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"unrepentant" poems
~for those who will read this and weep~ *the quiet ones, the silent Job ones, who quote not from the Book of Lamentations, but author their own, based on-the-job experience localized versions of cryptic elegiacs accepting the wooden crosses borne, stepping up to the unrequested unforeseen, then buried under, burnt alive, yet never relieved by dying, nailed by words, stronger than iron, promises sworn, promises kept with no ending date relief, promises by and to themselves, but not for themselves!* *the wearers of crystal glass shackles, adorned with decorative locks for which no key did the maker make, nor any divine creator dare conceive an early release, never no escape contemplated, for the lock human, unrepentant unbreakable, a decorative useless metaphor gesture, a blunt “life ***** advertisement I compose amidst a bus pond of mismatched city folk, a tapestry of ages colors and differing views on god/no god, none would believe that as the bus sways me, it’s in rhythm to holy choral music, hundreds year old, divinity masses and motets worships, where one human can hide temporarily a safe house, to calm his questioning relentless from the horrors of no answers, for when the mind has no solution to the rough and tumbling lives, lived in glass shackled confinement, the poets desperation equals theirs* *summon eagles to transport these imprisoned, but the shackled refuse, I come to them but they wave me off, I go crazy for once I was enslaved, thirty years war that left devastation, from which so many poems created so I speak with heightened regard of one who planned futures for others where his non-existence was a founding father (ha!)* *but the day came and I was released by my own inactions, but means nothing until a way to away found to release the yet bound early* got a couch, airline miles, hundred dollars in my pocket and an unrelenting need to save them, a consumption disease, the glass shackled, at ease, won’t rest till all are freed this my creed no one left behind these cyber words do not mock for they are unbounded, set free, when the flesh connects and the needs of the flesh are stronger for they are in heart conceived
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Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 5:45 PM UTC
The Glass Shackles
~for those who will read this and weep~ *the quiet ones, the silent Job ones, who quote not from the Book of Lamentations, but author their own, based on-the-job experience localized versions of cryptic elegiacs accepting the wooden crosses borne, stepping up to the unrequested unforeseen, then buried under, burnt alive, yet never relieved by dying, nailed by words, stronger than iron, promises sworn, promises kept with no ending date relief, promises by and to themselves, but not for themselves!* *the wearers of crystal glass shackles, adorned with decorative locks for which no key did the maker make, nor any divine creator dare conceive an early release, never no escape contemplated, for the lock human, unrepentant unbreakable, a decorative useless metaphor gesture, a blunt “life ***** advertisement I compose amidst a bus pond of mismatched city folk, a tapestry of ages colors and differing views on god/no god, none would believe that as the bus sways me, it’s in rhythm to holy choral music, hundreds year old, divinity masses and motets worships, where one human can hide temporarily a safe house, to calm his questioning relentless from the horrors of no answers, for when the mind has no solution to the rough and tumbling lives, lived in glass shackled confinement, the poets desperation equals theirs* *summon eagles to transport these imprisoned, but the shackled refuse, I come to them but they wave me off, I go crazy for once I was enslaved, thirty years war that left devastation, from which so many poems created so I speak with heightened regard of one who planned futures for others where his non-existence was a founding father (ha!)* *but the day came and I was released by my own inactions, but means nothing until a way to away found to release the yet bound early* got a couch, airline miles, hundred dollars in my pocket and an unrelenting need to save them, a consumption disease, the glass shackled, at ease, won’t rest till all are freed this my creed no one left behind these cyber words do not mock for they are unbounded, set free, when the flesh connects and the needs of the flesh are stronger for they are in heart conceived
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I am a cereal killer Devouring Life is a thriller Snap, crackle, and pop I make the flakes drop Stalking salubrious crunch Murdered for breakfast and lunch My appetite for Trix is voracious For my Lucky Charms, I am gracious Mud & Bugs haunt my soul Desecrating Grape-Nuts whole Yea, I'm Nut n' Honey and Cocoa Hoots Krispy Kritter Krave Fruit Loops I'm a cereal killer Yet a community pillar Can't comprehend why it's a crime Unrepentant, I'll massacre cereal every time
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Mar 25, 2013
Mar 25, 2013 at 10:01 PM UTC
Cereal Killer
Some came in chains Unrepentant but tired. Too tired but to stumble. Thinking and hating were finished Thinking and fighting were finished Retreating and hoping were finished. Cures thus a long campaign, Making death easy.
