Long Unsettles Poems

Ma,
Why do I need to apostrophize you? Why did you flew away into the celestial regions so earlier? Is it because you are from a land where ‘twenty is plenty’ for women? And hence, ignoring...

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A man unpresidentially known for the showerhead
Msholozi, the man in charge of singlehandedly running a nation into crisis
With him at the helm the public anxiously watches as the state of things degenerate
The rand has slumbered,...

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Gradually the crystalizing dawn -- more hardened  
    Than folded steel --- more sharper than 
  The blade that cuts! 
   Wisps of thin vapour, once loitering insidiously...

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There were silence and stillness in the autumn air
Foliage adorned the trees like fair auburn hair
The stream did not bubble; the pond had no ripples
The garden seemed uninhabited by people

But the garden was not void...

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Many moons ago the island was born
spewed up in a volcanic eruption
it was perfectly formed out of rock
five nautical miles from the mainland

A barren isle with no life on it
visited sometimes by birds and seals
over...

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The constant need for constant motion lulls the sharp coil
Of twisting anxiety around her core.

It begins in madness, the subconscious kick start of her heart
She knows does not exist.      ...

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Dust circles
Night unsettles
A broken form 
Now, owns the horizon

A perfect storm
Searching for...needing an origin

Tears risen
Fears driven
Into a dream
To the end of all reason

A wind so warm
To capture beauty like a prison

Chorus
Riches come fast
But it’s all...

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I teeter on the brink of possibility. 
The sun on the new horizon glistens 
its rays on the undulating sea of change. 

I gaze a while, drifting with a squawking gull, 
or diving with a...

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In snooker there is but one rule
To play your best at the crucible
Professionals play under extreme pressure
For the crowds joy and immense pleasure



Fifteen reds set up on the table
Potting away at different angles
Six different colours...

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Moon, Moon, see what I give you, moon.
an offering, as images
Hitherto quiescent in their primal darkness
Writhe upward from the writhing mind
Like sacrificial smoke.
For now my mind avid for the sea
Destined to replace it surges like...

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The sunset whispers get together in the bowl
The electricity hands them over the momentum
The oranges in the soul a bit out of control
The golden darkness stirs the dormant venom

My horizons crumble in the pink petals
As...

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Something about David, unsettles me
Something about David, is different
I saw . . . the warning sign
It came, with my compulsion, to be near him 
To console and comfort him
To share the nerve, the pain, and...

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Nights spent, drenched in fear
Knives available, pills in abundance
Weight of the world, shoulders bear too much
Journey's end is close, any further, too far
Will buckles again, giving up once more.

Dreams revisit reality, rest does not restore
Eyes...

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What makes a poem poetry finds life between its lines,
A gift some readers strain to see, like secret Valentines
The poet hides in sacred text, a Bible I might use,
(Not something that a class assigned), that’s...

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I have a song stuck inside my head; and it won’t let anybody but me see it. 
Believe me, I’ve tried and tried to make it come out.
It just says ‘No.” and crawls about.
I can’t...

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I am walking in the garden 
of an ancient city
The walls are covered 
with climbing ivy of a delicate hue
The dews are thick after the warm rains
There in the middle, the stately statue 
withstands the...

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Pelted forth, hanging strings of moorland curtains,
  Endless rains, tart and stinging nettles,
Drive the icy pitons, needles of frozen spite,
  Through the scalp into the mind where it unsettles.

God, I hate this land,...

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The insult to sober conviction
unsettles the saints.
Give me your hand, 
to solve this problem.
An abstract idea joins
the postures of different conflicts,
the worship of crumpled illusions. 
After great sufferings
only proverbs give a soothing effect.

Images blur, misspent...

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Seldom pleasure I receive in my mind.
Probably due to severe bad weather?
Rather! My serotonin’s left behind.
Enough of the freezing stone cold weather!
Admit that life’s not always beautiful.
Do something bout it and make your utmost.
Instead of...

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It stifles me - 
the heavy breathing down my neck. 
I feel the force of your love 
overwhelming in its intensity 
and it stifles me. 

You  think you know me 
but you love a...

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Self-seeking combined with appetite
unsettles our global foundations. 
Arrogant malice yields agony
as volatile as dynamite.
Diplomats dream up celebrations
portraying worldwide euphony.
Dazzling garlands line the street
winking past the gluttony.
Roses from all nations
scintillate, incomplete
harmony.

March 9, 2020

The last three lines...

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What's time?
It's that ticking second, that greatly unnerves me,
It's that flitting moment, that captures me,
It's that immutable hour, that unsettles me.
What's time?
It's that time I want to be with you.

What's a moment?
It's that stillness in...

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No speculation. A meaningful 
dialogue must start, when you 
are surrounded by a dust? 
belt and fading stars. There 
was no resurgence? 
of hope. No purpose was put forward, 
no incubation was held and 
there...

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