Mr Slim
He was a born teacher
From birth destined to be
You'd know by his phene.
In capitalist-run schools
He's taught for many years
Earning pennies for labour.
Three years a beneficiary
On stipend of N-power teach
The Program axed by corruption.
Then long a community teacher
He's rendering public service
For little pay out of community levy.
He's adept; he got more papers
Hoping for full
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Categories:
politics society, abuse, betrayal, career, future,
Form: Blank verse
Make Me Wait
You’re making me wait
“just two more weeks,”
but already the wait’s
crossed half a year.
“A few more weeks,
no difference,”you say,
and it’s true, but you see,
in the bigger picture,
a whole generation waits.
a/n: The system of education here in Sri Lanka is far from moving on from the differences that covid brought to us. The whole
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Categories:
politics society, anxiety, education, high school,
Form: Free verse
Fire and Fury
Will we see fire death and pain,
fall from the fingertips of the insane?
Will we get tweets of our own destruction
from people on permanent malfunction?
If you’re searching for the truth you’d better not ask
those politicians who hide behind an outlaw's black mask.
What we do this day can never
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Categories:
politics society, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Cynic
CYNIC
He was Dean of the university’s
College of Creative Malfeasance,
including the Schools of Business,
Law, Information Technology, Marketing,
Economics, Theology and International
Relations!
His son was more sinister
He was a minister in the
Church of Confederate Christianity,
a denomination that is anti-family,
anti-immigrant, anti-democratic,
anti-Semitic, racist, pro-gun
and absolutely pro-life, perpetually
in the courts, perpetually in the news
and social media, perpetually in
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Categories:
politics society, society,
Form: Free verse
Today Is Just Another Day
Let go - and fly
Every morning Rising Like Displaced ether
Merging into the miracle of life
Such grandeur I cannot guess
Why We are blessed this way
To wake not once,, But twice.
First with life Then, with a truth that hearts
would perish for. Oh! To be so blessed,
Who but God, Is worthy such
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Categories:
politics society, angst, change, conflict, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Power and the 'Poweries'
You can't miss power,
rides black, shiny, muscled horses,
with black dogs running ahead
to clear the way and keep people away,
else people scare the horses,
drop the riders and trample them.
An enigma for the crowds,
like a smell spreads
quickly and all over.
It's a heavy load for the wise,
but fulfilling for little egos,
walking scared with arrogance,
while the inane,
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Categories:
politics society, power, society,
Form: Prose