John Sensele Poems

The heart driven by compassion
Beats in tune with the plight
The poor ponders in every supine session
As food fragments he longs to bite.
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In addition to respecting feelings
Partners hold very close to their hearts
Ensure that you don't indulge in double dealings
Which in the end reap toxic tarts.
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Forget me not when you ascend to the apex
Where oxygen grows thinner
To the extent when you begin to vex
Associates, acquaintances and friends with whom you chopped dinner.
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Cuddle my heart
Ameliorate my amorous art
Then from love draw your part.
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Human nature sometimes stumbles
Frailty winning the battle
Wallowing in mumbles and grumbles
Indulging in tittle tattle.
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Don't throw the baby with the bathwater
When a clumsy associate somehow steps on your toes
Because insinuations and recriminations portray your attitude no better
Than the magnitude of platitudes and vicissitudes of your foes.
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In a poetry pot stew words to inspire
Vintage works from Pablo Neruda, William Shakespeare
Metaphors and similes from Angelou Maya
Romantic verses from Lord Byron to set hearts on fire.
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Ah! If I behave I could save
Myself a myriad headaches
To reach rich records relatives have
Achieved with neither stomachaches nor toothaches
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Witchcraft, you're a pesky pimple
That messes up the face of Africa
Which aspires to brandish a nimble dimple
Admired in Jamaica, in America
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I vow to befriend happiness
To banish sorrow and its offshoots
Never to run to sadness
Or glorify sorrow boots.
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