Short Heartened Poems

I am in the sophomore
Years of my life.
A crossroads
Arrived at through
Pain and much strife.
Heartened heart
Songs played on fife
Soft more edged
Your passion as night
You steal your glances
Cross your heart,  your knife...

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Some days my mind is hardened,
on others like a sponge

Today my thoughts are heartened,
with feelings on the run

Tonight as light transitions,
and darkness fills the void

My mind and heart will lay as one,
true lovers—dreams of joy

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Some days my mind is hardened,
  on others like a sponge

Today my thoughts are heartened,
  with feelings on the run

Tonight as light transitions,
  and darkness fills the void

My mind and heart will lay as one,
 true lovers—dreams of joy

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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SIGNIFICANCE
an
imperfect
rhapsody


embellish
unforgettable
melodies
 venture
forth
heartened
 delight
conveniely
 exaggerated
 compounded
phrased
&
appraised
estimated
&measured
circling
comprehension
in
creative
forces
lapsed
 destiny
both
 beautiful
&
emotional...

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S U I C I D E N O T E

This rhythm is a tide
of blood oozing in sickly
veins to rainless bones;
stanza by stanza- clots
drip and stink.

This poem is music
to the winds,
to loose whiffs out
the window panes,
to hidden souls
afloat dark haze.

This poem is a suicide
note authored
by a depressed soul,
he heartened to
embrace the kisses
of the great beyond.

it is sin to read this poem....

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From deep in the current it comes out of the river…
the Mississippi
the Mersey
 Blue Danube
and Nile  

The music living in the spirit of its flow…
the Blues
the Classics
the Tribal
and Jazz

Its waters a baptism for the wandering soul…
 listening
searching
hoping
and praying 

Finding ourselves in the rhythm of its passing…
heartened
enlightened
rebirthed
and set free 

(Cairo Illinois: September, 2007)...

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Softly night music 
Soothing the mind and body  
Smoothing the heart beat  

Calls back the old time 
Along the motley life lane 
Flowers and thornbushes

Few petals flower
Of the seasons and spaces
Heartened to move on

Stoop to cherish 
Some on tiptoe to adore
Diversified scents

Soft music recalls
Flower’s color, shape and scent
Omit all thornbushes

In this onetime life  
Just sole soft sound energizes 
Along humble lane...

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Heartened by perfumes of Arabia
Alhaji salaams,
on the scented grassland of Naira notes.

Ivory-toothed, his illiterate wives
fart noxiously,
to and fro the market,
in leather-cushioned Honda series;

where depair and desolation
sadden
all the greens of the Niger-Delta.
Life is but a walking shadow,
where the milk streams.

How folly of the Nigeria in all of us!
Of you and i that `siddon look',
How much breathe lived in each look?
How much time is come and gone?...

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New York City workers
Must be vaccinated or
If they show up for work, they will
Be firmly shown the door.

I’m heartened by this mandate
And especially in schools.
It’s time to bid farewell to all
The anti-vaxxer fools.

We’ve all been pricked for smallpox,
For measles and the mumps
And whooping cough and polio
(And sometimes on our rumps!)

So suck it up and take the shot,
Those missing jabs and swabs,
For you’ll be safer and, of course,
You’ll get to keep your jobs....

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