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NELSON MANDELA, NUMBER 46664 IS DEAD; EULOGICALLY ELEGIZING DIRGE FOR SON OF AFRICA, HOPE OF HUMANITY AND PERMANENT FLAME OF DEMOCRACY


Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)

Nelson Mandela, South Africa's anti-apartheid beacon, has died
One of the best-known political prisoners of his generation,
South Africa's first black president, He was 95.
His struggle against apartheid and racial segregation
Lead to the vision of South Africa as a rainbow nation
In which all folks were to be treated equally regardless of color
Speaking in 1990 on his release from Pollsmoor Prison
After 27 years behind bars, Mandela posited;
I have fought against white ******* and
I have fought against black *******
I have cherished the idea of a democratic
And a free society in which all persons live together
In harmony and with equal opportunity
It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve
But if need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die,

Fortunately, he was never called upon
To make such a sacrifice
And the anti-apartheid campaign did produce results
A ban on mixed marriages between whites and folks of color,
This was designed to enforce total racial segregation
Was lifted in 1985
Mandela was born on July 18, 1918
His father Gadla named him "Rolihlahla,"
Meaning “troublemaker” in the Xhosa language
Perhaps  parental premonitions of his ability to foment change.
Madiba, as he is affectionately known
By many South Africans,
Was born to Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa,
a chief, and his third wife Nosekeni *****
He grew up with two sisters
In the small rural village of Qunu
In South Africa's Eastern Cape Province.
Unlike other boys his age,
Madiba had the privilege of attending university
Where he studied law
He became a ringleader of student protest
And then moved to Johannesburg to escape an arranged marriage
It was there he became involved in politics.
In 1944 he joined the African National Congress (ANC),
Four years before the National Party,
Which institutionalized racial segregation, came to power
.
Racial segregation triggered mass protests
And civil disobedience campaigns,
In which Mandela played a central role
After the ANC was banned in 1961
Mandela founded its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe
The Spear of the Nation
As its commander-in-chief,
He led underground guerrilla attacks
Against state institutions.
He secretly went abroad in 1962
To drum up financial support
And organize military training for ANC cadres
On his return, he was arrested
And sentenced to prison
Mandela served 17 years
On the notorious Roben Island, off Cape Town,
Mandela was elected as South Africa's first black president
On May 10, 1994
Cell number five, where he was incarcerated,
Is now a tourist attraction
From 1988 onwards, Mandela was slowly prepared
For his release from prison
Just three years earlier he had rejected a pardon
This was conditional
On the ANC renouncing violence
On 11 February 1990,
After nearly three decades in prison,
Mandela, the South African freedom beacon was released
He continued his struggle
For the abolition of racial segregation
In April 1994,
South Africa held its first free election.
On May 10,
Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first elected black president,
Mandela jointly won
The Nobel Peace Prize
With Frederik de Clerk in 1993
On taking office
Mandela focused on reconciliation
Between ethnic groups
And together with Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
He set up the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
To help the country
Come to terms
With the crimes committed under apartheid
After his retirement
From active politics in 1999,
Madiba dedicated himself
To social causes,
Helping children and ***-AIDS patients,
His second son
Makgatho died of ***-AIDS
In 2005 at the age of 54,
South Africans have fought
a noble struggle against the apartheid
But today they face a far greater threat
Mandela he posited in a reference to the ***-AIDS pandemic,
His successor
Thabo Mbeki
The ANC slogan of 1994; A better life for all
Was fulfilled only
For a small portion of the black elite
Growing corruption,
Crime and lack of job prospects
Continue to threaten the Rainbow Nation,
On the international stage
Mandela acted as a mediator
In the Burundi civil war
And also joined criticism
Of the Iraq policy
Of the United States and Great Britain
He won the Nobel Prize in 1993
And played a decisive role
Into bringing the first FIFA World Cup to Africa,
His beloved great-granddaughter
Zenani Mandela died tragically
On the eve of the competition
And he withdrew from the public life
With the death of Nelson Mandela
The world loses a great freedom-struggleer
And heroic statesman
His native South Africa loses
At the very least a commanding presence
Even if the grandfather of nine grandchildren
Was scarcely seen in public in recent year

Media and politicians are vying
To outdo one another with their tributes
To Nelson Mandela, who himself disliked
The personality cult
That's one of the things
That made him unique,
Nelson Mandela was no saint,
Even though that is how the media
Are now portraying him
Every headline makes him appear more superhuman
And much of the admiration is close to idolatry
Some of the folks who met him
Say they felt a special Mandela karma
In his presence.
Madiba magic was invoked
Whenever South Africa needed a miracle,

Mandela himself was embarrassed
By the personality cult
Only reluctantly did he agree to have streets
Schools and institutes named after him
To allow bronze statues and Mandela museums
To be built
A trend that will continue to grow.

