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i am a phonographic record
and you are the ears that hear me
i cant compare my music
to malignant mammographies
and the phantasmagoria of cash
or to hash-browns and flapjacks
or to a purple field drowning in wisteria
yes, i am hysterical too
like elderberry syrup and cough drops
popping like its hot
so we japa till we drop, it all
yes, everything
so give it a chance
see your face in the reflection
of a pool of moonlight
a **** bather
a fool at the equator
equates to nothing
so i undress my unctuousness
a congruent confluence
like blood on an apartment building wall
a pox in your cereal boxes
flu shots and mandatory vaccinations
without informed consent
we are experiencing a loss of the immaterial
if we pamper ourselves with distraction
we attract the repulsive side of thy will
Khadijat Bello Oct 2023
Nigeria 🇳🇬

A lot has happened to you since 62
You're a year older, and still most of your kin hates you
They forget how they may not exist without you
Yes! You are on the brink of hell,
To say your name has been marred with gutter
An act from most of your children

You have suffered the injustices of men
We hear cries of your children in the North
Thousands of hooligans in the South-West
There is so much bad blood in the East
The Middle Belt doesn't know her role or who to follow

Your name has been berated all over the world
Your currency, at the brink of death with the stock market
Stolen funds for those who can grasp it
Banditry for the suffering Masses
Illegal mining, yet no one is talking about it

You have suffered bickerings from people who want to Japa
A fluctuating forex makes it no easier
They blame you for their atrocious behaviour
They sometimes forget how fertile you are.

Nigeria!
From East-West and North-South, you have suffered injustices
For decades, you have been subject to malicious governance
Battling all levels of inflation, subjecting your people to abject poverty
Yet the rich get richer, and the poor? More Jejune if you ask.

At 63, I want to fight. For your children and kinship
Fight for your soil and regain your strength
Battle with these injustices and insecurity
Bring down inflation and take back your crown
Debunk all forms of evil committed with your name
And fight for a better 64.

Nigeria is great, Nigeria will be great
Nigeria is our father's land.
Happy Independence Day, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Bellah.
Happy independence day to my beautiful country Nigeria 🇳🇬 I strongly believe you're great, and will be great again.
The doctor rubbed my sore shoulder
spraying copious amounts of analgesic compound
to freeze the area
from the side of my eye I caught the
silver glint of a 6 inch needle poised
to penetrate my quivering shoulder
with cortisone
intense pain exploded through my consciousness
as the syringe fracked into the deeper regions of
my shoulder

Afterwards, while reflecting on this incident
I thought about polarities and Newton’s Law:
“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”
The pain I had just experienced did not occur in a vacuum
Somewhere along the time continuum I’d set up that opposite
swing of the pendulum

I recollected all the intense moments of extreme and dizzying
sense enjoyment, lust and gratification
my mind has sought and indulged in with rabid satisfaction
always wanting more, restless, never content or at peace

When we examine this world, and its quintessential duality
we are confronted with extremes at every angle
Hot, cold, up, down, win, lose
We can’t have birth without death and so on
hmm…. I thought as the enlightenment bulb
went off in my head
This is why many great sages and saints
fostered a way of life that
transcended duality

Lord Buddha extolled the “Middle Path”
He described the middle way as moderation
between the excesses of carnal indulgence
and self mortification

Aristotle gave us the “Golden Mean”
“every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.”

Sathya Sai Baba states:
“The object of meditation is equanimity,
the object of equanimity is samadhi (enlightenment or self realization)"

This beautiful quote by Bhagavan Baba is redolent with wisdom
and sublime beauty:

“Surrender to God and to life means the absence of duality
and being of the same nature as God.
But such a state is beyond man’s will.
Surrender is when doer, deed and object are all God.
It comes naturally to a heart filled with love for God.
God is as a spring of fresh and sweet water in the heart.
The best tool to dig a well to that inexhaustible source and
savor its sweetness, is Japa (Chanting God’s Name)
The Sadhana of God's Love
is a blissful employment
from rising sunlit tides of dawn
to iridescent dusk


my hymn floods


the rubescent horizon

Spending time with You,

Divine Self


soothes the furrowed brow


heals the broken heart

Lilac shadows steal through the 
Prayer room


delicate footprints
Gods and Goddesses
make their presence
 known


Happily I ignite 
warm, inviting glow
candlight and camphor incense


while settling down softly
in
 the blue meditation chair

my gaze ascends 


venerated, timeless vedic scriptures
unfold
beautiful words, fragrant pinions


waft through the universe
recalling God's majesty and glory

Hari
!

