Long Hale and hearty Poems

Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more

Both Father Sun's timeless 
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich 
empowering 
soulful soil
and surfing seas

And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...

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NDIDI (PATIENCE IS GOLDEN)

Patience said:
"Whatever my old man says."
So,
I saw the wise, bald, old man
In his thatched mud hut
Loin cloth knotted 
Around his shoulders 
The whiff of (snuff)
Saturating the atmosphere

He googled me
Between the rims 
Of...

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It was when I reached my fortieth birthday.
Not so young, but, youthfulness ruled the day.
I was known as an educationist, around,
My intelligence and wisdom, they felt, was sound.
Not many were invited to my birthday party,
My...

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Once upon a time in Erin land,
the sun smiled on the people 
the rains communed peacefully with thunderstorms
Erin flowed with palm wine and palm oil, 
And her children drank to their fill  
Oba Adeniran,...

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          Five-year-old Roozie rushed to  Mom : 
          - ‘Are you going to Book Fair ?’...

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Start Singing to the Choir

What would you really rather do?
Have delightful dream that does come true;
Maybe a great game will want to go to
Where all of the players you would know.

Each place with friends no...

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SATIRICAL: SATIRIZED EUPHONY

Hissed her path to say No
As amulet dangled on her' dandled
Tis so sweet to trail the forlorn 
As no help came to a hearty hut

On the rafter was a treasure kept
To a loned...

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The brook thrums as it vaults over the piled rocks
Rolling on deep into the Zambezi valley
Twisting, flirting with the rigdes that compliment the escarpment beyond 
And the indigenous lass strolled to the rivulet a rose...

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Halloween!

                           Dense dark is Halloween night. 
  ...

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She slipped clumsily in a 
café
Looked all around her
from the corner of her 
eye
Felt all eyes upon her
Bit her lip
and flushed crimson 
disconcertedly.

He was sacked, literally 
fired
Got down in the dumps
Was down and out
and was...

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I cannot apologize that I am so consumed with rage
For I cannot control my urge to lash out in defense
When I see that those in power cannot turn the page
That they foolishly equivocate and straddle...

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Spirits that goad have an unspoken code?
yes they certainly have that... you are right.
They come hale and hearty to join in the party
for this is their own special night.

No cause for fright on a Halloween...

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SCALING MY HEART

Fiery tough twists a blade
Oozing plough digs a hole
On the scale raging all days
On a scar; not healed on rolls

Way back I weighed lot better
On my path; battered to the letter 
To think...

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I feel I am blessed. Yes, there have been moments of pain and trouble. But when I look back, I realize that it was all to correct me and to prevent me from making mistakes....

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Over sixty years of friendship,
But sadly all things end
As I look at this remnant of 
My tried and trusted friend.

He’s got an unshaven chin
Watery rheumy blank eyes
And when I shake his hand
Shows no sign I’m...

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Softer than a baby's breath
Lighter still than pale

I watch you struggle with
 the dying of your light against it hear you rale

Eternity set  solidly into the heart
A rare and precious stone

We leave as we...

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It’s thy aroma in cool breeze that wakes me up in the morning
It’s thy glorious rays of dawn, removes the darkness, enlighten my soul
It’s thy melodies, I hear through the chirping of a bird and...

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SWAN SONG OF AN OLD-GUARD TRUE-BLUE TORY
 
I am  one of the last of a dying breed,
I’m an antique true-blue Tory.
I grew up on Super-Mac
And ‘the Land of Hope and Glory.’

In Rab Butler I...

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In a dream the Almighty said, “You have a gift – go and prophesy.” 
Like the celebrated prophets of long ago, I thought, “Oh gee, oh my!” 

Political messages came fast and furious over the...

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Opinionated people with possibly distorted truths
The loudest ones thinking they are winning
Many others consulting psychics and say-sooths,
My sis and I agree on one thing, we are twinning.

The loudest ones thinking they are winning
The din in...

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Beyond the sky, she spreads her wings to fly
Soaring freely within this sanctuary of desire
Gracefully gliding through space – she’s sensually enlightened!

But through treachery, a touchstone of humankind, she sighs,
As humanity again, betrays her, extinguishing...

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Should Be for Gun Control

Subjects were considered to be highly correlated
And they could also be easily coordinated
Not only that both of them were hale and hearty
Were members of a different political party.

Would they straight and...

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God's greatest gift to humanity is health
It can be considered as the mother of wealth

Without a  sound health life becomes tiresome
Care for it before our condition turns out awesome

Spare no effort to remain healthy
Sickness...

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All Hallows’ Evening

     Dear kids, Hello! And All Hallows, now in party
     Play-fun: Enjoy! Taste best toffees, sweet sour candy.
     Movies funny, never...

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I slumbered, half-dead, lost in oblivion's night
Unaware of my surroundings, a fleeting, fragile light
Sleep, a battleground where life and death entwine
A struggle to survive, a war to reclaim the divine

But when I wake, the night's...

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