John Sensele Poems

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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A mirror reflects the secret visage
You see when you're alone
Battling with the mess message
Your conscience tone and clone
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Don't play with fire
If you live in glassy grooves
Where Innuits tire with the ire
Whose moves you can't mine from hallucination hooves.
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Daughters' education bless nations
Feeding babies better
Defeating cash complications
And implementing family best practices to the letter.
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Never feel hope is gone
Cos tomorrow never dies
It brings along new hope at dawn
When joy again and again flies
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Love is an ingredient that takes over a human mind
Spins him upside down, scatters reason and defies the blind
On a heart's window, tangling with alchemy, autonomy and harmony
Striving to impose her will on chapters and verses of Deuteronomy
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