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Message To The Blackman

If slavery was a choice, as some have agreed, then what are we?
If watching your father and mother endure rape or murder was a choice,
Then why do we sit on idle hands, while Trump eradicates our posterity’s opportunities,
As if they were written in sand?
If not being able to read was a choice,
Then why do you go to the PlayStation in a rush
while your library card collects dust?
Even a Ward educates themselves,
Even the eunuch Greyjoy developed the courage to stand against evil.

In the midst of upheaval, one mustn’t look through a straw while planning the future.
The sagacious knows fighting must be eschewed when only death is in thy terms.
Allah heard their suffering, but sometimes the way out is through.
They didn’t endure out of docility or obsequiousness,
But out of discernment and sagacity.
The desolate doesn’t become prosperous by exclaiming tumultuous absurdities,
But by embodying opulent minds.

Go back to the mother, which is the way, and endure the storm,
While being metamorphic in form.
You see, my Kings and Queens,
The only choice they made was to give their posterity a fighting chance,
To gather strength while the usurpers wane and start to underestimate.
We must pick up the quill and write our own fates,
No more brooding or carping about what Donny Thrump is doing.
One man’s decisions determine another man’s life,
As much as a drought challenges the land.
Yet, life, like the Way, will always find a path to flourish,
Forevermore permeating even the harshest conditions.

We must stop talking about what great leaders and men should be,
And become Great Men and Assiduous Leaders.
We were the first great civilization and shall act as such.
Lead with grace,
Strike with prudence,
Read great books that enrich the mind,
Treat each other with unyielding reverence,
Because we each carry a piece of the divine.
I am that I am, and I am my brother's keeper.


Premium Member Dimming Reminiscence

I delight in your twaddle inside me, young girl.
Restore the golden-pink gleam with a swirl.
Memories of who've died or are close to dying.
Delve deep, according to inner-child supplying.

Taking apart each self that has been dark-dyed
Then, closely dig up the shimmering past's side.
Until we draw a kinder rainbow hue, we must wait.
Vacant space below crops and owned bogs is fate.

I witnessed my parents waiting at the school gate.
I spy my father wandering the area near the grate.
The stems of ivy felt alike wings around her neck.
I can view my mother eschewed quickly to the deck.

ignited by her tenderness and exuberance.
Hijinks start here, unlucky protuberance.
Her giggling sounds akin to the essence of life.
Her grin, which is always braw, stops any strife.

Written: May 1st 2023
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Dance of the banded peacock

Pouncing across the white pinwheel flowers,
dancing to the delightful tunes of breeze,
Blue beauty performed an air show for hours;
For a few moments, my sorrows she seized

Displaying a kaleidoscope of hues,
like a vibrant tableau, she unfurled views;
With bright blue colour, she blew off the blues
And my worldly worries I just eschewed

From bright royal blue to emerald green,
swapped colours, swiftly like a magician;
Her wings a canvas of shimmering sheen;
To find her name was my only mission.

Banded peacock is her beautiful name
Oh! Now, All I can do is just exclaim.

