Automobiles and dwellers, both got a life.
Easy and haughty from the glimpse of sight.
Cars greet one another apprehending a horn Wading through the motion of life.
This is what one say an eye for an eye.
I, the oldest, bristled With the tales.
With ardour in each other full of faith.
Countenance on vehicles and dwellers prevails.
Awful the situation is to exhale.
Tears from the sky, Dawn from the sun.
Cry for the reaproachful Situation at burn.
Shoddy lives ,those susceptible To the nature.I feed in the glance of dreariness of the life.
The crime rate in my city
Sapele City to be precise
Most comes from camouflage
Police is your friend
Bail is free
The biggest lie in history
Even when you're not guilty, you still need to pay something.
Where are your papers
You'll think it's your motor papers
But after tendering your papers
They still need another paper
Which is the money
They'll beat you or jail you
Innocently if you don't give them the money.
The police is for
Unity, peace and justice
Yet they disrupt the city
Dividing the people
Apprehending the innocent
Instead of justice
They collect money from the guilty.
There was a time
My youngest sister was defiled
Instead of apprehending the defiler
My youngest sister and my oldest sister
Who was pregnant
Was put under detention.
The girl ‘ Miss No’ born stubborn ! Since childhood
always acted prompt on intransigence.
Decisive, contradicted , but not rude.
Obstinate and not to be influenced.
Apprehending her opposite reactions,
Parents, free to contradict their own advice
suggested just opposite instruction.
She followed their real wishes, acted nice.
So comfortable on confrontation ,
Each time showed aggression, as observed,
never went on easy interaction .
Getting maturity , she fell in love.
About her love, fiance had no doubt,
but he understood well her ideology.
If he expressed his love, he would be out,
so applied reverse psychology.
Not right to go for direct proposal.
Better to choose opposite direction.
Otherwise he would get straight refusal.
Girl went to meet him on invitation.
Being bold the guy told’ I am leaving town.
Further, our relation, not to carry . I’m sorry.'
Instantly she gave stern look, making frown
and said' I won't allow : This is the time ! We will marry. '
Pain has a universal resemblance to a cutglass
Lifeless with twists and turns.
Slowly apprehending one like quicksand.
Outwardly screaming for help, no one
in sight to be pinpointed at least it
seemed that pain is eventful with full
of disappointment, heartbreak, testiness
often temporary. Pain is the pain of
conscious of false hopes, pain is
like a pressure cooker, Pain is now
turned inside out with Faith.
From the time my awareness of day-to-day things began,
I have been apprehending your part in my life, dear glass;
In the form of a bottle or tumbler or window pan,
As a spectacle or mirror, our life you encompass...!
In temples or churches or miraculous monuments,
As windows or glass doors or transparent walls or façades,
Humbly or glamorously, you are on all continents,
You enhance human existence in all colorful shades...!
We ignore your favors, like in the case of a mother,
As artists behind the curtains, you serve us silently;
Like the elements - earth, air, water, fire, and ether,
Though we take you for granted, you perform your tasks gently...!
Crystal clearly is your existence and benevolence,
You are humble amidst your universal prevalence...!!!
Life unkind, cracked in mind, sailing my boat.
Sorrows abundant but flakes of joy few.
Grief locked in alcove of heart, me to float.
Scar in heart suffused by dry tears and rue.
Self consolation and isolation.
Life unkind, cracked in mind, sailing my boat.
Apprehending spectre, no solution.
Pretending to be happy: Smothered throat.
Playing fair game yet ball is on other’s court.
Heart weeps, face resplendent in fake rapture.
Life unkind, cracked in mind, sailing my boat.
Past passed, unpleasant present, furtive Future.
Emotive urge not to surge, on suppression.
Love letter in my mind, never I wrote.
Dwelling in deplorable depression.
Life unkind, cracked in mind, sailing my boat.
03/08/23
NO FEAR , MY DEAR !
Fear is a damn liar,
Always showing fake fire!
Have strength to overcome.
Willpower to welcome.
Remove your Fear Factor,
building a bold character.
Hold firm faith and strong view.
Self confidence to rescue.
