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Khoisan Jun 2022
Dear Chr✝s...
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Cr✝ss...
Win some,lose some
read the news some and then read more
what is it that we choose win or lose it's what we get
and I bet
that charity, though is about what is received don't be deceived
by gifts galore
the people giving want even more than an equal share
but that's not fair of me
I can see and but for lack of clarity I'd see it all
if I could only stand a little taller to look at details even smaller I'd be sure of what it is I'm trying to say
but that's not going to happen any time today or tomorrow
maybe I could borrow steps and step up a notch or two
see just who and what and where you are and the reasons why you're giving for.
I can't accept if I do not know
just where the giving's come from and where it is you think it's going to go.

You'll have to tell me and really slow I'm not as young as
not so much fun as
can't run as fast as years ago
so be slow and take your time for that is all I've got
and I won't be putting back the clock to please you
do what you do
what you've always done
you've got to have some fun
and win or lose
the news is just the same
just a pain
no win or gain it's
a prying,trying,lying game.

The headlines deadleg me
peg me out
and all my doubts are reinforced by forcible editorials and pictures which from a time what seems immemorial leer at me
from page three
I can see me going round the twist at everything they tell me that I've missed
I'm pssed off now
and p
ssing off to 'the brown cow'
to get p*ssed.
Kenneth Farward Oct 2014
As time slowly fades away the young boys fascination with the bird grows into infatuation. Chasing after the bird around the train car, the boy and the bird become the main event of a misfortunate situation. The man gazes in slight confusion.

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SOUL 1
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A
Run.
Run from
high pursuit.
I try to fly.
When
I do I hit the roof. With no real escape I search for temporary salvations. Once at peace I am disturbed again. When
Will this torture end? How many men can say
They have caught a bird with their
Bare hands?
A moment
to myself
trapped in a
train. And he will
not quit. All the joy
on his face.

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SOUL 2
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I
Run.
Here to
there, and
Back again.
Why try
to
Escape me. There is no place to go. No open window for you to run through. You persist to resist your end. Come
to me my friend let your destiny take its course
all forces are against you and still you try.
Why do you?
Why would
you fight.
Just give up.
Is it really worth
it to try and try?
If so, why

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SOUL 3
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A
Show
On a small
Train car. I
Watch cro-
ssing my
fingers hoping this boy would quit. Enthusiastically running from here to there. I hope he is aware
there is no way he  will catch a bird in here.
He must know. Even still he tries his
hardest to
catch some-
thing so free
he stops at no-
thing. He must
have never learned
to give up.
It’s beautiful. The rhythm. The instruments

blending to construct a uniform of posse-

ssing noises. The voices cascading

   together to create a melody, one

     quite similar to sweet dew on

       flowers in the bright, early

        morning. It fills you until

           you feel the wonde-

             rful notes within

             your very being.

           The tones dance a-

          round you until you

        are nothing but that. T-

      he different feels of each

   individual song are incredible.

They can either make you feel as

if anything is possible, as if there is

no greater sadness than your own,

as if you are the best thing in the w-

orld to someone, as if you are not

  who you are but who you alwa-

   ys wish to be, or as if even th-

     e most substantial disadva-

      ntages can never lift the

       brilliant veil of the warm,

          fuzzy happy you are

                  drunk on.

                   It’s as if

                    in that

                   one mi-

                 niscule m-

              oment, you a-

           re free of everyth-

       ing and nothing could

   possibly be anything oth-

  er than jubilant. These chor-

ds remain in your head and you

can change them on will like a radio.

They give you a needed distraction, a

relief from the pressure, an ungodly am-

ount of confidence, or even just something

to center yourself around. The patterns make that overbearing uncertainty

melt from your mind to puddles of woe on the ground. The alluring collections of each portion make

an enchanting thing that will forever be commemorated

in the minds of others.
it's a structure poem

— The End —