Your myriad names and leelas 

a glorious testament, celebration
to all that is good and virtuous


dances 
across my japa mala


anointing body, mind and spirit

with true peace


Gossamer wings brush
past my flushed face
shimmering in the quicksilver luminosity

I feel You so radiantly near

Yes, it is possible
with dedicated devotion
and spiritual practice
for us to experience the
ineffable Presence of God
Onoma Jun 2019
i now can see the jealous

side of beauty herself--

all her finishing touches

trembling at the thought

of one more fair.

it is so, there's no disfiguring

what's written in stone.

as there, they're read as they

appear--so still, they are at a

loss.

japa, petals in place--for one

beyond compare~
FlipThePoet Jun 2022
(in naija broken english aka pigin)

in these varying decision times
i just dey on a low
nor be say the matter tire me
i suggest say, i just dey distracted.
as Roe dey fight Wade
conje dey para for me.
omo, na next from one babe then unto another
na ee be the motive,
sadly this lifestyle na everything but
extravagantly ****.
as dem dey pursue Trudeau
na so i dey chase down my destiny,
na when i go take mind re-write
this exam wen dey in front of me?
for naija, election matter dey make man japa
my timeline say na Peter Obi go be their papa,
funny enough i get this feeling say
we dun dey reach the moment wen things go better,
like say this summer na "turn around season".
the true be say, either politics or breakfast
las las everybody dey fight somethin.
the true be say if you dey para, you go have to rise above it.
the true be say, na only God get remedy.

