Best Spares Poems

I quite enjoyed writing these two line poems for the Bantu contest - the idea of the call and response with two different statements but the same sensory response to each line. A bit like a game of Mallets Mallet (for those that remember the...

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Fate spares no one
when it comes to inflict pain;
never being compassionate,
much less compliant...

Frequent supplications of pity,
don't appease this beast 
seeking victims to devour;
and the stricken` are taken captive
without  tears to shed,
having nothing to hope for...
but  they are all confined to agony,
cut off from...

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After a heavy rain,
Water was still floating,
Roads were closed and 
Traffic was terribly affected.

When I came out from my class,
I went to walk to a bus stop,
Hardly had I reached there,
A young girl starts to beg.

I check my pocket,
There were no spares,
But she was repeating...

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