He repeatedly pointed
To the collective achievements
Of the resistance movement
To figures who preceded him
In the struggle against injustice
And to fellow campaigners
Such as Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Luthuli
Or his friend and companion in arms
Oliver Tambo who today stands in Mandela's shadow,
Tambo helped create the Mandela legend
Which conquered the world
A tale in which every upright man
And woman could see him
Or herself reflected,
When Prisoner Number 46664 was released
After 27 years behind bars
He had become a brand
A worldwide idol
The target of projected hopes
And wishes that no human being
Could fulfill alone,
Who would dare scratch?
The shining surface of such a man
List his youthful misdemeanors
His illegitimate children
Who would mention his weakness for women?
For models
Pop starlets
And female journalists
With whom he flirted
In a politically incorrect way
When already a respected elder statesman?
Who would speak out critically?
Against the attacks
He planned when he headed the ANC
Armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe
And who would criticize the way
He would often explode in anger
Or dismiss any opinions other than his own?
His record as head of government
Is also not above reproach
Those years were marked by pragmatism
And political reticence
Overdue decisions were not taken
Day to day matters were left to others
When choosing his political friends
His judgment was not always perfect
A Mandela grandchild is named
After Colonel Muammar Gaddaffi
Seen from today's perspective
Not everything fits
The generally accepted
Picture of visionary and genius,
But Mandela can be excused
These lapses
Because despite everything
He achieved more than ordinary human beings
His long period of imprisonment
Played a significant role here
It did not break him, it formed him
Robben Island
Had been a university of life for Mandela once posited
He learned discipline there
In dialogue with his guards
He learnt humility, patience and tolerance
His youthful anger dissolved
He mellowed and acquired
The wisdom of age
When he was at last released
Mandela was no longer
Burning with rage,
He was now a humanized revolutionary
Mandela wanted reconciliation
At almost any price
His own transformation
Was his greatest strength
The ability to break free
From ideological utopia
And to be able to see the greater whole
The realization
That those who think differently
Are not necessarily enemies
The ability to listen,
To spread the message of reconciliation
To the point of betraying what he believed in,
Only in this way could he
Serve as a role model
To both black and white humanity
, communists and entrepreneurs,
Catholics and Muslims.
He became a visional missionary,
An ecclesiast of brotherly love
And compassion
Wherever he was, each humanity was equal
He had respect for musicians and presidents
Monarchs and cleaning ladies
He remembered names
And would ask about relatives
He gave each humanity his full attention
With a smile, a joke, a well aimed remark,
He won over every audience
His aura enveloped each humanity,
Even his political enemies,
That did not qualify him
For the status of demi-god
But he was idolized and rightly so
He must be named in the same breath
As Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama
Or Martin Luther King
Mandela wrote a chapter of world history
Even Barack Obama posited
He would not have become
President of the United States
Without Mandela as a role model,

And so it is not so important
That Mandela is now portrayed
Larger than life
The fact that not everything
He did in politics succeeded is a minor matter
His achievement is to have lived
A life credibly characterized
By humanism, tolerance and non-violence,
When Mandela was released
From prison in 1990,
The old world order of the Cold War era
Was collapsing
Mandela stood at the crossroads and set off in the right direction
How easily he could have played with fire, sought revenge,
Or simply failed; He could have withdrawn from public life or,
Like other companions in arms, earned millions,
Two marriages failed because of the political circumstances
His sons died tragically long before him
It was only when he was 80 and met his third wife,
Graca Machel,
That he again found warmth,
Partnership and private happiness,
Setbacks did not leave him bitter
Because he regarded his own life
As being less important
Than the cause he believed in
He served the community humbly,
With a sense of responsibility
Of duty and willingness to make sacrifices
Qualities that are today only rarely encountered,

How small and pathetic his successors now seem
Their battles for power will probably now be fought
Even more unscrupulously than in the past
How embarrassing are his own relatives
Who argued over his legacy at his hospital bed
Mandela was no saint
But a man with strengths and weaknesses,
Shaped by his environment
It will be hard to find a greater person
Just a little bit more Mandela every day
Would achieve a great deal
Not only in Africa
But in the bestridden geographies
Epochs and diversities of man,

In my post dirge I will ever echo words of Mandella
He shone on the crepuscular darkness of the Swedish
Academy, where cometh the Nobel glory;
Development and peace are indivisible
Without peace and international security
Nations cannot focus
On the upliftment
Of the most underprivileged of their citizens.
Was it luck as I was awe-struck?
It is said that these gleaming falling stars are UFOs
It is also said that at times when UFOs land they then become IFOs... They come to fetch a king as the king dies
Sending him home to distant skies

OR was it merely a sign that the Pleiadians have landed?
Or other races beyond, from Lyra to Procyon
not to mention the bellicose Orions
we wouldn't see this of course
as all that would be would be what isn't and what isn't would be what it truly is
Living in Alice and her wonderland
We see politics and earthly government
but the point is to hide exo-politics, Councils and Houses

