busy colony
banks a fondant deposit
the sum of hard work
ant* colony reigns
buttressed by food fortress
conquers hunger strikes
The Creator cares
even for ant colonies...
let's trust* God always.
*Proverbs 6:6-8 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
**Proverbs 3:5-6 Proverbs 3:5-6 King James Version 5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
August 13, 2024
7th place, "Collective nouns" Senryu Poetry Writing Premiere Contest
Sponsored by Suzette Richards; judged on 8/15/2024
(Second verse added after contest was judged.)
Sadly , my acquaintance of IsiZulu and other local languages was so badly.
hardly to speak to acquaintance neighbors in the erea
as majority of them were sadly.
Neighbourhood had an acquaintance woman
superstar of Hollywood,
African woman who spoke American English
fluently like an African - Americans.
Hollywood superstar once carried firewood,
Woodland is the name of that Neighbourhood.
Place where you can find beautiful traditional houses
and an important old Palace.
traumatized good people always portrayed Apartheid
and colony as the causes of trauma.
Hardly communication between some people
As they were wounded by others hardly.
Painful life when you are victims of injustice, Trying to transform some unjust people by sharing love
and they continue to ignore your goodness
and kindness to increase your pain.
February 18/2023
Written for contest sponsored by Sotto Poet
...Honorable win
In the contest...
Burn after
Reading
You've got
The silver
My dentist is an
Impossible white man;
He knows where's he's going!
I am booking an appointment
He's the man
Racist bread - probably
We've all looked in the
Mirror today
A neighbour requested
A chainsaw
I got on the sus bus
A wardrobe malfunction
In the
Waiting room
Figleaf stuff
In the dentist's chair
Right-handed people chew
On
Their right-side
I've started
Spying on diners
I take my harmonica
To the dentist
Braces blues and
Floss funk
I give my wife toothbrush kisses
I
Some joke about the Lord's prayer taught to disciples in Matthew 6: 9-13 -
"GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD"- We trust God for heaven, but daily bread is my work and duty.
Jesus wanted us to take EVERY CONCERN, WORRY, QUARREL to God or the Trinity. He could have taught His disciples to pray for a monthly supply of bread (so as to pray once a month for bread, only!) But there's surrender & wisdom in asking God's blessing for our earthly work & duties. The Ten Commandments are our duty as much as ones duty to spouse, lover, children, idols.
II
God helps those who help themselves!
People quote this as gospel truth. Sorry - not in the Bible. But Colossians ( epistle) teaches: he who will not work, must not eat." Capt. John Smith used this verse to whip the infant Virginia Colony into shape (post-1607, America bound settlers were busy searching for gold & neglecting work related to building a fort & defences).
streaming through cool breeze
night winks playful attention~
cats prowl neighborhood
4/10/2022
Around three AM, he is awake
Uphill, upon a solitaire game
Loving the heat of his sweat
The distance whispers of his honey queen
The nearness of the morning howls
The mistakes and lazy gaze at the paining finger
The smiling mirror in his fuming eyes
The smiling lips in his coupled mirrors
The worker bee is dividing his blood
One for his sweat and other for the sweet love
Why are the owls flying in the day
The frogs jumping and cracking
Around in day light
Why are the bats leaking the ripe
Fruits in the day
The birds flying around with keen
Attention like termites on an ant hill
The elephants from across the seas are
No longer in our farms neither are
They still felling down our trees
Here and Lo nothing is showing that
This elephants are gone at least
A smell and breath of relief
Why are my people blind in the means
Of day light
Why are they poor in their Canaan
Land where milk and honey endlessly
Flows
Tell me heroes of our past what
Is the cause of Africa's
Hill of wants
May be they should come back
But this is uncertainty because
We are the solutions to
Our problems
Empty problems we created
Quaking Aspen trees
is an organism that is
way above us all
Senryu on mind Contest
1/29/20
Jenish Somadas Sponsor
we've counted all the cattles
those going to South and West
those to the East and Middlebelt
our ancestral souls still beat
patriotically among the wind.
they have built a nervous town
full of smiling land scape of
grasses and water and blood
I think our herdsmen will wear
a political shoes and clothes now
and stop killing heads for 2019!
Yours Poetically,
©John Chizoba Vincent
Ticks colonize cows
With no hands to remove
Only mouth to moo
Poison dripping down,
Countless invisible screams,
The subjects are dead,
The Queens tomb unmarked unnamed,
Her Empire is no more.
A Flasher at a Nudist Colony
By Elton Camp
It was a long overcoat that he wore
For an act they’d never seen before
Onto the grounds he slyly crept
From the bushes suddenly leapt
“See what you think of this,”
He called out to a comely miss
The overcoat he opened wide
To reveal what it did hide
Gasps of horror he heard that day
A bashful woman even ran away
The flasher stood with an evil leer
That was the sound he liked to hear
Underneath his coat, they did spy
One fully clothed with a suit and tie
An androgynous
People.
Vanity
Evaporated.
Suckling babes and
Adonis no longer
Feed from the same
******.
I exhale,
Feeling
Smooth and
Whole.
Extraterrestrial.
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