Long Tainting Poems

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The Trouble Within

Some are crafty and witty
Tainting the experience of a city
Quenching whatever godliness will kindle
Befriending only to use and swindle
Now the old wish for the olden day
And the young crave for that which the old say

But aren't we victims of one another
Each one a brother to a brother whom we don't bother
All the good that we today see as myth
Is fanned by our strangling of each other's faith
Yet the name of the Lord is still on our lips
Tell my then why the tapestry fades and rips

Like trees lush and green but without fruit
The gardening we have received we still don't foot
Taking without giving
Virtue dying out of our living
For we justify of its death with the times
And we are now silent in the face of crimes

Away from the woe of calling light darkness
Consequence will reveal your deeds in starkness
Let God lead ye, oh ye his sons and daughters 
Safely wading through the darts and the plotters
We of Christ's fold shall be known by our love
And all the righteous bearings we shall have

K. Muitherero
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Hypocrisy and Selfishness In the Ministry

Believing that I’m called to serve God in the ministry
I hate hypocrisy that afflicts it along with fatal selfishness
Compromising divine work for personal fame, honour and glory
Bringing forth anguish and misery as results of worthlessness.

Ministry that is genuine is leading people to the Saviour
Reaching out to others with faith’s fervor and mercy’s compassion
For transformation toward godly behaviour
Thus, tainting it with dishonesty and self-gain speaks of shallow devotion.

I confess my sins that hinder ministry-fulfillment
Seeking the Lord to subdue the root cause which is arrogance
As I surrender to Him for earnest ministry engagement
Blessed by His grace I can share with love’s extravagance.

May 11, 2019
Form: Quatrain

When All Was Still

The battle of the heart ablaze with fire,
The battle for the soul still yet to come,
Who could foresee the things that would transpire?
Who could foretell which side there would have won?
When all was still, though not yet still enough,
A victor, only one, rose from the earth,
And rise and rise again, up from the dust,
Battle wrought, from dust that gave new birth.
 
When all was still, three hearts had broken and
Two mended, one left beating on the floor,
Its bloody writhing tainting the white sand,
The battle lost for it, and closed the door.
Though two had been made whole and were renewed,
The third was struck and broken down to ash.
The gods had been let loose, and had imbued
All three with magic powers that would clash.
 
The raging bonfire two had lit as one
Had then burned out with distance and with time.
Still raging, though, the third’s fire just begun
Would captivate the other with a rhyme.
He wrote the swan song’s words and spoke them out,
The incantation writ, the prophecy.
When all was still, he’d won a heart with clout
And left another in a Jealous Sea.
 
If every breath an incantation, then,
And every sentence writ, a magic spell,
The rhyme began inside that heart again
The waving, salty sea, that hopeful swell.
Hope for the hopeless what he spoke, his creed,
Yet from another heart he took away
The only hope that it could ever need,
Though that hope would come back another day.
 
What had begun as playful friendliness
Had changed to something more, and something deep
And finally to true love might progress,
If one the other’s heart would always keep.
Forged from the battle’s heat, from blood and fire,
And hammered with the anvil and the steel,
That heart would have naught left but to retire
And bitterness for those two always feel.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Johannes Was a Gentleman

Johannes was a gentleman; she had heard this.
Greta knew him not, but when he entered the room
she sensed it was the lord of the manor.

He was casual; spoke in a low voice.
Seemed to sense that a regular voice might frighten her.
She had never been this close to aristocracy.

Her father had warned her to stay away from the rich.
He had called them rapscallions, and knaves.
His experiences tainting them all, lumping them together.

Greta was more open minded than her father;
she gave him a bit of a chance. The light flickered
in his eyes; his sense of humor was obvious.
They became secret friends, more than
enough to teach her that her intuition was good.