e dun pass time when we go dey look persin for face
e dun reach time when we must to carry matter for head.
this one nor be joke o, but na wake up call
Penelope Winter Apr 2017
quarter notes
inside jokes
sheet music
horsehhaired bows
für elise
japanese
german slang
cheesy memes
walking home
desert roam
always stealing
vicky's phone
late night chats
baseball caps
unfinished homework
evil cat
texts from bae
too much ballet
lonely waltzes
that you play
hard quartets
"fight me" threats
accidentally
sto*** clarinets
lunchtime tune
music room
flirty conversations
that you ruin
little night light
embers bright
won't you leave me
inspired to write
someday you'll see
how much you mean to me
my dearest friend,
i pray you'll never leave.
a poem only he will understand
Johnny Noiπ Jan 2019
And as for you, I say, I am, "she says, because
her mother was her and many things are a great
reward, is it life? The aluminum foil should
be ready. Giving the opportunity to finish,
Why do young people hit?
Children who play at obesity are the victims.
Or in your mouth ... how many? No, Miza,
Guam ha-ha, Wada Bounty - and more hours of use
Write the article 'b'; Edward, when you are a living room,
The fans of R. Uha today are not the movies of Karodos
de Almamima Uruk -
It's funny, if you call, it's funny.
Now he has the rest of the responsibility,
the discount is made,
500 Bacimium Idar, Akri Nala from Beef
Muha: ... I'm the beast? Boy? I say,
the prize was won and many people, much food
and volcanic mountains were caught:
In special aluminum foil.
Opportunities that they know,
Cost of the accused
     Size of the *****
... that is the mouth With the Milka Whole
and the Advertising Award, you have to go
down to the manufacturer's price.
The taste of Israel's seafood;
Aluminum Fuel Nut, Aluminum Australia -
Give her a drop of water
Compared with health, Kahan Kadhi links
the sixth abuse with Tahhhh -
La Hana, rarely,does my daughter uses the cow
in the chest, Is there a lot of noise here
that is not that big? Below you I am close, that is,
"What are you doing to me?" I do not know where
you are now but they have a lot, but what is it?
The aluminum foil should be ready.
And do not get mad, Cara.
How can I know if I am going to meet my son?
The words "Langsa" and "Mote Pap Channels".
The mood is ... No, M-japa Akha, Goh, business
managers - Donate Katna de Daga; Saddam lives
in Adani Transgeres:
Alegre Uri Amalia Pan - Fula Karanta A novel: Swimming Hills -
The life of Oh! Hai Jahid Bones,
Tool Opening Book
Give me a drink, I'll give you a scalp, & Moody Knuckles,
let me tell you the truth.
Mu, Khada Hai: ... important museum on Planet Gaynor;
I do not know anything, I have a lot of time in my life
and I do not know what I saw.
Sun and weather; Opportunities Who is
Because of the trauma!
Ka Ling Aakar ... is this month? Mike was more
often, Vedas parsekar - leader Munir, the lie
I am delighted with the content of this city.
What is the news of Almeida Austrelia food candy?
Bless the world In the rays of the girl,
the goddess of persecution's persecution.
If you cannot get old, old and good with a pen,
I have a question ... I do not know what you're doing?
The teacher of his teacher and leader, Dilhi Hai Kahne,
is a Yusky man, that is, outside of Bose, and what life is like.
Elyomenieniam gave a basic singing song.
Find the poor snow And whisper with the screams
of the wonderful Gateton family cone?
Easter and a cup of cake.
Tetanus ... do you like it? Nihin, Mizapa, Gauhaha,
Fiber Intersections - Aur Multilit Kuchu Ghant                   Kai Hai Upgag
JiaDa unoch hed khah; Eid worr night that the owner
of the price of yarn by the matter
Aarah Uhah 5 Source Sanki Alamini Stanad
Taraa Karadas nun - Kee Jeeva also known as
Muk Saikai Bahai Bah Jai Hai,
The favorite of Tallon; The "day of the air jagir"
Dee Bachir Eder by Akerie Dans Bifafe
My Khada Hai: ... Kya maav hlavo hoo? Gayon;
The main hand, Kata, Anakhi Man Lol
or a great praskar, gold ki anhi bhi gay pakade gay, child aaa.
Jismma is a sheet of diagnosed child elyoomeeniyam
Exposition; Kaun Hain Janat;
Logite Star!                                                        Ka Ling Aakbar
Lamb ... where does Munah come from?
Mikea Akhaga Ka Karayog Sounds, Vedic Award - The Mugh-he Producer Kemat in Jana,
A far country to the north of the island.
Deseo and Kardari Almana Austria -
Let's make a hole in the pan.
By coincidence with Chath's Gallery of the child's marriage,
a child was born.               So, the joy of comedy,
VKK Ek Hain Baad Sawaz KiKee Yahan Hai ...
But you're not out Nahin Nikhlen? Under the leader
Ayaa Krib Bahat Dil, Hai Kya "What determines Jahan?
You are your father, Nahin Kahan Goff,
but have you overcome the Kuch Hai, Likan, Kya Hain"?
Elyomenieniam gave a basis for singing the song.
Carl's Gas Delay: Mohi Kais Patna Chalga Kya Director
Apana Bachar Jaan Paongi Ko;
Shabd "Langsties" Gold "Motepe Ka General"
Dihei announced Hamam.
Emotions of the child, not ... hai, mijap akhsa, goeh,
on a salary crusade - Ek ki Danat ketana ki hai awagya1
Additional partner in the maritime sector.
Inay-eha Panap Amanti School - Less tragedies are Nances -
Jeeve is an open mouth, Yehad Hai! Hai! Hai!
General Colhana Ka Upkaran
Mugi Ball, Maavish Mana Ku and Meghan Satikoda,
the main language of the small banana
Hai Mu Khadr: ... Meja Museum. Gaynor;
Main label: Simple Drive, Simple Spirit Movement for both games.
Incense and climate,
Exposition; Kaun Hain
Logite Digby Key!
Ka Ling Aakhar
Maheena, Kya Hai ...; Mik Agga Bhaag, Vedic Paraskar - Chief of Services, Ek Ek Tha Zuth!

