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labyrinth Feb 2021
When the heart feels ready
Who cares what the mind thinks
labyrinth Feb 2021
I am ready for a new relation
As long as it’s away from me
labyrinth Apr 2021
Even a simple act
Such as sleeping
Turns to a drawback
If the soul’s suffering
labyrinth Jun 2022
When you are around
I feel lighter than a cloud
When you leave me alone
Even the cloud weighs a tone
labyrinth Oct 2021
Dear Gentlemen
And dear ladies
Believe it or not
It still is what it is
labyrinth Jan 2022
You are the only reason
Let me kindly remind
For I am still in prison
Somewhere in my mind
labyrinth May 2022
Bank accounts are poor
Yet, bankers are rich
A crisis for sure
Don’t belong to each
labyrinth Jun 2021
Right this moment
All you need to hear
Is a good “*******”
But, I won’t bother
I’ll simply let it be
Problem of another
labyrinth May 28
As Israel has a West to back her
It must be right time to massacre
labyrinth Oct 2021
Today’s biggest ordeals
Might easily evaporate
If people can before feel
Think in all their trades
labyrinth Oct 2022
It is too crowded
To live humanely
Troubles sprouted
From that mainly
labyrinth May 2021
Judging by its look
I’ll make a quick point
It seems no way to hook
And the world’s outta joint
labyrinth Dec 2021
Freed greeds
Greet breeds
labyrinth Mar 2021
I know some of you will think
I’m a paranoiac, who needs a shrink
Still. I gotta say what I gotta say
And I gotta say it as of today
It’s like you lose interest when it’s true!
You simply don’t get it, do you?
It’s all out there. All precooked
As long as they keep you hooked
With any, I mean any kind of screen
You are just adorably sleeping
Let it be a computer or a TV set
A smart-phone or maybe a tablet
Under attack, while they’re safe
This must be the heaviest strafe
Screens are good. **** all the books
It is the one thing they will not brook
Now they’re coming after your kids
And you voluntarily pay for all this
An eleven years old with a smart-phone?
What is it, really? Are you ******?
We make them build keyboard skills
Before they even build characters
Isn’t it about time for you to wake,
And see already what is at stake?
You’ve gotta pull yourself together. HEY!
Because, I don’t know what else to say
labyrinth Dec 2022
Willful deafs and/or blinds
Never see how truth shines
labyrinth Mar 2023
If it’s any consolation big guy
You lived the way you wanted to
But, this was an early goodbye
For that I am so angry with you
labyrinth Jun 2022
Please! No more than one birth
Already too many folks on earth
labyrinth Jul 2021
By the Aegean Sea
Meltemi’s talking to me
Under the shadow
Of the plum tree

And I voluntarily mistake
Tree-crickets for silence
As they, too, today
Bring as much peace
labyrinth Dec 2021
I like the fact
That I write
Just the way I like
So,
I write the fact
That I like
Just the way I write
labyrinth Feb 2021
For her, I opened the door
And red carpeted the floor
From now, it’s her choice
Either me or the other boys
labyrinth Apr 2021
The lawyer hastily raised her hand:
---Your honor, my client isn’t feeling so well.
---Request permission for a short recess…
Right after the judge answered the client:
---I’m the judge, silly…
Right after the client cried:
---You don’t know what I’ve been through!
---Who are you to judge me?
labyrinth Aug 2022
The way we perceive life
Must change once for all
Because the current one
Is but a big shopping mall
labyrinth Jan 2022
Being short of
A healthy breath
Is the footfall of
Impending death
labyrinth Dec 2022
Even peace has a price
As we go down the drain
One of the biggest signs
That the bad guys reign
labyrinth Jun 2022
Not that you give a tinker’s cuss
Still though, when do I give up on us?
By the time you lost your light?
Like you told me the other night
Or, by the time I will lose mine?
Tell me, which one is a valid sign
labyrinth Oct 2022
Five Zero Two Bad Gateway
Grew into a daily incidence
A bad fate for poet, anyway
A call for an urgent diligence
labyrinth Feb 2022
Simple is really hard
In almost any regard
labyrinth Oct 2021
Say something smart
I will feel you
Do that from the heart
I will believe you
labyrinth Apr 2021
I went to bed so early again
It was only 5:30 AM.
labyrinth Jun 2022
The one radiates light
Called sun of a beach
The one uses that up
Called, well, you know

😊
labyrinth Jan 2022
I thought, taking a pause
When my wife told me
How farsighted he was
Mr. Fyodor Dostoevsky

She was, above all, talking about
How rightly he caught the current
It’s a masterpiece, there’s no doubt
His book, Crime And Punishment

