Inoperable Poems

The Art of Compromise

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    A spot on my shirt-cuff 
      a stain on a bathmat
    In the back closet, a pile of stuff
      a litter trail leads to the house cat

    A chip in the mirror in the hall
      a sligh...

I Yearn

...For once this is not fiction

Can you change the past?
I yearn to,
But on condition I carry with me
All that I have learned.
But you cannot change the past.

Still, I yearn for a bottl...

If there was just one thing I could change

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"After the Port Arthur Massacre, mass shooting in Tasmania, Australia, on April 28–29, 1996, that left 35 people dead and some 18 wounded, it led to stricter gun controls, notably a  ban on all ful...

Naira Redesigned, Chaos To Nigerians

...Affliction fiercely force foreigners out of the nation ..
Citizen set sight to the sovereign one above..
The ones on earth becomes earthworms eating our happiness and paying it with extreme hardshi...

It Dwells

...Most of my life
my left shoulder sheltered it
while my right shoulder threw darts its way.
Sometimes it shivered in the cold of my eyes.

Often I would take it for night-walks
just the body it ...

Slow and Fast

...Being slow as an excuse
     for the delay
     can be superior than
     coziness inoperable...

The Forgotten

...If someone, anyone remembers you
then you will live two lives; one where you are
and the other in a rented mind,
but when you are totally forgotten,
what then?
There will always be that one
tha...

Memory Lanes

...It is said that when you pass,
if but one person remembers you
then you will live two lives; one in the hereafter,
and the other in a rented mind,
but when you are totally forgotten,
what then?
...

Phantasmagorical Flames

...Mesmerized by phantasmagorical flames 
brandishing cerise, fuchsia
and crimson-colored
tongues of fire;
I marvel at the beauty of the beast. 
I see the chard smoldering underbelly
of th...

Good To Know

...It’s only a Guinea pig, people eat them,
the cattle don’t complain.
Peruvian mountain folk do not have to starve,
there’s no dearth.
Many are bred for their special coats of course:
the Slinky, ...

In a Split Second Ii

...A train door closes packed with passengers.

Destinations being most different than others.

Typical light touches, embarrassing rubbing,
Lastly, the ever so bothersome nudging.

Unfinished co...

O Sweet Poem

...O Sweet poem 
Wielder of undisclosed tales
Conqueror of unyielding hearts
Comforter of inoperable minds
Consoler of inconsolable souls
Utterer of the most unutterable dictions,
You have kept se...

Spiritual Star Tribute

...there is this vendor on the corner
where the girl with the inoperable brain tumor used to sit
she loved to tell her stories about the characters in the room of her mind
she would read to the vendo...

When All Was Right

...Please tell me why we didn't get our happily ever after?

I fell for you hard, it was love at first sight 
As our love grew you became my everything 
We were inseparable and all was right
Every ...

Note To All Eagles

...All Eagles!!
There is a time in everyone’s life when Mother Eagle throws you out of the nest and either you fly or die,
All Eagles!!
There are times in your life where those closest to you make yo...

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