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Where Will My Heart Take You Today

 Where will my heart take you today  If you open the door ?

It would take you to places , and beautiful faces , you've never seen before.

Because there is magic if you believe ,there is a paradise,

You do not have to travel the world ,to see such beauty that brightens the eyes.

It is right there , in front of you , Listen to my soul ..

It is a soul that speaks the truth ,Get hold of it, Never let go ...

Cherish the flashes of this short life, Count hundred ways to smile

When shapeless clouds cover the sun , Fly higher than the sky.

Where will my heart take you today if you open the door ?

'Bove gentle ripples where boats move slow, under a moonlit glow.

Amidst the scents of flowered trees which waft in the slight breeze ,

That rise ' bove high close to the stars ,then flow so softly  into new dreams .

Where will my heart take you today if you open the door ?
 
It pulls you deep into my arms to the melt water of polar snow ,

to  louvered windows'filtering thoughts ,to a surprise that will go on.

Where will this  heart take me today , If  I open  my door

It takes me to streets , where my passion bleeds

Where this joy I feel ,moves in rhytmic beats

 to the ones tthat I greet , to the ones I adore .
Categories: get hold, beauty,
Form: Lyric

Time

TIME
In the world of time
Time told, time tells
Everything it’s about time
Only time will tell
Being cognizant of time
It’s more vital
You will utilize best your time
And escape the fatal
Everybody has got time
Just to do everything
It matters not how you used your time
Trying to get hold of everything
Currently it matters how you utilize time
Be a new person use best your time
Categories: get hold, time,
Form: Italian Sonnet

A Rare American Coin

This coin depicting a head of man with laurel
is a rare treasure from the American History,
as an auctioneer I could sell it for a large
sum of money: its estimated price is over 
two-thousand-dollars, it shows it was minted 
in eighteen-ninety-four, come forward and bid!

I found it among pennies I saved for rainy days,
there must be at least four thousand of them;
my collection includes contemporary silver dollars,
many generations must pass to accumulate value...
any other collector would action them any day!

I jealously hold onto them to own a piece of History:
how they glitter in glass cases on my walls!
I may donate them to the American History
Museum in Manhattan and see them on display!

Many auctioneers would love to get hold of my silver coin, 
their mind is set solely on greed, not thinking of its history
which can unravel fascinating details about of its minting process;
the unknown artisan was very skilled in itching date and image 
on both sides to testify the greatness and wealth of this nation,
but Americans don't realize that they are very wealthy indeed!
Categories: get hold, art, beauty, blessing, culture,
Form: Free verse

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Look Up

Hey children! Listen, I miss your zeal.
The world inside your mobile is surreal.
Look up!
See, I have fixed stronger glasses on my windows,
Get hold of your cricket kit, come back on the street,
I miss watching your games.
I won’t mind, smash all my window panes.

Hackneyed messages,
Dollops of unalloyed twaddle 
Tides of trifling emotions!
Baby! You are locked inside your mobile.
Look up!
See, the stadium looks so barren!
Without your mischiefs and fun, 
Your irritating jibber- jabber and nonstop run.
I won’t mind, come on burst my eardrum. 

Your friends, your pictures, games, tweets and stories
You live in a fantasy world, that’s absolutely unsavoury.
Step back into this beautiful life, create beautiful memories.
Look up!
Don’t waste your time and energy.
Live for a cause, get up and push back your lethargy.
Open the notebook of your life,
Fill it with love, fame and prosperity.
No matter what! You shall thrive.
Don’t be a slave to mobile, 
Life isn’t a game!
Dear! You have to survive, mobiles exists just to give a little respite!

11/04/2019
Categories: get hold, addiction, freedom,
Form: Verse

Premium Member I Am Just Saying

Terror pure terror
The dog on the other side of the fence
A pit bull
With an attitude
Reminds me of my first wife
She would like to get hold of my leg
And hold on till I bled dry
That’s why I carry a chain
And a pig sticker
For pit bulls and X wives
Man can’t be too safe these days
Got to have your possibles if you know what I mean?
I got nothing against women or dogs
Hell I love them all
But man they can love one minute
And be hell on wheels the next
Can’t live with them; pass the beer nuts
I’m just saying…
Don’t understand them or quantum physics
Categories: get hold, confusion,
Form: Free verse

A City Person's Ballad: Urban Versus Rural

Let us sit together
And let me dwell in your mist
And I will tell you a story
About city life versus rural life.

