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AVOIDABLE MISTAKES

 

AVOIDABLE MISTAKES Cell phones rang rapidly everywhereThe providers’ sales took a leapThe market is in the messages they carryMessages of grieve from dishearten crowdThe nation has suffered a huge loss againSix survivors and ninety-six dead Sadness welcomed the unfortunate relativesMisfortune brought the broken hearted crawlingOn their knees before the cut up helpless victimsEach time there is an air crash or road mishapThe homeland buries multiple scores of bodiesThe dead swells in ranks, compared to the living Blame neither the gods nor their agentsThey have no hand in these thingsCall it careless human error, we refuseTo update our obsolete equipmentsWe also cut corners to buy the fairly usedWithout the facilities to back them up The fault is in us and not the throng of stars…










 
— t. reflexion, Feb 21, 2010

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 2 months ago

another poem that has gone 4

another poem that has gone 4 weeks without comment Ask yourself why and do something about it Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible