Predictability Poems

Lies Wrapped in Love

...She smiles, and you believe.
She whispers, and you disarm.
Her affection is not affection,
but a weapon—
a stratagem dressed in silk.

Napoleon bent kingdoms to his will,
but could not bend Jo...

Killicks

...All around us 
there are killicks.
Nothing about this 
is mythic
or metaphysic.
Killicks are small anchors
bringing balance 
and stability
and even predictability
to many aspects of our live...

Utopia

...
“If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you’ve created a world without conflict in which everything is perfect. And if there is no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – ...

Defying Predictability

...With hair ablaze
a jester unconfined.
I scoffed at the mundane 
its life declined.
My wardrobe 
a riot
a rhapsody bold.
Mismatched socks my standard 
stories untold.

In classrooms of tediu...

Hustlers Life Part 1

...Moms wondering when her son will come home
She don’t realize he now belong to the road
Chose his own destiny, a hustler’s life
Married the game, she’s a demanding young wife
He’s lost sight
Thro...

No Solution

...Silence and violence,
but never any solace.
Blaming and shaming.
Never any taming.
This side or that side?
Never any combined...
forces for the good,
no one is understood.
A senseless cycle,
...

My Lucille Ball Purse

...My twin sister Carolyn is wildly creative.
She has made me a Lucille Ball purse.
It is fabulous; I love it!

There is a cartoon montage of Lucy all over it.
Many recognizable faces on various ep...

Psycho

...trapped in the category of basic feelings, attesting to the functional regularity of the average human and demonstrating the crystal-clear predictability of their secular behavior, hatred, love, e...

Love Under R17 - Or 17 Rands

...As I write ... streams slow
And a trickle of guilt
Flow, flow, flow
"Father, father, Faaathhher"
From beyond my gate and border
"Pastor, pastor, pastor"
Was the cry an hour before
He, Shady, g...

Karmic Cement

...The sky hounds are tracking me down 
in the cul-de-sac of social anxiety drive... 
Despite covering my tracks in a hot peppered wind...
sticking the heart into a bowl of burning dice
(to cover th...

Like the Early Morning Mists

...Like the early morning mists 
That rise from the waters’ depths
Memories emerge in swirls and twists
Foggy shadows of lives past 
Of them all, childhood scenes outlast
‘Membrances of dear, famil...

Raindrops - Not Quite Haiku

...Raindrops, noisy little buggers
                                          ....ricochet off the windows


Raindrops, itinerant drummers
                                          .....searching fo...

Permission To Mourn

...It is okay to mourn
the rapid speed by which this treacherous virus
caught us off guard
Now we cope, we survive, some better than others 
And for so many, too many
the dignity of dying has been ...

Tomorrows a Short Day

...At this very moment lost in life, predictability 
    Mind is a mess chaos reigns, steadfastness 
     Fighting with myself shut out, convertibility 
    Not through lack of confidence, faithlessn...

Some Consolation

...I have no guarantee
that I will not be run over
by a motor vehicle,
be this a bus,  lorry or Rolls Royce
BUT
if I religiously observe the highway code,
cross roads with extreme caution
and avo...

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