Long Transact Poems

'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor

In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...

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Question for candidates:

Assuming you preach what you most exegetically practice,
how has your campaign prioritized

carbon footprint reduction,
investment in ecosystemic cooperative policies and procedures,
disinvestment in Business As Usual competitive self-promotion,
in both economic 
and political,
secular
and sacred,
natural body
and spiritual...

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December rains
Hurl aqueous tears;
Salty aftertaste

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Monsoon season
Wet and wet again;
Abrupt mood swings

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Seek knowing
Beyond word count;
Awareness sums

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Wet market lanes
Slippery slimy walkways;
Jerky footfalls splash

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Bargain hunters
Black Friday sales;
Mob mentality

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Hot tea brew
Random conversations;
Drifting away

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Rustic tea house
Aromatic fragrance;
Poignant deluge

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Elemental harmony
Geomancy fortifies;
Feng...

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By Erastus "Popyeny" Shipuleni

The heart is the Island inside me and you.
It speaks the language of its own, have its own way of doing reacting.

It feeds on whatever..., what is that whatever?
The five basic senses...

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It's not the exchange rate or demand I value,
When I think of any United States Dollar;
I think of the currency note or coin whose view,
Depict biographies of persons of valor...

John Quincy Adams, nation-thinker of no...

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Truth burns at the center of all occurrance,
it is a heat that motivates appettites to enlarge,
truth is a multiplier of quests, 
satisfaction always arrives at the porch of a new path,
truth does not reveal endings,...

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with their words they
embark our minds on a
a journey, a journey to
 the garden of Eden, where we 
would have jobs, houses, clean water,
electricity, education and better infrastructure.
"Were they claim to have improved our standard
...

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Dark night
Haze shades grey sky;
Humid weather groans

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Lovers waltz
Wedding banquet glimpses;
Joy unfurls passion

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Old cobbler squats
Busy with mending
Worn-out footwear soles

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Odd couple argue
Over supermarket things;
Appetites collide

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Newspaper vendor
Old lady preaches news;
Gloomy Monday

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Wet market ambience
Hazardous slippery floors;
Unsightly misadventure

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Old friends meet
Rough...

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Buzz of human feet,
Crowds swarming the trains;
Sea of faces meet,
Private matters strain.


Downtown trip we take,
Darling and I plow;
Human nature stakes,
Umpteen whys and hows.


We reach City Hall,
Find our way around;
Tour the festive mall,
Bright shoppes anchor grounds.


Caterpillar...

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You act like you’re all that -
gaining green when you rap,
but I say lines of utter crap
come from your verbal flap.
You lack and I can back that.

My slapjack, whapping facts
would not be rinsed with tact
since...

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That day down side of me upward blooming
I came into your presence of fragmented light
Leaping from glazed sun to glass and streaming
To frame you like an angel, flowering bright
Smiles for a fragrant wind of frivolous...

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Poem
Poet
They don’t always match
It is not exact
I mean, opposites attract
Every brand new batch
Of poems can detract
From the original, not intact
The idea that did hatch
May not become tact
The meaning now abstract
But I guess that is the...

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The core of basic freedoms
Is the freedom to transact
This underpins the other rights
In the Magna Carta pact

The crux is private property
To use, or hold, or trade
Our time, our land, our energy
Our work - our fortune...

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Life is a game with cards that come,
Wear well your name and live wise sums.


Do what you do and dare to act,
Yes live and woo your game and tact.


Live well with change and walk your...

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having aged, we’re no longer in our prime
yet vibrance of our heart remains intact
tweets of love continuing to transact
each moment deemed as the optimal time

heart sings a song and we dance to its chime 
lost...

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The absence was glaring 
like an elephant, 
monstrous,illusive,
membranous, diaphanous,
obvious to everyone
in the room, complicit in joint deception.
The unwritten absence, never
resolved, never truly dealt with,
hung like a pall of smoke
you could see, smell and taste,
but not...

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