John Sensele Poems

Smile, smile every mile
Under oppression, cut out bile.
Under coercion, dish out a pile
Of contagious smiles all the while.
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Stop harassing and assaulting foreigners, criminals
Let migrants and refugees ply their trade in peace
Anywhere in Africa. Individuals'
Breaches of the peace in Lusaka ought to cease.
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Value advice from a fool
Sacrificed to the service
Dedicated to worshipping a bull.
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Don't lose your cool in the face of danger
Meant to put on your mettle
As assessors in the conference room quizz a stranger.
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Unmask naked internet thieves
Who wreak havoc with their toxic
Tricks reeking of sulphurous sieves
Through which leaks acid prussic.
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Intimate contact between a man and a woman
Grows out of shared interests and mutual
Understanding buttressed by a consensual plan
Agreed upon by both parties as a desirable calisthenic duel.
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Love in wrong hands suffocates
Cos love falls in a cauldron of neglect
Replete with hearts hardened by marble dates
Love atrophies in a monotony gate
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When in joy and mirth the birth
Through immaculate conception of Jesus
Who Christians claim as saviour of the Earth
Inhabitants who through the apple missus
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Any formula for scooping miss Right or Mr Right
Falls flat on its face because the race and pace of marriage
By culture and nature is neither a game nor a sleight
Of hand reducible to a simplistic illustration cage
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