...C Cleverly Poems

The peace of a mind
No longer maligned
By ire or fire.
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Cross rose
Prices rose
People rose
Hunger rose
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An absoluteness shorn by wind.
Yellow sea, isles of yellow rocks;
Free of contradictions.
No walls, portals nor windows,
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Flag blowing freely within your arms,
As free as a sloop upon the sea.
Naked within your sheets,
With only your love to clothe me.
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Their musher lost
On a frozen terrain
Five dogs crossed
Their reins on his pain
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Sister Dharma blessed
On paths that ever wind
Not every hill is Everest
A scene from Durga’s shrine.
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For the rust dusted stones
And burnished steel track
That takes me home
And takes me back
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Waiting, quietly, for myself to come in:
A stormy fool dancing inside a bin,
Neglected hope, a broken urn,
I whisper in my ear
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When I was hungry, you gave me your bread.
When I was lonely, your bed.
Your breasts were my coronet
And kisses crowned my head
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O Madiba! Madiba your ship has finally come to rest
Rest now, now rest, for peace was your bequest.
Humiliated, disgraced, yet in captivity you chose
By embracing your enemy, you learnt and rose.
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