Long Drumroll Poems

Inspired by Youth Day, a drive through Soweto combined with Phil Collins music. 

Listen to their voices 
(Youth Day)
By Michelle Morris 
17/06/2024

Driving through Soweto
Seeing the makeshift stalls
People hustling to survive 
Part of their daily grind...

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don't be afraid to be foolish and stupid    (Heroditus)

When I first met her
     I knew there was something
     she gave me

   ...

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Night time rituals, that little space of time,
Cathartic relief, along with sweat and grime,
Tribulations of the day wash away, too,
Pool down the sink hole, tomorrow starts brand new.

Night time rituals, bring with them repose:
Weary souls...

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Goddamn smartass squirrel goes through a window and starts slapping a plush toy. 
Turning it over and over.
"You got jacked, !"
Up on its attention antennae, sealed in clover.
Up for all comers, winters and summers, 
Springing...

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Where lips crave praise, teardrops dangle on lower lash,
Unabashed smiles, like the seawaves of haven’s cache.

Found in communion, where robust hymns reconvene —
A sanctuary, my consecrated place, sans dummy screen.*

Chalice dips in river of delights...

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Figuratively tack one hundred 
and eighty degrees away...
where joie de vivre underscores 
poetic theme, no matter every day
brings gut wrenching tearful tragedy, 
thee attention for heart warming 
(powdered milk biscuits 
of human kindness)

doth shyly beg...

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                          My prison is a place known all to well.
...

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The mind eternal lies before us always.
Less pure in tone, we come to it drenched with life;
Fearless companion in our hour of days. 
A purity not withstanding breadth of knife. 

Away! Away! succubus death, 
much...

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i sat down,
and filled out an online questionnaire ,
that they didn't write,
they wanted me to lie,
pen tapping,
like a slow drumroll before the painful hanging.

have you ever felt hopeless?
who hasn’t?
do you ever think of dying?
don’t we...

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Boron fusion, specifically proton-boron-11 (p-B11) fusion, the path to clean and sustainable energy> Advantages is that fusion is safer because it produces no neutrons, only alpha particles, and uses abundant, non-radioactive fuel. 
The same Sub-atomic...

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He couldn’t wait,
Not any longer, he’d held out all year.
So he parked the car at Lookout Hill
And nibbled on her ear.

He couldn’t stop.
The drumroll of his heart was deafening,
He laid the seat back and gave...

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I want to ride a zebra

   and race the rays of radiance
       through heat-waves’ sailing gradients -

     a folly wild - a mood...

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Blustery sky I have read your blotted scroll
Your balmy reams with angry portents roll
A bleary tempest o'er your tranquil plains doth roil
Blackened tenants perch on your billowy shoal
With shutters as dark as night as black...

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The leader, philosophical and wise,
Ends his speech after a long silent pause,
His true followers with half open eyes
Responding with admiring oohs and aahs.

Turn up the mic on the silence to hear
A leader's lust for worship...

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