John Sensele Poems

Family fertilises faith, utilises and realises fondness
Cultivating culture, culturing worthiness
Joining and juxtaposing juniors and seniors
In a cocktail that every obstacle it clears
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Pain pushes pleasure
Pain and pressure-birds of feather
Together-they limit leisure
In the long run despite pain pangs-don't bother.
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Hurt not my heart, raise my role
Take me as I am
Embrace for me my connubial core
Don't change me into solace slam.
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Surprises catch us unawares
When we least expect it, surprises pounce on us
Sending us into a tail spin despite our weapon wares
Whether we fret, freak out or fuss.
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Cap in hand we beg from Johnny Clegg
Cap in hand we flex and hex a limp leg
Cap in hand our dignity and serenity we lower
Worst still, cap in hand our dignity we deflower.
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Yearn for roses of laughter
To glean glows your heart is after
In tune with priceless petals
You pluck from nimble nettles.
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Listen, prodigal polytricktian
That office occupied by you can chew
Your reputation if your Russian tactician
Feeds forth froth and few
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If love could smile

I'd fly mile after mile
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Contain tendencies to erupt
At situations you ill perceive
When precipitous actions disrupt
Solutions and suggestions you'd better conceive and receive.
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Decline to lie supine in mines where values die
In a plethora of insipidities that won't cry
When the present haunts vestiges gone extinct
Because you by default embarked on a path where your instinct
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