John Sensele Poems

Beneath your sea of sorrows hovers hope
To lift you to limpid lakes
Where on the hope slope
You'll will soon reap sweepstakes.
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Acres of avarice and malice assuage no guilt
Felt in years of selfishness
Worn like a mendacious medal on your quilt
That in no measure increases your emptiness.
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Trivialize not torments
A pastor's marriage undergoes
With serpentine comments in moments
When you munch and masticate morsels of mangoes.
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When through force of habit our hands touch
Adrenalin through my body runs
As interests, likes match for a perfect match
On and on we turn our gregarious guns.
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Cherish hope to flourish
Regardless of pesky prognostics
Uttered in messy matters to dish
Out fears and tout tears in your joystick gymnastics.
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As long as your sacred song
Sings faith, bring your sling to cling to God's might
To remind you God is strong
Worry not about your plight when it gets tight.
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While in your life the going gets gangrenous
Maintain your mental menu
To prevent a precipitation preposterous
That in the main mustn't continue anew.
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Death decimates dames and dudes
Sowing a sea of sorrow
In family felt fears, torn tempers, trickling tears and mourning moods
As moms and dads test a tense tomorrow.
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When, to my consternation, I insist on infatuation
Couched in coquettish conspiracy
Designed, demented and devoted to the evaluation
Domiciled in domestic dysfunction, I object to obduracy and piracy.
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Stun surprise before it pounces
To scatter your plans
Alongside drudgery in zillions of ounces
In your academics, gymnastics and in your verisimilitude vans.
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