Long Strangulating Poems

Icons are funny things,
she thought.

Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of...

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Dickens Christmas carol revisited by nicked saint

Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere 
hammering and whipsawing debris 
ferociously with an angry flare,
cuz mother nature - fed up to here
(re: envision me hands indicating 
over top of head)...

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Genesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist

Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six...

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Autumnal hint faintly tinges air 
finding this mortal 
     bewitched by blare 
ring refulgent radiance, 

      which quiets viz cheer
ring, harkening murmuring analogous,
   ...

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Line of inquiry:
“Yes, I affirm, I have seen God
But He appeared and then disappeared
This knowing that transcends mind, left me awed
But until what’s imbibed is assimilated, by fears I’m seared” 


Once I felt the power...

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In the smiting chill of a dreadful wintry night
When through every fiber n’ nerve, was the cold bite,
I was sitting cocooned beside my hearth,
Sipping a cup of steaming tea of my choicest blend.
Suddenly my attention...

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Grim reaper scion donned as nodule on lung...

Lodged squarely upon corporeal property
(i.e. necessary soft tissue)
of Amelie Beth Harris-McGeehan
mine eldest sister,
when medical technician informed
aforementioned unpleasant tidings
earlier today February 25th.

Utmost grievousness grips
analogous to invisible
strong hands strangulating
"I can't...

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We are the tintinnabulating trolls
To the rock rock bottom of our nonexistent souls.
Madder than the maddest hatter,
Hear us bellow, bray, and bleat;
And we prattle pitter-patter
In our jabberwocky chatter
To a bumbulating beat.
See us zim zam zoom
As...

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Line of inquiry: 
“I am not the body, which is but dust
I am not fickle and limited mind
To whom then comes the feral thrust of lust
Or for that matter, thoughts loving and kind"



I am not...

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Shutting the door on my face
He showed his dominance,
Raising his voice on me
He reflected his control,
Cutting the phone before my reply
He nurtured his ego.

He perpetuated the same
Blooming his masculinity,
His miser brain and elite ego
Fueled her...

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No ways are left
Except to accept conditions
And forced to be contented
Above the line of our head
There exists another world
The world of privileged with different mind sets
Social norms, dress codes and etiquette
What we eat that they...

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A Cook’s Battle 

The ship -cook was tired it had been a long day, the ship was old 
full of cockroaches, one had found its way in his bread dough and 
when the captain cut...

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Call it alliteration or pun  or something else you are free,
Don’t make a brouhaha out of this ,broer!,
The brevity of my blizzard of words cannot be 
Blotted out, even after a breathalyzer test.

I’m not...

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Drama invoked karma strangulating serenity. Singularity of unsurprised reason, such a wasted manufacturer to tinker and tether the nature of our society. In your world of opulent polished weaponry and wheel spinning rubber, you exchange...

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Who can resist the strangulating grip of time?
That which exists today may not be there tomorrow
Like shooting stars which vanish in the flicker of an eye
Life comes and goes quicker than a darting arrow

The only...

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With the venom
I've been dyed with
I become a stranger
Even to myself
Having lived too long
In a world of stones
The gentle spirit
That used to breathe
Inside me with soft consience
Seems missing
Prompted by bitter thoughts
Hissing out of cracks
On dark...

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The echo of a view 

 Nature is not democratic and doesn’t to the call
for liberal equality that means the rule of the majority 
kills the unwanted by massive droughts to stop weeds 
being in...

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Bolts and nuts litter the highway
Rickety cars shedding their parts
Contractors' pride in Naija
More potholes to serve the roads
Roads built on holes and filth 

Blind they become when they pass by
With extra cushion to absorb the...

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because …

you
say I for me 
that is why my
breath buoys your lungs
why the dim depth of my eye
measures yours
reflected
tentacular thoughts
wrapping
strangulating
spattering what’s left like
sea foam to sand
to write its own stories -
those are dreams
they shape as...

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