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Skyy Blu Apr 2019
Your love's so good makes me wanna shout your name.... Firer, No- RollBack on the flame!
Dah Feb 2016
Late spring. Early morning.
Horseflies in my dream,
dissonant church bells, legless pigeons

I wake to the light’s sharp angle
that cuts this day open.
A breeze stretches its wrap

Lying here, dawn is brief
like a banner slowly raised
then dropped abruptly

Rising from bed
I slump
a prisoner waiting for a beating
The chilled air, a sword
stuck into my skin

Through the blinds
a snap of sun
my eyes rollback
colors pop

I stand barefoot
and become the sum
of a legless pigeon
a horsefly’s faint buzz
dissonant bells

I think of my dream
how it called me
inward
closer to the core
a caravan of pine coffins
lined up in the streets
a future template

Suddenly, church bells,

a fly dead on the sill,

a mournful pigeon’s coo.

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from my sixth book-length manuscript

©dah / dahlusion 2015
all rights reserved

"Horseflies Pigeons Coffins"
was first published in  'Secrets and Dreams Anthology'
(Kind Of A Hurricane Press)
Dada Olowo Eyo Nov 2018
Strange place, even stranger times,
Every unfit thing, strangely finds its place,
But in kleptopia strangers become bedfellows,
The strangeness all the more welcoming;

Outside the uneven lines, weeping, wailing,
Many complaining, more agonising,
But within the cesspit of gluttonous philandering,
Merriment upon merriment, endless mirthing;

So they negotiate a rollback,
Of the misaligned circumference of the perimeter,
Try to redraw this untidy arrangement,
Only still at it, many lifetimes after.
Many Nigerians blame the United Kingdom for their woes. Unequally yoking them with tribes and ethnic groups that have little or nothing in common with their own race. For some it's reaping where they have never sown and for others it's sowing endlessly with no hope of a rewarding harvest.
Many call for restructuring, some had tried seceding, only to be held by foreign pegs that want the continued geographical expression remain in a condition of forced alignment. SAD.
Frieda P Jan 2014
untimely teeming downpours,
     my tears slid down your cheeks
as your heart bled unto my soul
    without concessions revelation's pulse,
alas, beating eyes speak in disclosure
    proclamations etch'd in blood
envelop'd the yielding surface skin
    strapped to a behindhand'd watch
that read a confession of surrender
   at quarter past indignity and
half past sinful indulgences
   rollback was warranted
but time had earlier run out
   faith expired on the second hand
dance end'd when the music laps'd
     love died an untimely death

*...whilst the band play'd burning violins
Joel M Frye Jun 2016
I saw my future at the Dollar Town
today.  She shuffled, bent, a Sisyphus
who rolled her cart uphill on level ground,
resisting rollback grinding her to dust.
Perhaps fifteen or twenty years beyond
my age, or pushing ninety.  Hard for me
to tell; she labored so, with eyes despon-
ent, weight upon her arms, each step a plea.
I hobbled past her, grateful for a cart
nearby to hold me up.  The air-conditioned
blast a respite from the sweltered heat;
I panted softly, let my pounding heart
subside, inhaled a soothing breath, and sent
a prayer she'd make it home, get off her feet.
Spirit bless her.  I hope I'm still rolling my stone uphill both ways at her age.
Jayantee Khare Aug 2017
Love~ The tug-of-war!
between the heart and the mind.

The mind~
Falls from behind!
Steps aside!
Lets the heart take initiative,
and preside!

The mind's warnings, it ignores,
New ways to win, it explores!

Good job! But~
Later itself got crushed!
The plans smashed!
Dreams shattered!
Schemes scattered...

The mind~
Sitting behind,
Now takes over,
To know it's over
Tries to get over
To walk over....

To  learn  the lesson
To find new passion
To follow the caution

The heart~
Sad, mad,
So much it had,
Yet to understand the good or bad,
Regressing!
Depressing!
Repressing!
Obsessing!
Over and over!

A rollback!
A comeback!
A look back!
A turn back!
Bounces back....
Ready for another tug-of-war....
The love is blind
War between heart and mind
Continues....
Raj Bhandari Jun 2018
NOW

I

CAN'T

ROLL BACK

TIME

FOR

YOU,

DAD !

REALLY

SAD !!
Jayantee Khare Aug 2017
Not good ones, but bad stories
often playback!
Some people are missed, yet not meant to comeback!

Until the lesson is learnt, things are bound to come back!
Sometimes it's ok to look back,
without rollback!

Everything leaves eventually!
But each wound heals finally!

**Nobody is indispensable!
Nothing is irreplaceable!
Nothing   is   permanent!
Change is for betterment!
Jayantee Khare Jul 2017
No lookback
No comeback
No rollback
is
possible.
Only
flashback
of
"U"
is
killing
now
.....
Seema Sep 2017
i am shattering within as my heart breaks again. how long before i get over and begin to feel sane. lost in thoughts, of the time together. where did i go wrong? what did i do to deserve such heartache? you were just with me for a sake, lying each day...how did i trust you? you no less than my first, a fake. i wish i could pull out that mask off, just to see the real you. but you assured that you are not like the rest. won over my trust, did your best...i just ponder and wonder, why my heart trusts so easily...it's valentine's day tomorrow and my tears just drown me in sorrow. it's ok, perhaps its a lesson learning time for me...i hope oneday you rollback your albums and see...maybe you would remember me or whatever, just burn the memories, the album, photos as if you've burnt me!!


©sim
Fiction write. Just spilling thoughts.
Bob B Jun 2018
As scandal after scandal envelops
The head of the EPA--
Scott Pruitt--let's hear what
He might have to say:

"Having my aide do personal tasks…
That wasn't bad, was it?
Personally, I believe
That everybody does it.

"A condo deal from a lobbyist…
Sure, it might've been sweet.
So I like to travel first class--
Why am I taking heat?

"Circumventing the White House
To give my aides huge raises.
Whoever has a problem with that…
Well, they can go to blazes!

"A 43,000-dollar soundproof
Office telephone booth
Will give me secrecy to make
More deals; and that's the truth!

"Fifteen hundred dollars for a set
Of pens is not a waste--
Especially when you know your friends
Have expensive taste.

"It isn't easy to rollback so many
Environmental rules.
I can toss out many more
If I have the right tools.

"Special deals with a lobbyist…
Come on: give me some slack.
Can't you see that we are only
Scratching each other's back.

"Millions spent on a massive security
Detail? Don't you agree
That it makes sense to go all out
To protect someone like me?

"So what if I'm the target of
Thirteen investigations.
I'm still helping the industries
And ending regulations.

"The president says I'm doing a great job.
I am not on my own.
**** the environment; full speed ahead!
Let my motto be known."

-by Bob B (6-7-18)
Jayantee Khare Jan 2020

Rise up the hibernation phase,
Organise
Prioritize
Streamline
Trust you must
Pray to stay
Get a punishing pace
To move the monumental burden
Keep pushing....
Till you maintain the mandatory momentum,
No look back
No rollback
Till the boundaries  break
The challenges crack!
Now fly
In your choice of sky,
Accomplished!
The happiness hack....


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