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Seán Mac Falls Feb 2017
( Sonnet )*

And she so blithely calm,
Perfection amongst nature,
So beauteous, so precious,
Dearer than faint rapture.

How, we new men are lost
Without words, without wit,
Unbeknownst of times' cost
Bearing, bereft, without pill,

Woman in all her temptings,
Hair, longing to be shackle,
Eyes, mirroring dire heavens,
Lips, that drowning fish tackle.

How, to be a man without fear
When all womankind is near?
Meera Feb 2018
An angel of light
With dark wings
Wanderings in catacombs
Flying through springs
Tied to hell
With golden strings
A siren she is
Her beauty stings
Luring emperors
Temptings kings
Like a triumphant song
The Satan sings
Her lyrics echo
Her music rings
nivek May 2014
I am saved from the stress of Cities
walking pavements
vehicles pedestrians
bright lights shops
and many temptings
to feel envious or poor
or harassed or squashed
bumped to look down
or away to side step
to feel the exhaustion
of it all cities
Zombee Aug 2014
funny how Song stops
mocking in the Cadence
after
eight or nine Trials
of
heightening Water.




funny how Comfort stops
docking on the Stitching
after
six or seven Temptings
of
severing Threading.




funny how Thought stops
rocking in the Shower
after
five or six Drinks
of
sinking deSire.




funny how Hunger stops
knocking on the Door
after
four or five Tries,
like
everyone Else.




funny how Feeling stops,
and Laughing starts.
funny how Passion stops
mopping the Floor.
gus Jan 2019
I do not require to write a poem about a food,
I do not require to write a poem about my lunch,
I do not require a lesson on my world and what its doing,
I do not require downloads of information, based on  hunch!

I do not require offers of things with my mail,
I do not require a lecture on whats required,
I do not require your money given, just to take it back,
I do not require our systems, that should all be long since retired!  

I do not require a group hug or high five,
I do not require opinion becoming lie,
I do not require your sale or your bargains,
I do not require your insurance, because we die!

I do not require your requirements,
I do not require your requirements to acquire,
I do not require to be amused, with what you think I should,
I do not require to be entertained within a mental mire!

I do not require your wars being ours,
I do not require you to point but never go,
I do not require you needing me in order to point,
I do not require your bull, the answers no!

I do not require you to say for my own good,
I do not require that decision being yours,
I do not require your ppi neither require your pen,
I do not require you sensationalizing flaws!

I do not require to live on mars,
I do not require such money spent for me,
I do not require your missiles, and need for them,
I do not require you to tell me what I see!

I do not require to eat an animals *******,
I do not require unless it is your own,
I do not require your history or future dictated,
I do not require another ****** phone!

I do not require to be required,
I do not require you to require of me,
I do not require you say its a requirement by all,
I do not require are you deaf,  please leave me be!

I do not require much, with so much bull to choose,
I do not require to sign the dotted line,
I do not require what any should imply, I should require,
I do not require,... no I do not require.

I do not require the politically correct,
I do not require very old programs censored, less they offend,
I do not require people who do not get out enough, in charge,
I do not require your APR  for we must lend!

I do not require your national deficit,
I do not require to live in a world of perpetual debt,
I do not require more credit, nor the offer of it,
I do not require the first free spin, because I bet!

I do not require radicalization of Islam,
I do not require promises, that all have been made before,
I do not require your credit score nor with it, your mortgage,
I do not require that I require, and always want more!

I do not require your thoughts on minimal wage today,
I do not require rules that take me further from myself,  
I do not require to be a wage slave, and ensure that others are,
I do not require the trappings and temptings, born of wealth!

I do not require those that require,
I do not require a brain dead education,
I do not require the weather being everything at once,
I do not require peace on earth, in variation!

I do not require my life becoming the soaps we watch,
I do not require to be divided, under guise of brought together,
I do not require your temples to honor finance,
I do not require a hammer dressed as a feather!

I do not require gym membership,
I do not require Christmas adverts in September,
I do not require to sign anything that pertains to my life,
I do not require answers that don't remember!

I do not require ten percent less sugar, only one kilo now,
I do not require pills, that make you take more pills today,
I do not require a quote, or through my letterbox a note,
I do not require to expect, as its best to just say!

I do not require survival shows that are clearly false,
I do not require that we are all in it together,
I do not require told change my ways, from all those responsible,
I do not require sold the fuel, then blamed for the weather!

