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Nostalgia-Song of the Expatriate

(I'm 
an 
Indian 
lassie, 
was 
born 
in 
West 
Africa, 
(Nigeria), 
Grew 
up 
in 
South 
Africa 
(Swaziland) 
and 
currently 
live 
in 
East 
Africa. 
(Tanzania). 
So 
I 
live 
in 
Daresalam, 
near 
the 
Indian 
Ocean.)


I 
might 
be 
like 
any 
other 
expatriate, 
desirous 
of 
their 
homeland
Upon 
my 
country's 
soil 
fervently 
wishing 
to 
stand.
I 
can't 
help 
feeling 
profusely 
foreigner
in 
this 
highly 
foreign 
land
I'd 
give 
anything 
to 
go 
back, 
say 
even 
be 
a 
mariner
for 
there's 
an 
ocean 
to 
cross 
before 
familiar 
sand.

An 
ocean 
with 
dear 
motherland's 
name
greets 
me 
all 
the 
way 
here 
with 
tantalizing 
lure
Tiring 
me 
of 
nostalgia's 
seemingly 
endless 
game,
reminding 
the 
distance 
between 
the 
shores 
is 
galore!

Everything 
here 
seems 
just 
too 
alien 
and 
foreign
The 
air 
seems 
foreign 
punctuated 
by 
exotic 
birds
In 
this 
land 
I 
still 
feel 
as 
if 
lost 
in 
some 
warren
and 
the 
foreign 
language 
- 
I'm 
at 
a 
loss 
for 
words!

I 
feel 
estranged 
and 
disoriented, 
struck 
with 
nostalgia
though 
I 
might 
not 
be 
such 
a 
patriot 
any 
more
The 
awaited 
journey 
to 
India 
from 
Tanzania
to 
reach 
familiar 
ground 
of 
lakhs 
and 
crore.

Ah, 
the 
welcoming 
scenes 
of 
my 
homeland
always 
so 
enticing 
and 
inviting
It 
might 
seem 
surprising 
that 
for 
me 
she's 
a 
dreamland
but 
a 
desire 
to 
go 
back, 
since 
ages 
I've 
been 
fighting.

I'm 
home-
sick, 
waiting 
so 
long 
to 
be 
back 
home
There's 
no 
place 
like 
home-
sweet-
home
Here 
I 
feel 
I've 
lost 
my 
tracks
Like 
a 
homeless 
wanderer 
do 
I 
roam.

As 
here 
I 
feel 
no 
less 
like 
a 
Gulliver 
on 
his 
travels
yet 
to 
rehabilitate 
from 
homesickness 
might 
take 
a 
lifetime
For now, I can merely 
sing of motherland's 
marvels
and wait soberly for fate 
and destiny's chime.

But an underlying truth 
here: I feel alienated 
everywhere
as if I hailed from No-
man's-land
They think I neither 
blend with the Indian 
nor 
the african
but hope they respect 
my very individual brand.


Premium Member Shooting Rockets That Care

Somewhere there is a system 
If one decides to study and listen 
Finding global position
To finish its mission  
Here we go shooting for the moon 
Showing the kids lovely cartoons 
And teaching them of a big blue marble 
Such a life full of marvel 
Then later in the day 
There are sports all over the world they say 
Using a satellite link 
This is great the post-Vietnam innocent does think 
For into space 
Visual communication technology builds its case 
Now in the two thousands 
Mostly climbed this planet’s mountains 
It is the darkness that has us eager to explore 
Trying to open a mysterious door 
This is how it goes 
Being a super power you know 
We are the best 
From all the rest 
Having beauty and brains 
In our arsenal of gains 
And paths to peacefully complain 
But there seems to be something wrong 
With our patriotic song 
Did we over play our moralistic hand? 
Helping others take a stand? 
Or was it the fantasy we love to boast 
Celebrating modernization coast to coast 
On this Fourth of July 
When we recount separation from King George’s lies 
Let’s rehabilitate the red, white and blue patient 
And make it a healthy nation 
First prescription is respect and trust 
Second would understand others without a fuss 
If we can handle that 
Not acting like spoiled brats 
Our goals may come alive 
Returning to the energy that is giving the best try 
While exhibiting the all American rally cry
Form: Rhyme

