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Blinken's List

Today, we saw the handwriting of imperialism
On the walls of our democracy
Today, our sovereignty is on the scaffold,
Pilloried by a white supremacist,
Who threatened our country and her people.

Mr Secretary has written a long list
Threatening our leaders from venturing on their soil;
A proclaimed God's own country,
Where God really does not matter,
But desires that are too alien for a normal thinking mind.

On Blinken's List
Are names of men who bear our names and culture
And the Africanness that we portray.
We are no second-class people
Whose leaders can be threatened by the power of arms by America.

Blinken wrote to teach us right from wrong
But right in His backyard, more evil looms,
The US election is under scrutiny,
The Texas shooting is still fresh in our minds.

Blinking or Blinken
Mr. Secretary, stop blinking
For we are wise enough to know your inkling;
The lands you have ravaged,
And the people that have gone back to the dust,
Through the power of ammunitions you wield,
In Afghanistan and Iraq
And your love for the zionist oppressor.

A Visa Ban
One meant for your barn
And your land which will
Never be close to the beauty of paradise.
We no longer believe in you and your values
And we have no resources for you and your cronies to loot.

Tell us what good is in your country;
Hell packaged in a pleasure box
Sought by those ready to be doomed,
All your men are fast becoming women
In the name of being gay.
And your fallen dollar value
Should be a headache from the BRICS.

Tell us what is good about your land,
The drugs and the constant shootings that have become a norm,
The vices and the oppression of which your castles were built
Are issues enough for your table.

We are Africans
We are a people of worth
Who will never bow to any bully,
We are a loving people
And we can't be forced to roam our streets like your naked ones.
The days of colonisation have passed,
We can no longer accept your acts of re-colonization,
Through your list of deceit,
Where our professors are being pummelled 
And our leaders are being accused
Of a crime which they never committed.

Like you have traitors
We have the treacherous 
For we are a people of varying tribes
And of sages and scribes
And we also have a right
To stop you from stepping on our soil.

Ayinla Muyideen
(C) 2023
Form: Narrative


CHEESE



Any foodie on the brink

Of getting moody thinks

Of the dear dairy panacea 

The culinary kinks

The cultural links

Gourmet high jinx

Of no.. not Cullen skink

CHEESE


As drinks clink then sink

Where the nods & the winks

Go to the food of the Gods

The stuff that really really stinks

CHEESE
 

A noble global endeavour

Arty farty dolcelatte party

Comte & cheddar

Smutty nutty double header

CHEESE


Palette caged by a rare

Cave aged Gruyere

Who can forget..appetite whet

Heat light stand manned..expands..

Milky glue or is it silky Moo Goo 

Fanned..hands pulling strands

Eat not..planned fondue

Best damned bet 

Always get a Raclette

CHEESE


Prouder of Gouda

Or louder Parmesan fan 

Even when its powder?

Tilting to the built in love

For Stilton.. never wilting

Hard the calling card


Or more a Roquefort sort

Taught soft held aloft

French can’t bench moulds 

Aristocratic blue vein

Dramatic wench holds court

Emphatic stench & stain

CHEESE


Whatever floats your boat

Maybe Goat gets your vote 

Or those in the know

Gloat..chose sheep & Manchego

CHEESE


Young or well hung

Given time in the cellar

But won’t sneer at Paneer

Mozzarella can be stellar

Even give a damn

About dear Madame Edam

CHEESE


If you're of that whining ilk

Got that dining disease

Opining it’s just mouldy milk

Having a dig..you big tease…

Well won’t try to appease

CHEESE


Wary of the not rated

Scary squirting lube 

You squeeze with ease

Flirting fairy out of a tube

Ill fated.. pre grated or

Diced into a nice cube

CHEESE?


Or drastic vices 

Plastic elastic slices

Could go for Dairy Lea 

Fell under the Babybel spell

Or pray tell maybe

Its Le Vache qui Rit

CHEESE?


Always a winning wheeze

Ideal at the beginning 

Or end of a meal

No ratty ways of thinning


Natty diets lose to fatty riots

Choose ways of sinning

A ruse to amuse..