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Feeling the box I work in closing in on me during winter’s last gasp, She has dug in her heals refusing to yield to warmth. Unmerciful and unrepentant in her bitterness, she taunts and tortures us all. Yet, spring birds sing of spring as a lover sings of her man. The sun struggles to break through the dark grey, melting away the dim cold and drabness that surrounds all.
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Aug 22, 2012
Aug 22, 2012 at 7:03 PM UTC
VACATION ON MY MIND
I have been cruel and unrepentant, and on my knees yearning for certain benevolences people promised good people get. There is I suppose a logic to why it is not so tragic I don't get when I didn't give 'cuz I was too busy wanting the best. My conscience woke when I stabbed a man in the heart with barb again. After hours or regret and notes that confessed I burnt it down for I knew nothing changes. I am still upset.
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Dec 1, 2012
Dec 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM UTC
Upset
The houses of my Babylon lean upon each other. They will not fall, not until the last hard hand quits the last hammer, not until misfortune loses prey, not until the least last child is gently packed in wool and sent to play. Sooner will you hear their see-saw hinges wail. Will you then ask of them a song of home? The windows of the houses of my Babylon lay bear the walls around them. Who but gray grandfathers marking time press their noses to the glass? The visions of their lonely vigils fade, half life unrecorded, shadows on parade, whispered secrets kept secret. You will never know with what intent they overlook your passing through. Rain tears on the windows of the houses of my Babylon, the bath of unattended panes dropped free from heaven. They will not wash clear. They will ever wear the haze of tainted air. You think this stain the mark of unrepentant sin. Who, then, gives the absolution of so many brown-burned fingers that will not scrub up?
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Nov 10, 2012
Nov 10, 2012 at 1:21 PM UTC
Babylonian Exile
I'm an Aries ram and Lord I use this to resist you. Dear Christ I feel so afraid. I'm scared of opening my heart to you, for fear that I'd be giving up myself. I want to cling to the self-inflicted pain and let it become my life. But oh Christ I know this is wrong of me. Your touch brushes aside my symbols. You try to ****** your peace upon me. But oh Lord, I put up brick walls to keep you away. Please Jesus help me break them down. Let this Aries ram put aside his horns of doubt. Let this hurting man feel the love you promise for me. I'm a deep dark hole of unrepentant sin. Carrying a cross that does not hold your heart. Oh sweet Jesus put yourself into my burdens. Let me open my eyes to the glories of your redemption. Fresh from sin let me arrive cleansed and ready to show Your love. As an Aries ram I jam away from your salvation. Yet I know I need to submit my will to yours. Crash away my doubts oh Holy, blessed Lord. Comfort me for I feel so alone. Angry eyes follow me as I walk though my sinful life. Inside I feel the dark night of the soul, and my touch is filled with demons not laid to rest. Lord, stop this Aries ram from losing his soul.
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Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 6:16 PM UTC
Aries Ram
Dear God I’m overcome. I know no other way. I’ve heard it works for some, So finally I’ll pray. No reason to rejoice; I have so many needs. So God, just hear my voice, And please ignore my deeds. I’ve never asked for much, Or anything at all, But my issues are such, It’s You I need to call. I pray for better health (My back is always sore), And if I had more wealth, I’d probably pray more. If you could help my son To make the soccer team, It would help him a ton To realize his dream. So what else should I seek? I’ve never prayed before. If I sincerely speak, Then You just give me more? To pray this easily… I’m not sure what I mean… Is prayer supposed to be Like a vending machine? God, forget what I said. This prayer is not the best. I need You in my head To make any request. I should not seek Your grant, Without seeking Your grace. The unrepentant can’t Come to a holy place. I think You’re there to find. I feel I’m on my own. So let me clear my mind As I approach Your throne. I want to try again But this time not for me. Your concern is for man. Prayers not for “I” but “we.” If You send the world peace, Our needs are not a must. Give our ego release, And please just grant us trust. You’ve seen this mortal man, And things I never saw. Whatever is Your plan, I’m humble and in awe. The act of prayer itself, If prayer is to be true, Will purify the self To feel closer to You. I don’t pray to save me. If my sins You forgave, Then I pray just to be Worthy of being saved.
