71.
What I Missed from School
If I've been not in school
Surely I missed a lot
Not only the brain tool
I'll point to the people
Whose influence could make
Life more valuable
Were they my teachers?
And/or my classmates
Or other superiors?
They could be among them
Those whose passion, talents
Skills, likes – with me the same
They were also the ones
Whose dreams and ambitions
Could be also my wants
Was afraid to reveal
What are truest in me
Harder still to conceal.
-11/28/2011
(Dumarao)
*First Incubus Collection
39.
Ode to the Flower of March 2011
Got thee on so-called Lit. Day
At second Ramayan play –
Oh how this day tested me
When time came, not yet ready
8 AM our program must
Most unprepared, oh aghast
Others were out the junction
Sounds went into malfunction
Disappointed superiors
Extended out their clamors
And moved the program further
Towards a one noon after
Thanks God there's no more trial
Lit. Day flowed through its final
Proud of my BEED IV
With their guts & splendor
But when everything's over
Cendy left flower scepter
Then Lorie Jean picked it up
Saw it timely, got asap.
-03/08/2011
(Dumarao)
*Ode to the 7 Flowers of 2011
Border surveillance female scouts
their warnings unheeded about
an attack, imminent, from Gazan Hamasniks
IDF superiors pooh-poohed the risks
Prime Minister Netanyahu ignored their reports
on Yehudah and Shomron he focused his every resource
Yet ‘Bibi’ survives as PM to this day
the surveillance report long since filed away...
O, Justice, Justice, have ye fled underground
~ where Hamas abducts innocents all year-round
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'Justice, Justice, Thou Shalt Pursue' - Deuteronomy 16:20
Hamasniks - members of Hamas, whose 1987 constitution
mandates the killing of Jews in Israel and worldwide
IDF - Israel Defense Forces
Yehudah and Shomron - Biblical lands the media refers to as
'the West Bank' (of the Jordan River).
'Bibi' - Prime Minister (PM) Netanyahu of Israel's nickname
I have never served in the military.
I can only imagine what it must be like
to have served in the wars and conflicts;
Or the myriads of tasks for which you are
called upon and to which you always say "Yes".
My heart is warmed each time I see anyone
in a military uniform, and if the opportunity
presents itself, I will humbly say, "THANK YOU".
Yes. "THANK YOU" for your service to your great
country. "THANK YOU" for giving up many of your
personal freedoms so that I may remain free.
"THANK YOU" for surrendering your personal pursuits
so that I may freely pursue my hopes and dreams.
"THANK YOU" for taking orders from your superiors
so I need not feel inferior to any people or nation.
For this and so much more, "THANK YOU, sir, mam".
110924PS
Seven colors of the rainbow
Each crowned with a gift
A lifetime gift in each line of the rainbow
The World was once in total darkness without a gift
Beauty of nature the World has never felt or seen
Earth as one world asked for a gift
God of heavens said that beauty can be seen
Until all creatures thought of praying
Praying by kneeling no one has ever seen
Humans are but one product of belief in praying
That all creations must be ruled by superiors of giving
Superiors in human form, striving and praying
All creations harmonized in sharing and giving
Making everything simple, in thinking and surviving
Rainbow as one creation and gift, in seven days of bright light and whole-hearted art of giving.
How can enough be enough
When lives are treated like garbage
Picked from the gutters
Thrown in the dump?
How can earth be at peace
When nature is disturbed
And air is defiled constantly
Yet superiors smile over it?
When a poor mother
Tries to save her child,
From the emitting of carbon
Burned by an industry close by,
She is deluded and placed low
Because superiors enjoy the advantages
Caused by the disadvantages.
Do not ask the masses to calm down
When their lives are endangered,
But you stand the chance to put an end
To this awful beginning of the end
That has placed mankind in disarray.
As they try to let it out
To fight in order to heal the world,
To restore stability,
They are rebuked by hierarchy,
‘Shhhh! Say no word’.
don't give in to temptation this week anticipation is half the fun
its easy to suffer in silence if they know you are suffering
seek advice for a difficult problem why should you take all the blame
you are blessed with true faithful friends who prefer to remain unnamed
positive thinking is the key to success don't lose weight grow taller
you resent your business and social superiors and so do they
laugh and the world laughs with you smile and they'll really get suspicious
beware before setting out on a new journey where is your passport
you believe no one fully understands you wrong that's not the problem
think twice before expressing an opinion and they'll change the subject
My Childhood in vain?
Being small is a boon or a bane
I would say its all very insane
The expectations that adults keep of you
Is enough to scare your wits out too!
Exam time is the least exciting of them all
My Mom and Dad they don’t want me to take a fall
So study I must to get good marks et al
And yet I don’t get why their list just keeps getting tall?
Other days my teachers give me lots of homework
They say it will get me to practice what I was taught
But with so much practice all time long,
Am I really going to be that ASTRONAUT?
Who will rack his brain to solve that important problem
And always be in his superiors good books
And be known amongst peers as a know- it- all
Oh! I get goosebumps just thinking how I would look!
Now my last semester is on
And my marks will be counted on an average
This world is driving me nutty, yet again
And reading that text book like a book is my priority, DAMN!
