Not tonight
...
Half expected inspiration to fill the air
while I endeavoured to write a poem.
A curse responding much like a veil
reigns over the moonless night while
out my window no stars come into view
an...
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Categories:
endeavoured, dark, inspiration, night, poems,
Form: Free verse
Shadowland
... Shadowland
Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate
What if I told you that my life was once like yours?
Torn between love and hate
A shadow silhouette lurking between life and deat...
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Categories:
endeavoured, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Wild Thing You Make My Heart Sing
...We have gone to the Kruger Park, and are now back,
All roads there are paved,
But for adventure, you can drive along very doable
Sand roads, the crocodile river runs parallel to
These sand roads ...
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Categories:
endeavoured, animal,
Form: Narrative
Let's Reunite
...We gave up our unity
With each and every barrier;
Abandoned integrity
Ushers in each disaster.
With our “narrow domestic walls”,
We all live in a cocoon;
Do we ever answer Natu...
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Categories:
endeavoured, natural disasters, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
Imagine That
...To stimulate or excite
evoking words of much delight...
Remember that it’s wise to share
to liven others from despair
Imagine if all endeavoured
unselfish acts of joy together!...
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Categories:
endeavoured, humanity, joy, people, words,
Form: Verse
Summing Up
...Mr MacPherson, a mathematician
Was married to Sally,a keen statistician.
With little division to trigger vexation
Their conjugal lives led to multiplication.
First Roland, then Harry and then the...
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Categories:
endeavoured, family, math,
Form: Rhyme
The Century
...It layered among the thorns
It slept around the seas
It conquered the world, the universe and the planets
It finally emerged
Nobody knew it will be, what a surprise
Nobody saw it coming, all w...
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Categories:
endeavoured, africa, age, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Outlook of a Hand
...Yawned the cat
Did not know what to do
Must I drink wine or milk
Wine matures like age
Milk on the other hand sweetens the bows
Sneezed the cat
Must I sit on top
Must I curl around the waist...
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Categories:
endeavoured, africa, art, career, character,
Form: Free verse
Calming a Lioness
...She came from a distant view,
A sexy looker obviously;
All dressed and made up,
Promiscuous consequently.
She had a hardy heart,
Her tongue an acute blade;
One wrong move she needs,
Being ni...
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Categories:
endeavoured, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
You Held My Hand When Chips Were Down
...Muse, you didn’t offer excuses to hold my hand
To walk and talk to the flagging courage
Weeping and seeping into the stamina gland
Where years of interaction on the educational stage
Yielded fi...
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Categories:
endeavoured, poems,
Form: Free verse
Lost In a Melancholy
...I remember when I met you...
I was just a scared kid who knew
Life was thirsty for all my tears.
You told me it would be okay,
I believed, but to my dismay,
You were wrong...it was what I feared...
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Categories:
endeavoured, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Moments Like These
...In moments like these you remember your faults
you remember your struggles when life gave you halts
In moments like these you cherish your gifts
your achievements, your gains your vibes and your ...
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Categories:
endeavoured, anniversary, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Declaration of Interdependent Ideation
...When in the Course of Earth’s anthro-supremacist events,
it becomes necessary for polycultures to resolve political bands
which have connected Her with human nature,
and to assume among the pow...
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Categories:
endeavoured, freedom, health, independence day,
Form: Political Verse
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Vi
...Strategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populou...
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Categories:
endeavoured, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Calmer
...As i stood at the brink of things
I saw some old some new
Memories
Ushering across
Like a albatross flying along the horizon
Gazing at the tiny earth
Not to be held just
To be felt.
Some pass...
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Categories:
endeavoured, remembrance day,
Form: Free verse
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