We would be asleep when the unseen god is an emperor of just one constellation
We would be asleep as the centre of the Universe serenades Gaia
We wouldn't see as Nihahua engages Sol
We wouldn't see as Tiamat rises to the fourth dimension for we would think we are asleep

We would think of raptures holy as they are protocol to transport souls to other planets
Yes advanced some are as they are 4D others even 5D
and a means of exchange not being money
so that makes our planet a child you see
These things you wouldn't know as they are cleared by the MIB's
These things you wouldn't know when mediums or channelers form religions
These things you wouldn't as hybrids and starseeds form religions
These things would seem ridiculous for you are programmed
You wouldn't know what to believe for restricted are tools to examine
You wouldn't know what to concoct when access to information is limited
It said some serve the upliftment of humanity
I'm talking about the Andromeda Council and Christos Council

From Babylon to Rome
Or was it from Atlantis to Mu then Ur? Before the Annunaki went to Sumer
From Rome to the whole world
Was it Nibiru which heaven was?
Are we really living in Star Wars?
Are we ruled by Star Lords?

Are we humans trying not to be aliens?
Or are we aliens trying to be human?
The strongest angel ever created, the weakest
a sad day in heaven
the angel of light then brought darkness
Not a mystery why light is sought after and its essence

I saw a falling star
Some are abducted, sexually indulged and barred
They are ridiculed in society as they are told that's how insanity starts
There are people who go missing in caverns, not knowing that they would be genetically manipulated and brainwashed
There are communicators of divine knowledge
They are called lunatics who feed ludicrous knowledge
We wouldn't know the difference for we are trapped in matter
We wouldn't care for the physical is all that would matter
From the Els to the Yahweh consciousness
From the Serpent gods to Sorcerer kings and Priest kings
Do we know where it all started?

Religion would be coded astronomy
The movement of stars, astrology
if we knew the galactic anthropology
We wouldn't think we are alone
Science fiction would present technology
Linear time would be no more
Wormholes the doors
The Ark of The Covenant a device used as a good weapon
We would know all and more of this if we saw more falling stars
We would know more of this if we weren't kept busy by the masters
We would know more of this if we stopped thinking we are free
Then we'd know who we are and where we are going
to that place of all knowing.
Listen to Niribu by TaMarah #np on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/tamarah-taesee/niribu
Big Virge Oct 2020
Well It Seems Nowadays...    

THAT..." Black Lives Matter "..... ?
Well I'd Say THE HUMAN Factor...  
Is What We SHOULD RECAPTURE... !!!!!!!!  
IN FACT What I Mean Is... "Capture"... !!!  

Because My Lifes' Chapters...  
HAVEN'T SEEN Too Much Data...    
That Humans In Their Manner...  
Are Living By... That Standard...    

There's NO Doubting THAT... !!!  
When It Comes To ATTACKS...  
That Are Made Against Blacks...  

Humanity LACKS...  
What It Is To RETRACT...  
And.... RECOGNISE....  
That Di-vi-s-ive Vibes    
Are... TAKING Lives... !!!!!  
And DIVI-D-ING Tribes... !!!!!  

You See SUBJECT MATTER...  
I DEAL IN.... HAMPERS....  
Those Who Hanker...  
To Work With FAKE DATA...  

FAKE Like.... TANNERS....  
Standing By Standards...  
Doubled Up And Captured  
By Their...  Actions... !!!  

STICKING To Factions...  
Thought Waves FRACTURED... !!!  
BELIEVE ME Sadness...  
Forms Their MADNESS...  

Anger Now S C A T T E R E D ...  
TATTERED And SPLATTERED...  
Like Matter That's SHATTERED... !!!!!!  

You See... Subjects I Factor...  
In Thoughts That I Capture...  
Within My Lyrical...  
Are Criminally Cynical... !!!  
According To Political...  
Subjects INADMISSIBLE... !!!

In Verse of Mine EMPIRICAL...  
Because of THEM I'm CRITICAL.... !!!!!

Via Subject Matter That Simplifies Data...
They Use To Confuse Through NEW AGE Tools... !!!      

Where Matter Is Subject...  
To MUCH That INFECTS...  
Todays' Internet Heads...    

From Online ***...  
To Conspiracy Threads...  

And OF COURSE A WHOLE SET...    
of... " TERRORIST Trends "... !!!!!  

Now Police Have Been Left...    
FEELING Bullets Instead...  
of... Dishing Out DEATH... !!!

Whose Matter Will Be Left...  
To FACE Bullets of LEAD... !?!  

Or Bombs That NOW Defend... ?  
By Blowing OFF Peoples' Heads... !?!  

Something Like ALL These Rappers...  
Who CLAIM That They Are GANGSTERS...  