I do not require wonderful people leading the way,
I do not require quilted paper for my rear end,
I do not require a viz vest for picking my nose,
I do not require a circus round the bend!

I do not require another royal wedding,
I do not require another January sale,
I do not require trousers worn around ankles,
I do not require a breeze that is a gale!

I do not require an isa,
I do not require that healthy modern look,
I do not require implied “required” to be like everyone on TV,
I do not require a mocha with my e book!

I do not require bolder lashes and lips,
I do not require a **** job or a tuck,
I do not require to have a car like whats his name,
I do not require to give a single ****!

I do not require lower cholesterol,
I do not require stigma if I don't go hug a lamb,
I do not require pamphlets from strangers on my doormat,
I do not require anyone but me imply, just who I am!

I do not require to run for parliament,
I do not require to run for a bus,
I do not require the latest greatest anything,
I do not require philistines who make a fuss!

I do not require you must,
I do not require also you must not,
I do not require requirers with nothing better to do,
I do not require a life defined, by what you have got!

I do not require current affairs same as usual,
I do not require term reality, to title anything on a TV,
I do not require pop ups regardless of where they are,
I do not require to save a whale or hug a tree!

I do not require a flatter firmer stomach,
I do not require sweets I like, to have to change their name,
I do not require a world ruined by guidance of those in charge,
   I do not require that the people eventually take the blame!        

I do not require that neutral face that is dour on the news,
I do not require, oh no! whats happened now?
I do not require the ice caps melting and killing everyone,
I do not require vengeance with the exploding of a cow!

I do not require overly decorated jeans with fake ware,
I do not require a beard that's just like yours,
I do not require politicians who bicker instead of doing their job,
I do not require the embracing of my flaws!

I do not require drones, we've enough already living,
I do not require an electric car or cycling path,
I do not require sharing my life through data,
I do not require people who fall over, and never laugh!

I do not require  global democracy by force or coercion,
I do not require to know what you had for tea,
I do not require my phone to bug me and not know,
I do not require somebody “watching me” if I watch TV!

I do not require advice, unless your life is perfect,
I do not require a flatter squarer tube,
I do not require the God particle without permission,
I do not require intelligence as prostate check, without extra ****!

I do not require flies and mosquito on this planet,
I do not require fluoride in my water,
I do not require to be a subject,
I do not require overpriced billing demand, every quarter,  

I do not require to see it in my time like everyone before,
I do not require needing money just to live,
I do not require pavements to dictate my freedom to movement,
I do not require leaders, as just another sock puppet ***!

I do not require sharks in the seas,
I do not require thirty percent more packaging only,
I do not require to be a number,
I do not require the lost and disenfranchised being lonely!

I do not require empire implied or otherwise,
I do not require poverty as OK or normal,
I do not require black Friday, sold as much as con,
I do not require that a funeral should be formal!

I do not require my fingerprint taken, its mine not yours,
I do not require a Hollywood smile,
I do not require Tax when everything bought is taxed as well,
I do not require inch given, for a mile!

I do not require PPE to play conkers,
I do not require the idiot who implied you did,
I do not require to live where that concept is OK,
I do not require to live as idiots bid!

I do not require to adopt a tiger, where to put it?
I do not require the latest greatest thing,
I do not require Christmas lights that give you migraines,
I do not require your budget in that little case you bring!

I do not require anything unless required,
I do not require fireworks all year round,
I do not require products tested on animals that don't use them,
I do not require my troops on foreign ground!

I do not require you to accept so much you shouldn't,
I do not require you to listen, for your minds your own,
I do not require too much really, do I ?
for I do not require a life, without the occasional moan! x
NP Mar 2020
The hatching tempest
drinks convulsively of
her voice
drowns in thunderous
wit the flimsy temptings
of his heart

Not even feathered hope
will oversummer her assail
nor provide respite from her sands

Ô, Enkindled Time...
Please! Please! Don’t forswear his shriveled ash!

­–

Against your snowy nape
he catches the reflection
of a withered mien
Blindfolded by the starch yet
thinking he’s enveloped by the starts
he’ll abandon his abode of solitude and freeze
and die

As every night,
when even sound’s asleep
The most terrible storms
overturn/run and take
his heartfilled eye

Forever encumbered by the window’s lie

— The End —