Short Turnkey Poems

The ego is a tyrannical beggar.
A loud, pitiful, empty-handed turnkey,
Powerless but for charity,
Living in fear of death by discovery....

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ever drifting,ever shifting
sifting through the mountainous debris
it often seems they never rest
like snow upon the crown of Everest
are the gulls of turnkey....

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Limerick:  Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey

Once a Prince from the Kingdom Toikey
Insisted on being wed by his turnkey
But his you may know not
Got stuck in a chamber pot
That’s how the Queen got wed by her lackey.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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Aromatic alleviation that you need; 
the secret to having anything succeed? 
A blanket fort and peppermint pillow mote;

Sea of calm spiked with crimson passion;
If you get high on imagination? 
That’s the turnkey to get inside; 

I dare you to try and break the fire wall
if there’s nothing of childhood you recall; 
Forever locked outside your psyche;

Fragrant aroma that allows you to breathe 
free to rejoin what lies underneath; 
Inhale exhale, roll back in time....

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The promise land doesn't come turnkey and move in ready
         It's a self-assemble

         New build: customize your own heaven or hell
         Remodel:   Pimp a dinosaur
                          Facelift a grand Dame
                          Restore a Hiroshima
                          An eyesore into a Picasso

         For you can upcycle the pieces of your broken yesterdays
         into vintage tomorrows
         Your bitter blues into your giddiest bliss yet...

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