Flakes Partake Of A Cake Poem by John Sensele

Flakes Partake Of A Cake



Flakes of childhood and lakes of purity
March together on the arch of innocence
Slowly stolen and broken when incredulity and crudity
Soap eyes open to lapses and fasten saps of defiance.

Flakes of infancy and cakes of curiosity
Fan stitches and wishes to implore and explore the environment
On the body, in the home, in the yard and in the city
Where neighbours and church mates shower a convoluted compliment.

Flakes of adolescence and lakes of puberty
Set in motion physiological and psychological changes
That bewilder an adolescent whose nascent liberty and reality
Diffuse pictures and rituals in ambiguous ranges.

Flakes of menopause and lakes of old age
Hit both men and women hard as bodies ache
Mental metamorphoses confound pages of a sage
Who wriggles and struggles that on his mind tolls take.

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John Sensele

John Sensele

Ndola, Zambia
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