Category: Poetry
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A haiku for Earth Day
The future is brightAs long as we do what’s rightDon’t give up the fight ©2020 peNdantry
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Paradise Unpaved
Believe it if you will or not, it is true, what I say:At the turning of the wheel of the twentieth century(Nineteen hundred’s what I mean, a hundred years ago)Trams and trains and automobiles, all were on the go. Electric ones. Mr Ford conspired with sleazy tyre and oil-rich baronsTo pave the way to this land of grimy tarmac barrens;Driving off with greed…
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Sanity’s edge
At times of loss, then it does seemAs though all flat is my beingEyes open, yet nothing seeing;Alone, I wander through a dream. Crazed horizons: a mottled themeBeckons me to sanity’s edge.A splintered mind; a driven wedgeInto reality’s true heartAnd at the last a distant partFound clinging to a windswept ledge. ©2020 peNdantry
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The shape of humanity
picture humanity spreading; branching through time covering the whole planet’s face briefly flickering to the Moon and space shrivelling termini yet the Earth ‘worm’ endures ©2020 peNdantry
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Distraction tactics
The voice of reason…it makes perfect sense:when you can’t win,distract the audience. ©2009 peNdantry
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On the self-righteous litter-picker (me)
I collected two more bags of trashOn my walk today.Stuff folk, unthinking, careless,Chose to throw away‡Into hedgerows on the public pathOblivious of the aftermath. ‡’Away’ is, to me, a foreign landIt’s not a place I’d like to liveIt’s dirty, smelly, squalid, vile:Banish litter-louts there offhandTheir actions are tough to forgiveThey make me quite hostile. A…
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The root of all evil
On the edge of perception Four horsemen ride at the whim of those whose acts are dutiless. The invisible hand prevaricates: Nothing trickles down. Decay at the source. Inevitable outcome. At the root of all evil is the love of m o n e y . ©2012 peNdantry
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Travel beyond
The sea was calm, it urged me onTowards a future, bright and clearI tarried not, I had no fearMy dearest wish, travel beyond;The universe it did respondIt called to me across the seaInstilled a feeling, set me freeAnd though I thought I could not dareMy soul was caught up in the air:The radiant Moon, it…
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House of cards
When the inevitable strikes,when the house falls down,do you patch up the walls,fix the holes in the roof,shore it all up,splash it with paint? No. You learn from the mistakes.You start from scratch.You call in the architects.You rebuild the foundations.You use new materials;replace wattle and daubwith a sounder design. Unless: Because you’re lost outside the…
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Normality
Here’s something I would like to sharewithout being extra formalbecause it’s perfectly normal,it’s true for us all anywhere;I am quite sure you are awarewhether or not it’s slow or fastthere’s one thing that can be forecast:and that is that it is not strangeto experience lots of changeno matter how much time has passed. ©2020 peNdantry
Wibblings 