Defining A Good Life
lifeline written
in the palm
of your hand
a secret humanity
finds hard
to understand
a long life
is not necessity
a good life
if a short life
is a good life
a better life?
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in August 2011 on the 1.8.2011.
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swr Chasing Down Rainbows
bold Sir Walter Raleigh
new world explorer
chasing down rainbows
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in January 2011 on the 5.1.2011.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Flight At Kitty Hawk
assumes new dimensions
aeronautical aspirations
tiny dreams flowers seeds
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in May 2011 on the 4.5.2011
poem by Terence George Craddock
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European Airport Carbon Tax Exemptions
US planes
landing in Europe
must be exempt
from carbon taxes
policy is world's
number one economy
global warming disharmony
melts ice politically
US may have caused
Green house gases most of it
but solution pay out should
help taxes paid fix none of it
China is of exemption
same tax free accord
Russia votes exemption
agrees is right on board
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in July 2011 on the 5.7.2011.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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What Will Mubarak Legacy Be?
A generous humble
meek shinning sinless
man of peace bestowing
freedom seeds of peace
upon beloved people like
liberator Mahatma Gandhi?
Egypt scenes incredible
Mubarak uses horses camels
an enduring not endearing
attack globally televised piece
stoning Egyptian protesters will irk
displeasure brutality paddy not trendy.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in February 2011 on the 8.2.2011.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Grim Reaper Creeping
melancholy serene pallor
wrinkle-less sour lip
telling complete tragedy
confessed contempt
who commissioned artist
a youthful death accepted
or bitterly pierce felt sorrow
shadow death contemplated
impending parting agony
approaching death steals
souls taken in youth blood
life pulse short struck down
life acts play short lived
final curtain scene haunts
bitter fruit to savour
is putrid plaintive flesh
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in 2nd February 1996.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Adjusting American Credit Ratings
17.3
trillion dollars
staggering
US faulting
on debt
flee
higher internet
rates 4 money rejecting
big business spending
cuts
but
American mega
rich are exempt
from all taxes pending
just raise debt ceiling
it's
been raised spending
countless times infesting
poor people's pockets
political leadership whims
sleight
of hand finances
American magic markers
erases 4 trillions
in American gross debt
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in July 2011 on the 5.7.2011.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Cultural Myths
Without exception,
I change my perception.
To alter my experiences of my life,
to live a life of joy, not strife.
Perceptions of my life’s events,
are my choice,
not Myths of Society who has lent.
lent me to understand
something I was told,
told a cultural myth at 5 years old.
I live my life consciously with
intention,
not unconsciously with redemption,
(Written by Christina Sunrise on August 15, 2011)
poem by Suzae Chevalier
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A Life Philosophy
a life philosophy
not a philosophy on life
a living philosophy
clear concise defined
articulated in civil rights liberty
clemency morality humanitarian symmetry
it is not important to memorize words
words thoughts searched out through years decades
words become life beat peace harmonies
not a manifesto
not written out
not important to memorize
to write out
to be distorted
to be used to manipulate minds
a manifesto not
written out not
important to memorize not
no a great life philosophy
is lived in simplicity acts of humility
freedom gifted to all humanity
love in life
love for all life one life
love sacred fertile compassion love life
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Tiger Dragon Masters Of Disguise
Do your remember sensational movie
‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'?
All eyes mass audience on big screen
most people still intently observant?
Yet when you ask people after the movie
did they see the hidden tiger and dragon?
Most answered puzzled that they did not.
An explanation as to why unseen have none?
The reason however is elementary when given.
The tiger was crouching the dragon was hidden.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in May 2011 on the 3.5.2011
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She and Drugs
Freshly spawned,
Brain dumps
Bleeding grey:
Reflections of a mind
That wavers thin
Along the line
That savours pain -
A pond of skin
Devoid of breast -
The pad a feign:
The nothing
Underneath your bra
At best
Is your imagination
Spread across a narcoleptic world
Suchlike survival
In and out
Of haunted woods;
In and out -
You're in and out
As blood transfused -
Pumping on
To ooze at pace
Upon another haemorrhage
And there! a goblin
Here! a goblin
Care to entertain a goblin
In the lair
That is a mind
Of drugs? -
We know it's you -
It's you we know.