II
And you say I have a lot of things.
Life insurance should cover the pages
of Cooking Capacity
Why do you want to laugh at young people?
With children sprinkled with oil
... or what's left? We expect ...
Guam is the current mark, cobosex and other watches.
Edward's articles, if you are in the room;
And the Lock'ed Lock movie today
is Barry Boston in Almighty;
If you go, it's fun. More responsibility,
Buying the Sittamer Eder 500
Metal: ... and can I break it? I say it
He's got a lot of people;
They face the valley of the river.
Special aluminum film
Opportunities for you
Incorrect value:
Size of volume
... this is bone, bone!
Advertising programs you should get.
Physical value
Bahrain; #b   Aluminum, Fuel Fuel for Australia -
Give him water, But how did he protect?
Sixth Action Plan
Lana, my daughter sometimes uses this dress.
Make sure your goal is holy
Why so many people? My part is close, that is
"What do you want with me?" I do not know how!
At the same time, I do not know, not so, but what?
Aluminum film
They don't think about ***.
How does my son give a son?
The words "langisam" and "mateppa channel"
This ... 1000 Jeep Jip is not limited to business
Dan Dan Salad
Connected keys:
Terms Charlotte - Oshiki, new Sunday:
Real life, our message is Tony.
libraries
Take there
IM telling you the truth
Muin, the museum Hojar-Museum ... Main branch of the earth;
I live a long time
And I do not know what it was.
What sun and time do you choose?
damage
What kind of woman? More Mike, like
Most leaders of the Vedic church,
I agree with the contents of this city.
What does the Latin Encyclopedia for Australia mean?
Woman will survive the world
friendship
If you are old, this is not good;
I have a question ... I do not know what you are doing
Teachers, leaders and teachers;
This is a young man who travels every day in his life.
He says this is a song
Clear color from color and color of flowers.
Does Gates House look beautiful?
Easter and cups;                Now the farm ... now? Yes, I am a *****;
I'm at the police station at the police station and top gug in freedom,
Copy copy; The rest of these days care about
where the Lord cares about us. Price range in unit:
Alkhan Manba Uta Sosey Almin Kog
Vitamin E is also known as bacteria.
There is a problem here
Register for a full day of aircraft
Boris Beck, Eddie Blake
Bobo is a good site, but ...;
Its main crop is shown
Common sense, is gold and gold, sons of AA
Aluminum was a child
Burton Cuffman; Han Quan Yant;
Yes Yes! League league
Where can this be removed?
Mishra Mike Aksen - Wedding Brochures - Month and Model Yakuba
north                                       Germany and Austria worked ten days -
The wall is located behind the wall.
Always have a wedding gallery
He was born, as all sinners were born.
VC. CIS experts; But does this not apply to Nosira? commander
God is the King of the world, who is "Who and when?"
Because you are our father, you are Nachin Kan Heche, Ludwig;
Luke nothing else?
Elo Single Lottery
Oil crown, karna patna head
Forestry with forest growing.
"Falcon", He went to the doctor
Nobody today, ..., eyes, eyes,
Guest house 1 Another member of the boat
Head of secondary school - Such risks -
If I am, then the creature is open! Women women
All colonies of Misha Bal and Masha Sat, Malva and Kai,
The main language of the revolution is language.
He lives in the Museum of Secrets in 1000;
Original words are simple, simple or free. plants; Burton Cuffman; Besides,
Digby manages key management system management!
Recent projects
Need to say
Vedic Parsicar - Manager Seva: Best Australian Tuscany Kididit, Marie Kole Barry Tabik Kazi Khan
Warning notice Air available for harvest
Third yoga                                                             ­            ṁawgaujṁṁṁṁ ṁ
KARABHI TOCHKHI PIITSH BARCIA KHALSA HARA
... if there are a few cents, we make mistakes
Guma Cola Heiko, CoboSecution in Horse Haha
Araki Lalk "B"; Come on, come on;
Happy loans movies
Alal Red Bar ṭasaṭa Rhesus -
And when do you do it
Semikharurim Char 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500 500
mēṭala: ... How can I do this? Yaya
We love it
Ana No Pao and Papa Baba Lia
Vishner Aluminum Film
the gifts
mm
Idylli
... Rari is green; Vijipan Progogar Atul Tahanu
Leimi Simurat Pahukar Kahida High Separated Physical m Bahirina; ṭsaṭrēlī'āalī alamīnī'ām, from there -
Yusanu Panani Daka Hika Dao
Money Agent Keenan Naha Ahah Nav Kav Kawaii?
Cha-cha Paan Network
Lana, & Mary b

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