Short Servitude Poems

see wane of despair,
pains more deeply inside.
"Feed My sheep", I will...

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sip the sap of trees
stick to them in servitude ---
parrots in passion

21 July 2022...

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Practice pontificating indemnity,

moralistic servitude toward the,

practice exemplary impersonal activity....

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Imprisoned by limitations
Delayed by fear
Bound by contracts
In servitude of the dollar
Grueling
Not fair
No acceptance
This is not life...

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Of what use is time
If it’s consumed by passion
Servicing others
Servitude that drowns your dream
While you toil and save and pay

©david byrne March 2012...

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Those who know the power of being a servant
Would not desire to become their own lord,
And those who know the strength of becoming a master
Would not forget to serve their friends of servitude....

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Curse before being born
A slave
A servant
Before leaving my mother's womb

A life of servitude
Poverty
Humiliation
And disgrace
Me, Son Of Canaan


Son of Canaan
I died for you too
Christ...

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I cannot be defeated
Do you hear me
I cannot be defeated
As I sit positioned beneath the right hand
In servitude of a higher power 
That is why you simply cannot defeat me
I answer solely to purpose...

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I’m willing to accept
that it’s all but a cloud
Memory behind me,
and draped in a shroud

I’m willing to accept
my fatality deemed
A portal indentured
—to dreams left undreamed

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)...

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Enslaved by dominance and shackles,

Submissively obedient in silence,

Femme fatales with their modernized slavery,

Man kneels and then bows,

Yielding to remain in servitude,

Controlled by the darkened dominant feminine race....

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Creep, oh centipede! 
    A malady to my cornea. 
Like kernels a decoy
    In my Eden realm. 
I'm infuriate to civility
    Just us serenity intervene. 
Serendipity smock my bones
    In solitude. 
Here it is, your servitude
    Of search....

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an invite from the systems alert and ready to repeat 
what nuance can a human share without its paraclete 
authorship servitude aligned to process thought 
every word and sentence typed, ready to be caught 
with enumerate assistance it registers the plot ...

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Listen your way out of the problem,
  when language goes awry

Each word that’s heard, a fuse unlit,
  whose primer never lies

To think the pieces wholly,
  as new structure comes in view

With time and space in servitude
  —your voice explodes anew

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Midst a banquet as life defined
Where careless pleasures are consumed
And at the table children dine

Midst a banquet as life defined
Where steps in muted servitude
Rush to aid a mirth refined

A famished cur desires crumbs!
And midst a banquet, as life defined
I grin, complacent, rendered dumb!...

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UNITY

In solitude
Fully grown
One, alone
Singleton
Partner gone
Plaintive tone
Still I moan
In servitude

Released from duty and constraint
With a deep furrowed brow
I will make it my vow
We shall again connect
She still has that effect
If my time will allow
I can search for her now
Follow her trail, however faint...

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swinging quietly open
hinges humble
in unimposed servitude

the low hum of the fan
beckoning indifferently
a mere acquaintance

behold the boxlike tundra
frozen land of peace
molecules forever at rest

reluctantly yielding
monoliths
of flavor and convenience

silent cubes
cocooned in color
filled with savory promise

slumbering
in cryptic silence
close the door please...

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My last attempt
to circle the square
anger takes the throne

Isolated
no longer to share
servitude alone

Wandering unsure
things left unsaid
words to disappear

Into the dark
deserted forlorn
heightening my fear

The ladder broken
every rung
unable now to climb

Direction gone
a beggar’s song
—with nothing left to find

(Valley Forge Pennsylvania: October, 2020)...

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Puppy knows not the world it is born
The mother is wise to hide behind silence

When it grows it gets truth from no one
a world of eating bones is revealed bylife

in servitude both  bitch and puppy live 
Yet it is the only thing known to them

Puppy wants to enjoy its puppy rights
yet without horns it is rendered weak

It desires to rescue its mother from slavery
But without wit slave masters are invincible...

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I live to serve
I beg to please
You know I will take whatever you give me
Even crumbs
On the floor
Like a dog
I will lick them up and like it
That's how you've trained me
For a destiny of servitude to you
I feel blue
I am despondent about how you treat me
But I am chained to you
I belong to you
Threaten me
Hit me
Choke me
Belittle me
You know I will keep coming back again
That's how you've trained me
Master...

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Passover Matso
   the bread of servitude -- the slave's bread
   the bread of liberation -- the freed man's bread

Which is it? ~ We choose and have been chosen
                           to have it both ways




Do not oppress the stranger. 
Remember that you were strangers in the Land of Egypt...  

...For you left in haste and did not have time to let the
   leaven rise as you went forth from the Land of Egypt...

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God love was shown
Kindness to plant
As clean as our chant
The bright colors appear
We know God is near
Creations of beauty
Are his specialty
From seed to stem
We are among them
Chose to fight
To see peace done right
Never forced
We kept our course
Felt the love we spread
We kept looking ahead
Years of servitude to others
My Sisters and Brothers
Seen as early as a little girl
God shall bring change to our world...

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What right have I to write?
What sanctuary allows me entrance
into its sacred domicile?

Who really scribes for me?
Is it the stars or the trees?
The streams or the seas?

I bow in humble servitude
to my muse as she shares her
adoration of nature
and expedient expression
of all things exquisite

Tears, joy, revelations
and exaltations she sends
to touch, rock and bewilder
readers

My gift; my muse
I introduce to you...

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Muted words linger in limbo
imprisoned between many leaves
bound together in the darkness
of a poet’s tried thesaurus.
Their alphabetic existence
is but an endless servitude
whose individual meanings
chosen and together sequenced
for the glory of the poet.
The many verses read aloud
gives each utile word a voice
and continues till completion.
Then darkness returns once again
as the reference book is closed....

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Life’s Upheavals
6-27-2016

Sometimes God uses some upheaval in our life,
to remove us from a passing period of inaction.
	To stimulate, and restore our attention to Him,
and away from some minor, earthly distraction.

There’s a disparity in servitude and free living,
servitude is being unconnected from our source.
Suspended between heaven and earth was He,
establishing a way, that from sin, we’d divorce.
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Warm and calm
The reflection of your demeanour
Pierced the darkness in any situation
The intrusion of your smile 
Helped many to go the extra mile
In a while, we will see you again
Then your joy will be fulfilled 

Diligently you did your work
We shall not forget your servitude
Your daughters echo the river of your love
Like a dove, you flew away and 
One day when you return we will see you
Warm and calm

Mark Frank

Copyright 2023




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