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 10:58 AM UTC
Prayer
Dear God I’m overcome. I know no other way. I’ve heard it works for some, So finally I’ll pray. No reason to rejoice; I have so many needs. So God, just hear my voice, And please ignore my deeds. I’ve never asked for much, Or anything at all, But my issues are such, It’s You I need to call. I pray for better health (My back is always sore), And if I had more wealth, I’d probably pray more. If you could help my son To make the soccer team, It would help him a ton To realize his dream. So what else should I seek? I’ve never prayed before. If I sincerely speak, Then You just give me more? To pray this easily… I’m not sure what I mean… Is prayer supposed to be Like a vending machine? God, forget what I said. This prayer is not the best. I need You in my head To make any request. I should not seek Your grant, Without seeking Your grace. The unrepentant can’t Come to a holy place. I think You’re there to find. I feel I’m on my own. So let me clear my mind As I approach Your throne. I want to try again But this time not for me. Your concern is for man. Prayers not for “I” but “we.” If You send the world peace, Our needs are not a must. Give our ego release, And please just grant us trust. You’ve seen this mortal man, And things I never saw. Whatever is Your plan, I’m humble and in awe. The act of prayer itself, If prayer is to be true, Will purify the self To feel closer to You. I don’t pray to save me. If my sins You forgave, Then I pray just to be Worthy of being saved.
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I read the book of Samuel I read the story of the Israelites Of how they rejected God “We want a king!” they demanded “We want to be like other nations” Rejecting God’s kingship. The same God who brought them up Out of the ******* of Pharaoh Out of slavery in Egypt The same God who gave them victories Over many nations and wars The same God who had fed them For forty years in the wilderness Same God who had proved Beyond reasonable doubt That He is the King of kings A Lord above all lords They chose to downgrade! I was swept away in a mind journey As I thought of how it must have felt To be rejected by your own children Repudiated by your beloved Disowned by the very people you love. My heart bled! The heartbreak was unimaginable The pain was excruciating As my mind pointed fingers of accusation I couldn’t find befitting words *“Foolish Israelites!” “Unrepentant idiots!” “Stubborn generation!”* And as my mind went awry Heaping insults on God’s people Raining accusations on them Judging an imperfect people as myself… His still small voice whispered ***“You are all the same” “You have done worse”*** Then it struck me Like a lightening of a million volts I am the Israelites I am the very people of God I am the same ones I condemn I have betrayed God repeatedly I have chosen sin above my maker My iniquities know no bounds I have trivialized His blood I have made a mess of the cross. *I am the “foolish Israelites!” I am the “unrepentant idiots!” I am the “stubborn generation!”* My heart melted into tears Shame covered me like a cloud My head was bowed in ignominy. Unable to speak or move I lay there, weeping at my wickedness No words were spoken But I felt His arms embrace me In acknowledgement of my repentance I never deserved it But He loved me nonetheless. I pointed one finger at them But three pointed back at me! © Raphael Uzor
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 6:19 PM UTC
Israelite
I read the book of Samuel I read the story of the Israelites Of how they rejected God “We want a king!” they demanded “We want to be like other nations” Rejecting God’s kingship. The same God who brought them up Out of the ******* of Pharaoh Out of slavery in Egypt The same God who gave them victories Over many nations and wars The same God who had fed them For forty years in the wilderness Same God who had proved Beyond reasonable doubt That He is the King of kings A Lord above all lords They chose to downgrade! I was swept away in a mind journey As I thought of how it must have felt To be rejected by your own children Repudiated by your beloved Disowned by the very people you love. My heart bled! The heartbreak was unimaginable The pain was excruciating As my mind pointed fingers of accusation I couldn’t find befitting words *“Foolish Israelites!” “Unrepentant idiots!” “Stubborn generation!”* And as my mind went awry Heaping insults on God’s people Raining accusations on them Judging an imperfect people as myself… His still small voice whispered ***“You are all the same” “You have done worse”*** Then it struck me Like a lightening of a million volts I am the Israelites I am the very people of God I am the same ones I condemn I have betrayed God repeatedly I have chosen sin above my maker My iniquities know no bounds I have trivialized His blood I have made a mess of the cross. *I am the “foolish Israelites!” I am the “unrepentant idiots!” I am the “stubborn generation!”* My heart melted into tears Shame covered me like a cloud My head was bowed in ignominy. Unable to speak or move I lay there, weeping at my wickedness No words were spoken But I felt His arms embrace me In acknowledgement of my repentance I never deserved it But He loved me nonetheless. I pointed one finger at them But three pointed back at me! © Raphael Uzor
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Been caught spying on your "Friends" again; Land of the Free. Been caught lying through your teeth, again and yet again. There really should be a huge fuss about this. *This is the latest in a long series of unrepentant Crimes against Humanity This is perverse and unacceptable But then again, what's new?* How many allies will we leave alienated? How many allies will we have in the Future? How many human rights will we leave undefiled? With the United States, who needs enemies?