DNA

What makes us?
All the differs
Make us suffer 
I challenge any sucker

to tickle the ivories
And aline with me
To make a beat
So we can agree

We're in a dark place
Standing with straight face
Waiting for the grace
To take the place

Of any person
Who stands as one
Ready for the demon
To enter their sermone

We all know the truth
But some chose to refuse
That life is a ruse
Evil with no excuse

Music is the light
Excitement to reignite 
Joy in the heart of life
So why choose to fight

Embrace what beat cometh
With a sound loud enough
To blow away the bad stuff
That we're to believe is rough

Hopefully opens your heart
To make a start
As to rehabilitate the heart
And hopefully appreciate art
Form: Rhyme

Should Prisons Produce Traumatized Individuals or Rehabilitate Them To A Fine End

Prison takes the body first—
hair, name, posture.
It teaches the spine
how to live bent.

A man enters with one wound
and leaves fluent in fear.
He learns keys,
the math of silence,
how not to cry out.

At night the walls inhale him.
Concrete is the mother
who never touched him.
Steel is the father
who only knew punishment.

Is this justice—
to enlarge the damage,
to make survival a scar
that never closes?

Rehabilitation would touch
the wound bare-handed.
Ask who he was
before hunger,
before the first strike,
before rage learned his pulse.

It would teach time
to repair instead of rot.
It would cost more.
It would return less violence.

Trauma is cheaper.
Trauma comes back.
So decide—
do we want men released
as sharpened instruments,
of death
or as bodies,
that remember
how not to hurt?

Premium Member Sessions Shared With Kamar Part 1

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My first session with Kamar had gone rather well,
despite the fact that I felt as if I’d just returned from hell.
My Son had another episode and had to yet once again be hospitalized.
He lost his housing privileges also, which in turn left me somewhat traumatized.
Of course Kamar was supportive and tried to make me come to see
that I’ve been more than a true loved one could ever possibly be.
I recall Her going on and on about all of the good things that I’ve done
to try to help and rehabilitate my loving but sick Son.
I know that She means well but my attitude is, “So What.”
All that hard work and all the time spent and what have we got?
A young man who most likely will never be able to care for himself
because he’ll probably always be in the worst mental health.
I can’t live forever. What will become of him when I’m gone?
Thoughts like that haunt me daily. Sometimes I think I just can’t go on.
That’s why these sessions with Kamar are so very important to me.
She shows me strength hidden within me that sometimes I’m just too blind to see
and she constantly reminds me that Hope comes in many forms,
that there’s new research on the horizon that may someday right all these wrongs.

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We covered most of the tragedy that was the life of my Son’s Mother.
She too is also a hero of sorts and she’s one unlike no other.
She was pretty much abandoned at her very moment of birth
by her mom who disappeared off of the face of the earth.
Her mom took off with her father’s best friend.
She probably had legitimate reasons,
but she left her children behind in the hands of a fiend.
He was the ultimate in child perversion.
So at the age of eight, she was on her own.
She had no choice but to run away.
She’d rather eat from dumpsters and sleep in depots.
Living at home had a far worse price to pay.
The cold of some nights were never as cold as his cold and clammy old hands
all over her sweet innocence whenever he desired. Whenever Her Daddy Demands.

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Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Poetic Justice

The decision of precision
The glam of the jam
The squeeze that produces the please
The rush that induces the hush
The eternal silence of the sleep
The response from my rule
Sweet, simple and pure
The predator’s cure
All to sad
No prejudice, all are welcome
To take their “shot”, at a “solution”
Go ahead, it’s your “right”
To be “empowered”
To make the choice between life and death
For your brethren and his family
It’s your constitutional amendment
That allows you to bear arms
And “execute” your “right” at a whim
We the people will protect “your rights”
Even though you violated someone else’s
We’ll make sure that you are treated fairly
We’ll clothe, feed and educate you
Until we decide if your guilty or not
Then when we convict you
We’ll make sure that you stay locked up and “alive”
We’ll give you early release for “good behavior”
Even though that’s not why you here in the first place
We will uphold “your rights”
Even though you denied another's right to live
We will allow you to live
Because we won’t violate your right to life
We will allow appeals, to plead your unfair judgment
We will rehabilitate you for society
A sick attitude
To allow the decision of death and then apply punishment
For the execution of that right
A sick mind running a twisted world
It’s wrong, and we all know it

Eric (and sometimes not)
© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.

