Short Hoodlums Poems

tumbling overhead 
 dark cloud’s wing beats thundering ~

             hoodlums on a roll...

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He kept at it,
and woke up a band of hoodlums 

Observing the ways of the moon, 
calling Jane like a fool, 
looking late for school, 
missing cake for food, 
sleeping eight by noon,
weeping for a new wave in the loo

Ademola kept at it,
and a moll lurked in fairness...

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Crumbling crinkly, cracker crumbs

into salty, seafood stew,

Mother made our midday meal.

Fast for favorite food we flew.



Gluttony Glenda gulped a glass

of Linda's lovely, lemon tea.

While Will wolfed down whole walnut meats,

carefully crunching kernels free.



"Savages", sister Susan said.

"Politeness, please," our papa pled.



7/4/14



For Dr. Mehta's contest...

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She slowly fades away 
Into the air like dust 
Into the night like a fleeting dream 
Out of history like an exiled queen. 
Falling away from the shore  
With each approaching tide.  
This crisis grows bigger than femicide 
For they’ve begun to attack even the child. 
Some disappear like phantoms 
While police struggle to catch 
The heartless hoodlums. 
Who are these culprits 
in our degenerate society, 
Who steal our females  
In homage to some satanic piety? 
...

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Somewhere in these busy woods
a woodpecker tattoos tree bark.
Somewhere songbirds and squirrels
hustle like hoodlums on arboreal streets.

Sometimes, when somewhere,
I am a rope-less tent
pitched under a million acres of sky.
Tall Firs push up to break through
to where the air
                billows and sails.
Somewhere my path is still moving on.

Here, beyond any mechanical entropy
is an unruffled forest glade,
a good place to be bewitched
in a dappled circle of nowhere....

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In A Hotel Room

In a hotel room, she lies, literally to herself.
Their meetings filled with desire are brief.
How can she put her dignity on a shelf
Lost, between the crumpled sheet.

As a friend I helplessly watch 
As her happiness turns to shame 
All the joy before is lost
Falling for this hoodlums game.

There is no love in a hotel room
Used for trysts and rendezvous
As she leaves she's filled with gloom
Not the girl that I once knew.

Players play for keeps 
no conscience they can sleep....

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