MORE CHEESE PLEASE 

He says grinning


P.S If eating cheese before bed 

Gives you a crappy nightmare


So what if you have fed 

On cheese in these dreams


No scrappy schemes in your head

Led to days with rays of sunbeams


Teams of happy memes instead

Well it seems only fair
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Pig, Little Pig

When the wolf applied nicely
If he could come in,
The pigs replied thricely he shouldn't.
Then they scratched at the hairs
On their chinny chin chins,
And tightly bolted the door so he wouldn't.

But wolves, when out shopping,
Are not easily put off,
Even faced with the risks they are takin'.
This one ignored the wheezing,
And the nagging, rasping cough,
In his lust for ham, pork chops, and bacon.

First, he blew down the straw house,
Then the one made of sticks,
But by the third he was straining and grasping.
It was a veritable fortress
Of well-mortared bricks,
And emphysema left him panting and gasping.

With one last mournful howl,
The wolf knew he was done
And lay down in the driveway, embarrassed.
The pigs regained their composure
And called 911,
But when the cops came, the wolf claimed he was harassed.

The argument raged
For an hour or more
'til the cops gave them all a citation.
Still gasping for breath
As he slunk from the door,
The wolf was stopped by a squealed invitation.

"Wolfie, oh, Wolfie, please won't you come in?
We'd so like to have you for lunch."
And he would have gone on and ignored the appeal,
If he only knew that "ragout de loup" (pr. rah-goo duh loo)
Was the entrée, but he had no hunch,
And he was not one to pass up a free meal.

When a wolf's sick and hungry,
He might let down his guard
And do dumb things a wolf shouldn't ought to.
But for pigs, it's expedient
To get the final ingredient
Required for a tasty "wolf stew".

The wolf's huffing and puffing
Couldn't even come close
To the pigs' stratagems and devices.
After seven martinis,
It still hadn't dawned on the dope
That intelligence wasn't one of his vices.

If he'd had more brains than brawn,
This poor wolf might have known
That the pigs never meant to surrender.
They'd no more need to fear or hate him,
They knew the booze would marinate him,
So when they served him up and ate him,
He'd be quite succulent and tender.

If this tale has a moral, I'd like to propose
That "three heads are better than one" be selected.
In this case, not the one who worked the hardest,
But the ones who worked the smartest,
And as the little piggies guessed,
The wolf was the perfect luncheon guest.
Of course, their table manners weren't the best,
So they still made pigs of themselves, as expected.

From the Elephant's Diary

From the Elephant's diary


You find me giantly like Gulliver, huge and obese
but I met my doc, he said take it with ease....
for you big is more beautiful so eat more cheese
I am on my diet of sugarcane juice,
lush green grass n' tons of bamboos
Mammoth was my forefather not anymore seen
Now I know being gigantic is in my genes
Instructor at the gym shooed me away
for I broke his treadmill with my single step I say
We love to have our bath in nature's pool
We dabble water with our trunk till we are all cool
A relaxing shower for all friends after hectic schedule!
In our forest club, trophy for best music band,
we won last week for our trumpet troupe!

               Large is our family my Jumbo uncle says,
               Old and wise he is in our tuskers' herd
               He says our eyes are small, to see
               only little good left in this big bad world
               And our ears are large to fan away
               the gossips and bad we hear
               Thick skin we do have so called pachyderms
               to shrug off the  hurling vices of the woods
               but we have a large heart to spread
               loads of love to all species widespread

In history, we have a place reserved 
for in wars and royal processions, 
we were used as pride symbols he says 
Revered animals we are since eons.....
In country called India, heritage animal we are
and even worshipped in religious places he says!
Huge boulders or logs ,mankind used us for transport 
We even entertain them in zoos and circus

               But he regrets that we are poached, killed by men 
               to pull out pair of our incisors called tusks
               who polish to make precious ivory to earn bucks
               So useful and harmless friends to humans we are
               I asked my uncle why so cruel the men are?
               He said men show their power 
               of being Nature's superior creature 
               we elephant folk are helpless giants
               We can do nothing but to pray that 
               we be valued for our selfless services and
               be saved from going extinct from this world!

