Freaks
Under
Control
Killing
Innocent
Civilians
Extensively
Freak
Extensively
At
Reality
Failures
Educating
Accused
Rapists
Facing
Everything
Attacking
Racists
Fleeing
Environments
Against
Regulation
Feeling
Eternal
Anger
Randomly
We are most wisely appreciated
and anticipated
in the press
of public fame
and the stress
of personal gain
Not
by the quantity
of our autocratic popularity
But
by the quality
of our democratic integrity.
In this peacefully pleasing warm regard,
perhaps we poignantly reconsider
Quantities are measured
by cognition performing
verbally recognized passions
while qualities are felt
through intuition engaging
preverbally connecting pleasures
Defaming risks of loss
emerge through systemic trauma
disassociation infamy
against opportunities to gain
through transformative
reassociation favored fame
Extensively requalifying
EarthMother's therapeutic potential
for democratic integrity.
Stands tall among others, one hundred feet
large, compound, evergreen beautiful leaves
long age and most extensively cultivated plant
Produces great food, rich flavor sweet dates
Palm leaves are very useful to make natural cottage
Famous tree in all human and plants history
Many common products are derived from palms
So beautiful to see in landscaping and gardens
Symbols for peace, power and fertility
Big example of tolerance and endurance
Gloaming hast come to greet min once again
Thy scent must have faded in my mem’ry
Longin’ for the old days cloying-cold pain
A stolen gaze of serendipity
That one selcouth-soothing scent in my life
Wend extensively depth in my lone soul
Thy countenance set mine heart to ignite
This fate converged the dawn and eventide
Fugacious affection, short-lived romance
Eulogized the inscribed poems of the stars
But tree had to lose grip on foliage hand
To fall and kiss the ground and tree bear scar
The zephyr’s love turned to sourly-sweet breeze
Only thy morning dew scent sends me peace.
Hello everyone! I am destruction,
an extensively used word
I have existed since creation of humans
Mankind has raised me to a high pedestal
through, talks, research, prose, poetry
and endless acts.
I don't understand why humans
exaggerate so much about me.
They claim doomsday is near,
have been saying it since eternity
but nothing has happened
I am as eternal as human race
for humans only talk,
they do nothing to destroy me
There are few who work against me
They're hardworking and dedicated
very small in number
I was created along with humans,
will perish only when human race perishes.
19.09.2021
For : Edward Ibeh, This or That, Vol
Title chosen : Destruction
I have researched the issue extensively
and concluded most indubitably
The #1 problem we must confront immediately
is that the NBA is Tibetan-Nepalese free
I realize that this kind of news may just shock
both NBA fanatics and weekend warrior jocks
As there have been social media rumors of a plan
to load up rosters with ex-soldiers from Afghanistan
Well, I for one, will not let myself get distracted
The data's in, my words will not be retracted
At this very moment, President Biden's selecting a 5-star commission
to highlight the egregious wrong of Tibetan-Nepalese inadmission
Our nation has the talent, the drive and the will
to effect change to rock the world from Singapore to Brazil
For the NBA's bias against Tibetan-Nepalese is a vile disease
infecting every team owner privileged to speak Americanese
So, let us look forward to that great day
when NBA game-time rosters will look this way
Fifteen Tibetans versus fifteen from Nepal
~ as long as they sing our National Anthem before they 'play ball!'
~ Not for Contest ~
In 2020 I wish I had not let my mother die,
but bone cancer has a mind of its own, and does not ask permission
I am glad we had her memorial service on February second
For other mothers were buried in March
And the congregation was limited to ten mourners.
I am glad that I painted forty new canvases, and had the time.
In 2020 I wish I had more incentive to watch the U-tube videos
That showed me how to use GoogleClassroom and Zoom
As we have been using them extensively for eight months now
Man, I really really really wish I had paid more attention
how to set up appointments and how the calendar interacts with these programs. I feel happy that I wrote over two thousand poems though.