Apprehending False Fear
Don’t make a pause, My Dear !
Act dauntless, make progress.
Being frightened, not to regress.
Fear is a continued obstacle
Don’t sit idle hoping miracle.
Trouble turns mischievous,
coated by Fear : Fictitious.
Fear is an evil messenger
Skilled to fabricate danger.
Fear shouldn’t get any entry.
Allow Courage to enter free.
01/18 / 23
Fear is Liar.
Second Place
Contest by Sotto Poet
Breanna, Breanna got read her Miranda,
that cheeky wee gas station clerk.
She’s not putting up with the woke propaganda
of not apprehending the perps.
When he broke a jar of some spicy hot salsa,
she knew that it was time for work.
So she grabbed her handgun, yelled, “Not in my casa!”
and put two rounds into that jerk.
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Loosely based on a story in today's news about a gas station clerk named Breanna Miranda, who shot a man after they got in a verbal altercation and he threw a jar of salsa to the ground.
cops
undercover, officers
chasing, apprehending, shooting
arrest, paddy wagon, notorious, lawless
stealing, fleeing, plundering
masked, armed
robbers
Date written: 04/17/2022
Colossal contradictions, curtail creativity
Twisting thoughts, timing, trajectory
Buffering, blending between boundaries
Apprehending an artistic altercation
Learning lessons, lovely light lasts
Heidi Sands
3/26/21
Oh, what delightful pleasure
I cherish as everyday treasure
my special child’s love beyond senses can assure
apprehending from the heart his simple sheer leisure…
When he blissfully pinches my cheeks with bliss
as I caress his hair, exuding shampoo scent he can’t miss
when he strives to give me smooching kiss
mumbling gaily with: “like this, love this!”
Always predictable through his expressive eyes
though struggling along sign language he seems to devise
he affirms his comprehension with thumbs-up so wise
responding cleverly as from his wheel-chair he strives to rise .
In eating delicacies, we enjoy our partnership
feasting on honey products, our tongues are in fellowship
while along cheese and milk we savour warm friendship
thanking the gracious Lord* for tasty blessings of sweet relationship.
*1Peter 2:3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
June 29, 2020
4th place, "Sensuality" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One; judged on 7/1/2020.
It's the L -o- n - e R-a-n-g-e-r galloping along
Apprehending the bad guys when they always go wrong
Upholding the law
Beating 'em to the draw
And he's particularly proficient at the game of majong
H-appily
I-nterpret
R-ighteous
E-xpression's
N-ote
B-y
H-armoniously
A-pprehending
T-he
T-heme
A-s
C-omposer's
H-eavenly
A-crostic
R-emembers
Y-our
Y-oung
A-ge
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Geared by God, greeting gracious glow
Ready is my spirit for rejuvenation revival
Empowered to exalt Him with praise ecstasy
Ascending against apprehending arrogance
Triumphant toward thanksgiving trust.
Extricated from exhausting selfish expedition
Settled is my soul, secured by the Saviour
Chained and clasped around His clemency
Attaining faith-affirmed service approval
Pursuing heavenly profits, perfectly precious
Exchanging the ephemeral for the eternal*.
1Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
January 12, 2020
2nd place, "Great Escape" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by John Hamilton; judged on 1/15/2020.
When the present is a hollow shadow of the future past
And the wild reaper casts his spell on stagnant aspirations
The harvest flooded in crushing tears at midwinter pain
He decides to live the courageous fantasy of ancient moons
Dries off a skin full of resentment from stunted propagation
Slices vividly through anger hurt and fear with lunar sickles
Rises above beholding constellations of apprehending dread
Living the dream and loving the seasons is full of danger
As uncertain promises loom and the eclipse seems eternal
He lights a blazing fire to fend off subconscious hesitation
And remembers that he’s been there before so many times
When mourning falls again and hopeful rays lighten the sky
Hopeful desire tentatively touches an unextinguished longing
For the gift of presence peace and kindness onto his burning mind
His soulmate bandages his wounded soul and kisses him gently
Massages sores and abrasive thoughts until they walk the path
Out into what lies ahead when sun and clouds merge into one
22nd October 2019
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