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Absolute peace is detrimental to progress.
God forbids, but if a total Peace prevails
Society, as we know, will come to a grinding halt,
Religion, as an enterprise will wither away
Law and justice will become obsolete;
There will be no prisons, no police, no courts of law.
No tales to tell or myths to spin,
Neither heroes to worship nor martyrs to idolize,
The world would plunge into chaos…
It simply makes NO BUSINESS SENSE.
You got to let evil and hate loose in the world,
Let go of all the thugs, tyrants, rapists, marauders,
murderers and warmongers back into the society;
Constraining or getting rid of them makes
absolutely NO BUSINESS SENSE.
So you see, without war and destruction
There will be no rebuilding,
Without the pandemonium
No yearning for peace,
Without sin
No penance for salvation.
Good and evil must coexist, side by side,
As does joy and suffering
So does God and the devil,
Life couldn’t be complete
one without the other.
Sooner we accept this, easier it’ll be to live.
Man, in his own image, created God
and he made the devil for a purpose,
There cannot be only sunshine
and cool breeze all the time,
As in nature, so in life,
We must as well endure
the bleak and the dark days of fall
and the bitter cold of winter.
For the progression of mankind
Periodic destruction is indispensable.
Sun, moon, stars, and universe are captivations,
Scenes, sceneries, lands, landscapes are activations;
Like a child, at each lovely scene, I do wonder,
Today, to a certain concept, I surrender..!
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While third-degree punishments of severe beating,
Depriving prisoners - of food, drink; ill-treating:
With piercing needles betwixt nail and flesh and nose,
Electrocuting; What else? Who exactly knows…?
Indian prisons have become hells here on earth.
For killing and getting killed within, there's no dearth.
Poor imprisoned for the crimes of their rich masters,
Die and decay as though natural disasters...!
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Prisons of Norway are my captivation, hence.
Healing the criminals is in their moral sense;
Offenders are offended; why offend them again?
Pain is filling them; why, again, inflicting pain...?
It's another home for them though they are sinners,
Who’s not a sinner? Are all, outside, are winners...?
Environs and situations cause persons fall,
Isn't, yet, dignity given equal to all...?
Healthy food; clean shelter; reliving medicines;
Penances and atonements to get rid of their sins;
Training for the unfit to fit into this world;
Making them, in nature, like flowers to get furled...!
Dignity of women, like pearls and gems, preserved,
When needed, like remedies, protections reserved;
Male chauvinism, like cobras, when rises its hood,
Feminism too enters in and does what it should...!
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World that believes in cruelty to criminals,
Researches on these Norwegian principals;
Finds, Lo, herein, are criminal activities -
Lesser than other international cities...!
09 October 2022
Captivation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
I've known strong desires
I couldn't control somehow,
I've gone astray as many have:
that world of limitless pleasures
didn't last for long on false love
and raised many an eyebrow!
Silly girl, don't play over my guilt,
I've cried over my mistakes a lot;
do I need to be told to look down
when I stumble into lovely woman?
I have eyes that see what's beautiful
and ugly, what makes a guy smile;
as long I don't say a word I'm fine:
you can mumble or be a bit merciful!
No smile ever does harm to a casual passerby,
don't play over my guilt and plot more revenge;
I did wrong and I admit it with regret, honey:
look to the future, get rid of your childish rage!
I was cleaning my garden bed one day
when a lovely bright green cricket had
a word or two to me, to say.
At first my eyes was full of wonder
how could this cricket be talking to me,
I was lost in ponder.
He looked as though he had been talking
with an also concerned looking, speckled
tree frog.
He looked up at me with his perfect, little
peepers. As if he knew I was the garden's keeper.
Are you talking to me, I asked?
Why yes I am and you have heard me at last.
In his hands so very small, he held a tiny, silver leaf
that was holding a sip of water he had gathered
from the plants that were standing tall.
I must talk with you about our water shortage,
Since the plants have grown so tall, we don't get
any around the garden boarders.
