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Blood Stained and Bleeding World

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What's happened to world serenity?
It been trampled on and has run amuck,
burned and wounded, ravaged by hate 
while people look on as though they're dumbstruck.
The world has lost its identity...

The Chaos in My Heart

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I don't know of anyone who's been successful 
in an attempt to capture the encumbrance 
of a love pledged and then withdrawn,
nor how to heal a heart from its fallibility.

So, I'm left wo...

In and out the lusty nil wedding bells

...(Inspired by Marvin Goldfarb's great contest in which I won a trophy cup and wonderful poems by other English poets as noted below, 'LESSON IN LIFE' by BrittBrattTechy, 'Every child deserves better' ...

Yet, it returned

...My old house stood
by a march
surrounded by bushes and rushes.
Thrown over it
garbage  and faeces
sometimes,death rodents.
Disgustful it's dwellers often came up
on the portico of my house,
I...

Us Parochials

...I’d put on the gray drab uniform,
catch the yellow bus, while
other villagers made a pilgrimage
to Violet Avenue Elementary School,
and us parochials would be driven
to the now closed St. Peters...

3rd wheeling

...(A Christmas vacation vignette)

Lisa and I choppered onto Manhattan Island yesterday morning. We’d both felt toasted—so we took naps—and yay! We awoke recharged.

Later that evening, Lisa and I ...

Last touch

...If demons had wings they'd find they're way to her heart,
It's a blasphemous affair
She's white linen fabric and I,a pitiable being
Our differences make us beautiful creatures
These are the forbi...

Desultory Existence

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Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
The earth has become a panting sterile desert
Words become incoherent and rattle as I talk
Dry dust rises behind me as I walk
When I try to commun...

Critterature: The Peculiar Plight of the Poor Pitiable Octopus

...To the ancient Norse he was Kraken
With a mean inclination,
And the Greeks called him Gorgon
With the same reputation.
But as monster of myths
He's been wrongly miscast,
So I'm here to shed new...

Sipping Claret from a Lismore Goblet

...Bereft and alone since love was lost,
she sits in deep shadows
humming the same song
sipping claret from a Lismore goblet

Day and night, in silence she dwells 
Time no longer sifts through an ...

Rime and Reason I Shall Not

...Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Rime and Reason I ...

The Wail of a Love Letter

...Carrying the fever and heat
of love’s first flame,
I set out on a journey
expectant and anxious, 
sealed and tight lipped,
all emotions bottled.

From port to port I journeyed,
tr...

The Sullied

...On the streets of Lagos,lumbasa , Kigali,
Cairo and their environs 
Shame etched his name on thy skin 
Thou art become a site for dumping
For all willing to dump

Gone is thy once-proud stature...

The Sorrow of the Skies

...The Sorrow of the Skies

The sun and the moon were once great lovers
In ancient days gone by.
The clouds formed from their sorrow, and the rain, when they would cry. 
For this pitiable couple we...

Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids

...Through wanderings of dreams that simmer beneath closed eyelids,
A man chose to remain silent, waiting in vain for vibrant moments.
Wrapped in the warm cocoon of faded security,
He saw life turnin...

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