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Trust eludes a Guilty Conscience
******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 8:17 AM UTC
Planetary Concerto
******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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I'm roaring towards the sun, in an aluminum bubble. My spirit, lacks wings, to fly but there's a spoiler, fitted, to the silvery minivan's frame. So, we drive down the day... coldly harmonious, as it glitters back, in mild flashes. Memory, is stagnant; flecks of it shine, back, at me-- capsules, of captured thought, suspended movement... the world, itself, becomes gelatinous. The park, where I almost-- the long-absent faces, of growing boys, and girls, concealing toothy monsters. Unsung heroes, and wandering bards... Freezing sidewalks, slanting homes... places I knew, so well; they stand, still, and appear to register no change, and no difference. Christ, with his pale, pinned arms, and pain-stricken face, gazes down, on all these sins a placid totem, on his marbled cross... an overgrown snowdrop, crying mildly, into polluted grasses, below. A sweet song, emits from surrounding speakers and it becomes tangled, in its own chords. It breaks, in my throat, like tinted glass... and suddenly, my eyes, are full, of flooding, unshed tears. Their sorrow, needles at sore, spent cheeks. The rain, which pinks, soft clay is hard, and salted, and as it beats down, onto my skin, I can feel the sunlight working its gentle, tumble-dry magic, and finessing them clean, again. I turn my face, away to stare out, silent, through the unbroken window. I'm sobbing, harder, now, and I have no idea, how I started... or why, it won't stop... but still, the rain, rolls down shaky gutters; unrepentant, and unrepressed. The wild weeds, of the garden, are well-fed, indeed yet overwatered, beneath leaky clouds, and graying seams.
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Sep 9, 2025
Sep 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM UTC
[Roaring towards the sun]
I'm roaring towards the sun, in an aluminum bubble. My spirit, lacks wings, to fly but there's a spoiler, fitted, to the silvery minivan's frame. So, we drive down the day... coldly harmonious, as it glitters back, in mild flashes. Memory, is stagnant; flecks of it shine, back, at me-- capsules, of captured thought, suspended movement... the world, itself, becomes gelatinous. The park, where I almost-- the long-absent faces, of growing boys, and girls, concealing toothy monsters. Unsung heroes, and wandering bards... Freezing sidewalks, slanting homes... places I knew, so well; they stand, still, and appear to register no change, and no difference. Christ, with his pale, pinned arms, and pain-stricken face, gazes down, on all these sins a placid totem, on his marbled cross... an overgrown snowdrop, crying mildly, into polluted grasses, below. A sweet song, emits from surrounding speakers and it becomes tangled, in its own chords. It breaks, in my throat, like tinted glass... and suddenly, my eyes, are full, of flooding, unshed tears. Their sorrow, needles at sore, spent cheeks. The rain, which pinks, soft clay is hard, and salted, and as it beats down, onto my skin, I can feel the sunlight working its gentle, tumble-dry magic, and finessing them clean, again. I turn my face, away to stare out, silent, through the unbroken window. I'm sobbing, harder, now, and I have no idea, how I started... or why, it won't stop... but still, the rain, rolls down shaky gutters; unrepentant, and unrepressed. The wild weeds, of the garden, are well-fed, indeed yet overwatered, beneath leaky clouds, and graying seams.
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I have come to the temple Of your body.  I kneel and prey Like a sinner.  The holy water Beads low on your forbidden Tabernacle, sears my touch In cleansing flame, what I do And what will be done is all For unrepentant confessions And penances.  Let me truly Learn the sacraments of flesh Before I bathe in your wicked Innocence and commit my sin At being mortal in your nimbus Chambers, let the mercies rain After the fall of my fellowing Creature, for this night is blood Sabbath, and sacrilege under A Pagan moon and let the dawn In the rising sun of mute morning Be my absolution, our benediction, Let the moving waters enfold us, Pure as lambs, as washed babes, Baptismal.
