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509 · Dec 2011
The Thing We Did
Behind closed doors the thing,
       My lovely chirpy dolly,
    You and I have wrought
    Is now being openly seen
    In thine protruding belly.
503 · Aug 2013
Salvation (10w)
Contemned.
World's riches all
can't a single soul
redeemed--
minuscule.
502 · Oct 2014
Bestirred
Forsaken: crestfallen, and he's been
Vacant, but bestirring himself now to
Once more go out on a limb to seek,
If haply he could a new find pronto,

A girl who'd like a medicine his heart
Mend and fill, with her rib, the space
In his side with her perfectly cast love,
Fitting unto him for the rest of his days.
501 · Jan 2012
Different Strokes
Written are some destinies
Boldly in the heavenly stars;
While some other cronies
Have theirs marred by earthly scars.
500 · Nov 2012
Fragile Heart
Like a bat bends it down
Ever and anon, my lone life,
By the reason of unbroken
Sorrow that doth with my soul strive,

Panting i hence for water like a hart,
Like a desert so am longing for rain.
What's been broken can't be remolded,
My fragile heart like a vase, again.
499 · Aug 2013
Bee sense (10w)
Love making
and
making money:
man
should choose honey
making.
499 · Feb 2014
Teach Me The Way To Go
Lord,

Grant me strength, speed and success,
Helping me to turn corners straight.
My soul deliver from wickedness
That lurk, lying about in wait.

No one the day knows well enough
To the end--its smooth and rough.
Teach me thus in life the way to go
In the fast lanes and the slow.
498 · May 2012
Pride (10 words)
Gay and green
tender boughs
blooming branches
fruitful vine
looking-down.
496 · Oct 2011
Let Me Die
She at the very last spoke to me--
Her soft speech was soothing as balm--
Whom I've desired much the first to be;
Yet my soul was firm and calm.

And peace like a river flowed
In my heart like never before,
And my love straightaway followed
Hers like a sheep to the abattoir.

She howbeit will not slaughter me.
If she did it would be with her love.
So let me die by the dirk of that dilly
Rather than stay alive with a frigid dove.
494 · Apr 2014
Unworthiness
Why art thou staying still my breath,
Who suppose to have long perished?
Why dost thou count me amongst
The living, that ought to have vanished?

To life am I not entitled for many
A reason--am unworthy of being;
Yet with thy strong arm of grace
Hast thou been blessing me, O heaven.
494 · Feb 2014
Holier Than Thou
He, afront be; and first,
The stone cast, who
No wrong hath wrought.
(Jn. 8:7b)

Version mine.
489 · Jun 2014
One Day
You will not be able to
Open nor bolt your door;
Answer nor dial your phone;
Send nor reply a text
For you had  already said goodbye
To this world, en route to the next.
488 · Apr 2014
Worry (10w)
Futile mental exertion,
blurring the vision
of wisdom
from
breakthrough.
486 · Jan 2012
Why Doth a Man?
Though he hath a woman fresh
Within--his faithful wife at home
To make him at any hour come;
Yet he's chasing without a new flesh.
Wherefore why doth a man seek a devil new,
Who has an angel, with whom to bill and coo?
485 · Jan 2014
Come Up (10w)
Today a celeberity,
who was yesterday's nonentity:
sauntering in riches.
485 · Apr 2012
Illusion (10 words)
It's an optical
Illusion,
Beholding infatuation
As affection--
Mental
Confusion.
Difference between You
and me is:
You're firm, I'm fickle.
479 · Apr 2014
Misalliance (10w)
Better to remain single
than
be hooked with a devil.
Better alone and single
than
perform duet with a devil.

Version II (10w)
478 · Oct 2011
How Different!
These present
          Kisses and touches--
The ignition of fire,
The exhalation of sigh--
          From the past smooches,
          m'goodly Lady, how different!
477 · Apr 2012
Never Meet (10 words)
As parallel lines
meet nay;
so is good and evil.
476 · Apr 2012
Who's the Better Master?
Who, 'tween God and the Lucifer, a better
Lord be, with all one's soul and heart
And mind to be served; the very Master
For whom this life fleeting, not in part
But in whole, should be expended daily--
Comprehending the reward eternal also, haply?
473 · Nov 2012
"Glassy Essence" (9w)
The best of man's dust:
his crumb and crust.
472 · Nov 2011
Which?
Just looking before I leap,
Musing with my lone self deep:

Betwixt her gracious sweet lips
And her honeyed graceful hips,
Which should I first of jolly take
That will not my gay heart break?
471 · Feb 2014
The World
No matter how vile a man might be,
Even viler than ****** and more terrible
Than the devil; he will nonetheless
Have cheerers--his own people.

