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Sam Temple Dec 2014
flippantly, her heads turns
unable to control the expressions of insanity
plastered across wild eyes
her body quivers in an explosion of excitement
twisting this way and that
as if there were no muscle memory
from a calm period
some piece of peace
she could relive in these moments
when her unhinged nature
sends me over the edge –
laying peacefully
steady breathing hiding
torment
every time a noise or movement
catches her periphery
unabashed joy pours forth
and the incessant wiggling
starts all over again –
ferocity waits for the proper moment
to be freed
set loose upon the unsuspecting world
waiting desperately for the word
or sign
expressing my readiness
for mayhem –
absentmindedly I pat her thick head
genetically blended American terrier
and classic Rottweiler
to perfection
glancing down at my little Rotty-pig
the thought crosses my mind
“I sure hope no one comes in here with malicious intent”
A poem for one of my little puppies
A SONG FOR OUR YOUTHS

Look, time is swiftly on a rail
Nation in disarray
Youths gone astray
Children like X-ray
Clothes of hope fray

Everyday sound of gunshots
Our sense accustomed to it
As time grow short
conflict didn't realize it
As youthful age get rot

Graduates in bountiful supply
Jobs hidden in their greedy ward
Kept for their unborn to ply
Jobs less than humans afterward
Guns and internet now bread misapply
Rotty bread pushed forward

Tomorrow is our turn for leadership marry
Indeed we need to worry
But no need for the hurry
Leave the rail and let's create a lorry
Else the nation be in a sorry

©Kporho Vwede Daniel
(General Ali Official)
'A song for our youths' by kporho Vwede Daniel is a poem that reminds youths about their sense of duty and wits towards our community
Sue Collins Dec 2019
The amazing maze constructed out of old ideas and rotty themes has its grip on me.
My feet in still wet cement have to get some direction from the top, the Man in charge.
I’m going to cut in line to tell him that this is a metaphorical matter of life or death.
I hope and pray that he will anoint me with his special touch and show me a new way.

Fortuitously my appeal would be heard. Some winged figures issued me into his chamber.
But all I could hear was a growly old man behind a green curtain that was suddenly invisible.
And the wiggly “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” Man or god, I now have
The courage, the brain, and the heart to find my own way. It’s an old path, to my home.

— The End —