Now, the city has been known to be a place of lights
But many have discovered many fights
And a violation of a list of human rights.
 
It is a place where so many people you meet
But people barely stand to properly greet
And will often look down at your feet.

-For this is a place one has to fight very hard to be heard,
To be respected and to get ahead.

You will further be told about finding so much gold
Though one soon learns that they grow old 
Before you can see it or at least hold.

It is also said to be a place of opportunity
Where one has to reach the possibility
To showcase their innate capability.

A place where you can reach for one's dream
But have to really always scream
To get hold of your cream.

Besides the frustration of daily traffic always bustling
You will in some ways be introduced to the game of hustling
If not being lured into the activity of gambling.

-This is because while fighting to be heard and ahead,
 you have to compromise your sense of morality to get what you want.

The city has clusters of buildings so high to tower
And various people on the mission of gaining power 
With the innocent and poor getting driven lower.

In the city, it is said that there is a lot of honey
Where you can either make lots of money
Or end up being called a donkey.

Many get attracted to the city's glitz and glamour
But then one learns that you have to do a certain favour
In order to keep up this fervour.

-On the contrary on the streets you see more beggars
And hawkers begging for cents.

When you are in the city it is vital to stay awake
And you will notice that most things are fake
And be sure to make no mistake.

-In the market you have a choice of buying organic vs non- GMO fruits or vegetables.
Whether to buy hundred percent hair products, make-up or household produces.

Along the way things remain the same
Very important not to forget your name
You just need to keep up with the game
Of being humble and tame
In order to win the fame.

-Now, one soon learns that they actually
Yearn for the peace and reality
Of rural countryside life.
Categories: get hold, city, class, community, journey,
Form: Ballad


It's Always Thursday

Between Sundays and the week to come,
it’s Thursday wondering where the days have gone.
The flow of tick tocking the passing through,
when the rushing of the important is to pursue.
Days just disappear to wondering grieve,
while nights to sleep are to short to believe.
Moon tides smile growing full of restless sleep,
when that exhaustion only ask for that deep.
The tragedy about time that just perish,
when we cannot get hold of the now to cherish.
Taking life by the day that forever last,
so that we can celebrate it with a blast.
No more promises for tomorrow as hope,
and yesterdays regret a habit interlope.
Thursdays from Latin is Jovis related to Jupiter,
called the remover of all obstacles for the better.
Then as we know everything can happen,
on Thursdays even when you don’t know Latin.
Categories: get hold, humanity, humorous, meaningful,
Form: Ballad

A Little Girl and Her Plastic Bag

Yesterday while on my way to a supermarket I saw a little girl of perhaps five leaning at
a tree close to the road and watching a blue plastic bag which was drifting in the wind.
She looked very sad with her light blue eyes and her blond hair streamed out behind her.
The bag was lifted by a strong blast and I ran after it, crossing the road. A car came and
stopped, waiting for me to cross the road. A younger man on the other side of the road saw
that I wanted to catch the bag and he was also running after it, but the wind drifted the
bag far over the lawn up hills. After some unsuccessful attempts to get hold of the bag he
finally could grab it. I went to him and he gave me the bag and smiled. I then told him
that a little girl was sad about losing that bag. He wished me a nice weekend and I
returned to that little girl still standing near the tree but this time smiling. She shyly
whispered "Thank you", took the bag and ran to her little playmates waiting for her
anxiously in the background.
Categories: get hold, peoplegirl, me, tree, blue,
Form: Narrative

