John Sensele Poems

Feet of clay, fragile feet of clay make you human;
You refuse the scurrilous status of an ignoble idol;
It lives in the mind of an ardent admirer;
The sycophant believes you deserve a prominent pedestal
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Sing a song of hope, bring up solidarity
Dream to conquer, cream laziness
Drop thoughts of pain, crop notoriety
When reputations suffer from pangs of carelessness.
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Urge companionship, purge loneliness
Speak cooperation, stick to standing ovations
Think progress, link to happiness
When folks long for divine interventions.
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Cut off from your inner circle
Any kind of mind that feels too indispensable
To bend to exigencies of the pedal
Of life's voices and choices that refuse to be sensible.
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Opinions berate; opinions irritate
But souls enjoy their onion opinions
Witty, silly, pesky or pretty on which sages meditate
Punctuate, fluctuate and cogitate several times zillions.
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Indolence creeps, trips, snips and sniffs
One step, two steps and three steps
Into the mind of a labourer who picks up tiffs
With his supervisors who aims to reconfigure his ethics biceps.
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Don't uncross legs
For a few pieces of silver
Lest lurid stories should feed rumour kegs.
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Like a thief, grief strikes at human vulnerability
Which exposes the fragile nature of human life
Pusillanimous in the face of a Nemesis whose temerity
Deals blows whose sting plays a macabre fife.
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Initiatives to sail a venture sack
Gained prominence and essence in a hallowed site
To ply new skies until peace came back.
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Procure science apparatus
Required to raise the performance format
In your ivory tower to fly trail blazers to Venus.
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