Could you please trim them neat, so that all of us
who live under them can have a sip of rain that is
natures true treat?
I could see this concerned them both for the frog's
eyes showed he agreed with the story, the cricket told.
Well Mr. Cricket lets talk a little bit for I also have a problem
with those pesky little nits. They hinder my flower blooms
and most surely always leave them to their doom.
If you and I can reach an agreement, that you get rid of
them from the top to the cement; I will trim the garden
so lovely and neat and both of us then can enjoy nature's
treats.
We both smiled and became working garden friends and
both of our troubles came to a beautiful end.
That men have no emotions is a misconception
But we drop them with little reception
So we bottle them up inside
Ironically finding the bottom of the bottle to confide
Men are taught to be strong
And that any weakness is wrong
But in my 28 years I've found
These are lies and the truth might astound
Take for instance the little boy with skinned knees
Who happened to fall while enjoying the breeze
Maybe comfort that little boy when he feels weak
Instead of making him feel meek
Men get so used to holding it all in
Until their soul bursts from within
And they lash out in violence
Because they've suffered in silence
And I'll be the first to say it shouldn't be that way
Not day after day after day
Men are taught not to talk
And yet when they strike out we simply balk
At the idea that maybe the problem is institutional
And we might have to move away from the conventional
When men have a higher rate of suicide
And men are more likely to be victims of homicide
There's a toxicity in the foundation
That doesn't fit the narrative of the news station
We're just taught that's the way men are
But this damned lie has been spread too far
To get rid of violence
You must eradicate silence
And some will argue men have every opportunity
But tell that to a young man in the inner city
Who is so used to a cycle of drugs, thugs, and crime
Perpetuated by the media all the time
He's just trying to survive
In a world that will never see him thrive
But as a poet I feel there's something strong in verse
And this social construct is something we can reverse
And I don't condone murder and rape
Just that men need a safe place to escape
And no place is safer than the written word
So encourage your sons to be written and heard
Give them outlets to express their pain
And that it's okay to think with their brain
Instead of resorting to their fists
When they're lost, afraid, and pissed
So that we know men having no emotion is a misconception
Maybe next time give them a little reception
3/28/21
Sanitized a lot of messes with Lysol
Saw it all through my eyeballs
By being logical during daytime or nightfall
Did no good to dawdle
Helped to be thoughtful
Experienced the pleasant and the awful
Didn't always benefit one side or the other during debacles
It happened so much, I could write novels
So many squabbles
One was victorious, the other one wobbled
Head held high, or hobbled
Occasionally left me boggled
I didn't just watch through my goggles
Odors and fragrances picked up through my nostrils
Among living species and fossils
Some people docile and others hostile
Doing the bare minimum or going full throttle
Kicked the habit, or really hitting the bottle
Some people are humble and others think they're a model
The impact it had was minor or colossal
Putting others down because it makes them feel bigger
Obsessed with image and the figures
People so quick to point a finger
And to pull the trigger
Danger always lingers
Life filled with drama, like Jerry Springer
Been through the wringer
Another dinger
And zinger
Hook line and sinker
Still a hardcore drinker
And deep thinker
Among gentle animals or aggressive lifeforms with or without stingers
I continue to tinker
Covering a lot of ground, like a sprinkler
Still drinking beers
Here's a cheers
To my peers
Heard so many truths, rumors and lies through my ears
Over the years
Occasionally changing gears
Expressing happy or sad tears
While wielding shields, swords or spears
Getting rid of any fears
And finding a way to persevere
Once the smoke finally clears
The world was in a happy or sad state
People that do or don't have faith
Life going fast pace
Caught in the rat race
Pushing for first, not last place
For a long time, I've been in bad shape
And half-baked
Now that we got that straight
Regarding the cuisine of the world, I've barely had a taste
After the war
There had been a war that Germany lost
a soldier found a mask made of wood
in a basement and took it home as a souvenir
When demobilized, he sold the mask to
a second-hand shop, as no one knew it's
real value, he was only paid a few shillings
enough for a few pints at the local pub
The store owner put the mask on a shelf
where it lingered until an art collector saw
the mask and quickly bought it cheaply
the store owner was glad to be rid of the
mask as it, despite being face down on
a shelf, made him shudder.
a visiting American entrepreneur bought
the mask that in the night sprung alive
and thanked the American for rescuing him
a life on a shelf and promised to make
He was super rich as he had been a god
of wealth in the Roman epoch.