Got into that a mirage
Unmapped in all its grounds
Where no lifeline could exist
Cautious distrust kicking in
An area where sorrows spread
That the beings had spoonfed
A stipulation of a well-crafted hat
Intruding two thirds of real hope
In that frame of mind pinpointed.
Walked through such a path
Paved long enough to the unseen end
Beautiful flowers emerging from sides
Just strongly pouring attractive odours
The fragrances to be sold at no price
That anyone would like to pass through
An amusement of natural adorable sprays
Leaving some marks to get questioned
By the look it expresses over the context.
Seek beyond the best feasible option
Uncharted below infinite water flows
To what the superiors would believe
Self opinions triggering mass faith
A sense to be named as uncommon
That no light ray felt to beam
A true meaning of being fake
Crashing all the Joules by others
To this little significant dot.
Build a best world,
to build a world for
the equality...the other differences,
they remain yes, but the fight will be
to not prioritize differences for
establish disciplinary policies...
Differences should not exclude from
normal citizenship processes...
We are equivalent beings in civil rights
and equivalents to spirituality...
Do not exist best color! there must only be value...
Value is acquired, value is learned... if it is developed...
pure reality... another thing, total illusion... !
The value is differentiated when it is for the virtue service...is a higher value difference than yes
deserves to be cultivated...
So let's promote a difference to the top,
for spirituality...
We need to prepare for growth...
Let us be tall, citius, altius et fortius, always fair,
understanding with our peers without prejudice in behavior. let's be beings
superiors considering others as equals...
PS poem inspired by printed words
in Lewis Hamilton's Formula One Pilot T-shirts .
What happened is certainly enough to appall.
I'm in the Army and I was forced to go AWOL.
I am disgusted by what happened and it's hard to believe.
Even though my brother was dying, they wouldn't give me leave.
I wanted to see my brother one last time before he died.
I plead with my superiors to give me leave but I was denied.
When it came to my late brother, I thought the world of him.
I went AWOL to be by his side and to tell him that I love him.
Now I'm facing a Court Martial, I'm in trouble indeed.
They turned their backs on me in my hour of need.
Now they're treating me like I committed a horrible crime.
But at least I was able to tell my brother that I love him in time.
A Court Martial and time in prison are what I'll probably receive.
But my superiors were cruel and despicable for not giving me leave.
A future of humanity will blur our identities into "transhumanism."
Future humans will consider themselves as "technologically" superiors.
When we will be probably all delusional and so-called tech slaves
A Horse will be your faithful friend, and let's live in a cave.
No smart technologies! Yes! That will set you FREE!
Do not put your brain in a box, Do not put keep the heart in a cage!
Caves will be a better place than a digital slave society.
We are losing our freedom of thought and speech day by day.
Apps, websites, software, self-driving cars are following you.
There is not any place for you to run; there is no city to hide.
The eyes of technology are watching you!
When self-deceived society will show off their willful ignorance,
Wise people will hide and cover their enlightened knowledge!
When robots and artificial intelligence will be future leaders of nonsenses
I will be the leader of sheep, goats, and chickens!
When people will be blind with their open eyes
Society will be dead with beating hearts.
I will be a prisoner by choice...!
Shut eyelids in duty-filled rooms
Instant graveyards make of busy offices:
A longing for robots to take over the brooms
Or complete the suspended notices!
Eyes are closed by wage-earners,
In their old jobs seeming accursed learners:
What, if their superiors’ sneaking visits happen?
Nearly all confidential files riskily open!
The secretaries’ bulging documents are sorting themselves out
And the bursting queues outside can’t repress a shout
Soon, angrily punching the air
Because the whole after is unfair
But only disfiguring the wind, not their problems
Staring back at the Christians and not sparing the Moslems.
They are all in there eyes courting deceiving dreams
And three or four waiters are about to beget a frightening crowd.
The sleepers’ snores betraying Satan’s hymns,
Gradually authority acquiring, progressively loud.
Sleeping on duty is detected,
When silence still answers the affected
Long after the bell for attention has been pressed
For the taker of neglectful rest.
Freedom’s dream dies it seems;
With every fake and phony scheme;
To twist language as to mean;
Something for which it was never deemed.
Ideology and demagoguery make one blind;
So as to fall into hatred’s binds.
Facts and opinion become intertwined;
Causing deception in the human mind.
Look at the fruit harvested by the deceived.
Pregnancy viewed as some kind of disease.
A cancer to be cut out as a woman decrees.
Millions of deaths of the merely conceived!
The right of free speech has been redefined;
By big tech and left-wing media minds;
As only the idea’s that agree with mine.
The rest must get their minds realigned.
The major media mantra of today;
Question not what your superiors say;
For that is hateful in every way!!
Sit down, shut up, and simply obey!
Citizens I now challenge you;
Argue my lines, they be untrue.
But know this; that when you do,
You are waving freedom adieu.
There she stood, in a room all spic and span
Her name was Dorothea – the nun of Maryland
Ever so lightly, she picked flowers day and night
Oh! She was indeed the gift of God that did all her tasks
Did she happen to disobey her superiors and anger the ones above?
Obedient, classy and wise – the gift of God did as she was told.
Rummaging through antiques, she have found the key
Another key that held lies instead of answers, unfortunately.
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