Once a Village Boy Lover

My gym house was the long distanced river 
My rivermate is the bush birds' sounds 
My way to the river is so staggering each day 
Except some lucky days I partner you by chance 

Your waist is the lift of my quiet fever 
Your sweet morning song gets the birds' sound bounds
You been ahead set me watching your nates' display 
To such extent I believed myself in for a trance 

Let us have a deal 
That we shall always do this together 
I hope you won't hesitate 
The feelings apiece is glaring 

My heart is unseal
I hope you're good a bellweather
Get my heart to rehabilitate 
But your eyes have me scaring 

Let not wait for the time 
Let us build to its just 
But I heard love isn't a crime 
Of the wait, won't it rust? 

No! I just can't let the stars cry
Before each can be recognized as sky's body
I just can't let the moon be alone up the sky 
Before the sky will miss the stars' beautiful night's lights disembodied 

I just can't let my wish be blown away 
For hoping won't make it true
I just can't pray lonely to deal with some delay 
Working singly won't cope with the blue

I just can't let my mind lose hope
For there is no champion forever 
Fears shouldn't belittle our scope
It is awesome to never say never 

Driving me crazy won't be nice 
Or else, every moment will define us fire and ice 

© 2020 
® Olábòsóyè Wèmímó Oláolúwá

Premium Member Well Seasoned Questions

Where did life come from?
asked Winter, of gratitude.

Who and what and where do life-systems become and belong,
rehabilitate 
and repurpose 
and redeem?
asked Spring, of hope.

Where does live fly away from evil,
and where together, 
synchronized swimmers in a coincident sea?
asked Summer, of faith.

How did Live/eviL Tao get here, again?
asks Fall, with incarnating grace,
winnowing harvest's rehabilitating outcomes,
regenerating, 
equivalent redemption, 
repurposing economic mindfulness.

Each life, 
and all life,
all time and space, 
our synergetic ReGenesis Project. 

How are yours coming along.
on your Beloved 
Make Live--Not evil 
Community Calendar?

Not Afraid Part 2

I keep trying to fight but everyday it gets worse,
I'm trying to carve out a path but it hurts 
and I loop around to where I stood first.
I'm stuck suffering, 
but won't let no fat lady sing.

Relapse, 
forget the feeling, 
I'll just get back to my feet and I'll stand,
because fate demands, 
I'll never live it down if I don't rebound.

I honestly promise to be at my strongest,
in fact no impact or test 
can crush my chest, ever, 
I'm a last and never rest
not 'til I bask that no flag flew at half mast.

I'll dip and I'll rise like a rollercoaster ride
but I'll never hollow out inside or lose my pride,
I'll battle depressions wickedness with all my witty grittiness
and when I'm knocked down I'll breathe, go again and believe,
with a greed for freedom core and seed 'til I'm freed.

That's the wish beyond painful twists,
a thirst to slit wrists through self hatred,
and the positive drive is confiscated, 
but don't be mistaken I'll reinstate it,
I aint breaking, this life aint there for the taking,
I'll rehabilitate me inevitably.
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Backyard Eden

Early morn’s bright birdsong sings my blink to day activate,  
waking my faith as feel my thoughts cannot think agitate. 

Of earth’s many crisp Eden’s, my yard does participate,
for when I stepped out and into Spring, her marvelous slate
had hymn-grown it as a wholeness chapel, less man’s ornate.
Our loved, frail willow’s miracle growth rose thanks to dilate,
then soar-spun my green love thru all growth to appreciate.
The blueberry bushes set my awe on anticipate.

Our garden washed me fresh in gratitude’s glorious trait.
Bulb plants lifted me with promises that exhilarate
my sense rushes of gem blooms to come and intoxicate.
Our joy-filled, yard contentment was a sense sweep dictate.  
From ground to sky, eye to soul, spring does rehabilitate
all that lags as spiritually weak in my heart’s rate.

Natural earth is wonder in beauty’s prime based state
and in our yard presence are the Spring psalms I celebrate.




... CayCay Jennings
May 26, 2018
Form: Monorhyme

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