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Old longings nomadic leap Chafing at custom's chain Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. Helots of houses no more Let us be out, be free! Fragrance through the window and door Wafts from the woods, the sea! After the torpor of will, Morbid the inner strife Welcome the animal thrill Lending a zest to life. Banish the volumes revered Severe from centuries dead Ceilings the lamp flicker cheered Barter for stars instead. Temp, they dreams with trees Nature they god alone Worship the sun and the breeze Altars where non atone. Voices of Solitude call, Whispers of sedge and stream Loosen the fetters that gall Back to the primal scheme Feel the great throbbing terrene Pulse in thy body beat! Conscious again of the creed Verdure beneath the feet Callous to pain as the rose, Breathe with instinct's delight Live the existence that goes Soulless into the night. Nomadic - A non-sedentary lifestyle categorized by constant moving Brumal - A deep or dreamless sleep Ferine - wild or untamed Helots - slaves Torpor - a sluggish or inactive state Morbid - pertaining to death Strife - struggle or fight Revered - worshiped or respected Barter - to trade or negotiate Temple - (in this case, as a verb) adorn Sedge - verdure or plants Fetters - chains or shackles gall - a sore or wound from rubbing or chafing Primal - ancient, old Terrene - earth, pertaining to a worldly matter Verdure - plant life Callous - (in this situation, as an adjective) numb or unaware due to exposure
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May 19
May 19, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC
MY FAVORITE POEM BY JOHN MYERS O'HARA "ATAVISM" (with glossary at end)
Old longings nomadic leap Chafing at custom's chain Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. Helots of houses no more Let us be out, be free! Fragrance through the window and door Wafts from the woods, the sea! After the torpor of will, Morbid the inner strife Welcome the animal thrill Lending a zest to life. Banish the volumes revered Severe from centuries dead Ceilings the lamp flicker cheered Barter for stars instead. Temp, they dreams with trees Nature they god alone Worship the sun and the breeze Altars where non atone. Voices of Solitude call, Whispers of sedge and stream Loosen the fetters that gall Back to the primal scheme Feel the great throbbing terrene Pulse in thy body beat! Conscious again of the creed Verdure beneath the feet Callous to pain as the rose, Breathe with instinct's delight Live the existence that goes Soulless into the night. Nomadic - A non-sedentary lifestyle categorized by constant moving Brumal - A deep or dreamless sleep Ferine - wild or untamed Helots - slaves Torpor - a sluggish or inactive state Morbid - pertaining to death Strife - struggle or fight Revered - worshiped or respected Barter - to trade or negotiate Temple - (in this case, as a verb) adorn Sedge - verdure or plants Fetters - chains or shackles gall - a sore or wound from rubbing or chafing Primal - ancient, old Terrene - earth, pertaining to a worldly matter Verdure - plant life Callous - (in this situation, as an adjective) numb or unaware due to exposure
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A hatred fiend, Playacting a votary Of democracy and federalism To a gluttonous end, “Unless we grip The rein of power Driving a divisive wedge Along religious and Ethnic lines, also Orchestrating terror Every hour, See to every evil We shall Till the wind of change Blowing over the nation Suffers reversal.” “On the world-acclaimed Change drive We shall inflict Every possible harm So that flouted it runs Out of charm! Using a Facebook army On par with Tsunami We shall trigger And foment conflicts And make This and that ethnic groups Arch enemy. Slaying toddlers, Senior citizens And women, with The bun in the oven, Shock we shall Create often!” "Also with 'We are victims' clamor Seeking for a stalemate, Global-pity a door We intend to continue A  victor. To deflect attention From a government-junta Crackdown To neighboring country’s town Firing rockets far Dragging it into war We shall internationalize The fight Conveying our diabolic move Is right! Though unheard of in history We shall splice In unholy marriage With any enemy Of the country. Also from its back The national defense force, Guarding the boundary And us Its forehead In the crosshair mark, Revoltingly We shall attack! Though this makes us Selfish, our ethnic Groups we shall use As a human shield A daunting influence On citizens-cherishing Government to wield."////
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Nov 17, 2020
Nov 17, 2020 at 8:07 AM UTC
TPLF outperforming Satan