I believe most his depictions
Are of those of a philospher
But calling it good prescience
Is a wrong business altogether

What he catches is not the future
But the essence of human, which
Has sadly an unchangable nature
It is still evil and of *******
labyrinth Feb 2021
one

When it comes to selling a pure soul to Devils
There are basically three good-looking levels

What we ought to be analyzing first
Known as quenchless material thirst

This is where you start being flirty
With anything iniquitous and/or *****

Seeing property, ranks or things as somewhat valuable
Precisely what makes you weaker and more fallible

Watch out! Once you’re out of your humble abode
It’s tough to come back from that tempting road

Still a rather innocent level to be at
Heads up! You don’t know what it might beget

Fly is not little anymore, if it’s in the ointment
Not worth it to dishonor your biggest commitment

Being a human, that is. As the day you were born
Ponder on it for a sec! Before you scorn

Evidently at this stage, the relation with money
Is like of a baby bear and a jar of honey

Little by little minds became ravished
Easy come, easy go; lots were lavished

Enough number of bad deeds to practice
Sure elevated you higher than apprentice

You’re already accustomed to being unfair
Before you know it, you’ll forget how to spare

As time passes by, you’re at the very threshold
Of Daemon’s pawn shop, where dignities are bought and sold

Please stop acting like you don’t have a clue
We all know this didn’t come out of the blue

Deliberately avoided to get a rain check on this
It’s nobody’s fault now, you chose going amiss

two

Congrats! You graduated from dirt to sewer
Competitors around here are a lot fewer

You’re already a guard dog, since you passed the test
Masters give you orders now, go ahead and try your best

Good news, the payoffs are way bigger
Can you dig it? You sneaky, cheeky digger

Including but not limited to bribing
Cutting in lines, cheating, lies or bid rigging

Then come rip-offs, swindles and deceits
A whole lot of rotten bucks with no receipts

Agreements, clients, customers are out there
Simply for the sake of your modest ******* share

Don’t get carried away, we focus on the vicious
Deals of the bad guys who are too ambitious

To go for the sinless mass, trick them for wealth
Playing with the good-old education and health

Any clean trade with sweat and decency
Is not the subject here, except positive recency

What do I mean by that? Positive stays in the mind
A little good news every day, to keep the crowds blind

Anyway, where were we? Let’s just keep proceeding
To describe to folks what the hell’s really happening

Style counts, huh? All ties and jackets
While squirrelling away the fortune in buckets

It’s legit, it’s shapely. It’s not artifice.
Make no mistake. Around here, we call it business

Regardless of whose, walked away with all you could
At the end of the day, you’re not ******* Robin Hood

How fascinating, virtually as good as it gets
Go Figure. The last step, where the Evil One besets

  three

You’re at the third and last phase already
His highness the Satan is now your sugar daddy

Civil rights, law, ethics, and much more to violate
The higher you climb, the more to annihilate

Get ready straight to make millions suffer
From that armored zone of yours, you call buffer

Having children work for real late hours
Well, it’s their children, right? Not ours!

Going for the pension plans of the most innocent
Is merely a prize to you. Almost magnificent

Causing conflicts to sell even more weapons
What’re you gonna do man? **** just happens!

Resolutions, legality, votes and members
Are tools to Lucifer. But who remembers?

Vietnam, Africa and all the Middle East
Where you have real wars to feed your beast

Journalists, congressmen, soldiers or presidents
Are on the payroll of this firm, a bunch of happy residents

As you step up, one day you will realize
Almost all the wealth belongs to you and your allies

But that won’t stop you from chasing your goals
Remember, Beelzebub already bought your souls

I can’t help but wonder, why people are so stupid
Distorted religion maybe or TV makes them this torpid

Better this way anyway, because if they wake
You’ll have to **** ’em all to keep your dear stake

Once you’re registered in this ****** parade
You get paid as long as your role is well-played

Thus, it will be a ******* habit for you to breach
Anything and everything that’s within your reach

Crème de la crème treatment will be your regular
Etiquette is your last name, you shameless embezzler

But, hey. You’ll look very good in that high-end camouflage
All this charade to you is one good Swedish massage

I don’t think one will ever solve this double-bind puzzle
So keep up the good work with your stinky razzle-dazzle

Meanwhile, refrain from looking in the mirror
I forgot. It’s only business and you’re not a sinner

Dude! It’s about time now, you can die rich
Just before that, however, one last thing to teach

You look sharp alright, charismatic and ****
One day you’ll regret all this, I’m not whistling Dixie

