Best Inactions Poems

My subject is nothing new.  It's been around since Adam and Eve.  Like the 
snake and the apple.

It's the enabled kid who throws a ball through a window, while the enablers, his parents, praise him for his 'rifle arm'---and then that kid has...

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Queen in our eyes! 
Goddess in our hearts 
Alleviated fears ;Shaped behaviors 
Built careers ; Educated a nation 
Sang hymnals :Through the moments slowly.

She learned to live and love 
Unperturbed by failure unruffled by haste 
To rise in the midnight glory 
Unbounded by time ,Undimmed...

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It's not that I mistrust you,
though sometimes I feel I must distrust
either me or you.

I ambivalently choose both.

So yes, of course, this is about your behaviors
in trust-relationship with mine,
aggressive and impulsive.
Behaviors of addiction
to a child's malignant sense of humor
and anger as synaptic fear
of loving inalienable...

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Nigeria. 
The country of my birth. Beautiful in youth. Wrinkled as the years pass by. Through no fault of hers. But by the doing and undoing of her children, consciously and unconsciously.
Blessed by God. Impoverished by mankind.
Struggling for self-liberation but incarcerated by wicked and egoistic...

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Pity we still do not realize 
Acids badly hurt the soils
And increasing carbon oxide
Only precipitates the spoils

With increasing factories and automobiles
Chocking the air with harmful gases
Living is becoming more and more fragile
As Mother Earth cries and moans its etches

It's time to stop this attempt at...

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A man unpresidentially known for the showerhead
Msholozi, the man in charge of singlehandedly running a nation into crisis
With him at the helm the public anxiously watches as the state of things degenerate
The rand has slumbered, corruption trivialised and unemployment popularised
Numeric’s play trickery on his unknowing...

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Kisses from insolvent grave,
Stole the dying breath away
So dizzyingly fast,
It escaped as fleeting vapour;
The hackles bristled, raised,
Clouds of ink on sunny days,
As scratching quills engraved 
Upon white paper

Who among the sprawl could feel
If it was or wasn’t real,
The secret of the dream
Beyond the ruffle of...

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Life is but an artwork,
Sketch of the creator's handiwork
But life is at all times unfair
Unlike some see it a funfair.
Knowing our actions being the pencil
And our inactions like silent counsel
But we choose to live it our way
Regardless of what happens everyday.
When one frets his hour...

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In the embers of history


I am fascinated by law
Thrilled by its prowls
A seeming pull on us to fit in
Or face the consequences
Its tenets bound
By the complications of non-compliance

I witness daily the struggle within
The lopsided internal dialogue
To be or not to be
Quickened by a hush drive...

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Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl, 
and all her classmates, 
to gather round 
to spot the student currently bouncing 
on the trampoline. 

They circled 
to volunteer a ring of imperfectly rhythmed
but positively patterned
intent to help, 
should the witnessed bounce go horribly...

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Bathing with Bathsheba

By Mark D. Stucky
As you bathed bare below the high palace
were you intentionally seductive?
The citadel was in plain view,
and so apparently were you.

Or were you simply innocent,
and the king abused his power?
Was it a me-too moment
those three millennia ago?

Nonetheless, you became complicit
in David’s...

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Karma is a feedback loop,
magnifying the choices you make in life.
You cannot escape Karma,
for it's an ethereal, intangible force fueled solely 
by your actions or inactions.
Karma rewards acts of kindness,
and punishes acts of cruelty,
returning both many-fold over time!

Random acts of kindness define humanity,
offering a glimpse...

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These circular and endless gyrations
the scaring  of those cruel inactions
resulting torrents of frustrations
bland unrelenting dissatisfactions

No softness in my life
only grinding in my head
just the constant march of strife
looking for a feathered bed

Black cloud hovers constant deluge
ice soaked standing all alone
looking for a little refuge
never...

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Pauline and Malcom..Its ending in tears..You tore up the
Chance.' You have enhanced many fears.' You've destroyed
Credibility with such a deceitful agility.' In 'the Age you'll be
Re-corded as no doubt paragons of order.? And Malcom you were doing so well.!! Even Sweden knew of you.' And...

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Peeking through the burning bushes
into your eyes once more,
As i lie in state i see a face
that ive seen someplace before.

The things you said spinning through my head
like an old revolving door,
And the face comes back so jarringly,
of a girl who broke my soul and...

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