John Sensele Poems

At the crack of dawn, cocks crow
To awaken the diligent and the indigent
While at sunset, fatigue and mystique grow
When commuters knock off as rushing home becomes urgent.
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Flakes of lies slay the human soul
Leaving a yawning chasm
A huge void that collapses the moral
Compass that confers on people value and charm.
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Dust-laden sirocco blows feelings from a heart
Sunken, broken, forsaken, beaten in a house
Where the heart expected comfort from the start
But reaped scum at the hand of a sadistic mouse.
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Encounter with death is the lot
Which humankind meets
Despite spurts of hurts, cold or hot,
Death knocks at hermetic doors with or without tweets.
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Nourished by a desire to pass examinations
At any cost, morbid minds offer bribes or their steamy bodies
To invigilators and supervisors whose actions
Symbolize failure for malpractice eddies.
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A mirror scoffed at a face
It rates rotten with an angular jaw
That it feels frightens the surface
Of beauty and purity with a flaw.
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To learn that Anne my mom was no more
Ate me up more than I could imagine.
It felt as though, in my body, every pore
Screamed for my heart and soul to pine.
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Graces, tresses and stresses
Leak through the lips of horrors
Unleashed and bleached when rat races
Bash the hapless curse that won't gaze at the malice in the mirrors.
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Love woke up wondering who to blame
As on it sadists rained trains of pain
To dig daggers of doom with no name
But weeks that wept in vain.
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Cast away the sad tag
Naysayers snapped on you long ago
As if your back can't sag
Under the weights you'd gladly let go.
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