Witches and wizards loathe light--
Day is never their buddy but night,
Like ritualists and robbers and strumpets
Who prefer to blow the trumpets

Of their acts mainly in the darkness.
And however "good" you are, as Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, many shall be
Your foes in the Sadducee and Pharisee

Of the world. Though truth be killed; yet,
It shall undoubtedly again resurrect.
Soul filled with gall, tears flow:
Crimson rushing on the snow.

Left home for office
Left home for somewhere
Left home for business
Only to appear elsewhere,

Where eternity steadies its swinging door.

Goodbye turns to abrupt good night,
Cold darkness replaces warm light.

Husband never returning more
Wife gone to another shore
Children laughs fade like leaves
Merry home in sorrow's sleeves.

Though evil men cannot ever cease;
In Jesus's hand commit our lives.
For the dead and injured in the blast in Abuja, Nigeria, yesterday morning (14:04:14).
465 · Aug 2013
Suicide (10w)
Brooding melancholy
by angst laid.
Suicide
is hatched by despair.
465 · Aug 2013
Quietus Cue (10w)
At death
breath
doth exit--
exeunts
the stage the spirit.
465 · May 2012
Life, Dragging Along
It's dragging along
Like an he-goat,
Life--pulled with a strong rope
By a butcher. Animal cruelty
Is like an existence of exigency.
Where now is the hope
For one sans meals, coat
And crib, with many a sad song?
459 · Feb 2013
Turning Grey
.A foe may become a friend,
And a buddy can turn an enemy
Morrow; man knows not the very end,
Not a fig, of his earthly journey.

With smirk abide, from smiles flee.
Take gall rather than honey,
For things bitter turn later to juice.
Life cannot be fathomed clear, crony.
452 · Apr 2014
My Thomas (10w)
Didn't believe in me
at first?
He needs not now .
452 · Jun 2012
The Pugilist (10 words)
With his upper-cut
released;
she lieth
abed,
sighing out.
452 · Jul 2018
God's Impossibility
He cannot lie,
neither can he die.
For he's not a man.
They're never indigenous--
Ingenuity and genius,
Neither fortune
--
To anyone.
447 · Aug 2013
Nailed to the Cross (10w)
Joseph's habit
in Lady Potiphar's hand left.

Fled without exhibit.
Gen. 39:4-19
445 · Jun 2012
Love True (10 words)
To its own hurt
it sweareth--
love--
and changeth
not.
444 · Jul 2012
Celebs (10w)
When they *****,
we know;
their ****,
a top show.
441 · Apr 2012
For Love (10 words)
If i'll of something
     'cease;
let it be for love.
439 · Feb 2014
Neither Nay [10w]
It's either Elysium
Or Erebus,
When the die is
Cast.
To every
glory
story,
shame
there's
behind
the curtain's
fame.
Heb.12:2
431 · Feb 2014
Pine-view
The world has never been short
Of fair maidens and lovely women,
Which the ogling eyes are taller than.
428 · May 2012
That's Life (10 words)
God hath enemies,
Devil cronies;
Evil's beloved,
Good's disapproved
Of.
425 · Feb 2012
Walking Alone
Walking alone, even if it's only a mile--
Though you'd have wine, bread and cream--
The journey would be weary, and very dreary
Would life to thee be without a lone smile;
Howbeit if you've gotten by Grace a deary,
A companion sweet, though you should walk
A thousand miles together; yet it would seem
Like a furlong as you both are cheeringly talk-
Ing sans the comforts of chocolate and chicken,
Save for water and crisps into pieces broken.
418 · May 2012
Come Down (10 words)
To fall:
Just deck they heart
in pride and arrogance.
414 · Feb 2013
It's No Tale (10w)
Sour love's taste is
sans moolah;
money flavour sweet adds.
399 · Apr 2014
Destiny in My Hand
Seed buried beneath the soil,
Tend often in anticipated toil;
Yet how plants bud and blossom
Is above my cultivated wisdom.

Though life is a maze and mystery,
I've taken in my hand my destiny
Beholding it with faith's steady eye
Through weather foul and fair.
391 · Apr 2012
It's No Loss
Death is no loss,
If life eternal is
Gained.
385 · Apr 2014
Better Late Than Never
They that cannot for God's
gold
wait dash for the devil's dross.
383 · Apr 2014
Helpmeet
A grave man needs a wife
With whom to share his life--
Wise, warm and straight spouse
To keep and tend his house,
Both making a merry home
Until the Lord's kingdom come.
379 · Apr 2012
Grey (10w)
Nothing living--we're told--
In this life, won't grow old.
Fallen into an iniquity
like me?
Jesus
loveth us
still.
Inspired by Victoria's poem: A little of what you fancy's good for the soul
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