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Premium Member My Nkiru

She was desperate to find love
 I was desperate for my love to 
 love me

 Nkiru was running to find love
 While I was waiting patiently for 
 my love was yet to find me.
 
 We met in an MBA class 
 And became casual friends
 But she was desperate
 Age was counting, pressures too
 I wanted to be loved and was 
 willing to wait
 But Nkiru was not my chosen love

 The closer she got to me the farther
 I slipped away from her
 She smothered me with her kisses
 But I couldn't respond because
 I could not pretend
 
 Then my patience paid off
 The love of my heart responded
 There was a song in my heart
 And a spring in my walk
 My love has come home to stay

 Nkiru couldn't stay any longer
 She had become desperate
 Age was counting, pressures mounting
 So she walked away from life
 As my love walked in.
  (Written on the 23rd of March, 2015)
Form: Ballad


The 23rd Poem

I am the good shepherd, I know my own, and my own know me
I'm just forever learning your glory and majesty 
Character that stretches across the heavens and blankets me
Because you first loved, I am now able to say
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
Meaning your grace is sufficient especially when life feels insufficient 
Especially when my heart feels inadequate
Your power gains a boost in the humility of my weakness
So to anyone who's week has been less
Than what you wanted remember it's exactly where God knew you'd be
God help me to lie down in the green pastures of scripture 
Instead of laying in puddles of sin 
Why do the puddles grow with my growth
Maturity strengthens while I also understand it's easier to drown
Show me the quietness of living water
That you may restore my soul
I know you're guiding me towards righteousness for your name sake
But it feels like my name is at stake
This is nothing but pride needing to be burned at the stake
For who am I, outside of who you created,
Nothing; for my purpose comes from you
My purpose is to point back to you
So when I lose myself in the valleys, and shadows
Fear will not become evil but a reminder of the eternal God,
Who never leaves me no matter how alone I feel
His rod and staff comfort me 
Meaning His love corrects and rebukes just as much as it hugs 
And if He prepares a table for your enemies, it
Shows his protection also loves those who mean you harm, so 
How much more will He love His daughter and prodigal son
The anointed, the blessing from an unjust but necessary sacrifice
Now the blessings overflow past understanding
The blessing of his goodness and mercy becoming my 
breath
p.s. now I'm familiar with forever…
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Late Christmas Shopping

I will be okay, I’ve got plenty of time,
It’s only the 10th so I’ll be fine!
I check my diary, I should make a move
It’s now the 15th, should be in the grove!
It’s the 17th, just a week to go,
And to date? Simply nothing to show!
It’s the 19th but I don’t have the time
To plan ahead, this shopping of mine. 
It’s the 21st, but it’s still not too late,
I’ve only the wife to facilitate. 
It’s the 23rd, I cannot believe,
If I don’t act soon she will be aggrieved. 
It’s the 24th and the high street is packed, 
At 6 o’clock just a few shops left stacked.
I haven’t a clue what present to buy,
I cannot believe how the time’s gone by. 
I call in the pub, for I need inspiration
But it’s really an act of pure desperation. 
It’s the 25th, it is now Christmas morn,
And I’m certainly looking, very forlorn,
For a packet of nuts does not represent
The kind of gift I’d like to present.
Form: Rhyme

Thanksgiving Day Disguise - Holiday Special

The turkey's on 
Old man Johnson's farm
All wised up this year

Logging on
To Amazon
About mid November

With Halloween out of the way
They were bound to save
On the items they would need

Which worked out great 
Cause all they could afford to pay
Was in scratched up chicken feed

The pigs helped in
The ordering
As it's a well known fact

That being turkey's 
They're always in a hurry
And ain't nobody got time for that

They saved up extra seed
For quick delivery
When you're on the cliffs edge dancing

Coming down to it
This being life or death
There's no need to take chances

In the nick of time
The package arrived
On the day required 

The fateful day
Known to our hero's as shake and bake
November 23rd

On that morning when
Old man Johnson then
With ax in hand stepped outside

Where he tried to think
Had he ever seen 
So many cows in his life

In between the moo's 
He heard a gobble or two
Which in itself is very strange

Plus the Amazon bill
For umpteenth costume cows
He just can't quite explain

Home

Home.

This day - the 23rd,
marks the day you left the earth.
A date now etched into your essence,
as the last trace of your presence.

You've melted back into the earth,
returned to soil, to nature's birth.
I find traces of you everywhere - in every corner I turn,
in every creature that crosses my path, yet you're the only one I yearn.

You were never just a pet, you were childhood itself,
now we're three, and your bowl gathers dust on the shelf.
Losing you feels like losing everything again,
as though I buried my faith with you, then.

The rain has wept where now you lie,
it's tears soaked deep from the grieving sky.
I hope it blesses where you sleep,
where roots now hold what we still keep.