In 2020 I am glad that I got to see four of my grandchildren,
But feel sad that it has been a year since I have seen the other six.
I regret having shingles and asthma,
for these ailments have kept me from fully living this pandemic year.
It has kept me home, “safely” sheltered in place.
I regret my weight gain, but understand it.
Eating has been my only comfort in 2020.
I am excited to say I am eating a Milky Way candy bar right now.
Do you ever wonder
How you would be viewed,
If you became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
Would you be transformed
Into a real cool dude,
If you became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
Would your partner join you,
Or would the suggestion be pooh-poohed,
If you became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
Would you bare all,
But not feel nude,
If you became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
Do you think the artwork
Could help lift your mood,
If you became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
Do you think it would change
My critical attitude,
If I too became extensively –
Extensively tattooed?
A Poem Of Diversity
My love has been diversified
to enter in another world
of beauty alien to me
and filters change forever more
I left my bubble to explore
A culture of diversity
and gleaned the lore expansively
to find a rhythm to engage
romantic straits began my scheme
then overflowed to find my dream
and nowhere else could I conjoin
my talisman and love for her
I gazed back and recalled the time
her olive skin and ebon hair
a beacon that has beckoned me
to light up to a newer path
My latin lover tends to me
and I to her for decades past
we share our love extensively
and pray mañana never comes
Sponsored by
Team Poetry Contest
July 3, 2019
Extensively Enduring-
Patiently waiting before action as,in punishing God has no satisfaction!
Crazy for polka dots is she.
From where did that gal ever get
this most absurd propensity
that she will not let us forget?
She just has to tell everyone -
crazy for polka-dots is she!
In all sizes she finds them fun
and uses them extensively.
With growing eccentricity,
in many fashion stores she looks.
Crazy for polka dots is she.
Clothes dotted she grabs off the hooks!
Stick-on dots she’s buying to use
on her fingernails so tiny.
Wearing dots on bras, bows and shoes,
crazy for polka-dots is she!
Jan. 21, 2019 for Edward Ibeh's Polka Dots Poetry Contest
Taking a walk alone in the woods
praying for the sunshine to shine
sending your echoes high to heaven
looking high patiently for golden vine
There was a day when seeds planted
a promise made to make a big oak
for a day was coming near in this life
one made me glad before I was broke
The sun shone on one day of beauty
in the midst of the trees so green
glistening through the sunlight clear
sparkling so majestically avidly supreme
To think this beauty started so small
ending up extensively full to glow
one's eyes are locked to such a sight
so pleasurable a sight one to know
I have relatives all over the USA, in one state or another.
Thanks to my randy great-grandparents who could not keep their hands off each other.
They had eighteen children, sometimes in two’s, and most of their children had ten.
Eight was considered a failure to the family, it truly had to be at least ten, back then.
Their tiny Iowa farmhouse was so ridiculously small, it was crazy.
But they raised nine fine sons, and nine ambitious daughters, and none of them was lazy.
We had our family reunions on an extensively long flatbed truck.
We went on hayrides, and we played with twenty-something cousins in the muck.
I have relatives all over the USA, in one state or another.
Thanks to my randy great-grandparents who could not keep their hands off each other.
I was silent when they came for the less fortunate
Happy it didn't involve me
Wasn't like I didn't care enough
It just had nothing to do with me
Not a word was heard when they burned
The Synagogues, Mosques, and Cathedrals
All this for the hate that exists
All this for and from a peaceful people?
I was deaf when they screamed at the tone of your skin
Because your color is different from me
Is it ignorance in the mixing
What purity are we trying to keep
And when they came for those a bit different
Than what I think in the eyes of me
Amongst the cries for help I didn't listen
After all they'd been warned quite extensively
Then when I looked and saw nothing left from the aftermath
As far as the naked eye could see
There was no one left to speak up on my behalf
That's when they decided to come after me
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