AND ****** Like Gun Clappers...    
Well Now Its CLEAR They're ACTORS... !!!!!
Whose Chatter Runs... FAKE Data...  

Their Lyrics Deal In... DEATH...  

" Bringing The Pain " ... Like ****'... !!!!!  
But NOT TO... RACIST Feds'... !!?!!  

So MUCH Like... " Them "...  
Things That They STRESS... !!!!  
In Their... " Poems "...  
Are In Need of YES.....  

... Auto CORRECT... !!!!!!  

For LIES They Tell...  
About How They FLEX... !?!

While Blacks With SENSE...  
Face THREATS From Them... ?!?!?  
For... Dealing In TRUTH...  
Instead of Tools...  
Just To Get Some Street CRED'... ?!?  

So Like Bernie Mac' Said...  
TOO MANY Black Youths...  
Are Becoming NEW FOOLS... !!!

They Just FOLLOW The Trends...  
To Get Themselves AHEAD...    

YES... Subjects I SELECT...  
May UPSET CERTAIN Heads... ?  

But NOT Quite Like... !!!  
The LOSS of A Friend...  
OVER... IGNORANCE Bred...  
From A DIFFERENCE of Opinion... ?  
Religion or Dominion...

Or The Skin That People Live In... !?!?!  

This Piece Has Got Me...    
........ " THINKING ".........  

That Things Are NOW...  
...... So SICKENING...... !!!  

That People REALLY NEED...  
Some Form of UPLIFTMENT'... !!!

Well YES That's TRUE... !!!  
But FACING The Truth...  
Has To Be The FIRST MOVE... !!!!  

But THAT With PROOF... !!!    

NOT Media News...  
With Views AskeW...  

Cos' I'm TELLING You... !!!  
They're Making Moves...  
...... AGENDA Fuelled......  

To Confuse And Sep-a-rat-e....  
Through Religion And RACE... !!!  

It's CLEAR There Are Scales...  
That NEED TO BE BALANCED... !!!

And Leaders Whose Actions...  
NOW NEED TO BE CHALLENGED... !!!!!  

So Let Me END This Chapter...    
By Simply Saying... THIS...  

REMEMBER There Are FACTORS...  
Beyond Feelings That... "Capture"...  
Your ANGER Into RAPTURE...    
That's MADDER Than The HATTER... !!!!!  

And FEEDS Like VELOCIRAPTORS... !!!!!  

So DON'T Deny The Crimes You See... !!!  
Because of PRIDE Or A COMPLEX That...  
You CHOOSE To.................. "hide"...................  

Take The Time To TRY...  
To... OPEN UP Your Mind....  
To TRUTH, Falsehoods And LIES...  

And DELVE INTO The DATA...  
Where The ONLY FACTOR...  
That REALLY Matters....  

Is The QUALITY of...  

It's....  

....... " Subject Matter "......
This is from the, " On The Virge ", album, released in 2020.  
Take a listen here :    

