John Sensele Poems

My bedroom reeks of alcohol
My tongue no longer sour, savoury and slow-melting sweets can taste
While hunger like a hovercraft harries my living room wall
To lay family life to waste in a horrid haste.
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Illness plagues a plethora of creatures great and small
Illness afflicts a bevy of creatures at random
When illness elects to pay a cancer call
Whether creatures prefer pleasure or boredom.
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Success is a Medusa that hisssssses
When suitors with thumping hearts jump
As a Komodo dragon nearby hisses
To sneak into their Adam's apples a pesky lump.
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Usury is a colon cancer
That maims and claims lives of terminal patients.
Ill-gotten wealth to your life supplies no adequate answer
Except to block blessings and punish revenue recipients.
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Education
How nimble nerds love your power
Snap your fingers, job vacancies obey
Societies worship your hour
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Hate is a jackal
That geckers when it pounces on a prey
To bite a flesh morsel
From it as an overcast Kitwe sky turns grey.
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Why do we bother attending funerals
When our minds are somewhere else
To shed crocodile tears with mocking roles?
Much better to frolick in another place.
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Man, cherish the love that comes your way
Live each second, each minute, each hour fully
Allow no moment to slip by lest you rue
Potential benefits that fly away for good.
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Poems like rubies
Fascinate and illuminate
Man's world where selfies
Imitate aces and faces irritate.
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