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Jul 20, 2012
Jul 20, 2012 at 7:21 PM UTC
Heathen Hosanna
The knicks and the knacks of you and I. The knicks as you chisel tru the glass enclosure around my heart. The knacks of.. of.. of.. you on I… Tear the walls down, I mean beat the walls now. The knicks and the knacks that have come to define our pact, our pack, our.. Knacks.. I visualize and shiver, even in the shower the gentle whisper.. Touch…. Your… Toeeee……s Oh stop it, ur making me blush, making my heart rush The knicks and the knacks that have come to define US… But wait, hol-up! Isn’t that what you wanted US to be? The ability to derive pleasure selfishly. Your narcissistic tendencies, expecting me to conform to this atrocity… But I did….. Oh yes I did… and foolishly, candidly, unrepentant in every way, I enjoyed every knick, every knack, in our little knick knack ------ you can check out this poem and my other works here http://tonipayneonline.com/poetry-by-toni-payne/
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Sep 8, 2014
Sep 8, 2014 at 5:01 PM UTC
Knick Knack
**She bared my heart, that I did not know I owned, and led me to the light. To redemption? Back to Hell? To some in between twilight...** *He saved my life, but ****** my soul, confusing me my way. To Love?! To Hate?! To find a hole and hide away...* **I scream her name... But I am alone, and only unrepentant ghosts can hear.** *He can never know... That much- Thank God- I know that much is clear.* **I cry, and Demons are not moved; To them, seeing a man in pain- even their king- is a sight not so queer.** *I cry, and Angels do not care; The only waters shed in heaven are joyful, pious tears.* **When I left, my soul came again unlatched; and my heart closed, left again to cruelty's treason.** *When I returned, my wings were intact; but my heart burned for the reason.* **Though you thought I hid my face from shame; All the rage and pain... for you? All I did, I would do it all again.** *When you left, to my shame, my heart followed you to Hell. Though you wear such rage and pain... I confess you wear it well.* But he can never know my shame But you do not care to hear my pain.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 2:24 PM UTC
Lucifer in Love pt. 2
The chemo makes you tired at first, So you tend to sleep the day of treatment. But throughout the week, The radiation takes its toll. I watch it slowly unfurl inside of you. Your joints ache like there are embers between the bones, And your belly fills with hot, heavy lead, And your tonsils swell with fluid, And your ******* traitorous with tumors, are sore and bruised. This is a pain that eats at you: Your nerves, your patience, your kind words. You’re a ***** Vicious and unrepentant. It hurts. I become petty and spiteful, Convinced you are determined to make me suffer with you. You tell me that I don’t care about you anymore. And I ask you why you can’t appreciate the things I do for you more. But today, You showed me how your hair had lost most of its ***** curls, The follicles soft and preparing for departure, And you cried because your wig, while pretty, didn’t look like you. I can only hold your swollen hand And promise to draw your eyebrows for you.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 1:16 AM UTC
Survivor Story
Allowing a wall Before their rational Thinking stand, Inured to their heinous deed Of every brand, From head to toe Involved in corruption grand, Also while fellow citizens Gasp for air, Not giving an ounce of care, Barefacedly they dare Unjust war to declare! "Valorous,wiping you out We shall make the land bare!" "Chained, cruel and corrupt Honest - thieves and cut-throats Us,to court you took To punish us by the book Such a move by hook or crook We shall abort Haven't it dawned on you the import? --the select few From the palace to port As autocracy is our wont, And zone of comfort If stripped of this right For us it will not be all right! Though finger countered, We hail from an ethnic group, Marked brave And which we could mobilize, As our selfishness and brutality It seems oblivious to realize. Though during our hay days Its plight we failed to mollify Massaging its ego The call for unjust war We shall amplify Unrepentant , We should Wage a fight. Though some of us Are on the run, As blood is thicker than water, With the credulous That fight for us Emerge victorious we can. To reinstate Rule of the gun On which The international Community Has put a ban. But "To flee pang-of-conscience How fast be the pace? No need  it is no where in place"
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Nov 26, 2018
Nov 26, 2018 at 3:40 AM UTC
Unrepentant we shall wage unjust fight
How was it there in Isengard, Former haven of the proud, Whose hollowed valley hid the rot Beneath its treeless hills, Ancient machinations tunneled far below The smooth, impervious tower of Saruman, The Iridescent Dazzler, Whose quiet words slipped Sauron's thoughts Inside our weaker minds? Venom running hot...then changing cold Within old Saruman on Gandalf's salutation: "Saruman the White," Changing Truth for truths, Something totally desired. "I prefer Saruman the White!" I think old Gandalf said While he was still "The Gray," (Just before his lofty spire stay). But evil magic has its ends, Tendrils turn upon themselves, Vines tangling slow or fast, Returning to the evil doer's door While Good climbs steadily to new beginnings Rooted in the Old and True, Reaching for the sun. Old Ents in righteous anger Broke dams, diverted streams to flood The war machines of Isengard, Drove Orcs and Wargs and Trolls to doom, Drowned the furnaces... Then, mourning tree-limbed kin, Greeted Gandalf on his way to greater things, And pledged themselves to holy war. Saruman the Proud, The sooty iridescent, The abject coward, Stripped of power, Fled unrepentant Into the mists of Middle Earth While Sauron's eye glared West and East, Wraith-seeking Frodo and The Ring.
