Long Inactions Poems

Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl, 
and all her classmates, 
to gather round 
to spot the student currently bouncing 
on the trampoline. 

They circled 
to volunteer a ring of imperfectly rhythmed
but...

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It's not that I mistrust you,
though sometimes I feel I must distrust
either me or you.

I ambivalently choose both.

So yes, of course, this is about your behaviors
in trust-relationship with mine,
aggressive and impulsive.
Behaviors of addiction
to a child's...

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My subject is nothing new.  It's been around since Adam and Eve.  Like the 
snake and the apple.

It's the enabled kid who throws a ball through a window, while the enablers, his parents,...

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A man unpresidentially known for the showerhead
Msholozi, the man in charge of singlehandedly running a nation into crisis
With him at the helm the public anxiously watches as the state of things degenerate
The rand has slumbered,...

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Nigeria. 
The country of my birth. Beautiful in youth. Wrinkled as the years pass by. Through no fault of hers. But by the doing and undoing of her children, consciously and unconsciously.
Blessed by God. Impoverished...

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Queen in our eyes! 
Goddess in our hearts 
Alleviated fears ;Shaped behaviors 
Built careers ; Educated a nation 
Sang hymnals :Through the moments slowly.

She learned to live and love 
Unperturbed by failure unruffled by haste...

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The universe is a stage and we are the actors, actors that have no idea. 
No idea, that we are entertainment, that others watch as we act. 
Act like no one is watching, yet they...

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Bathing with Bathsheba

By Mark D. Stucky
As you bathed bare below the high palace
were you intentionally seductive?
The citadel was in plain view,
and so apparently were you.

Or were you simply innocent,
and the king abused his power?
Was it...

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Peeking through the burning bushes
into your eyes once more,
As i lie in state i see a face
that ive seen someplace before.

The things you said spinning through my head
like an old revolving door,
And the face comes...

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Flipping back the pages of my time
I realised I messed up some times
Given a stage in a dance hall 
But kicked myself hard in the balls 
Wrecked in the shame of my fall
A loved one...

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With wealth and blessings overflowing
Non would project this time we behold
To prove to humanity the lesson of life
Nothing stays unless true effort is made

The fourth is falling before the eyes of all
Reversing the theory of...

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Karma is a feedback loop,
magnifying the choices you make in life.
You cannot escape Karma,
for it's an ethereal, intangible force fueled solely 
by your actions or inactions.
Karma rewards acts of kindness,
and punishes acts of cruelty,
returning both...

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Pity we still do not realize 
Acids badly hurt the soils
And increasing carbon oxide
Only precipitates the spoils

With increasing factories and automobiles
Chocking the air with harmful gases
Living is becoming more and more fragile
As Mother Earth cries...

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Sorry is for people who have a conscience, who know that sometimes things happen that need a sorry. 
Sorry is a type of feeling of regret, that make us think about our actions or inactions....

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Kisses from insolvent grave,
Stole the dying breath away
So dizzyingly fast,
It escaped as fleeting vapour;
The hackles bristled, raised,
Clouds of ink on sunny days,
As scratching quills engraved 
Upon white paper

Who among the sprawl could feel
If it was...

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As the passing years impose themselves upon us,
memories keep us young of spirit and heart.
And yet, time forces us to move on 
past the boundaries of memory;
and confront reality
in its starkness.
Time never speeds up or...

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Life is but an artwork,
Sketch of the creator's handiwork
But life is at all times unfair
Unlike some see it a funfair.
Knowing our actions being the pencil
And our inactions like silent counsel
But we choose to live it...

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We didn't make it through this ferocious world.
Somehow, some way, we are no longer friends.
It bears great malice towards our single hearts,
And hovers over our intimacy.

We conceal the life within our thoughts,
And feign at nothing...

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IT'S ME, THE LOST ONE

Always wonder, i'm never bothered
Lost in thoughts but found in love
Bittered and shattered yet not broken
Pierced and perforated yet whole
Am I still myself or another? I ask
Am I whole or sole?...

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Because of the love for my daughters, I love life.

They are the pillar of my fortitude, optimised by faith in the Divine Power. Through them I receive utter aplomb in the midst of a ruthless...

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In the embers of history


I am fascinated by law
Thrilled by its prowls
A seeming pull on us to fit in
Or face the consequences
Its tenets bound
By the complications of non-compliance

I witness daily the struggle within
The lopsided internal...

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Embracing dying reason
My consequence gave
The inactions, dying seasons
At least I can fade
I am a grave

I was never living
I’m too aware of the signs
The distractions and misgivings
Then again I’m part of my
Necromantic lie

I am the hunger...

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Inactions leading to thought
The search for what you wrought
A question of who you are
Answered blind because you bought

Small comfort in ignorance
Actions fade into dissidence
Numb comfort in denial
You can’t make out the mirror in the distance

Locking...

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Here I arrive,
I that can`t but offend in 
words,
Here they arrive.
In their criticism, my flaws 
arrive.
All at once my motionless 
motive
convoked..
The steps I make provoked..
My actions and inactions 
invoked..
My intelligence and humility
faintedly call
My trust and...

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These circular and endless gyrations
the scaring  of those cruel inactions
resulting torrents of frustrations
bland unrelenting dissatisfactions

No softness in my life
only grinding in my head
just the constant march of strife
looking for a feathered bed

Black cloud hovers...

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