Premium Member Breaking Free

Sometimes the person inside tries to break free,
Tainting the world and all that I see.
Running from myself , I find that I can not hide. 
Is anybody out there in which I can confide. 
Traveling through my time here
I wonder when my time shall draw near. 
And sometimes I fear.
Who am I
Am I flying too high. 
Each day that I survive
Means another day alive
Here in the land of the free
All the riches I'll never see
Take it from me.
The days keep passing me by 
Brings the age to my eye.
The scars 
Like the stars
A road map to the unknown.
A lifetime you've grown
Who am I to ask
Is life another task.
The trail is but one way.
Trying to make it a little further each day. 
Now my hair is gray.
Mortality grows real.
Changes the way you feel
Makes you stop and think
From the pool of knowledge you seek to drink.
What lies ahead
I feel no dread
I sit here and ponder instead
Passing beyond the sorrow.
I step into tomorrow.
Life begins anew
The inner strength on which I drew
Refueling my soul
My only goal.
Love, life, gone with the passing of time.
Looking for that one rhyme
That speaks out 
The world will want to shout
Words of the wise
Come in disguise
Hard to see
But may set you free
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Not the Final Solution

And so the soup’s, coming to a boil 
Very difficult, not to get embroiled 
Rumour has it, Hitler’s on the rise 
Goose stepping, in poetic disguise 
Jackboots kick open, doors of rhyme 
Acrostics embed, swastikas sublime 

Vaxxers accused, of a new blitzkrieg 
Covid deniers, offer vapid intrigue 
Enigma encoded, in sonnets of fear 
Lady Haw Haw, sobs crocodile tears 
All together poets, salute Sieg Heil!
Conspiracy theories, jabs are on trial 

Contagious haikus, causing upset 
Biden instigating, everyone’s death
God’s gone paranoid, so we’re told 
Playing both sides, to steal our souls 
Armband stars, equal covid passes
Monoku writers, killing the masses

Limericks are evil, piled full of poop
No place for crap jokes, tainting soup 
Poets reincarnated, in nom de plume
Childish dark magic, one has assumed 
So do ends, always justify the means
In war and pandemic, mania’s routine 


By
David Kavanagh
Form: Rhyme

Self-Trust Is All But a Dream

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Don’t be discouraged
Don’t be doubtful 
Don’t be disheartened 
Be happy, not mad
Be humble, not proud
Be quiet, not loud 
Be merciful, not condemning 
Be cheerful, not anxious 
Be glad, not envious 

Hello 
Hello 
I feel insecure
I see your halo
A cloud of a windy blow 

I’m feeling brilliant 
Can’t say I’m excellent
Perhaps, insignificant 
I can’t even say a simple hello to my friends behind me 
I’m just an outlandish, bittersweet introvert all over again
Spreading my mental wings of set-me-free

Be my grace…
Fading like your face…
Caught without a trace

Hello 
How have you been?
I’ve seen the unseen
Oh wait…
I hesitate…

I can’t breathe…
I’m at ease…

My mind is a castle on a train
So high and so low…can’t refrain
From driving y’all insane…
All to numb the lucky pain
Inside me…
Inside you…

However, fear is far behind me
Hope and cheer is what I want and need
I need to nourish it like my itty-bitty seed
I feel like fainting a five hundred million miles from you
I feel like tainting your fingers with my blood of residue 

I am a quiet cello in your sleep
I am that crippled fiend…A creep…
Only to find light on the other side of the sun…

I’m somewhat like an extrovert
Extending my mind’s flimsy, flowery frame
Pulling out envy's weed…what’s your name?
I hurt like an expert, wearing your blue shirt 


Basically, my nightmare became a reality 
Frankly, my eyes shower and my gaze is but a coward
Mind control got me in its web of lies…hardly…
Lately, my numb cranium is releasing dangerous defeat…I’m flying and soaring like a blue bird…

I’m an empty page…
Okay, I am enraged by being in this cage
Of my skin…of your distress…
Of your sin…you’re just trying to impress 

Strangely, I feel old age creep on me –
Awkward 

I can trust in my illuminating instincts 
It’s misfortunate that I’m so nervous 
I see wondrous winks and chinks  
Extremely battered…
Nothing else matters…
Brain-scattered…
I hear silence and its purrs 

Yeah, my bro…my wild bro 
He is the only friend I’ll be hanging out with
For the rest of my life though
I always mix up reality and fantasy and myth

WHERE OH WHERE

Making every effort
To break cycles of the past
Determined more than ever
These moments can't last

He hated poor, poor as dirt
As he set out to hold gold
He got an education
Had a heart that would never fold

Clean, cleaner than bleached white
She detested filth and mess
She gathered and controlled
All that had possibility of tainting her dress

They came out of the camp
With minds shattered and torn
Not knowing how to be
They assembled where pain was worn