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Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 9:18 AM UTC
Isengard Reflection
clutching at pebbles thrown hard into sky as birds bitter yolk of unceasing raindrop ideals personified, then scattered in leaf a coarse blending of the soul and what is scream of forgotten swing alone in sunshine a fear internalized, an unquenched song of watery despair and silence pacing, pacing, toward and away from a melody that is as intangible as balloons whispering to decaying stars fading into nothingness, brief respite, void of sound, emptiness most profoundly pierced with kaleidoscopic shards of senses and memory; with music of blueberries, gleefully dropped into tinny pails overflowing from wistfulness with touch of unblossomed rosebuds admired, unyielding like crabapples moist in calloused palms with smell of tree, unrepentant and unchanging, yet gnarled and longing, indistinct, uncertain with taste of wind, speckled purity of truth elusive, of realization categorized, of wispy but unrelenting passion with the image of a hope etched, recessed, scorned, repressed, grasped, suspended in song the maybe’s and the why’s the can’t’s and the shouldn’t’s the have-to’s and the why’s then slowly fingers defiantly uncurl from stone, in motion unrefined and quietly, fervently; quietly, fervently, I begin to sing... a mottled snapshot of my mind.
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Jun 4, 2010
Jun 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM UTC
a mottled snapshot of my mind
Unrepentant with a hole in her soul The brass faced liar has steely control Nothing fazez her. no fib was too big or small. Man this girl was a smooth criminal and a really close acquaintance She would give a polygraph the shakes and it's our little secret. umm, Mom and dad know. family secret. I reversed engineered the brass faced liar and all the tumblers clicked. The truth to her is like Kryptonite to Superman. I dropped a small stone down her throat one day and counted to ten before it hit bottom with a far away clunk.. Faceof brass ,heart of stone.animal rescuer Liar to the bone. Manipulates children poor self esteem Brass faced liar isn't what she seems. Out.  To impress now.finally starting to dress now Drawing flys like rotten meat. Wicked comes in all shapes and sizes Turn back the covers,know what your surprize is ?. A zombie in a guilded mask. Long dead and putrid..a walking talking husk. Lies pour out of her mouth like green blowflies And crawl back in under her disguise. To fester. Brass face jester R.I.P.
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 9:24 PM UTC
Brass faced liar
Sound of a pen clattering Admonishing beauty of arts rendering Lines of rhyme rhyming Mixed with rhythm rhythming Like a poem life flowing Like a drama life pushing Like a prose life rushing And then comes representing Unrepentant life projectoring The literati's lyrical lyricalling Recalling the gods of writing With written words calling Calling calling calling coming And hence societal ills hiding Bad leaders, leadership running Disillusioned souls troubling Marginalised masses crying And crime rate like jet flying Bombs like pure water exploding Politicians still stealing and looting yet fearing Fear! phobia! fear embracing Minimum wage hurting Governors like bee stinging Unemployment destroying like earthquaking Half baked graduate graduating Our education unseriously provoking Undefined boundaries exposing Immigrants immigrating Police, Soldiers, customs, Road safety, etc all corrupting like they feeding... Inec election in chaos resulting Nigeria a name of peoples's confusing NEPA, WATER, ROAD, HOSPITAL unrealistic absurding... Corruption! corrupting!! corruptioning!!! Are we starting or finishing? Building or destroying? The lyric of the literati busy deconstructing...