I miss you more than words allow,
and though you're gone, you're with me now.
In peace, I hope you roam,
Forever loved. Forever home.
Form: Lyric


Premium Member Down Where the Roses Bloom

Down where roses bloom in the month of June
The scented petals will mature and fall
Carried by zephrys of spring like balloons
Those petals in the wind over land sprawl

Pale pink petals carried away to land 
With a gental touch of kindness caress
The spring grasses with a delicate hand
Courteous as it lands with politesse

Each petal waits in turn to fly away
Their patience is long, each holds 'til time
They then 'pon the wind float and not betray
The Spirit within which is one sublime

Down where the roses bloom may the fruit grow
Let love lead as petals upon wind flow  

Sponsor: Gail Angel Doyle
Contest: Petals In The Wind
Written this 23rd day of January 2013
Written by: Sara Kendrick
Form: Sonnet

Sophie Hahn

Sophie was born with Cerebral Palsy, 
On the 23rd of January 1997, she’s 19,
And trains at Loughborough University, 
But was born in Nottingham’s glean. 

She’s won thirteen major titles, is top, 
In sprinting and in runs middle distance, 
So in the 100, 200 and 400 metres pop,
She beats most folks by persistence.

In France, Lyon, at the Worlds in T38,
Sophie ran the 100m to take the gold,
And in the 200m she took silver weight,
To begin her career with a sign foretold.

She was enthused by London’s Games,
She this entry into the athletics arena,
Stood her well for the European Games,
In Swansea: two silvers medals for her.

In 2015 Doha held the Worlds that year,
And for both the 100m and the relay, golds,
Then she put another silver in her bag, tier,
When she came second in the 200m folds.

Then in 2016 at the Europeans most dear,
In Grosseto, Sophie won two gold medals,
Plus one silver again for the 200 metre pier,
In which she excited the crowd with pedals.

Rio arrived and yet again for the 100 metres,
Sophie won the prize of gold, on the podium,
And also for the women’s relay 4x100 metres,
Her team took home the gold from the stadium.

On the approach up to Rio there were rules, 
About what she ate and drank, no rubbish, 
And Sophie Killer with sports nutritionist tools, 
Gave Sophie a strict diet so she’d flourish.
Form: Quatrain

Thanksgiving Day Disguise

The turkey's on 
Old man Johnson's farm
All wised up this year

Logging on
To Amazon
About mid November

With Halloween out of the way
They were bound to save
On the items they would need

Which worked out great 
Cause all they could afford to pay
Was in scratched up chicken feed

The pigs helped in
The ordering
As it's a well known fact

That being turkey's 
They're always in a hurry
And ain't nobody got time for that

They saved up extra seed
For quick delivery
When you're on the cliffs edge dancing

Coming down to it
This being life or death
There's no need to take chances

In the nick of time
The package arrived
On the day required 

The fateful day
Known to our hero's as shake and bake
November 23rd

On that morning when
Old man Johnson then
With ax in hand stepped outside

Where he tried to think
Had he ever seen 
So many cows in his life

In between the moo's 
He heard a gobble or two
Which in itself is very strange

Plus the Amazon bill
For umpteenth costume cows
He just can't quite explain
Form: Rhyme

Following a Folk Song

Written March 31, 2013


In the shadows stood a figure
Taller than the diggers
Picking diamonds in the mines
Don't worry now I will be fine
Said the children to their mothers and wives

With a journey comes a question
Maybe two and many more
Why they never close the door in the floor
On coming back to where they're from
To the tune of the black angel's death song

That was it
I'd had enough
So I packed up all my things
And crossed the bridge on a blind man's bluff

Lie blind man can't you see
If you take the road less traveled
You're less likely to unravel

Some will say what a foolish thing
To go around with all your things
In a velvet knapsack on your back
Walkin' 'round in perfect circles
Just waiting for a heart attack

From the dusty plains of Kansas
To the mining in Peru
And chain link fences lining concrete zoos
Caging in the elephants
On 23rd and 7th avenue

That was it
I'd had enough
So I packed up all my things
And crossed the bridge on a white man's bluff

Lie white man can't you see
If you take the road less traveled
You're less likely to unravel
Form: Lyric

Musk Hibiscus


      Sugar paper petals rippable Hibiscus
      Musk sap via jungle civet melts to jelly 
      Turkish Delight icing, licked clean fingers
      Rubber soft texture entices tongues joyfully 

    
      Mallow centesimal stripes boiled candy
      Star picket stick pink pigment saccharine
      Temptress in dress derived from deer manly
      Restless gypsy tastebuds buzz within labyrinth 

    
      Gender column calm offers an absconding
      Seductive glands have universal indulgence 
      Elon holds obstinately to his Mars 2030 colony
      Stamen aims telescope towards closer emulsion 


      Satellite dish observation grants mans' wishes
      Expands our command of unimagined planets
      Future mixes musk fusions for either expeditious
      Sows anise seeds for Mars far sighted inhabitants 


      
      

          23rd  January 2023

          Written for Contest: Musk
          Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco
Form: Rhyme

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