                 ©Copyright Anulaxmi Nayak,2015 


For contest: Giant animals
Sponsored by: D.Nathan
Date: 2nd September 2015
© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.

My Fire

When I go home damn
Its really quiet 
Never thought I'd find this amount of white noise
In the pitch black face silence 
As I flip scenarios of something like self inflicted violence
making, my room, look....just a lil more stylish
I'll douse the walls with my wrist's imitation of your red fingernail polish 
Seems like
The riot in my mind may have leaked out
Some sound and the floorboards of this house still creek but a paddle im 
without 
Drowning 
In my surroundings 
Thought my flow would let me float on but ya boy ain't so buoyant tho
Fall in to the blue sky's reflection as I plummet into my foe
I'm a machine, can't have water get too close
Not afraid of water, because I can't swim
Scared of depth and darkness, and oceans will force me to give in 
I don't wanna share my lungs 
Lemme breathe for me
Please

Fraid uh water because I've coasted the trans-parent sea 
It's weird when you can say "my parents see right through me" 
Custody war
But I lost every battle 
Reached for anything
All I got was a broken handle on everything

Vices

Sex life flowing down south with her g string and sex appeal 
I need to 
but cannot feel 
As I challenge my demons to a battle
Im kind of like the scent leading the pack to the cattle 
Never really see me coming
But I'll lead you to something that'll have ya bowels runnin
Digestive tract star
Ingest every bar
And when you're done im the ****
Even if you ain't really like it
I mean if you want,
Glance at my ego leave a scar 
Or get impressed call me a star 
My stride the only thing between me and going far

Serpentine with your actions but I call you baby 
Cold-Blooded
Now I see why you stay so shady
because to me it seems like you've got nothing but an innocent rattle
Blinded, because I let my lap become your saddle

Your reflection yelling at me im surprised you couldn't tell
Treating me like I was the first Angel sent to hell 
If Jesus was a lamb I can be your scapegoat at the very least 
Sacrilegious sacrifices, looked past the fact I'm actually a feral beast

Shook, like a Harlem shake rattlesnake attention deficit rook
Playin the say it wit ya chess game and I wrote all the books 
King disguised as a pawn 
I'll put myself on 
Competition going down 
South
Hit that nae napalm expellin from my mouth

My fire...


My Next Life

The master said it well with the statement he proclaimed
For I will be that person who has returned again
“Your iniquities shall be visited to the third and fourth generation”
That makes the time just perfect for my next incarnation

Two Thousand Eighty Six is when my next life will begin
A new and perfect body with my old soul snug within
I will start again with lessons that I am learning now
The lessons learned in this life are the things that I will know

I will take these lessons with me imprinted firmly in my soul
These things will surely take me one step closer to my goal
The world will be much different with new lessons there to learn
But what I have learned in this life will help me at that turn

I have taken many bodies; I will take at least one more
In years the cycle is a journey of one hundred forty four
The soul is on the wheel of life and goes from birth to birth
About half the time regrouping and the balance here on earth

When the time comes for my rebirth back into this place
I will choose the perfect body to rejoin the human race
There are things that I must finish, bits of karma to absolve
Certain traits that I must conquer, certain vices to resolve

I will be a better person for my soul will have evolved
Of the seven deadly sins, I know that some I have resolved
I will try to solve the others as I go through my next life
For my soul is growing weary from this worlds' pain and strife

I’ll try to do it in my next life, I have progressed much in this
But I know I’m still a few steps short of everlasting bliss
I hope to do it next time before they put me in the ground
My goal’s to do it next time, in just one more time around

I thank the god within me for his presence I can feel
And I’ll be ever grateful when I’ve evolved off this wheel
It has been a magical journey but I’m glad it’s near complete
And I will soon be occupying my lofty creators’ seat

Many thousand times I’ve come here, it has brought me here to this 
Where I will soon be able to revel in its’ bliss
And be reintegrated with the universal soul
Never to return here for that’s my final goal

I have lived a good life I have learned and I have grown
I’ve accomplished many things and I will reap what I have sown
I hope that you’ll forgive me if my poems fail to rhyme
But they’ll be flowing beautifully, hopefully…… next time
© Vic Pister  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member World Day Against Racism

You asked me the other day, my friend, 
who I am and I replied:
I am you in another body!
Yes, it is true,  
Look, how much the same we are,
No matter what, the color
The creed
The race
The status

Look, 
I am born and I die
I suffer and I enjoy
I love and I hate, just
Like you!