https://soundcloud.com/user-16569179/subject-matter-1?in=user-16569179/sets/on-the-virge
Surbhi Dadhich Nov 2019
Let the marginal tillers, handicrafters usher in prosperity
For life of labour and self-esteem sufficiency is worth living
Let the least and the lowest be granted affirmative action
For the good of an individual is in the good of all sections
Let us together structure mindsets, free of social evils
Showing extreme resilience against wrongdoings
Let us empower the exploited, weakest and oppressed
Let us eliminate hunger, brutalities and violence
Let the poorest ride on with humblest integrity
Let us all discard egocentrism and be sensitive
Let us savour the essence of hard produced fruits of labour
Let us groom faith and trusteeship in their abilities
Let us close the lid of past sufferings and hardships
Everyone will shine through integrated development
Sarvodaya shall welcome Universal Upliftment...
Opemipo Feb 2014
Sometimes, I don't know what is the problem of my so called colleagues... There are so many issues worth tackling in the movie industry where as a movie maker u invest so much finance, time and energy and get back very little or nothing... Yet, what concerns our youths is celebrations, parties, function attendance and all... The so called movie ambassadors came up at the period of political campaign... Will this gathering still stand after they are bn used for political campaigns... That's a question that I'm sure can't b answered... D crazy aspect, s dt every name now goes first with Ambassador lagbaja or Ambassador tamedu... So crazy.... Rebranding starts from our selves... No group whatsoever, has d power to influence a corrupt, mis-managed, malfunctioning industry that needs urgent attention... I'm surprised to even find respected movie makers sleeping and putting heads in same direction... If we want to speak in one voice, I believe... There's an existing body, when d music sector got its branding and uplifted its current face to d very level its today, D's were not d measures and procedures takn.... Even in Hollywood, I have nvr heard of Ambassador Nicolas Cage, Ambassador Angelina Jolie etc... Neither in bollyhood have I heard of Ambassador Shakiru Khan or Ambassador John Abraham. What a pity..., even the newly experienced movie makers that doesn't even know what D's game is all about bear Ambassadors... I hear, there's fine for misbehaviour at events and all... Hmmmmmm, those that have sumfn upstairs, let them start thinking... Don't b used for sumfn that u will end up not benefitting and later b d glory of sum people that knows where this is going and the aim behind it.... However, if the motive is truly for d upliftment of D's great job that we all do with great passion... God help us all.... Tokunbo Awoga
This was written by my man, Tokunbo Awoga....actor, producer, event plaaner etc......nigeria movie industries......
JAATC Oct 2020
You inspire me to be better
Assertive like heaven
Positive vibes move subtle, etheric wheather
Though not as you think
Subtle like beyond view ;
vibe Grand like da right hand of the spectrum
Young driver but
Dis ain't my first vehicle
Sight like, first-eye wise
"Nanotangible"
O sumtm' of da direction
The blessing is
We can all share this space of awareness
If we step correct
No draggin
No shade
Upliftment
Sun rays
But the method take
A lil "calminuity"
Yeah I get fluid like da element
In the Magic of Creation
No disruption
No displacement
Focus like a blade being sharpened
Home is Presence
George Krokos Nov 2010
Dedicate your energy to the upliftment of humanity;
give a helping hand to all wherever the need may be.
Showing goodwill and harmony gradually making our way to the grave,
thinking more of the needs of others is the way of the strong and brave.
From "The Quatrains" - ongoing writings since early '90's
A K Krueger Apr 2014
I once heard that sadness gave birth
To the greatest of art.
But where is the beauty in cold doom
And darknesss?
The beauty between the lines, perhaps?
The possibility,
Of some cracked conclusion?
To end all delusions, with either mental upliftment or demise?
Upon heavy thought,
I channeled this pondering to be written, only to realize that this is the answer to the questionable beauty in sadness.
'Tis only beautiful when seen,
And 'tis only seen when shown,
And most of us are too scared to do so,
Other than to type our stories here.
This is where beauty in sadness is born. This is the art it creates.
So to all my fellow poets,
To my comrade lovers of prose,
Fret for as long as you need to.
Your beauty is seen,
Admired,
Appreciated.
But let it be known that,
On the flip side of your mind,
The world sparkles, glittering
For all of those who pull their hearts up from the wreckage
to see it.
unknown to realm of every endeavor
relativity once loosen up
absolutism perceive vanity
peculiar in the aspect of every undertaking
loosen up and upliftment to arise
working so slow yet truth defying moment
forwarding situation onward
grasping at an emergence
Elijah Jun 2015
hold onto something
that unfolds mysteries
hold onto something
that uproots reality
stop, breathe, think ..
of mystical empathies.
hold onto thoughts
they enlighten words to existence
abundantly essential to a
garden of imagination and free
hold onto dreams
their vision is as clear
as identity’s knowledge
to sublime grace and eternity
hold onto peace
an upliftment of joy and humility
a radiating field of harmony
hold onto your hands
they carry the midst of pain
the indulgement of passion
the sensation of pleasure ..
they remain known
to a nation of nurture and feeling
they remain crooked
from a lost love’s limitations
they remain still.
#breathe #creation #dreams #empathy #eternity #hands #happy #peace #pleasure #poem #poetry #soul #thoughts
SEASONAL COMPLIMENTARY

'''From all of me @CLOUDNINE''' Wishing...

The future is born engrave the past in  coffin
Dark old year just pasted away here, the light of a new
year day
As 2020 added one, (2021) all our lives endeavor did increases in every arena of our
lives
Whatever too difficult to touched, reached, achieved or earned in the previous old year . All shall be effortlessly Proffered and bestowed thy by the grace of the new year.
No
longer sorrow, lack, destitution, all the ways to evil ceased. But Road to promotional glory, achievement, upliftment, divine promotions, break-free, abounding blessings, grace  divine favor and an all thy desirous desires shall be added.
May
we recovered the golden lose of past years. Everythang we laying hands upon shall excel, no plague shall locate thy home . For the new year is our testimony

Compliment of the season

Happy New Year.

#c9_fm
Gourab Banerjee Sep 2015
There's nothing extraordinary
About my journey.
Born of a small town
I can't justify
My death to be small.
I witness the sky
Although I never know
The depth of an ocean.
So do I fall in love
I swear its like never before!
And the best moments
I can live were those
& then only
I learn to live.
I know there's nothing great about my life
Yes am a Poet
& the reason being is
I fall in love.
I know my breathes aren't mine
Blessings of the highest wisdom
You can't be extraordinary
Either be great.
But you can wish,
Can pray
Your upliftment will be obvious.
You'll know heaven is nowhere
But here only.
I wish even you would write some poems
Even better
Than I do.-04.09.2015
Big Virge Oct 2017
Ya Know ....    
There HAS TO BE A ... BETTER Way ... !!!  
    