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 2:07 PM UTC
The lyric of a literati
. I have come to the temple Of your body.  I kneel and prey Like a sinner.  The holy water Beads low on your forbidden Tabernacle, sears my touch In cleansing flame, what I do And what will be done is all For unrepentant confessions And penances.  Let me truly Learn the sacraments of flesh Before I bathe in your wicked Innocence and commit my sin At being mortal in your nimbus Chambers, let the mercies rain After the fall of my fellowing Creature, for this night is blood Sabbath, and sacrilege under A Pagan moon and let the dawn In the rising sun of mute morning Be my absolution, our benediction, Let the moving waters enfold us, Pure as lambs, as washed babes, Baptismal.
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Aug 12, 2016
Aug 12, 2016 at 11:00 PM UTC
Wicked
Achia, That's the name of my town. There's a path surrounded by yellowing bushes that go green in autumn, Brown in the harmattan, that joins Achia to Jato-aka town. At the head of this path is a junction You'll notice another path to your left here. And that our own path is to the right of it I call it our own because that's the only path followed by the villagers. The other hasn't been in use in recent years You can see the undergrowth, Bent and unrepentant, Daring you to trample on it and watch it regrow Everytime we use the right, i always wonder Where would you lead me to, Left? Are you like many of our life's (in)decisions, The unexplored choice? The one that time will eventually erase? So I've decided, That the next time we get to that point I'll take the road less favored And see the quiet secrets that it has had to maintain over the years. And i hope that that will make all the difference to it.
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Mar 18, 2018
Mar 18, 2018 at 11:59 PM UTC
The Bush Path
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Feb 3, 2018
Feb 3, 2018 at 9:47 PM UTC
Just Mien Pap Smeared Vapid Yawping
let us be junkies bleed together tremble as our blood is cleansed from this, our senseless craving. there is heaviness upon our chests our breath staggering from the jagged sharpness of memories peeling the fresh edge of our wounds freely flowing now, leave us just the hint of death upon our pale, spent skin. alone. i feel alone. i am muted as i recede from the fury of my addiction, hearing alone my agonizing cry my flesh shredded my bones crushed my tears crusted its meaning has long left me curled and cold in a corner with the wan smile of surviving... there is no pity left in the melting. somehow, i forgot how hell would figure in this, my make-believe heaven. where with each gaze, you bare my soul with each breath, you burst me raw and dripping with your fingertips you strip me into my elements and have me dance buck-wild soaked in the perfect concoction of madness and affection stewed in boiling buckets of *** as thick as love slathered upon our irreverent whispering lips... but hell has arrived silent, thoughtful, real... i feel it creeping in this empty room where the fulminant joy of your laughter fades into a hollow echo and your eyes are somewhere else where the light of the sun is not blue but grey. you are oozing from my open vein and i am numb hell has arrived at the break of a dark winter. i succumb to my fate an unrepentant, miserable ****** wallowing in shaking fits, my vulnerable shell in a million shattered shards by my feet, looking at the permanence of your tracks as you walk away...
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Mar 17, 2013
Mar 17, 2013 at 10:38 PM UTC
love ******
let us be junkies bleed together tremble as our blood is cleansed from this, our senseless craving. there is heaviness upon our chests our breath staggering from the jagged sharpness of memories peeling the fresh edge of our wounds freely flowing now, leave us just the hint of death upon our pale, spent skin. alone. i feel alone. i am muted as i recede from the fury of my addiction, hearing alone my agonizing cry my flesh shredded my bones crushed my tears crusted its meaning has long left me curled and cold in a corner with the wan smile of surviving... there is no pity left in the melting. somehow, i forgot how hell would figure in this, my make-believe heaven. where with each gaze, you bare my soul with each breath, you burst me raw and dripping with your fingertips you strip me into my elements and have me dance buck-wild soaked in the perfect concoction of madness and affection stewed in boiling buckets of *** as thick as love slathered upon our irreverent whispering lips... but hell has arrived silent, thoughtful, real... i feel it creeping in this empty room where the fulminant joy of your laughter fades into a hollow echo and your eyes are somewhere else where the light of the sun is not blue but grey. you are oozing from my open vein and i am numb hell has arrived at the break of a dark winter. i succumb to my fate an unrepentant, miserable ****** wallowing in shaking fits, my vulnerable shell in a million shattered shards by my feet, looking at the permanence of your tracks as you walk away...
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