Long Brutalised Poems

Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...

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“Words We Cannot Escape”

Words we can no longer speak

we tap dance over keys 
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand 
Autumn now gone 

across white-washed notes fixated on stark enclosed walls 
the scent of old Lavender...

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A man takes a bath in his tired apartment
Old enough to remember the deportations that never happened 
Hums a careless tune - a forbidden tune. He gasps
Did the neighbours hear him? Will they report him?
Should...

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“Something Beautiful” 

Something beautiful befell my eyes
yet inside the silent child,
The Unheard, loudly cries 
ugly turn away, 

I hear it,

it cries in the mirror,
turn me away -
it cries, yet I am that I am forthright...

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Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought mediocre. Bad omen for you.
You who...

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The grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't 
Because even the power of my tongue is tied
Blank in me...

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Ive been watching so long and seen so much

Ive seen everything you destroy with your deathly touch

Since the dawn of existence ive allways been here

For millenia ive heard every scream tasted every tear

Everything you touch...

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The reverberating sounds of the Drums and the sweet melodies
The wavering movements of the tree suggest that they enjoy the rhythm that they hear
Tipis and feathers creating an artistic view of cultural connotation
Men and women...

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Keep silent before Me, O islands and let the people renew their strength
Let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together 
To judgement.  Isaiah ch 41 verse 1

March the 13th...

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Good news 
is not news
am I a bad human
or am I just a human

safe and secure 
I comfortably sit 
with coffee to hand
I binge-watch a war

good news 
is not news
am I a bad human
or am...

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It my birthday today 
I give thanks to God 
For walking my ways with Me 
It has never been easier 
If I was ignorant of nature 
Am happy am in peace 
With life 
So I...

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no one cares
looking around the world
you will realise 
we are yet to live up Africans
for always we are suppressed
oppressed and brutalised
home and abroad we face 
same torture 
we have long been rooted
and isolated
yet the world...

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who was the witness
another revolution is on again
let's go out there to fight for 
our right 
lets go out there to catch out 
freedom 
we can't just sit and speak 
in close doors any more...

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Since my birth I was wondering
Who is the important man on earth
Yes, a mother is an important person on earth
But she is not a man.

Which role should I play on earth for me to labelled...

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Were is the conscience of the world
The world should rise 
And embrace peace 
We are tired of dying
We are tired of oppression
We are not giving up our land 
We are ready to defend our 
Our...

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A howling gale is roaring through,
Southwesterly, she grew and grew.
From balmy airs and clear blue skies,
She gathered herself for our demise.

Overnight she gathered her tremendous force,
and channelled herself on her headlong course.
There's no escape from...

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Therein he lives, in amber seas, 
in suds and carbonation, curled 
in silent hibernation, waiting 
an evil, patient wait, for lips 
and gullet set him free.

Unleashed, his promise activates, 
in stealthy infiltration spreads 
his bleak...

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How much my heart breaks for you
A victim straight out of the womb
Life dealt you a horrendous hand
One of abuse and doom

A little boy abused from two years old
Rejected …. given to another
Brutalised , lied...

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If you could read my mind
Kindly give me a helping hand
For I have lost the power of speech 
But I beseech of you my friend 
Do not take advantage of my situation 
To unleash mental...

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