Thought of the Day
...May the impulse that's not love drenched ~
Be from our consciousness retrenched
07-November-2022...
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Categories:
retrenched, love, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Urban Fear
...I fear I might be woken up by gunshots,
as thugs attempt to break into my house.
I fear everything might have expired in the fridge,
because of power blackout throughout the night,
and long hou...
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Categories:
retrenched, africa, crazy, culture, dark,
Form: Free verse
Things Fall Apart
...i wake up every morning
questioning my entire existence
they say i must be persistent
but i ask myself is god really present or absent
you folks say to make it i have to be obedient
Thing...
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Categories:
retrenched, absence, conflict, confusion, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
On a Lonely Bench
...Sitting on a lonely bench,
Memories got me blenched,
Your heart I tried to clench,
Though, the rains got me drenched,
From hearts I needed to entrench...
Your words not retrenched,
From thing...
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Categories:
retrenched, art, change, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse
Retrenched Women
...RETRENCHED WOMEN
The soul aches
numbs the brain
Pictures float away of women
crying, laughing, ironing sheets
thinking about jobs and sex
finding work and ...
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Categories:
retrenched, angst, jobs, work,
Form: Free verse
Badweek
...Like two ticks off a midnight,when the minutes drag for days,
my life was in a shamble and my mind was just a daze.
It started Monday morning after I had been retrenched,
The water pipes had burst a...
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Categories:
retrenched, angst, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Purple Haze
...No more this verdant sight no more the sound
No more the heart of mist at nature’s dawn
No more victims of constant pressure found
No more the fool of man’s enactment borne.
To worship a founda...
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Categories:
retrenched, confusion, depression, political,
Form: Sonnet