There HAS TO BE A ... BETTER Way ... !!!    
    
There HAS TO BE A ..... BETTER WAY ... !!!!!    
    
Than How We're Living Nowadays .... !!!    
NO Forgiving ... Minds Displaced ...    
Thinking Things That Lead To HATE ... !?!    
    
Drug Induced Cos' That's The  JUICE ...    
That New Age Crews Are Now Into ... !!!      
    
OTHERS Too Now Think It's COOL ... ?    
To Live Their Lives HIGH ON ... DENIAL ... ?!?    
    
There HAS TO BE A BETTER Way ... !!!    
To Nurture Seeds Inside Our Brains ...    
    
MORE Depth of Mind WITHOUT The Lines ...    
May Help You MORE ... I Think You'll Find ... !?!    
    
LESS Thought of War MORE Thoughts of Peace ...    
MORE Thoughts of Warmth Less Coldness PLEASE ... !!!  
    
Turn Down Fallacies So That We Can SPEAK ...    
About The Things We All ... Believe ...    
    
Less Dividing And Colliding ... !!!    
    
MORE Combining ...    
Those Who STAND For MORE Than Grands  ...    
    
So That We Can Build SOLID Plans ...    
That PROTECT Our Lands From HARMFUL Hands ... !!!!!    
    
UNITE Humans From DIFFERENT Strands ...    
The Game's To PLAY ... NOT Desecrate ... !!!!!      
    
It's NOT OKAY To HATE A Race ...    
Because They Move DIFFERENTLY To YOU ... !!!    
    
There HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY ... !!!    
    
Come On ... It's TRUE ... !!!!!    
Just ... THINK It Through ...    
    
Less Fights .................... In Sight .......    
Would Be .... ALRIGHT .... !!! ? !!!    
And May HELP You Feel SAFE At Night ... !?!    
    
Unless You're COOL With Life These Days ...    
  
If You Are ... OKAY ... !!!    
    
But Let's Get Things STRAIGHT ... !!!    
Things Are NOT ... Okay Today ... !!!!!!!!!    
RISING Hate Cos' Life's A STRAIN ... !!!    
    
Less Youthful Veins Than ... WEBSITE NAMES ... !?!    
  
MORE LIES Than Faith ...  
MORE Killers Today Than DINNERS On Plates ... !!!    
    
MORE Laws Than ... " States " ...    
MORE ****** Than ... " Babes " ...    
    
MORE Silicone Bits Than ... BIG OL' ***** ... !!!!    
SEE These Are Things That Make Me THINK ...  !?!    
    
There HAS TO BE ...    
BETTER WAYS To ... LIVE ... !!!    
    
And YES Okay A .... BETTER WAY ... !!!    
It's Just Wordplay ... At The End of The Day ...    
    
But ... THINK About The Things I Say ...    
And Things Now FOUND To Be DISPLAYED ...    
By People BOUND By What They FACE In Todays NEW AGE ...    
    
A World WITHOUT Millions of Pounds ...    
EXCEPT For Those Who Gave Them Roles ...    
That Fed False Hope And Ropes For DOPES ... !!!!!    
    
On Which To ... CHOKE ... !!!!!!    
    
Okay THAT Quote May ROCK  Some Boats ...    
But NOT In Ways That ... Systems SHAKE ... !!!    
    
Systems Built To CONTROL Wills  ...    
And LOCK THEM Down Like MANY Now ... !!!    
    
MANY MORE Than ... Years Before ... !!!    
So Now The HOARDS ... APPLAUD The Cause ...    
But Really AREN'T SURE What They're Clapping For ... !?!    
    
Because They Choose To ... AIR The View That ......    
    
"Everything's cool, but i'm feeling you !"  
    
"If you're feeling me ?    
Do something dude, and face what's true !    
Then maybe we can see less bleed,    
and more succeed in finding peace !"
    
LESS Room For Greed And FALLACIES ... !!!    
MORE SPACE For Plates And ... EQUALITY ... !!!    
    
So That ONE DAY ...    
We ALL Can Feed OUR FAMILY ...    
    
..... HUMANITY ..... !!!    
    
I Speak Sometimes ...    
Within My Rhymes ...    
    
About ... UNITY ...    
But Right Now It's EQUALITY I'm Trying To GET ... !!!    
    
Cos' It Seems To Me ...    
If I've Got ONE And ... You've Got ONE ...    
What We Fighting For We're Both Still POOR ... !!!    
    
Did That Line .... STUN ... !?!    
Were You Thinking ... GUN ... ?!?    
    
See That's The Thing ....    
It's Our Thinking That NEEDS TO Equate ...    
So That Balance Is DISPLAYED In ALL OUR WAYS ... !!!  
    
Now That's PRETTY DEEP ...    
EVEN For ... ME ... !!!!!    
    
