John Sensele Poems

The devil's advocate wonders who coerces a woman
To wear a scoop neckline and to flaunt more boobs
Than she deems fashionable then pleads a man
Steps out of line when he fondles her cubes.
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Entranced by the might of a sight so hypnotic
I gazed at a silhouette in ebony leggings
Primed to hasten heartbeats set to tectonic
Music that swims in strings of flings.
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Wisdom oozes and trickles from an anthill
Into a craggy mountain in Eastern Zambia in a reversal of roles
Which ordinarily launches the sage on a hill
And confines the meek, the youth to puerile poles.
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Open eyes readily see value
In little jokes, in snatches of conversation
On a bus, in a taxi and pick up a clue
That opens up new possibility vistas yonder a frustration.
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Sometimes dreams boom, sometimes dreams scream
Cos you ignore dreams and shunt them aside
Jettisoning reams dreams from the rim
Of your strife-ridden life and hurt dreams'pride.
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Jumping from a burning fire
Into a frying pan
In the hope of containing the ire
That ravages your chest is the worst possible salvage plan.
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Imprudence, impertinence and sapience
Never were bedfellows in previous lives
Reckoned by auditors and number crunchers as a sequence
Teeming with ingredients more efficient than chives.
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May the first is christened labour day
For on this auspicious day the proletariat
Tired of fattening Fat Albert's wallet for meagre pay
Gather in droves to challenge the creed of the capitalist's secretariat.
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When in your life storms warm up and rage
Unleashing their wrath on your tranquil
Life that saunters at a sedate speed in an age
Of breakneck celerity it's time to alight a calmness hill.
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Broken bridges
Mend no boredom
In Cookers and fridges
On Earth and in God's kingdom.
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