ivor or ivor.e hogg Poems

To celebrate freedom a bird
will soar on high triumphantly
Ensuring that it will be heard
singing in freedom joyfully.
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Why should we fear the alien?
who seem to be observing us.
I fear much more my fellow men
It seems to me ridiculous.
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Whatever one man can invent
to benefit his fellow men.
Some other man without consent
will twist its purpose if he can..
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Each stalactite and stalagmite
is growing slowly dropp by drop.
Invisibly to human sight.
A process which will never stop.
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In the distance I can see the sun is shining pleasantly
but where I am is cold and gray. Why that should be I cannot say.
Perhaps because I’m missing you and that in fact it isn’t true. And that in fact the sun does shine on me but can’t relieve the misery
I feel when you are far away without you every day is gray
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I know what others do not know.
I see what others do not see
I know exactly where to go
to enter worlds of fantasy.
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My lady likes but does not need
to deck herself with jewellery.
I do not argue I concede
that she is wiser far than me.
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The night her sable wings has spread
across this city of the dead.
The silver moon light shimmering
upon white gravestones glimmering.
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The spice of life: Variety,
To do the same thing every day
would drive me to insanity
I try to vary my routine,
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The suicidal moths attack.
Small kami kazi volunteers,
There is no way to hold them back.
The moment that a light appears.
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