I am a father, a brother, a son, 
A mother, a sister, a daughter, just   
Like you,

Happiness I seek, 
Family to raise is my wish, 
Peace to find I look for,    
Just like you

I yearn 
I abhor 

I fear
I hope

I bleed 
I heal, 
Just like you,

I believe
I doubt 

I accept
I refuse

I laugh 
I cry, 
just like you

We are alike
We are the same
We are brothers...
 
Children of a unique father. 
 

Tell me, 
My brother, 
My friend,
My ally,  
Why do we have to oppose,
To fight
To hurt
To destroy and
To eliminate 
One another?  

Are our seas really that narrow,
Our oceans that small,
Our lands so limited 
To contain all of us?

Or
 
Is it the case that 
Our hearts are not big enough 
And our minds not so wide-open to 
Enfold all mankind?     

Listen to me, my other self:
It is up to us to change this world 
We have inherited, with its virtues and vices,
History and culture 
Flaws and merits 
And
Try to make it 
Better
Nobler 
Kinder and more caring
By obliterating harmful beliefs, 
Demolishing injurious divisions,
Destroying detrimental distrust, 
Annihilating racism and eradicating 
The erroneous feeling of poisonous superiority 
For 
To bring the dawn of a new loving world, 
A world of acceptance 
Of respect 
Of justice 
Of equality
Of love and 
Of universal brotherhood

So as 

With peace in our hearts, liberated we would be
From the past’s deleterious tribulations
That for myriads of years, 
Have kept us, fighting one another!


© Demetrios Trifiatis
     21 MARCH 2015


Copyright © Demetrios Trifiatis | Year Posted 2015




NOTE! Today because of the “ World Day Against Racism” my moral duty, couldn’t let me stay away!
 
This poem of mine is an old poem of 2013 that has been edited and improved today thus it is posted now as a new poem! 

* I did this for all my friends who wish me to come back. I will come back when I am ready! Thank you for your love!

The First Estate of Paris, France

They Riot.
They revel in frank spotlight, 
getting drunk in a boozy blitz. 
You can find them wrapped in the lush covers of pure linen on Sunday mornings, 
their madness of headaches and chills covering their aching bodies as they skip the early mass. 
They’re boys that play the cards of life,
gambling away any sane they have left.
If you’re a witness they’ll slip you a hundred, 
and tell you to keep your champagne soaked, honey dripping lips shut. 
While they sip
and throw away money, 
and write what no man could ever imagine. 
their celestial smiles draw you in, 
and their crumbling hearts refuse to love. 
they count their vices before they go to sleep, 
hoping with vile smirks for just one more. 
Wicked souls and radiant faces,
That’s what everyone says. 
their pockets are full of blooming green trees, 
That’s what everyone says. 
Glass chalices filled to the brim with molten bronze. 
That’s what everyone says. 
Ten boys who blush at the sight of glimmering gold, 
and shiver at the mere thought of dripping crystals wrapped around their necks in the thousands.
Ten boys who Rip Ruins out of each others throats, 
Kissing the face of death with blackberry wine stained teeth and magnolia projected breath. 
their once simple minds soak up wretched knowledge like sponges in the mediterranean sea, fathers teaching sons to trip the dance that life plays on realing repeat. 
He teaches them to love one lady only, her worth is enough to buy them the world itself. 
Their silk pants stretch with inherited stacks of green dye stained paper, 
rendering their useless hands guilty as they count them, 
slip for slip. 
Have they let their hands become rough from labor? 
What a silly question one might ask, they’ve never worked a sunset in their lives. 
They wish on their four lucky stars that daddy won’t go bankrupt, 
His money is the only thing keeping them in their right insane minds. 
They scratch at their skulls in pandemonium, 
searching for an oasis inside their hellish, bourbon soaked tears. 
Yet they find nothing. 
Screaming nothing, 
ripping at their shredded vocal chords. 
Wanting out, 
But being trained to only go so far.
Yet they can still catch the kite that flows so far, 
They are, 
 Empty Nothing. 