Come around and behave. Labyrinth calls your class
Or else kindly take it all and shove it up your ***
This has been posted before
labyrinth Apr 2021
Cheerful, happy, optimist
Sad, stubborn, pessimists
Kind, persistent, peaceful
Loving, fair and faithful
Devoted, loyal, adventurous
Impatient, narcissist, obnoxious
Selfish, dishonest, greedy
Determined, forgiving, ready
Generous, patient, sincere
Malicious, vengeful, cruel
Pollyanna, bold or miserable
Talkative, persuasive, reliable
Friendly, silent, deceptive
Funny, passive, proactive
Ignorant, coward, fidgety
Smart, stupid, shy and lively
There are billions of us
But in fact, more or less
There are this many souls
Plus, a whole lot of *******
labyrinth Jan 2022
Neither your lovely charities
Nor a bunch of other favors
Will give me no prosperities
They’re just equality waivers
labyrinth Dec 2020
Sixty-four thousand eight hundred US Dollars
Is the GDP per capita in the strongest country
A fair distribution among white and blue collars
Still attracts neither government, nor gentry
labyrinth Oct 2021
Politics should be simple
Is it right? Do it.
Is it not? Don’t.

Law should be simple
Is it just? Go ahead
Is it not? Stop there

People should act simple
Is it good? Well, good
Is it not? Try harder

Life should be simple
As simple as squirrel’s
labyrinth Oct 2022
The first moment I wrote
I took fate by the throat
labyrinth Dec 2022
First, there were oligarchs
I might as well stop writing
People tend to think otherwise
But, second is yet to come darling
labyrinth Jul 2022
Furious lions are fighting
Somewhere in the high
Tear and sweat are pouring
From the fractured sky
labyrinth Oct 2021
When in Rome
Do what tourists do
: )
labyrinth Feb 2021
I’ve been taking care of a stray-dog lately
She has a lovely face, hiding her insecurity
I named her Mocha. Her color is brown
Mostly tame, little timid, sort of down
She knows how to keep her distance
I never patted her for instance
Her both ears are cut. I have no clue, why
I feed her twice a day with some supply
She disappears to unknown places most times
Except for three times, where she’s precise
10:00 am, 5:00 pm, around midnight
The last being start time for my plight
She sleeps on the mat by the front door
Started doing that with the first snow
I, by the way, thought she was sterilized
Most of the stray dogs in Istanbul are
Well, it turns out she was not
The hardest way I had to figure that out
And, it is that time of the year … Well. You know!!!
I’ve been seeing at least 5 visitors per night. Oh no!
She’s been making-out / Ridiculously devout
So to say, functioning with what’s endowed
I’ve bumped into 6 males at once the other night
As if she’s doing this to us out of spite
Transforming our garden, this cute, little ****
First Red-Light District, now a ******* plot
My 13 yrs. old girl started asking me about these routines
The reason why I particularly do not appreciate the scenes
My dog being born from a suchlike mother
With her 12 dissimilar sisters and brothers
Even if at some point I will interfere
I totally respect what's going on here
That though still leaves me with two unsolved problems
One concerns morality, another logistics. Both are solemn
What the hell am I gonna tell my discombobulated neighboring
Where the hell am I gonna host my new grandchildren
labyrinth Aug 2022
Killing time in our dark, tiny cells
Before we even know ourselves

We think we know a lot about
The varied mysteries of life

We don’t know ****, really
We’re just hit by it, literally
labyrinth May 2021
Sunday has certainly lost its crown
Over the other six during the lockdown
labyrinth Jan 2021
Hospitals, schools, medicine and food
Looks like serving you for their own good
Citation from a longer poem
labyrinth Jan 2022
Give people a chance to sound
You’ll see if they’re hip or hidebound
labyrinth Feb 2021
We need to learn
Not to lie
Not to fight
Not to be greedy
Not to be corrupt
Not to be ignorant
Not to be jealous first
But just because
We have smart phones
And ****** electric cars
Or over a trip to Mars
We think we progress
Progress my ***
labyrinth Feb 2021
I realize now. I am at that age
Temper is a barless cage
Like having both an inner accomplice
And a judge giving you a life-sentence
labyrinth Jan 2021
It’s obvious that we all,
Grow up with traumas
Let it be either small
Or just the big ones,

This cognitive leakage
Leading to millions of doubts
Comes with the package
No wonder the world’s a crazy house
labyrinth Jun 2021
Yesterday I was only forty nine
Today’s a new level, and it’s fine
Happy completing the first fifty
Without having to be shifty
labyrinth Dec 2021
As long as science is capital's horse
Things are going to get only worse
Unless it is the other way around
We will never be on a firm ground
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