Oct-05-2024
Form: Sonnet

No faff or fuss for us this Christmas


Family foibles and festive baubles to share

Frivolity frolics jollity & alcoholic histrionics

Swilled fables & tables filled with similar fare
 

Suggestive seasonal strolls for restive souls

Cast bitten still smitten bestilled by chilled air

Bedevilled dishevelled by some distilled wares


Pagan past perch in their old peculiar church

Dare to revel with another level devil may care

No graces or airs just familiar faces and lairs


Don't be reckless or feckless this Michaelmas 

Feuds rude moods eschewed along with despair 

Plied with yuletide pride bliss of this solstice kiss

At last no faff or fuss for us secular Christmas fayre
Form: Rhyme

No Sphere No Star No Comet Cast

Behold! the captive noble moon
What strange romance finds imbued
Fanciful ornamental might
So unearthly in its light,
Behold, a gown of primrose sky
A hue more darkened by the night
Each hour weaves its colours bright
The gush of polished vesper-eyes
Yet no star nor sphere of grace
Thrust in motion, held in place
Nor yet in all the wealth of space
Candent novas, solar raced
Hides the beauty or the trace
More divine than shapes thy face’
Tis as the heavens clustered low
And in a sweeping gleaming glow
Spend their glory all on thee
To be a shadow shaped by thee
Or yet in glittering so bright
A mere silhouette of eyes
And may she cast, O! dare she cast
With eyes of heaven looking past
Ife she gaze my soul is bound
As sure as fleets in oceans drown
In the vast, shoreless doom
Ife wave and tide do make their swoon
When all the sky is stirred
And all the whirlwinds move the earth
In circles to one gathered eye
To swallow sea, and land, and all beside
A circle in the gathered gloom;
One thought-like starfall chasing you.
Here all the limits of the universe
The rayless star of sunken mirth
Whose hunger rages like a man
What power consuming all it can
-the frosted, nameless little moons
Orbits which are not eschewed
Yea, no sphere! no star, nor comet cast
nor jeweled rays once gleamed, long past
Can mark the beauty of thy face
They are less-for they waste


Premium Member Do You Remember

Those days when friends were crystalline true?
I certainly do and oh, the pain of
that remembrance, makes be blue.

Whom can I trust when the sun doth
in its crimson bed set?
To whom, open this broken heart to let?

The internet is a cold, two-edged, very
sharp knife.
Not to live on, nor trust if you want
a fully~ satisfied life.

Let’s see the courageous souls who
can reply to this poem.
It will make most, itch, quirky and roam!

People prefer to run and hide, if they 
have an issue with you.
Why is direct communication a thing
here a matter so eschewed?

*This is my point of you. It need not be yours.*
               3/21/2022
Form: Couplet

He Told Me To Smile

You say, "Why don't you smile?"
Don't you know it is vile?
Ugh! you are forty-five
Your words should fortify         
My work like a rabbi.

On our first official
zoom, you cry at facial
gloom. Psst! Now sadness looms.
I know, never a womb
Has seen this vested room.

Your grand client lineup
Makes your word a decree
So see, when you treat me 
Like Clinton in lineup   
You see wavering eyes 
Signalling for time up

Can you not feel the tension in the air
The strained smiles and the creaking of the chair.
I'm new, this is my debut in this venue 
My face confesses the confusion in lieu
Of confronting my tenure in your crew 
You could have eschewed my blue hue 
Or lightened it with a quip or two
But no, now we have to continue     
Like mildew until my adieu

Premium Member Eschewed Essence


Rhapsody of rainbow 
morphs melted 
into morose mélange,
scattered in sullen sky. 
Bleeding colors bleached 
from twilight cloud 
ruinous rainstorm daubs 
as derelict blemish 
on abandoned shards 
of broken heart.
Shades of blue 
permeate pining
frayed linen 
of lost love.

Requiem of roses 
resonates profound
in melancholic concerto.
Drooping petals languish
for dripping tear drops 
of mourning dew, 
desiccating dismayed
in somber sunshine 
in deserted mind,
where for bracing 
cold desolate stone
fallen flowers 
make bouquet 
for deceased passion. 

Cacophony capsuled 
in suffusing cauldron 
of mute melody,
lost in tempestuous sea
of incongruent tune,
chaotic symphony 
dismantles harmony
on discordant waves.
Synthetic smiles sneer 
scarred scenario 
of lonesome life.
Sanguine songs turn 
to convoluted noise, 
echoing in solemn soul.
Lattice of life 
seen through 
languid cynic lens
magnifies mystified
into crooked contortion 
of eschewed essence.

Premium Member Insomnia

How then shall I sleep and dream,
when I close my eyes those scenes stream unabated clip by clip
from memories of the times I wasted?

Youthful follies say the wizened old
who lived in times of long ago when paths were certain 
with well-planned markers paved upon the way.

Dreams were simply monsters pushed back into closets 
      and hidden under beds;
prim and proper ruled the day and eschewed the night,
forgotten whimsies used to frighten wayward children.

Obligations interfered when the storm of you came rushing in
to crash against the breakers on the beach of duty to my class,
with walls of aristocracy preventing breaches ~

There is no room for pauper poets in those mansions
far above the stormy shore.

Premium Member Musings of a Troubled Soul

Will this be the last poem I ever write
  Will I be drafted in the morning to fight
A fearsome enemy by dark of night
  Or might I awaken to see I've lost my sight...

Will the sun come up like it's supposed to do
  Will the heavens turn jet-black instead of blue
Will the temperature soar well past forty-two* 
  Will a wall of humidity mean hopes eschewed...

Sure this could be the last poem ever I pen
  Yet the Lord might keep me around 'til 110
So I lay me down tonight, put my trust in His Grace
  That I'll wake up tomorrow with a smile on my face






*42 degrees Celsius = 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit
Form: Rhyme

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