No Worries For Tomorrow

To the flowers that never get hold of turgidity
Even with the morning dew
Its faded petals once enjoyed a bright youth
It lived, while it had to and forgot of the later rains
Hurry! To the single moms, formerly “slay queens”
They spent their all to the seductive Swag hood, Fools
Get old to get wiser, sorry for the principle,
You are not to blame

To the future we will never participate
I cry for your fate, we never thought you were real
We robbed your generation, and created a chasm between
We were living our destiny so we stand corrected
Quixotically we planned your present,
So long as it filled the pocket of the absurd torch bearers
Its sustainability didn’t matter, not to them
We are sorry that you will still be submissive to neocolonialism
Get old to get wiser, I guess there are exceptions
Categories: get hold, africa,
Form: ABC

Mysteries of Human Hairs Ii of Ii

Mysteries  of Human Hairs   II

Hairs, O hairs, O’ lovely   ravishing hairs,
It is also a hard truth of the world and
Of our human life and air that,
Even some saints too have fallen prey, 
Before your enchanting beauty and your alluring colors.

Many mighty kings have lost their crown and kingdoms, 
In the ever tempting beauty of your magnetic curls and shines,
To get hold of you, O’ lovely hairs.

Kingdoms have fallen like the house of cards and 
Even most powerful men of this earth,   
Have lost the edge of their swards,
Before the shining, flying and mesmerizing, 
Beauty of a women’s hair and its penetrating charms.

Hairs, O hairs, O’ lovely ravishing hairs,
While many have lost their life and kingdoms,
There are few such lucky lovers of hairs, as well,
Who have remained unnoticed, unacknowledged and even unseen,
Although they enjoyed and relished the beauty of your colors, and
Have felt the softness of your hanging hair locks and curls, O hairs.

What wealth and gems you hide in your treasure, 
Making many men and even women,
Mad, before the lovely ravishing beauty of you,  O’ Hairs.
Ravindra
Kanpur India 28th Oct 2010
Edited and rewritten on 28th March 2012
Categories: get hold, life, love, passion, hair,
Form: Free verse

Spoiled Rotten

Go on, spoil me rotten
Wrap me in wooly cotton
Enroll me in a class
Where I’m taught the art of grass.
Like your food I always ate
Life is served up on a plate
Now I’m hard to satiate
And you’re the object of my hate.

CH

Give me what I want,
Give it to me now
If you won’t placate me
I take it anyhow
Give it, give it, give it,
Give it to me now,
If you won’t placate me
I take it anyhow.

Go on, spoil me rotten,
Until I’ve forgotten
How to live a decent life
Let alone attract a wife.
But, hey, I’m qualified
To tell lies of how I lied
It’s all music to her ears
It’s the truth mother fears.

CH

Go on, spoil me rotten,
I’m your misbegotten
Eighty pounds over weight
Got a job hauling freight
From Brazil to LA
Where my tic gave me away
To someone from the DEA…
My lawyer had a field day.

CH

I’m no longer spoiled rotten
I wear denim, not cotton
Can’t get hold of a fix
To ease these incessant tics.
I’ve lost weight and all hope
Clinging to an end of rope
Knowing now my selfishness
Was nurtured by your weakness.

Take what you want,
Take it off me now,
If it don’t placate you
I give it anyhow
Take it, take it, take it, 
Take it off me now.
If it don’t placate you
I give it anyhow.
Categories: get hold, addiction, anger, growing up,
Form: Lyric

Monkey On Clothes

Look at that monkey over there!
Can someone tell me what he is wearing?
Is that not an oversize Agbada he's wearing?
Yeaaaah! look at his shoes, are they really shoes?
His 'fila' falling here and there,
Is that how a normal human dresses? 


The neck of his Agbada is on his shoulder and
He is putting on the cloth on its back,
The embroiding is visible to his skin.
The sokoto sags to his waist like a prisoner in th US;
Can you see his displayed pants?
Oh! No! Not again.



Can you watch the way he dances without his legs?
Is that how a natural human dance?
Does his teeth looks like that of a man or woman?
Maybe he belongs to the Animatician' Kingdom.