We know you're through.
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2011
Life repeats itself as
life life life life life life life life
life life life life life life life life
life life life life life life life life
life life life life life life life life
life life life life life life life life
so draining life
poem by Mark R Slaughter
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One Life
Waste not this precious life.
Live it up in this life.
Don't wish for another life.
Sometimes it's a fleeting life,
Death can cut short one's life,
Alcohol, Drugs, purse snatchers plight,
Accidents, Murders, tragic suicides.
Sickness, Cancers, Genocides.
Drop the worries, the 'have not',
'what ifs', the regrets, the lot.
What you possess, why measure?
Build, protect your treasure.
A short life, a long life,
A hard life, a good life.
Each, different, yet the same life,
We have but one life.
Love Life Lessons
nature has
so many
beautiful phrases
written within
flesh framework
of love life lessons
Splitting Images from the poem ‘Mortal Framework Evoke Life Lessons’ by Terence George Craddock.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Mere Life Changing Moments
in life there will be
mere life changing moments
will you work hard?
will you stay the course?
will you rise to the moment?
time will be short
there will be much to do
time is short
there is much to do
before the long journey home
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Egyptian Tanks In Tahrir Square
Mighty yellow metal monsters
intimidate approach Tahrir Square;
symbolic modern dread dealers
of death sent to scare spread fear;
but courage of Egyptian peaceful protesters
defies president calculated tank terror threat;
day upon day witness oppressed courageous
civilian populations demands freedom fight.
No torture dictator rule indefinitely steals
a sovereign nation’s dream freedom right;
No general president in immunity survives
indefinitely citizen’s claim to freedom right.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Written in February 2011 on the 3.2.2011.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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The Truth Written Within Us
If God is truly within us as God claims?
Then truth written in our soul there retains?
The answer to life questions in our souls we may seek.
Deep within God wrote words of wisdom truth that speak.
How can we accept knowledge of what can be found there?
God gave our conscience to discern truth do not despair.
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Inspired by the poem ‘Quatrain #72 - Where do you look, dear friend....... ‘’ by George Krokos.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Baby Let Me Hold You For The Last Time
This love lasts for you and me
But heaven took you away
From these arms of mine
It feels worthless, I come undone
Sorry for these tears
Oh my darling, I’m so alone
You’re far, far away from me
This distance cannot bind
Our longing, our shadows
I woke up and found none
Hard to understand this life
I ‘m so in love, but you’re gone
Tell me how you are
And I’ll tell you how
I missed the days we dance
All your smiles, your laughs
They slowly fade
Like a cloud in the sky
This bittersweet life
I am heartbreaking
If there is one thing I'll ask
Baby let me hold you
For the last time
(written on August 28,2011 Singapore)
poem by Chester Maynes
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A short poem on life
Life is a gift
life can be cruel
life can be kind
life can be hard
life can be tough.
life is mysterious
life is strange
life is complex
life is weird.
life has twists
life has turns
life has ups
life has downs.
life for good
life for bad
life for war
life for peace.
life and love
life and hate
life and growth
life and death.
poem by Kevin Halls
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A Child’s Toy
a whirl of sunshine and cup of blue
within a single line of poetry
our world becomes a spinning top
First prime line written by Miroslava Odalovic.
Title, second and third lines written by Terence George Craddock
Copyright © Miroslava Odalovic and Terence George Craddock
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How Else Could I Say
how else could I say
I believe in you
wait to see potential
realized in your
dreams come true
wait to watch your
mind your life
enrich the world
with spice of life
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Dedicated to Kudakwashe Roak Mutama.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Sacred Life Honoured
alternative lifestyles philosophies
retrieve perceive principle sacredness
of one life all life earth ecosystems
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
See also the poem ‘Earth Global Village Philosophical Theory’.
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