"Whoa, now i'm SCARED !"    
    
So I Think That's Where ...    
I'll Let My Pen Now Find The End ...    
    
MORE TIME For Patience .........    
LESS Spent On ... Ignorance ... !!!!!    
    
MORE Upliftment ... !!!
LESS Time For ... DESPAIR ... !!!!!    
    
MORE Commitment ...  
LESS ... " I Don't Care ! " ...    
    
LESS Thoughts of HATE ...    
And Division of ... RACE ... !!!!!    
    
LESS ... LUST For FAME ...    
And A BLINGED' Out Range ... !!!!!    
    
What More Can I Say ... ?    
Well ... LESS GUN PLAY ... !!!    
    
Cos' There ... HAS TO  BE ...    
    
........ " A BETTER WAY " ........ !!!
Just viewing the world as we progress, I felt I had to express my view on how things could be improved ....
I want an intervention of memory
I want to restore my own history
I need some sort of upliftment after sitting on the sidelines
I could sleep with you every night and you still wouldn't give me what I needed to keep my dream alive
I can't feel you or even myself anymore, because I ended up floating away
My daydreams don't guide me home
They barely even get me through the front door
I beg my own pardon for I have made too many mistakes
My stomache feels like it has taken to leaches and it glues me to this place
My gut is the rut of stolen behavior
Throwing up pity parties
And making up saviors
Saving me frm rotting away
Gaurav Gurung Aug 16
I know a place where the Sun doesn’t shine,

Where kids rejoice and the adults whine,

Where Glacier of lies and rivers of deception intertwine,

Where they enrich the young with the money and the adults with wine,



The Ministers lie through their teeth and promise upliftment,

The poor are deceived and are fed more punishment.

They have no concept of Day or Night,

Anytime-Every time they struggle to fight,



The Kids exuberate innocence and liveliness

While

The Adults showcase fatigue and tiredness,

It’s been years since they’ve heard those promises

It’s been months since they’ve opt for progressiveness

‘Impoverished, Imperfect, Unimportant”, call them what you may,

But when you’ll see their  hungry eyes and tiring demeanor,

You’ll have nothing to say.



Their generations

And their generations,

Will keep living this way

Unless the bureaucracy decides to help them,



Their generations

And their generations,

Will keep on suffering

Unless those in power come to hold them,

Till then,

For Eons and Eons and Eons and Eons to come

They’ll keep on wanting,

They’ll keep on crying,

They’ll keep on living,

They’ll keep on surviving.
Socio political poem about poverty and it's hardship
Gourab Banerjee Sep 2016
There's nothing extraordinary
About my journey.
Born of a small town
I can't justify
My death to be small.
I witness the sky
Although I never know
The depth of an ocean.
So do I fall in love
I swear its like never before!
And the best moments
I can live were those
& then only
I learn to live.
I know there's nothing great about my life
Yes am a Poet
& the reason being is
I fall in love.
I know my breathes aren't mine
Blessings of the highest wisdom
You can't be extraordinary
Either be great.
But you can wish,
Can pray
Your upliftment is obvious.
You'll know heaven is nowhere
But here only.
I wish even you would write some poems
Even better
Than I do.-04.09.2015
Shivpriya Apr 2021
The pink heart and its reverence!

The destiny has many vicissitudes
and are dealt with courageous perseverance.
These experiences are
variegated with the colours
of joy and sorrow.
In paving my way
to the process of its
enactment I see both miserable and
happy moments in the state of yearning!
They yearn for peace!

I feel the renewal altitude of
my heart is holding a caring
fuchsia which is edged with
your darling smile.
The benign smile of your generosity
inspires me and is fulfilment  of my soul!

The deep hole feels the
sacredness of
your loving laughter!
The peaceful humming and
its stance wants to caress your
love for invigorating this upliftment.

-Inner tuning with faithful revivification
©️shivpoetesspriya
Big Virge Jun 2020
I Think The HARDEST Was.... " Marcus ".... !!!!

When It Came To The Targets...
That SUPPORTED... SMARTNESS...
Being IMPARTED... INTO Black Markets...
And The Minds of Our CHARGES...

Black Hearts Who He FELT...
Should Be MORE Than Slaves... !!!
For People To... SELL... ?!?

His Mental Dwells In Words NOW Dealt...
By Mentalities Who NEED To SEE...
Their Thought Waves REACH...

... " BEYOND The Beach "... !!!!!!!!

Marcus DID TEACH As Well As READ... !!!
Are YOU Black People... RECEIVING Me... ?!!!!!?

Because OVER The Years...
REVOLUTIONARY Ears Have Tried To ADHERE....
To What It Was He TRIED To Make CLEAR... !!!!!

While MUTINEERS... " FEEL "...
Because They WON'T HEAR... !!!!!

