When you gonna see (rap)

Edited
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Hey, J-Zee
When you gonna see
Ed-u-cation is the key
We don’t all need
A D-gree
What we want
Is capa-city
To live a life
No strife
Don’t you see
Take our pride
Let us decide
Give us the tools
We not fools
Give us the chance
To sing and dance
Kanye West and Dr Dre
Will let us play
We B A for Away

©Denise G Allen, 12 May 2013 07:29

Earth Today

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Our earth ails, pales

deforestation rules –

trees ripped from the soil

while the desert encroaches

inch by scorched inch

leaving space in the race

for man-made rocks, structures

to house, plots to feed

ever-expanding populations

ugly erections pumping thick

black smoke into the air –

the air that we breathe –

ban cigarettes, but leave

toxic contaminants from exhausts

from chimneys made ever higher

sending pollution into space

ha! pretending that there’s

a difference in quality

and what goes up stays up

never comes down in air or rain

to be seen or breathed

again…

.

©Denise G Allen, 07 May 2013 19:31

Refer to comment made on COP 18: http://theenergycollective.com/gail-tverberg/221536/reaching-limits-finite-world#comment-59536

Trust

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My trust lies in the dust

trampled underfoot

my soul is exposed

as a worthless part of the heart

revealed as nothing more

and nothing less

than just another word…

I need another world

another space where faith

can teach me to trust again

and not barter trust

for a place in the sun

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©Denise G Allen, 15 April 2013 09:17

Falling into Poetry

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Falling into the arms of darkness,

Stilling my mind,

Distant dreams all but forgotten,

In the buSY-ness of life.

Taking a break,

Sharpening my brain,

Poetry underlies my every thought,

Inspires my every reflection, conception;

Creating in rhyme or rhythm

Feeds my very soul

And if it were forbidden

I would be far from whole.

.

©Denise G Allen, 19 March 2013 19:39

Views

Pilanesberg – View

Views

Views of what
Spec-tacular eye-Sights
Of the world as We SEE it
No two the same
Dark and brIGHT
Opin(ed) attitude
Altitude…
Height or hair-raising
Peak… pinnacle… cLIMAX…
Or DeA(p)th of despair

Image and poem: ©Denise G Allen, 15 February 2013 07:47

White Rhinocerus

Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 1

Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 2

Pilanesberg – White Rhinocerus 3

Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 4

Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 5

Pilanesberg – Rhinocerus 6

Some very similar photographs of rhino just because we are probably nearing the end of their existence.

White Rhinocerus

Armour plating
Backdating
Marching through time
Walking in rhyme
Mounting defences
Increasing their chances
Strength in numbers
Dwindling fast
Warning thunders
Reach out from the past
Money speaks
History weeps

Photographs and poem ©Denise G Allen, 07 February 2013 06:21

Passion is…

The ability to get excited
By something or someone
To the exclusion of all else.

Life without passion
Is like sipping cold soup
On a bleak winter’s day.

©Denise G Allen 19 December 2012 14:41

A Mother’s Prayer

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Favoured son throughout his youth,

She tried the best she knew in truth,

But he drifted aside from the narrow way,

Lost in the choices of that day.

Now, deaf to all his mother’s pleas,

He can‘t resist the pull of dis-ease,

He‘s drawn along by a magnetic force;

She cannot change the path of his course.

He’s about to self-destruct

As deeper into the mire he’s sucked!

Oh, Father God, in Jesus name

Help the mother to save her son

Fill them with faith and Your unending love

And send them Your strength from heav’n above.

.

© Denise G Allen, 17 July 2012 08:44

See related post.

Spring

Spring

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Spring

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Life stirs after winter’s death,

Its long, cold sleep thru the snow and sleet,

Bare twigs and dead sticks

Tingle with awakening

And new life shows its nose

Gingerly testing before resurrecting;

A time of marvels and miracles

Where life lives and death dies

Under lightening skies.

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Image: Author

©DGA 25 April 2012 07:39

This was posted in LinkedIn Groups, Poets, Spring, on 25.04.2012.

 

The Path

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My heart is rapt in the warmth of Your love

And Your light shines steady upon the path

But the devil’s name is Evil

He sets his snares here, there, everywhere

Devious detours, deviations

Heady scents of temptations

Powerful images and sensations

All things craven in this world of Satan

Almost irresistible; help me stay incorruptible

Keep me safe, give me faith

To follow in the light of Your love

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©DGA 21 April 2012 05:31