As most Nigerians remain ruefully lukewarm
about President Buhari's second term bid;
an ever-increasing multitude of potential
voters across ethnic divides, seem to be
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There in front of me
All that was my life
Such loving parents
Brothers and sister
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Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept
soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to
Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans. In
the end he deemed it would be best to send a lying dream to King
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The Lion stakes his claim
To the leadership of the pack
But the Antelopes remember
The ferocious pounce of his paws
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Leadership shall never
Allow a dark soul to enter
Its kingdom.
A tinge of darkness,
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THE Roaring Tinker if you like,
But Mannion is my name,
And I beat up the common sort
And think it is no shame.
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Good Leaders never say
They are great
Their works will speak
Of the nature
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You got your seat
Without any drop of sweat
Relied on your grandfather
Your namesake
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Never really one
for popularity contests
yet somehow
popularity found me.
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'Twas in scientific circles
That the great Professor Brown
Had a world-wide reputation
As a writer of renown.
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A woman is a child,
A woman is a daughter,
She is a sister,
She is a daughter-in-law, she is a mother,
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On 12 January 2010 a 7.0 force earthquake struck 16 miles offshore from Port-au-Prince demolishing the capital and killing many thousands of its citzens. Haiti occupies the western third of Hispanola a Carribean Island 45 miles east of Cuba. The population is just in excess of 10 million and about 3 million Hatians live abroad. It is a poor country and many of its citizens have poor health including TB and Aids. It is nominally Christian (80% Catholic) and about 50% of the population practise Hatian Vodu. What can we do? We can give generously now and during the year. If we have specialist skills we can join teams being sent out by our Governments. We can also pray Individually and Collectively for our beloved 'Brothers & Sister' in Haiti. It's up to you - but please do something.
Pray for Haiti and the Haitians
That GOD will hear their cries and prayers
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I sing the song of 1971 from the songs
When our heroes sacrificed themselves
For our Desh (country)
For its great independence,
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What is the measure of a man?
Is it strength?
Intelligence?
Or fearlessness?
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He was the product of India's War
Of Independence under the able
leadership of Mahatma Gandhi
After India became Independent
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(dedicated to Mr. Barack Obama)
You can see knowledge’s value
Keep a calm emotional perspective
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In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest,
A jewelled collar shone upon his breast,
A giant ruby glittered in his crown -----
Lord of rich lands and many a splendid town.
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Two fine humans..i know them
from my teens
when i watched 'Gandhi' the movie
i loved this human 'gandhi'
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Hatred to cease
It makes difference
For country's defense
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Morning shows the day
Leader shows the way,
Good leaders show good ways
Bad leaders show bad,
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Listen darnit and listen hard!
Catch the echo in the room bouncing off walls
Echo so heavy, it weighs on your thoughts and feelings
The echoes of human struggle and disparity amongst peoples
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They said 'Too late, too late, the work is done;
Great Homer sang of glory and strong men
And that fair Greek whose fault all these long
years
Wins no forgetfulness nor ever can
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Woman's mind is a curious to some,
We ponder and think,
To do things our way,
But in today's society it's still the same,
...
Stop writing about rivers!
Rivers bring in flood waters
and drown the towns.
The long-awaited rains
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* A Prosody, Prose and;
Theme Un-silenced
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(some information taken
from “American Profile”,
Feb.17-23,2008)
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A ship,
Without good Captain,
Will not arrive
Safely, at port.
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Mainstream is motivated by her management,
Imagination power of high efficiency dazzles,
Honest poetess she is as many poets tell,
Accomplishment resides in her both palms,
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Have we become impotent?
Or lack the capability at present
Is the present leadership coward?
Failed to take into account and look forward
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Under leadership
Turban is our pride
We only shall decide
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Tri color may be furled tomorrow in the sky
We raise our head and try
Look! It is our national flag
Freedom is there and in bag
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Sword of Common Sense! -
Our surest gift: the sacred chain
Of man to man: firm earth for trust
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Cry, and thousands we cry
A million, heckled and shackled, we cry
On this river of tears, we cry
Suppressed and oppressed we cry
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Why do you mock me
Why do you enjoy mocking me
For so long
Is it because I am black and young
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Don't think too much;
day-dream more,
that makes you
smarter, if you believe in it.
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Able leadership
You violated each moral norm
Only with the aim to harm
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Loss of identity
Greed has poisoned
War hawks has reasoned
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In the jungle, a lion's roar,
Loud rumbling from it's core.
Magnificent mane of golden brown,
He is a king but wears no crown.
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O' my leaders around the world,
Delivering speeches on peace and brotherhood!
Have you ever looked back to see
On how much huge heap of human carcass
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Ne'er to the summons of the Eternal laws
More slowly Titan rose, nor drave his steeds,
Forced by the sky revolving, up the heaven,
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How unpleasant are those names, and yet
their bitter strength is splendid, splendid
too the human love that lighted the seven wicks
every nightfall. Wasn't it they that reared them all?
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Red quill
Sunday,16th January 2022
R...Red
E...Edited
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Go sleep, my sweetie—rest—rest!
Oh soft little hand on mother's breast!
Oh soft little lips—the din's mos' gone-
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Looking at the vast horizon
I whipped and wonder where to depart
My move could hurt some citizens
But I had no intention to disregard
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Just now I heard on a TV broadcast,
A new word is going to be added,
In Oxford Dictionary,
It is Gullism.