From formative years To adulthood serfs-baited Servants ill-treated From their means Of existence alienated, It is with hatred From- serfdom- of- every-kind -the- newly -unshackled heads' Formatted! Though their much-lamented land Has come back to their hand Tardy,their mind proves not free, That is why they engage In a killing spree! Worse still death to all, allies Inclusive,they decree! Although it sounds funny They pay back gal For received honey! Also to cultural norms And religious ideals blind, Atavistic they slay A woman and a child In a way that is wild. Oblivious for 9-months They had a lodging In a mother's womb They want to blast it With a bomb! They want to shove in it A spherical thorny wood As far as they could. Alive,they grill a man, For idle or unskilled what They can't do, he can! In the name of God Or religious sects, Replete at this Satan-released age, They behead a man Made in God's image!///
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 4:42 AM UTC
Liberating the mind before the land
Intimidated by political thugs Prone to insert in one's mouth The nose of a loaded gun Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water On males' reproductive ***** Devoid of freedom of expression Also denied  to his right and Deplorable condition drawing attention Shunning his God chosen land, What is more a bright and warm country Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began Fighting all odds between The deep blue sea and the angry Satan To migrate to a better place, Where for democracy Avowedly there is a better space, Inhabited by civilized people, Averse to discrimination based on race! Burning his boat, Crossing desserts, Crammed with other refugees, Packed with him in a boat Some trying  to reverse Their economic lot, Surfing uncharted waters Seeking a paradise on earth He headed to the country he sought Though some their lives At the hand of brutal traffickers lost Beaten and thrown out of the boat, Also at a port Suspected of a terrorist bent Many migrants to prisons were sent. After a humiliating acid test Why for a dreamland his country he left As migrants' bane They placed him at the foot Of an ice-clad mountain. “I will never see My country again, You are trying my patience in vain!" He vowed Despite the razor-sharp cold untold. Then they took him up higher An epitome to a cold fire! Once more He put his foot down Putting on more clothes and Changing attire. They placed him At the mountain's helm As hell dark Where the angel of death Is seen stark. Then in his head Something began to bark “*You rather choose the better evil If both your assailants and hosts Are no two different devil! *" Seeing first hand Those with cold shoulder Assylem seekers adore to attack Though there are Few not off humanity's track At last he decided to return back And under his country's sun bask Mum for his rights to ask Killing his journalistic knack!
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Apr 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM UTC
The better evil
Intimidated by political thugs Prone to insert in one's mouth The nose of a loaded gun Or suspend a plastic bottle full of water On males' reproductive ***** Devoid of freedom of expression Also denied  to his right and Deplorable condition drawing attention Shunning his God chosen land, What is more a bright and warm country Under the sun ,a journalist dreaming began Fighting all odds between The deep blue sea and the angry Satan To migrate to a better place, Where for democracy Avowedly there is a better space, Inhabited by civilized people, Averse to discrimination based on race! Burning his boat, Crossing desserts, Crammed with other refugees, Packed with him in a boat Some trying  to reverse Their economic lot, Surfing uncharted waters Seeking a paradise on earth He headed to the country he sought Though some their lives At the hand of brutal traffickers lost Beaten and thrown out of the boat, Also at a port Suspected of a terrorist bent Many migrants to prisons were sent. After a humiliating acid test Why for a dreamland his country he left As migrants' bane They placed him at the foot Of an ice-clad mountain. “I will never see My country again, You are trying my patience in vain!" He vowed Despite the razor-sharp cold untold. Then they took him up higher An epitome to a cold fire! Once more He put his foot down Putting on more clothes and Changing attire. They placed him At the mountain's helm As hell dark Where the angel of death Is seen stark. Then in his head Something began to bark “*You rather choose the better evil If both your assailants and hosts Are no two different devil! *" Seeing first hand Those with cold shoulder Assylem seekers adore to attack Though there are Few not off humanity's track At last he decided to return back And under his country's sun bask Mum for his rights to ask Killing his journalistic knack!
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