...like a cloak

Where, oh where
Will healing come from
When humanity breaks
And leaves it all undone

Where, oh where
Can peace find a home
When humanity insists
Better am I, being alone

Where, oh where
Can community thrive
When entities blister and pierce
All who remain alive

Where, oh where
Is heaven in this hell
Fire burns to melt
And water has no well

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Form: Rhyme

Premium Member THE COLOR OF HATE TRAIL OF TEARS

THE COLOR OF HATE UNLIKE ALL 
THEE OTHER BRILLANT COLORS 
OF THE WORLD I MEAN YOU SEE 
IT IT'S STUNNING CAPTIVATING 
EVEN CAUSING STRANGERS TO 
GATHER TOGETHER SHARING THE 
VERY SAME FAMILIAR TRAIT OF HATE 
FOR MANY IT WAS TAUGHT OTHERS 

FIND IT MORE EXCEPTABLE THE 
COLOR OF HATE SEEMS TO CRAVE 
CERTAIN AROUSALS FEEDING OFF 
THE UNEXPECTED CREATURE THE 
COLOR OF HATE HAS ABOSOLUTELY 
NO VALUE NEVERTHELESS IT'S WORN 
MOSTLY BY THE WEATHLY DEMINSIONING 
THE CAUSE AND EFFECT THAT COMES 

FROM DEEP WITHIN THE SELF CONSCIOUS 
MIND TO ALLOW THE COLOR OF HATE TO 
EXIST IN A WORLD COVERED SO BLATENLY 
WITH PAIN IT CONTROLS THE PURITY OF 
OUR CHARACTER WHY I'M BROWN MY 
HUSBANDS WHITE OUR CHILDREN ARE 
A COLORFUL RAINBOW TRIBE WE GATHER 
LAUGH ENJOYING THE FREEDOMS OF JUST 

LIVING LOVING UNRECOGNIZED AS A 
HOLY MATRIMONY IN THE EYES OF MANY
LAWS HAVE CHANGED BUT EVERY NO 
AND THEN WE ARE REMINDED CERTAIN 
CLASS WOULD LYNCH US BOTH STRAIGH 
AWAY LOOKING BACK OVER A TIME COUPLES
LIKE US RETREATED ACROSS STATE LINES JUST 
TO EMBRACE WITHOUT THE PRYING EYES 

THE TORCHES THE HOUNDS INVADING US
SMEARING OUR BLENDED HERITAGE TAINTING 
LOVE WITH HATE PRYING EYES CHANT FOR 
PERHAPS WE ARE THE SPECKLED SHEEP ARE 
SHEPHERD IS LOVETHE COLOR OF LOVE 
CAPTIVATES YOUR SPIRIT WHILE WE DANCE 
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE SPREADING JOY 
THIS HISSING THE CACKLING HOW DO THEY 

LIVE HOW DO THEY LOVE GO WAY GO BACK 
WHERE YOU CAME FROM  WHAT COLOR ARE 
THEY BLACK WHITE BROWN ARE THEY RED
WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF JEAN PAUL 
BAPTISE POINTE DUSABLE THIS IS OUR HOME 
WE ARE HOME WE SAFE WE ARE CHICAGO 
                  CAHOKIA ILLINOIS

WRITTEN BY YOLANDA NICHOSEN 
7-28-2024
Form: Marsiya

Premium Member Your Latin Radere - the Etching

Beautiful, burnished, brilliant
Yet, my ink friendly inclinations produce a chemical discrepancy
And now, you come – Artist
Scratching, on my polished mental plate
Do not blacken me with your fumigating candle
Do not soak me in your acidic bath
Yet, here you are, sketching to leave your design
Ever so lightly, you etch, carefully, penetrating 
Acid soaks into your carefully drawn lines 
The depth of your influence is varied 
Teasing a relief by removing your blackened wax 
Only to soak me in your iniquitous ink
Here, I must bring it an end. I must stop you - Artist
I must cleanse my mental plate
Chasten long and purposed for that original surface
Until a polished steel-plated revelation
Yes, there, beautiful, burnished, brilliant…perfect, if not for
Your Latin radere
The etchings of your needle
The stain of your ink in my serrations
My effort seems wasted
The vestiges of your ink tainting all that I touch
Now, everything has your art
Like wetted paper onto my mental plate

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