Short Tribal Poems

Perfect moving hive
In tribal dust-speckled step
Heat melting music...

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The music plays on

It's tribal rhythm soothes me

I feel so mellow...

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How much longer
Language vs world
Culture vs world
Economic vs world
Appearance vs world
Religion vs world

How much longer...

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Threats of blood baths easily roil
Cult members whose sentiments boil
Devotees tribal
Shall get D.T.’s bible
Soiled with drizzles of snake oil...

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There was an old tranny named Joe
who dressed as a nun and a 'ho',
both sides of the Bible,
both sacred and tribal,
he didn't know which way to go!...

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There was an old tranny named Joe
who dressed as a nun and a who',
both sides of the Bible,
both sacred and tribal,
he didn't know which way to go!...

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There was an old tranny named Joe

who dressed as a nun and a ho',

both sides of the Bible,

both sacred and tribal,

he didn't know which way to go!...

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Matching like-minded zones
Multiple kindred cones
Myriad tribal bones
Misplaced grammar atones
Marriage of stars and stones
Mosaic blended tones
Merry musical thrones

10/26/20...

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Swirly twirly,
Floating around,
Can't hear a single sound.
Swirly twirly,
Dancing along,
Listening to a tribal song.
Swirly twirly,
Bouncing away,
I will come back another day....

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tribal echoes reach        hypnotic.     simple

     Expressions


 the train                leaves     the Subway


peaceful         stranger

comfort               my                      head....

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little flower whisper
fairy with attitude
apache born

recruiting braves in their sleep
rejuvenating their ideas of bravery
giving them directions

as fierce as any tribal chief
little flower whisper...

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There is
nothing wrong
when people
pray to
the sun or
pray to
the stars
for sustenance
tribal superstition nor
mere speculation
it is all
crafted and
connected
through the
hands of God
Indeed, all of it...

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Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One with
Earth Mother
Ever on call...

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Once jailed and bailed
Virtually mental saw scaled
Angry aggressive and hyper
The crotalinae hypnotic striker
Cold blooded terrestrial Sanseki
Whitish echis carinatus sochureki...
Life is a game with snakes on every level.....

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Coal-smoke on summer air –
the leather apron’d smith,
a donkey to be shod –
what tribal memory burned,

forged into DNA?
Forged into DNA

by forebears of hammer
and tongs – there’s nothing like
metal against metal
to give meter to song....

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Lovers have seen such eyes,
a stunning beauty escaping
from a tribal world of passionate
appetite.

promises have fallen upon your ears
as you have been held.
can my words compare?

I spare not even my soul
to catch your tears....

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Oh what a nation
A den of fools
A tribal cage 
A religious hell

The dead conscience 
The bewitched minds
The colonized culture
The enslaved souls

Oh what a nation 
Africa my poor nation
A land of disunity 
Void of humanity...

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Tattooed
Human canvas
Body art
Permanently
Displayed
Symbolic
Messaging
In color
Proud history
Tribal ancestry
Marked
For life
For good
Worn with pride
True to self



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on February 11, 2019...

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Tribal beings
we fight fierce wars
death to all adversaries
then appears a microbe
a virus
to happily kill us all
humanity bands together
we fight back
with screams and shouts
how dare you kill us
only we can do that...

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AFRICA 2

Adoration of sunlit bold high plains
Frozen herds torn from creation’s page
Rocking tribal fears—who’s got the reins?
Innocents are hurt while tempers rage
Call for voices high and voices strong
Africans say hide when things go wrong...

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Imageries of tribal stench
Streets stretched in stray bullets
Carcasses charred in church
Women slit in the dark
A conglomerate of conference table
Littered with  coffee and curfew
Monkeys mourning
Centre crawling
Sentiments sighing
Jos, a shadow....

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A tribal kill; 
after a blood sucking 
ritual.
Do you have a problem ?

*

Hovering wasps 
will land at will, on 
tardy syntax 
and misspelt masks.

*

The clouds 
have wit and intelligence.
Will drop rains 
on venoms.


Satish Verma...

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somewhere underneath
the silence of a damaged
love...

chains broken
truth spoken
food serenity
house divinity
healing hands
tribal lands
throwing fire
misguided desire
rerouted heart
regenerated start

...and at last we're together again...

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my little round sleepers
with lots of coats on, mud
huggers with a tribal bottom

perfectly lined up at the
bus stop of spring, soft
under cold loam, a miracle

despite the banality of hidden
numbers; time to drink tea
as I wait in a cooling garden...

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Atheist or Pagan
which gets to dream
reasoning stilted
 spirits unseen

Rational narcissist 
tribal taboos 
if given the choice
it’s easy to choose

Atheist or Pagan
contrast to compare
the first in self-worship
—the second aware

(Dreamsleep: March, 2022)...

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