Yeaaaaaah! I have seen his buttock!
He is a monkey with a human buttock!
He is a monkey fashioned from the animal kingdom!
But, I have seen him once in the government house,
He was painted as the president of the country.
So many of them have joined the animal farm!


Oh, oh, oh, oh!
All the money he acquired should have make him better or even finer!
Does he have no mirror in his room?
Hmmmmmmmmh!
I can not put on  Agbada again if those
That wears it always look like monkeys.


Watch out for his shoes!
There is gum under it!
Make sure he is thoroughly searched before he leaves otherwise, you will lose all your money to his gummed shoes that he put on.
Those monkeys in your party are wiser than you think.
Once they get hold of your fortune, they embezzle it, so becareful here!



(C) John Chizoba Vincent
All Right Reserved 2016
Categories: get hold, africa, art,
Form: Light Verse

Family Unity

FAMILY
Nothing is like Family power
they always stand by each other 
they watch over the tower
that if an enermy may come wihin the hour
they get hold of him making it turn sour.
We call for family unity
what more Jah has a trinity
and gives love in infinity.
Family is Father, Mother and Children
but that's wrong my brethren
Family is the whole world uniting as one
it is seeing your neighbor has the greater one
only like that will the war be won.
We are family which makes us connected
we come from the same source and are very anointed.
I see you in me and me in you
this way everything becomes brand new.
in fact we all made of the same material
which goes back to the source after burial.
Black or white we need to do what's right
in order to win the fight.
Lets stand for each other
because all of us the earth is our mother.
EMMANUEL KABWE.
Categories: get hold, anti bullying, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse

Death

If you were an animal
I could summon the entire village
On the hunt for you we could be
Only if you were the forest
I could set you on a terrible flame

You are something unseen
Where you are I can’t get hold of you
Neither can my ears enjoy you whispering

You silently tiptoe 
Among us the standing pillar you snatch
Like bird picking grains 
You turn villages into deserts

Only if you could be overcomed
Forever we could enjoy grandpa’s folktales
Like a bright flower in the rising sun
Our sisters’ shinning was to be everlasting

But when will your hungry stomach be full
When will you fully quench your thirst?
For how long will you be in merciless theft?
Till when will the river flooding down our face stop?

You have made me an orphan
Cause of you am widowed
Why did you chose to make me homeless
From my side you took her now am hopeless

With your hardened heart
My face is covered with tears
Categories: get hold, death, evil,
Form: Elegy

The Doggone Dog Contest

Our lab named “Blackjack”, looks just like a bear
Jet black and grey, the color of his hair.
He’s an English Lab, with the big wide head
We bought him instead, of buying a bed.

He wouldn’t come in, in the barn he’d live
“Jack” ran and he played, lots of love to give.
While we were at work, my dad would hang out
He’d come to the farm, let “Jack” roam about.

One day dad was mad, he fell in the stones
He was so lucky, he didn’t break bones.
He called “Jack” to come, to feed him his treat
“Jack” came from behind, knocked dad off his feet.

This happened again, no brains did he lack
For he was quite smart, just don’t turn your back.
“Jack” loved taking off, to the field he’d run
He thought this a game, and found it quite fun.

When he would get mad, the barn he would chew
Where the nails went, we hadn’t a clue.
He grew up quite strong, protector at that
He chased off foxes, and sometimes a bat.

He had his own house, when we moved to town
He’d take everything, if not all glued down.
Knives, hats and helmets, and many a shoe
Footballs and baseballs, and newspapers too.

He thought it was fun, to set up his house
Probably even chased, out many a mouse.
Tried studding out “Jack”, the poor guy was old
The female was smart, he couldn’t get hold.

“Jack” went out for runs, snuck out of the gate
We’d catch him most times, or else we would wait.
 “We just saw your dog”, “but he wouldn’t come”
“Tried giving him bones”, he sure wasn’t dumb.

He’s one of a kind, we love and adore
And when you pet him, he falls to the floor.
He’d sit up quickly, and hand you his paw
You know he’s special, from what you just saw.
Categories: get hold, animals, family, funnydad, dad,
Form: Rhyme
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