for everyone!
Light is to give warmth, sitting ’fore a hearth!
Light is to see and enjoy like the sun!

And that is why the lighthouse is kept high!
And that is why the rail-way gate has light!
And that is why the signal-lights shouldn’t die!
And that is why the headlights should be bright!

Let light not dazzle, blinding others’ eyes;
Light is a virtue; don’t make it a vice!

5-26-2002 by Dr John Celes

poem by John Celes
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A Hymn

O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.

From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honour and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord.

Tie in a living tether
The prince and priest and thrall,

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poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The House Of Pain

welcome
to the house
of pain...

rehab pain
driving insane
intense agony

dark legacy
of an instant
of an accident

all muscles
instant torn
in right leg

limp weep on
limp on pain
to recovery?

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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A Hymn

O God of earth and altar,
Bow down and hear our cry,
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die;
The walls of gold entomb us,
The swords of scorn divide,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.

From all that terror teaches,
From lies of tongue and pen,
From all the easy speeches
That comfort cruel men,
From sale and profanation
Of honour and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Deliver us, good Lord.

Tie in a living tether
The prince and priest and thrall,

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poem by G.K. Chesterton (1906)
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Modern Love V: A Message from Her

A message from her set his brain aflame.
A world of household matters filled her mind,
Wherein he saw hypocrisy designed:
She treated him as something that is tame,
And but at other provocation bites.
Familiar was her shoulder in the glass,
Through that dark rain: yet it may come to pass
That a changed eye finds such familiar sights
More keenly tempting than new loveliness.
The 'What has been' a moment seemed his own:
The splendours, mysteries, dearer because known,
Nor less divine: Love's inmost sacredness
Called to him, 'Come!'--In his restraining start,
Eyes nurtured to be looked at, scarce could see
A wave of the great waves of Destiny
Convulsed at a checked impulse of the heart.

poem by George Meredith
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Wilderness Within My Soul

Frenzy, prairies and an open screen,
endless with infinite possibilities,
I have not mortal greed and hypocrisy,
there is wildness here totally free,
free of judgment and weapons of deceit,
the trees glow with the sun's dying dreams,
animals wild and free, their voices do softly creep,
embracing the breeze with their symphonies,
Hunger, lust and reckless abandon in an animalistic scene,
Imagine a creek pulsating with ecstasy,
rushing with endless purpose into its scream,
the buzz of a bee and the scowl of an owl,
the prowl of a panther and majesty of them all,
free me from this mortal destruction, and diabolical greed,
unite in me my wilderness aflame in a distant unhurried dream....!

poem by Joey Wade
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No second Troy

How could I reproach her
that she brings destruction to me,
turns my whole life upside down
and aimless hate rather than love
radiates from her.

How was she able
to estrange me from work
and the people in the street
with slander,
that goes over whole continents,
with robbery, lies and curses
that rain down purposelessly.

Where could she find peace
with a spirit that devours
every thing around her
like a fire from hell,
while she thinks that she’s honourable
and her beauty greater

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poem by Gert Strydom
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Ablaze

Ablaze! An armoured car
is aflame and stuck in
a field of landmines
and enemy tanks are everywhere.

So soldiers say - on yesterday –
just as the dawn was grey
a Ratels wheels
set some landmines of
and it was stuck there
and received seven shells
from enemy tanks
and it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

So Generals say – on yesterday –
just as the sun was rising
we lost one Ratel-90 armoured car
stuck in a landmine field,
but she gave a brave fight
and the enemy lost

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poem by Gert Strydom
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Author's authoritative and artistically able alliteration answer

Author acts appropriately
adjusts apparel appositely,
attempts alliteration ably -
allies amusement, ability.

Aristocratic amourist's angel,
always admired, attracts acclaim,
alliterative, amiable,
admits artistic aim.
Altogether agreeable,
all aver, and, aflame,
assure acceptance affable
affirmative again...

Absent are arrogance, avarice, ambition, -
although allurements attractive appear -
amalgamate are ardour, ability, affection,
attachement ardent and august, all admit, adhere../. ad...

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poem by Jonathan Robin
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A Second Sight

the day
daylight
is too dense
many minds

locked into
materialism
materialistic
concerns worries

material purposes
clay imprisonment
body form needs
demands dictates

sun bakes clay
cuneiform clay
tablets into rigid
fixed unbending

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poem by Terence George Craddock
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