True to his words, the entrepreneur had
success, whatever scheme he had, came up
triumph, he came to be known as the
the richest man in the world, which we know
is abstract, as only those who can conquer
death is wealthy.
Nevertheless, our cereuses set about
creating an artificial being with super-high
intelligence yet free of soul and emotions
a construct living forever
The rich man's plan, when his time was up
to become an AI and rule the world
a thousand years to come
The mask that hung securely on his office
the wall fell and broke in bits, and out came
slimy maggots as telling our rich man that
only un-life lives forever
One day I sat before a time face-to-face struggling to puzzle out
from a conundrum the time threw at me. Since the riddle was
a mind bothering one I felt like Oedipus walking through a gorge
touching the surface of rough rocks to feel something that may
inspire him to find an answer to Sphinx’s riddle.
The riddle that the time threw at me was “How long does it takes to get rid of all irrationality of the world and all agonies of humankind from surface of the earth?” My answer was “Several thousand… tens of thousands… hundreds of thousands of years…. Rather, over the billions of billions to the other side of eternity?”
The time said to me “O helpless stupid idiot! If you vanish, in other words, at the moment you stop your breathing, everything, whatever the things that bother you, whatever things that torment you, will vanish at the same time;
the bitter roots live in your heart as the colorful flowers named anguish blooming by a path of cogitation: the luring scent named anxiety comes from a deep swamp, traps you and never let you go. And all those miseries, you must know, will vanish without a trace as you stop your breath.”
After the time gave me a severe scolding he shoved me roughly from the back
with his strong hand that, no matter how much you plead for his mercy or kick
and struggle, will never turn back once he moves forward or returns the thing
that once he confiscated from you. I was fallen into the abyss of pitch darkness with tremendous speed as if a piece of shattered star sucks into a block hole.
Distance may deny us delight and keep us apart,
didn't we believe in love from the very start?
Why is misery something we hate
when these lips won't ever kiss
and these arms won't ever embrace?
Why are we so miserable as lovers?
Don't we expect or deserve more
than anyone who has ever loved?
Are we two puppets that destiny
controls and wind up sleeping alone?
We have given up on reality,
we took what wasn't ours and cried;
haven't we lost all we had before?
Distance may deny us delight and keep us apart
but not the passion that's stronger than our wills;
distance may deny us delight and keep us apart...
scattering ashes too soon is burying hope alive,
believing in miracles is foolish, not too smart;
isn't folly and anger shown in sad and distrustful eyes?
Our dream was to stay together, not wishing goodbye!
Distance may deny us delight and keep us apart,
how can we not tell that it'll break us?
Distance may deny us delight and keep us apart...
can we still be faithful and avoid lies?
shouldn't we get rid of all vanity and useless pride?
Don't we deserve more
Duno Brown, you brought orange and purple into my life
I did not realize until I met you how exciting old agers can be.
You taught me to get rid of things I don’t care about,
And to cherish the things I do
My polka dotted stuffed frog in oranges and greens,
My favorite red Mickey Mouse T-shirt where his grin is ridiculous
I am glad I met you in 2021, you made Zoom okay;
Better than okay, you made it exciting and joyful.
I looked forward to it; because you were dazzlingly fun.
You glorify the loveliness that old agers can bring to the carpet.
I felt like we were on a magic carpet ride.
You could have kicked me off in Kalamazoo or New York City.
I would not have cared, I might have loved rolling onto a stranger.
Meeting you and spending just a few days was enough.