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War
As war is fought it takes charge,
And events spin out of control.
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Word by word
What can be sighted as great example?
Where country offered struggle
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It was so easy being a British child
in the 1930s:
everything was – or so it seems to memory’s
selective mind - so ordered:
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The brown eyes came from Asia, where all mystery is true,
Ere the masters of Soul Secrets dreamed of hazel, grey, and blue;
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Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico,
Has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nod.
He was a candidate but later dropped out
It was quite odd.
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Oh you South Africans, the black natives!
You once bled the blood of apartheid,
Drank the rage of renegades traversing your mountains,
You rebuked your humanity that you may calm their vexed eyes.
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Have you got the courage?
To deal with personal baggage
Have you got the courage?
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I was born in Boston in
1949. I never wanted
this fact to be known, in
fact I've spent the better
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On portraying, a perfect family,
Every parent’s, precious goal,
Gaining neighbor’s, total extol,
Displaying in time, great control,
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A nation where people are weak
is a weak nation.
How much strong armed forces it may have,
how many deadly weapons it may have,
...
Touching hearts of readers he teaches,
Outstanding personality he has sure,
Motivational force is within his poems.
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We, the soldiers
Let us rededicate
And openly relate
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President and position
We have Donald
Triumphant and bold
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A Country on Its Knees
Come, all you people of Ireland's green land,
Follow the march and give us a hand,
...
Why should I lower my expectations,
To accomodate someone else's incompetence?
Why should I accept mediocrity...
Because that's the highest the bar has been risen.
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It does not happen daily
It shocks all and in sense really
Train mishap and disasters
All are attributed to bad masters
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Land mine blast has caused some deaths
Scores of soldiers on duty had their last breath
Country is silent and so is the leadership
Only family of the bereaved persons may weep
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Since centuries, India has lived in villages
Simplicity and decorum has been managed
By and large people have remained peaceful
Simple and straight with life so purposeful
...
Expose nexus
Rise, rise o! Countrymen!
You shall lose heaven
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How long, how long
What can be cost for bluffing?
Let people ask for proof?
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religious police
arrest Muslim fast breakers -
no faith, no excuse
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When nature decides to destroy a nation,
it injects fears and frustrations in the people,
they start feeling insecure,
they are afraid of even their own shadows.
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When Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was
Brought to Port Blair in 1911,
All chained and secured,
To serve two life terms of confinement,
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The playful wind; Life struggles; Marital discord; Loss of youth;
Fighting cancer; Halloween horrors; Newborn's thoughts; Poesy;
Outward appearances; Religion; Prairie solitude; Rainy day observations;
A silly story; A pause to refresh, AND to enjoy Nature! ! ALL THIS IS FREE …
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POEM NUMBER 848
About The Great Demonstrations which are going now,
at THIS MOMENT, the losers cannot handle their loss,
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went to the White House
trying to find leadership
there was just hot air
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He was so proud to walk
Along with his father to the school
To join the class in happiness
A great happy event of life it was.
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You looks as a whimsical bachelor,
But you are the hacker of poetic feelings...
Why that darling has forgotten it,
The Falcon adores taste of a birdie,
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He killed his brother
for the sake of land;
I killed mine,
because he was not a believer.
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I am concerned for motherland
And the place where I belong and stand
Breathe fresh air and stroll with peace
It is my duty to see that others to live at an ease
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Have we become impotent?
Or lack the capability at present
Is the present leadership coward?
Failed to take into account and look forward
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It is coexistence
That needs our insistence
In presence
At once
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“Put up brave front and go ahead”
“Provide leadership and lead”
“Pick up fast and books you read”
Teacher always advised us to head
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Oh! Dear Teacher
Admire I, your discipline
Which moulded me into a sociable being!
In walk of my life.
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O awaken with me
the inquiring goodbyes.
Ooh what a messy business
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As a young boy, Narendra
Loved more God Siva,
The Lord of renunciation,
While doing meditation.
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Neither dawn is ours nor dusk is ours,
still I go,
from morning to evening,
sitting at a dark street,
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Despise not wisdom
For it is God’s gift
To the ages
To the sages
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tell them not to make war the masters of war will not listen
the black rose must grow in bodies minds of dark masters
the black rot must grow in seed bodies minds healthy soldiers
uselessly shot down ripped apart eaten by flesh war demons
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(A Guide For New Minions)
1. It is much easier to hate those you know nothing about.
2. Always remember that when you kill someone they are no longer feeling pain. Prolong other's misery whenever possible.
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Mountain Eagle
I am a mountain eagle with wide chest and open arms
I have to be staunch believer of sagacity and tenacity
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Poets sit and stare
Labored breathing now
Shallow demagogues
Fearing leadership
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Glancing beyond the shiny stars
And seeing the earth as it is,
Learning more of the galaxy,
Exploring more the Milky Way
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\ACHIEVERS, JOURNEY TO LEADERSHIP
The query of how to change
Shifted our world with challenge,
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'He that doth lend, lose his friend'
I owe this day to my mother,
the granddaughter of the AmaTolo clan
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A path was drawn for his leadership,
No man had ever been more blessed,
Destined by God to loosen the grip
Of Philistine hold and grant Israel rest.
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