Short Purgative Poems

Divorce is…
Cathartic, purification
Therapeutically purgative
Like colonic irrigation...

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WORD FOR TODAY: POSITIVE

Happy New Year is a confession; it’s more than a NARRATIVE
It means you are willing to purge yourself of any NEGATIVE
It means that in any circumstance, you will only see POSITIVE
It means when friends disappoint; it wouldn’t seem PUNITIVE
It means you are now optimistic; without taking a PURGATIVE
In 2017, “follow peace with all men”; that’s the new DIRECTIVE

© Wole Popoola 2017...

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the days all blend together
    no pole to which to tether
  daylight hours mostly a blur
    nighttime now, nothing stirs

  purposelessness leads to
    hopelessness, on down to
      depression, what's more
  life's only a theoretical alternative
    to death's cathartic purgative

  old friends all forget me
    relatives keep their distance
  they must all be envious
    of this hermit's existence...

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And anger 
Is a friend
That the oppressed
Must seize;
A purgative drug
To cleanse and preserve
The knowledge
And indignation
With which they affront
Agglutinated
The excesses of apartheid!

Come! Behold the scars
That those who angered
Seized- arms outstretched
Their spears flaming!

And you who dither
De-ice your souls
With flames of anger;
And un-reason
Will succumb
To reason!

Hail vanguard 
Of our freedom! Hail!

(Poem written for that dark era, happily, now past!)...

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