This whispered secret to each other
Binds us close and makes a lover
A sacred rule encapsulated
My stoic strength has been abated
The rules have changed, been disbanded
Desire to speak of loving candid
Challenged by a world's perspective
Of love so wrong to be infective
This heady lust, a sweet addiction
Greater than the lust of fiction
Forbidden love, a broken virtue
I wish I knew 'just' how to quit you
EU talks
They sat in a splendid room around a big table
talking about Gaza and the war in Ukraine
I avoid saying, "war in Gaza," as it is nothing
but slaughter of the innocent
Naturally, the Hamas was a terrorist entity
and ought the be disbanded and replaced by
worthy people, presumable with an office
Brussel
Regarding Ukraine, EU must help Ukraine
to win this war sending money to by one
thinks buy weapon and Russia was the
unspeakable aggressor
Not one person appeared to have read
the near past, that this war was not needed
Russia didn't want NATO near its border
therefore Ukraine had to be neutral
We know the hysterical reaction when Russia
tried to build a base in Cuba , nuclear arms
were ready and the locks on silos opened
As before the world sided with the USA
Hamas and Hezbollah, bona fide organizations
defending the right of the Palestinians
and other groups, against Israel's aggression
what we think is of no interest to them.
A couple of bands disbanded and found each other
Forming The Grateful Dead in 1965
Their rock, blues, jazz, gospel, reggae kept them alive
For thirty years,
although they lost three keyboardists.
My favorite song of theirs is Touch of Grey
I will get by, I will survive, which is what they did
And they survived in spite of many hardships
They were survivors!
“the touch of grey kinda suits you anyway”
This meant nothing when I was a young deadhead.
Now that I am older, I cherish this line also.
I may be gray, but I will survive.
I will get by. I will survive.
Stranded
Said the Captain, “Crew, I think we have landed.”
The bos’n said, “Cap’n, I am astounded; we are stranded.”
Said the Captain, “Bos’n your fears are unfounded.”
“This voyage has been thoroughly planded.”
The bos’n said, “I think the crew should be disbanded.”
Then the Captain produced a map he had founded
But the bos’n wanted to be homeward bounded.
So they swam from the beach where they were stranded.
Barry Stebbings
Sept 2023
For years I have lived in denial.
Hiding from things I do not completely understand.
Denial is something that you might have unplanned.
But denial and me go hand in hand.
I drift away into Neverland.
To ignore my problems at hand.
My mind has become inland, and disbanded.
My heart is being high demanded.
Oh, how I wish my perfect life never ended.
VEXILLUM
angel stood
disconnected
once-white spikes
muddy scarlet
as if an escutcheon
drowned his form
disbanded
his blade
dumped
damaged
discarded
discernments
cast downward
with
edges shifting,
doubted mercifulness
oriflamme yearning
whilst
every ward
defied
3rd Place contest winner
Written: July 28, 2022
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
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In the eyes of the law, he was black
As black as the ace of spades, not one of them
The dreams he carried to this land
Were stowed upon the sail ship here
Nigeria to Leeds with hope, new life
From hunger to plenty, to bias
The outcast judged by his skin
He faced the torment that broke him
When once he stepped out of line
To fight back, unleash his bridled fury
The coil released, he went too far
Now in the echoey white washed room confined
He’s choked by pills and electroshock
And when he goes, his soul is left behind
Crushed by the law, crushed by them all
At liberty to walk the streets, unfree
Now safe in the hands of police unjust
He’s paid with blows and ridicule
His beaten body prone and robbed of life
He’s found, claimed by the River Aire
A broken spirit gone, the dreams disbanded.