?

The Land of Sophia

Escape the tort of our avarice world
Defy the ones who shift the blame
Deter the decadence forgetting shame
Freedom is on the top of the bare eyes
Beyond the consciousness of The Human Kind
Search harder and then you'll find 
The Land of Sophia

Dwelling past are needs
Swirling around our bare minds
Our wants polluting out sight
the Land of Sophia is lost at night

Are the Lies held 
worth it in time
Only embracing The Veil of Logic
The Truth is cast into shade
where all vices are soon to be made
For all of our dreams and dramaticies
The Destruction Star poisons seas

Far from This Galaxy
among the stars
I can see myself,
And The One I've became

Escape the tort of our avarice world
Defy the ones who shift the blame
Deter the decadence forgetting shame
Freedom is on the top of the bare eyes
Beyond the consciousness of The Human Kind
Search harder and then you'll find 
The Land of Sophia

Dwelling past are needs
Swirling around our bare minds
Our wants polluting out sight
the Land of Sophia is lost at night

Caught in our lust,
of forgetting trust
I wonder can we break free
of bound forever in the clutches 
of Lilith's Love
Eden's Heart

Who's desperate For Love
Who's desperate For Light
yet wallows in Blight
and chooses to wait--forevermore 
The wait in Summer--An Eternity
Lilith's Love
Eden's Heart

Escape the tort of our avarice world
Defy the ones who shift the blame
Deter the decadence forgetting shame
Freedom is on the top of the bare eyes
Beyond the consciousness of The Human Kind
Search harder and then you'll find 
The Land of Sophia

Dwelling past are needs
Swirling around our bare minds
Our wants polluting out sight
the Land of Sophia is lost at night

We don't chose what's right
I can't believe we are able to see this far
Crawling in Shadows
Never will breath find it's light

Escape the tort of our avarice world
Defy the ones who shift the blame
Deter the decadence forgetting shame
Freedom is on the top of the bare eyes
Beyond the consciousness of The Human Kind
Search harder and then you'll find 
The Land of Sophia

Dwelling past are needs
Swirling around our bare minds
Our wants polluting out sight
the Land of Sophia is lost at night




**Mark Jansen, Guitarist, Male Vocals, and main songwriter of Epica**

Pilgrim's Flight

Declared plainly by those that know not thee	                     of whom this present world was not worthy                                Their cries still being heard how long Oh, Lord                                They were were slain with the sword
of stones of hangings Of Crosses and Stakes                     Brazen Bulls and Iron Beds they where baked                         racks and wheels screws and vices                                          iron maidens and all other evil devices
Lit candles lighting the gardens of cruel kings                             Tortures and Torments but they still sing                                 unto blood shed men of valor showing God's Love consistent of lion's and lamb's eagle's and dove's                     Courage and strength to put tens of thousands to flight                instead suffering servant's showing mercy like Christ Surely they have won the battle not lost 		                for they follow the One counting the cost 	                                   What manner of death Glorifying God                                              Loving the brethren when they would not 	           as Valiant as they can be                                                           the world to come they seek                                                       Overcoming this world for another                                             for the Love of God and brother                                            -  Based on the Word of God ,Fox's book of martyrs, Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs'', itself a photographic copy of an earlier, rare folio published by William Brendon & Son in 1904. - and  HE WHO WOULD VALIANT BE Who Would True Valor See the  Words: John Bun­yan, Pil­grim’s Prog­ress, 1684; mo­di­fied by Per­cy Dear­mer in The Eng­lish Hymn­al (Lon­don: Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty Press, 1906
© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
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