John Sensele Poems

Eyes wide open, reason forsaken
I chose the bride
I thought unbroken
All because I spewed my pride.
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Seeds of wrath, when they scatter
Sweep aside boisterous boulders
When indomitable spirits utter
Final verdicts and raise high their chivalry shoulders.
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We miss the innocence of childhood
When the world looked green
In our mind inhabited a mellow mood
Thoughts, plans and actions sparkled clean.
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Partake of life when seconds tick in zillions
To scintillate your days
To inject into your account billions
But, most of all, mend your ways.
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Feathers of love fly
In fine weather, in foul weather
When despite moods dealings dry
To harden like leather.
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Bind my bravery, bind your freedom
Beat your chest in conquest
Sow seeds of slavery and slay your fiefdom
Worse still, you emerge minus a victory vest.
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Africans, stop creating tyrants
Quit your penchant for confusion
Promote not a demagogue who rants
Tenets of democracy grow in profusion.
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Were it but her who for four decades
By my side stood through thick and thin
Through elevations, emotions and escapades
Succeeded around me in drowning din.
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So indomitable my independence
Times spent honing social skills
Tend trauma traders to silence
As in morbid minds a fantasy fills.
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In my life, thunders roars

From my hands slip oars
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