All my efforts to rid my ghost
Leave me distorted and filthy
Sick of bearing my indiscretions
Circling the same widen spaces.
I am not perfect, I am weak in all my sins.
In your strength I withstand.
I open my closet to release my skeletons
More sins fall upon me
How can you look at me and
say that you believe in me.
I am not perfect, I am weak in all my sins
In your strength I withstand.
Let the demons that I hold inside, be
cast away.
Allow the evilness, and cruelty, be gone
from this outer body.
For it's you I want and you that I live for.
I am not yet perfect, I am no longer weak in most of my sins
In your strength, I can now stand on my own,
I can endure plenty.
Categories:
transforming, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The feeling-cheated Igbo of Nigeria
Now judges her a worse malaria,
To keep celebrating Donald Trump
While bemoaning his angering dump …
But plans he to start smiling at Biden,
For one should often one’s options widen,
When at stake is life-transforming Crude oil,
With huge pipes channeling it to far-off soil.
The Fast-choking-with-anger Igbo
Might start an emergency Judo
For an ending of his humiliation,
That took off from the day of assimilation.
Now, I see a colder shoulder
To all Negotiation Tables,
A Stone-throwing kid trying a boulder,
And hangmen’s dropping of ropes for cables.
Already, it’s a kung fu- movie – watching people,
Disturbingly worshipped by their cripple.
Categories:
transforming, anxiety, conflict, corruption, money,
Form: Rhyme
When, in disgrace with hope and heaven's eyes,
I all alone bemoan my forlorn state;
and curse myself, as one whom men despise.
As a youth, melancholic and unwise,
I felt eternal gloom to be my fate
(when in disgrace with hope and heaven's eyes),
as one to never again wake or rise;
but despair to the end (and terminate),
cursing myself as one whom men despise.
But I forswore this gloom, this hasty demise!
For sorrow and woe can God mitigate,
when in disgrace with hope and heaven's eyes.
So long as I have breath to daily rise,
so long as I have lines to dedicate:
I'll not curse myself, as one whom men despise.
If I have never writ, nor men devised,
then none have known this Truth that's animate
when (in disgrace with hope and heaven's eyes)
I once cursed myself, as one whom men despised.
Categories:
transforming, depression, god, hope, mental
Form: Villanelle
Free Verse on Love - Cocoon
Wrapped in the enchantment of your being
Love’s strong and satin threads
Binds you to me - closer ever closer.
In a soft cocoon of silken strands
Two souls now lie indivisible –
Words unspoken – words heard and known.
In a chrysalis of fiercely woven chords
Eyes reach to meet with warm hands
One heartbeat – one fragile breath.
Deep within these quiet depths trembling
Fragile wings find pulse, still unborn
In the endless circle radiating, waiting.
And when the moonlight finally cuts through
This seamless space, butterflies emerge from mystery -
Loves transforms you and me.
2-10-20
Categories:
transforming, butterfly, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
152
So much
Is gone now
So much to do
So much to see
How the hell
Am I waiting
To be
Categories:
transforming, absence, abuse, america,
Form: Free verse
She was in the darkness.
Someone lightened candle, for her
She looked at the world.
Categories:
transforming, care, change, cheer up,
Form: Haiku
Much said and done
Put hard efforts behind
Still no change envisaged
No transformation takes place
So sign of improvement
You may be puzzled to find out
Where things go wrong
You start blaming the system
And keep nagging around
As it is the easiest way in life
To see yourself in the right pedestal
And visualize others on wrong line
Paint them all with defected brush
And unmatched colors
You see your painting get devalued
Without your knowledge you become an artist
Mediocre and cheap showing your
Own all inabilities and weakness
You are poet of your own poems
And words come from your heart
Heart is the center of your being
The source of your perception
The invisible mirror placed inside the body
To reflect you and your mentality
Feed it with good stuff
Keep chanting ‘’ your desired word ‘’
And get quality out put
Clean it now and then
To have an excellent image
Of the things you behold
And see a huge change
Transforming life from lower to a higher plane
And lead a blissful life.
Categories:
transforming, life,
Form: I do not know?
How possible for escaping
From post-soviet suffocation
In all spheres of our life?
From Black Hole of awful greediness,
when post-communist leaders
starting to learn us for art of capitalism
breaking all rules voluntarily or not
and transform our life to hell?
How possible in lack of legitimacy
and totally grown corruption
to live and survive
as honest man and ventured company
self maded, respected and been prosperous and happy
in such fatal environment and craziness?
The answer is one:
then more government, leaders and presidents
abscessed for wealth, stealth, robbing and smuggling,
then more you will been
modern Robin Hood
staunch, inventive, honest and congenial
in great business
for overcome bad boys and their bad monopolies and technologies.
Gain success and influence faster
in the frame of honesty and justice,
fight and beat merciless corruption,
personally and common negligence
and with them to provoke
the truly reforms
and create right institution and hope
for new generation
in our transforming society.
Categories:
transforming, inspiration,
Form: Ballad
What kind of lust is this?
Firey daggers of romance
Two-pronged on the table
Your heart at significant crossroads
Fearing he still grips the pulse of dreams
Believe me, when I come full bodied
My stance is definite
Along your quicksand embryo
We've danced through armaggedon
Reality and the pillows of thought
Plushy laid upon your sleeping grove
Watery graves in thrall beyond the ruminations of language
Music deftly played continues its vast beat
As you and I merge together
Categories:
transforming, girlfriend-boyfriend, passion, romance,
Form: Free verse
Don’t allow your pain
To transform you into
Something you are not
Russell Sivey
Categories:
transforming, life,
Form: Senryu