Long Resurgent Poems

Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.

Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...

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Sebastian 
Writer of romance
Oh how the women swoon
Opening wide to their lovers
Children named in his honor
Strong men beg for but a few of his words
They wish to be carried to bliss in their lovers arms

The...

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Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war,
never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial
complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied,
openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane ill logic to send
best and brightest, or even those boasting...

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Nestled in verdant woods on a hilly terrain,
The sequestered chapel stood, tranquil was the place
With a calm drowning the hubbub around
With blooming plants adorning the encircling space

Gently moved to that well protected chapel
Tip toeing through...

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Within me I've witnessed universes,
I've contemplated essences,
I've meditated the pleasures to the joys to my happinesses,
But at times they just seem to find away...

Within me I've shared kindness,
Cares, relations, dreams,
Wishes, desires, promises;
Yet, they sometimes seem...

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A field afire
papery petals glow like ruby votive candles
a collection of cupped solar flames
vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn
evaporating any doubt the sun would rise
the mist would lift 
consoling one in darkness

Rising up...

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A HOUSE IS CERTAINLY N O T A HOME...
CHECK YOUR DOME, WHERE YOU ROME...

MIND & BODY
WORKPLACE & RETREAT TO REVIVE PLACE...

HOW'S THAT SPACE?

LET'S LOOK AT BASIC FUNDAMENTALS,
IS THIS A SAFE, {RESTORATIVE} PLACE
CAN AND SHOULD IT...

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I finally came home.
I did not win fully free, not yet;
but the lights by which I roam
are closer to where my roots are set.

Before leaving, I had to say farewell
to those there who kept me...

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Submerged in the flood of the maddening crowd,
I see a verdant valley carved out by covert ingenuity
within my lonesome mind, drifting away entranced,
displaced from the still stratum of suffusing sound 
of converging cacophony, resonating loud...

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Look at me carefully, staring at me in the eye:
am I intimidating you? Where's your trust in me?
Another friend more royal than me does not exist!
I fought for a free and free existence,
not to be...

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Whether virtual or actual paths cross,
     aye great thee ahoy
no fear Mademoiselle or Monsieur,
     thy harried style haint cloy

rather, when embarking
     on introductory...

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As early dawns sunlight, of golden glass....

Now drips from the ambient forest of green

Showers of light reflected, from across the pond

Gazing amid the cabins threshold; these love laced thoughts

A nightingale lingering; singing atop the windows...

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You just missed it, it went past your soul, it stopped to say hello, was just a faint whisper delivered on the breeze, it was only for your delectation to consume as you please. Let...

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The mystique mist 
of amorphous ambiguity 
shrouds under opaque veil
the penultimate pathway 
to the terminal time post 
in the cauldron of future, 
           obscure.
In transient...

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The scars have faded
The opaque mask I wore melts away
It took a lifetime to get here
At a crossroads in my life
So many people I've known
So many people who slowly disappeared
Like breath on a frozen day
I'm...

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#Deception 
This bitter sour taste on my mind, salty thoughts of dissapointment and traited, decieved and frauded rewards of my humanity, the humbled giving of ubuntu and humility, days of selfless efforts and devotion

changes of...

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On the edge of paradise,
woeful tears fall, cold as ice.
On that edge where I stand still,
ashen whips jut onto my will.

On that edge you sear my helm!
Kibble it like a spider; overwhelm!
Steering through many an...

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Caught in the clutches of darkness, we quail
Seeing it shrouding our spirits, we wail
Assailed by afflictions and tribulations severe
Our life is devoid of all peace and cheer

Oh Living Light! Penetrate through this darkness
Let your beams...

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*ring* *ring* (A Facetime call)
Mom: “Hey hun, what’s up?”
Me: “Well, let’s see.. 
“We have an armed law enforcement that’s scared of the civilians they police.
One political party so corrupt it’s no longer interested in serving...

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O Haiti, Haiti O how dark the clouds
That flock your sky like screaming birds
For victuals, how pensive the crowds
That mourn your history of frail shepherds
That could not keep Tousaint's dream
From crumbling like spectra in a...

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CHRONICLES OF OUR NATIONS SURMOUNTABLE PALAVA

Our currency mirrors my area
and the state of our beloved Nigeria; 
Worthless. Hopeless but a resurgent oneness.
The government parastatals are clueless,
But it's still our nation, more or less.

Despite holding so...

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Have your heart not disappear...

the surface we are so deceived...

the striving reality torturing seems...

all truths delicately housed 

inside like a dormant welcome mat...

...when all is well and deemed peaceful the truth
will freely attract...

...fashion fused with...

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It's quiet now, too quiet for Spring:
Sere-brown matted grasses huddle close,
Clinging tightly to patches of congealed Earth,
Nature's chill bosom flinty and unyielding. 
No wind yet whips up tremble in bush or tree--
Branches too-long barren of...

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In the ebony night time stops to flow,
the still hands of the impetus clock freeze
the timeless infinite pathos in congealed instants 
for listless life wandering on the shadows of past,
stares through the layered strata of...

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