Long Importing Poems

When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew it was treason.
Because of their belief in the unalienable rights...

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Author’s Note:
'Christmas in July', which is also known as Yulefest or Yuletide in Australia. July is generally the coldest month of winter, so celebrations emulate the atmosphere of the northern hemisphere winter. So that means...

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I would build a center for learning,
Working title: Community Wellspring
Where people would come to learn new skills and new ways
To earn a living in these times. 
No one’s job lasts forever anymore.
We have no idea...

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The Bangladeshi Flood

It is the latest worrying news to hit this troubled nation...
There is a growing bewilderment and fast rising indignation....
Ever since the Home Minister proudly announced to the nation...
Malaysia is in urgent need of...

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According to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...

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According to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...

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According to John and Matt Haggee of Cornerstone church. "If you want to be a truck drive you can take the classes and become one. If you want to be an electrician, you can take...

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Decided...
 
Scene 1 (years earlier)

Years of indecision 
Ended in an instant 
My life in third revision 
Starting in the present 

Touching everything I've owned 
Importing their very essence 
Of each and every feeling they borne...

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Take me back to the days
Where the feel of texture and distinguishing colors among Africans didn't matter
Where the only word was black, and not pale or darker
Where the only weapon was loyalty upto royalty actually...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of the Supreme High Command of the International Militaro-Business Conspiracy I...

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Stop
Shedding and sowing
Begin bracing for burning
In land of melting
Pots

Was
The crews parallax
Of the trees
Which conceives
The lumberjack to
Saw?

Timber!

Reviled
But adored due to bark,
Chopped down and chastised a log mark
Famine yet fervid mouth of hell,
“Rollways”, or “skidways”, dread logs...

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At Customs

Delayed fatigued grumpy and miserable there was I
yet another queue at Oliver Tambo on arrival another

Check scan body search and
mind games in my baggage

Damascus had been an unusual holiday destination
had firmly attached a couple...

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Starvation, famine, death for all.
The prophecy foretold long time ago.
Bear no fruit of hollow labor.
That makes the urban and rural looks varicose.
Ploughing all day nothing to bring homeward.
There is many a brave heart here dying...

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Golden Triangle Snow
Old skool rock and roll on the decks. Takes me back to before I was born. Smoking the best ing weed in 'Nam. Swimming in the river. Worshipping dark Gods. Making love to...

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PLASTIC   BAG  PREJUDICE  AND   BIGOTRY

What’s that over there?
Don’t bother, it’s just another of those goddamned plastic bags,
Just a plastic bag, a thin polythene bag, 
Transparent, cheap, ugly:  seen...

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* the story of Antogo, was written in 1898, by a less famous author
by the name of Altourgum or Aultourgium, the Novus, said to have
been born to a female stripper in Sweden. He was the...

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Recalling Life’s Pages
Miracle Man
6-5-2022
                               ...

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live they in the subtle hell, 
on earth the levels change by smell, 
protest the would be righteous,
 where murder doth incite us,
though the citadel has fell,
 you think yer doing well?
 yes hell is...

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Two billion people are of the Christmas persuasion,
Two billion people celebrate that most joyous occasion.

If that is true, Santa has to visit 23,148 people every second.
Which really is an awful lot as near as I...

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Tides in motion beneath my crust
Of water-ice and planet dust,
Heat a hidden salty ocean,
Beneath my crust tides in motion.

My fertile womb so ripe with seeds,
With chemicals that new life needs,
Deep in the darkness, in the...

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How could failure be my gain?
As much as I tried hard
Sad and tired
I had tried and failed again
I nursed the thought for moments 
And importing sporadic loosed comments. 

I gave up... was about to give...

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I can't find the words,
And even if I could, would there be enough words,
To describe, 
To my scribe.
What I feel when I look at the news on my computer,
Before I become a commuter,
And find picture...

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Blitz the day
Blitz in a lightening 
Lightening the way
Lightening an importing
Importing the play
Importing as if to say to
To day light the way
To illuminate zamindar
Zamindar of owing a looking
Zamindar rent booking
Booking a room with a view
Booking...

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We know you must break the law to join them,
So why are we pandering to them,
Letting them rule too many streets,
And even whole towns.

Is it not way past time for push back?
To grow some backbone,
And...

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To use “that” or substitute “which”
Knowing this would make me quite rich 
Wrong words are a glitch
That we hate and do switch
Since an editor’s ire is a b*tch


Author's note: I have been writing technical material...

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