In this lifetime full of yearning;
through which came wishing and dreaming;
within many splendid, unquiet flairs;
a voice murmured the word, ‘prayer!’
I was needy and you were solicitous,
my mind strayed to the felonious.
Instead I uncovered brazen devotion,
a perkiness brought such an inner commotion.
I screamed out in misery, 'Is that a blessing?'
Mattering, assaultive and mindful distressing;
Urging and purging within my slyness,
my shyness, my outright otherness.
My mind could not or would not awaken.
Tossing the ghost into all forsaken,
'It's that barrenness,' I muttered.
Queryingly back into memories, now cluttered
I craved an eclectic, or electric luminescence
the yearning, was an essential evanescence
the evolutionists laughed at us in retort.
'It's that piety,' I whispered before the court.
The Judge looked on, a bit beguiled,
as the Saintliness beamed and simply smiled.
The universe is not safe anymore,
As people lives in fear,
Yesterday killing, today raping,
And tomorrow, who knows what comes next?
Our women overwhelmed with fear,
Being harassed everyday,
Domestic violence is not left out.
Women are also human.
Five minutes of enjoyment for men,
Lifetime sadness for the women.
What a wicked world !
Women are also human.
Awareness and education.
Indecent dressings,
Assaultive speech to men, must be curbed.
Parental factor, also important.
Both parties,
Men and women, are at fault.
My sincere condolence to the victims.
Let's say no to rape.
Alimi Abdulkabir's Poetry
Anacreontic verse...
Mud season
Boots squishing
Wind blasting
Cyan lips pursed
Enough already
God hates us
The assaultive
Translucent blue
Frigid raindrops
Horizontal
Penetrating
Get indoors
Oh, let the sun-soaked
Gloom breaking
Cerulean sky
Merrily melt
the gray-cobalt
coffin clouds
Soon, the bright
Azure blooms
It will bring
Delphinium
Blue hyacinth
Geranium
Glowing in the sun
Warm wind
Pollen wafting
Softening breeze
God’s mercy is right
Around the corner
4/2/16
For contest: Anacreontic Verse 3
Sponsor: Edward Ebbs
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