12/5/20
Crafted
Then packaged
Implanted
Continually chanted
Across lands that are ravaged
Now it is acrid
Stuck together or disbanded
Across flat earth, or terrain that was slanted
Groomed and managed
Or unkempt and matted
A weakling or a savage
Very poor or living lavish
Was always welcomed, or got banished
Bore the mark, or was brandished
And branded
After being reprimanded
Stuck the landing or crash landed
Was a lone wolf, or a helping hand was handed
A chain reaction
The outcome counteracted
Nobody knew what to do, when it happened
Does no good being unchallenged
And always having an advantage
Across the planet
In life as far as I understand it
Don't panic, do your best to manage
After suffering damage
Get back up, and put on a bandage
One thing I always said
I'll never marry a musician
I was hanging by a thread
I even game him an audition
so he quit the band before
we ever tied the knot
then after he did explore
back in the band he got
This has been the case now
for thirteen something years
I'm not sure as to how
but he learned to face his fears
They have mostly been disbanded
but now they're back again
They have recently expanded
it seems that they will win
There's nothing else to say
for this is what this is
Though absent I will be okay
While he enjoys the biz
The shakeup/anarchy
The Green party is in power
Not many cars on the streets
Asphalt is removed, cobblestones too.
They are planting trees and vegetables
The motorway is a strawberry field.
I don’t mind, pick fruit as I walk
To the tax office, which shut no one
Is supposed to pay tax anymore.
Airports are farms, planes are forbidden
They pollute too much.
Private hospitals have gone public and
That gladdens my heart equality at last.
Law enforcement and the army have
Also been disbanded they never served
The peoples need.
There is peace in the land and rivers
are full of trout, and
the king is my next-door neighbour.
Disbarred from the encompassing
Travesty...
Color TVs and refrigerator
Combined together makes ice pictures
Filled with yellow ketchup mustard
Contemplating something
Distorted glass melting diamond rings
Frozen displaced clutter
Washing machine wringer
Dolphins laughing there're such singers
Lastingly...
Encompassing from disbanded
Travesty disbarred
8/21/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019©
At the famous Folies Bergère
all the dancing girls fell sick
No one to entertain the tourists
who wouldn’t get to see high kicks
The manager of the venue
thought so long and very hard
He unchained the dancing bears
that lived in the tiny back yard
They went through their routine
since they’d not performed in years
They were absolutely step perfect
the manager was moved to tears
The polar bear and brown bears
became a massive hit on stage
All the dancing girls got sacked
dancing bears were all the rage!
But the animal rights campaigners
set up petitions on a Facebook group
It was deemed that the act was cruel
and disbanded the dancing bear troop
The high kicking girls were re employed
See them can can the whole night through
The dancing bears are now retired
They’ll end their days in the local zoo
Bring on the dancing bears contest
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3/18/19
Sitting trying to say sorry to the person who you hurt the most
or listening to the person who hurt me the most trying to say sorry
The broken me
Fiercely hating empathy
Psychosis my medication
Wishing the part that feels the felts
was disbanded and castaway on desolate sand
Deserted the pest
unclench the fist
Emotions i resist
All the time, the sky had been calm;
I heard no bird singing in the farm.
Everyone was busy working at home;
No child was perceived in the dome.
A strong wind invaded the trees suddenly.
The nests in the palm trees disbanded.
Birds universally wailed and fled, sadly.
Children rushed into the thatched hut.
A few fowls had buried bottom in their nests.
To safely evade menace irrupting erratically.
Slings shot ignoring the catapults’ targets.
Birds and fledglings fell dead at once awfully.
All of a sudden serenity bagged the whole village,
But couldn’t the birdies, as they were in bondage.
Some winged far away, others were lying in damage.
The killer saved no bird in the palm’s garbage.
Poem by Mugisho N Theophile
ABANDON
My mom took me to kindergarten, when I was five
She left me there...Abandon
At seven I lost my two front teeth, they just fell out
My mouth when I smile…….Abandon
My grandma would read to me take me to church
But she got ill and died left me by myself
Abandon
I was the smallest kid on the playground
No one would pass or throw me the football
Abandon
Now a grown man was married for 40 years
Wife got sick died at home in my mind
I cried and I asked God why He took my side
Once more alone I felt disbanded
While in my spirit I was Abandon
6/13/18
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