An ISSUE NOT Steered...
INTO... Yesteryear... !!!

It's The Month of His Birth As I Write THESE Words...
That Simply Show The Little I Know...
About Garveys' Role In Attempting To CHANGE...

The Way Black Folks Chose To Live and Engage...
With Systems Made To ENSLAVE And Make CHAINS... !!!
That RESTRICT The Way We USE Our Brains...

So Of Course He Faced SCORN... !!!
From Whites And MORE... !!!

Who LOOKED LIKE... " HIM "... ?!!!?

Which I Have To Say...
Is A... SHAMEFUL THING... !!!

Because THOSE Who DID Have Now Created...
A PROBLEM That EXISTS That KILLS Black Kids... !!!

HOW We LOOK At Each Other...
As If We're... NOT Brothers... ???
Who Should... LOVE One Another... !?!

Over WHAT...

Rice and Peas To FEED SLAVERY... ?!?

A Story... UNCOVERED...
That SHOULD of Been... "SMOTHERED"... !!!!!

MISTRUST That *****...
Like Count BLACKULA' Does... !!!!!

OKAY That's ENOUGH...
of That Type of FUN Stuff... !!!!!

Because Marcus's Words Were SERIOUS Sir... !!!!!

And Rightfully STIRRED...
The... " Colonial World "...
A Man Who DESERVES...

A LOT MORE CREDIT Than He Has EARNED... !!!!!

And That Is How I'll END This...
My Thoughts Are POETIC...
And FAR FROM....................... Systemic... !!!

But DON'T KNOW ENOUGH...
About HIM Or His LIFE Or How He FUNCTIONED...

But I KNOW THIS Brah'... !!!

When It Came To Being... ONE...
Who REALLY STOOD UP For Black UPLIFTMENT... !!!!

I Have RESPECT For...

The Man Once KNOWN...
By The Name... of...

...... " Marcus "...... !!!!!!
A short piece on the one and only, Marcus Garvey, a man who would surely of been of value in these days and times !
S Kumar Nov 2019
Healing power of time
Time has a magical healing power
All say that that would heal up
But poisonous word never heal up in mind
Is this right in comparison?
Let us think about both circumstances
We find that in both cases it heal up
Wound also leaves some scar
Ugly words also leave some scar in mind
In both cases intensity of pain minimized
Let learn to excuse other
Not only for them but also self upliftment
But some people are habitual carrying  burden of past
“These mar to their present time and relation” is the fact
Let us learn to minimise burden of past
For the betterment of every one's growth.......
Carolyn Diana Nov 2020
('You' here is 'Poetry' personified)


The first time I saw you
was at the funeral
of my dearly departed

You stood afar
with droopy shoulders
age old wise looks
dripping from eyes

You vehemently gazed
at my innocence
for I was ten and too young
to comprehend death

Unable to fall asleep that night
you loomed again
Petrified, I wondered
was I paranoid to having seen
something unearthly

Not accustomed to
your ghastly looks
I shunned my eyes
and shut you out coldly

I never saw you again

Up until

Five years later
I had a heart leak
and needed a fix

Dressed in your best suit
after our last encounter  
you waved from a distance
presenting my tears, bottled

We spent some time together
And you told
you always looked out for me

In my darkest despair
you were always near

Having gone through part of life
I learnt
Sadness is love died

So you and I made a vow
breaking wishbone
to endure evermore

And I wrote you my letter
"A Call for Death"

It was only befitting
of our first meet

Thereafter
we met everytime I broke down
and needed an upliftment
You whispered in my ears
the encouragement

'Place your thoughts
in coffin of books
and bury them'

In my saudade moments
You were the sillage

Ever since when life stalled
I'd write down a solace
and auctioned them
to doom's day

I'd think at times
what would I do without you?

I added miseries than mirth
and the wreck that I am
you'd slip away someday

Grinning from ear to ear, you uttered
I'd be an empty vessel
if that happened

Eleven years passed
and I realised
after all this time
you knew me in and out
but I didn't you  

While I couldn't bring myself
to confront
You planted a kiss on my forehead and said

"I'm YOU
I'm the voices inside your head".
20/11/2020
Nitin Raikar Oct 12
The Cosmic Roll of the Dice!
Heralding Renewed cycles of Mother Nature
Elevating Seasonal Transitions to Upliftment

Admist this constant flux
Humanity strives for self actualization
Diminishing magnitude of base inner Ego

Soul searching journey through inner realms
Overcoming conflict and chaos
Basked in the Halo of Cosmic Divinity

Wisdom all pervading
Purity Personifying
Defragmenting Mindspace

Oh Lord the Supreme Creator !
On this day of Vijaydashmi!
Blessed towards a Awakening Dawn!
For Spiritual Prosperity of Humanity!

Happy Dussehra / Happy Vijaydashmi

@ Nitin Raikar - 'The Bard of Nerul'

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