Progress Poems

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Stealing Past
by Sihle Mjobo

Thou shalt let bygones be gone.

Thou shalt find no joy in the glory of old triumph.

Though shalt transcend the tyranny of quondam devotion.

Thou shalt not seek solace in senescent sentiments.

Thou shalt not attempt to fulfil the fantasy of finessing the finite into the infinite.


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Sustaining Progress: Love's Guiding Light
by Lukman Nurudeen Adeniyi

In the pursuit of sustainable progress:
Wholesome love, relationships, light the way;
The architects, they are, of reform.

Warmheartedness leaves an enduring white trace,
Their significance echoes—ever to stay,
Illuminate an indomitable force amidst storm!

They form the foundation of justice—
Indisputably, they bring harmony's soothing display;

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The Poet's Progress
by Robert Burns

THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice maternal I complain.
The peopled fold thy kindly care have found,
The hornèd bull, tremendous, spurns the ground;
The lordly lion has enough and more,
The forest trembles at his very roar;
Thou giv'st the ass his hide, the snail his shell,
The puny wasp, victorious, guards his cell.
Thy minions, kings defend, controul devour,
In all th' omnipotence of rule and power:

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Stealing Past
by Sihle Mjobo

Thou shalt let bygones be gone.

Thou shalt find no joy in the glory of old triumph.

Though shalt transcend the tyranny of quondam devotion.

Thou shalt not seek solace in senescent sentiments.

Thou shalt not attempt to fulfil the fantasy of finessing the finite into the infinite.


......

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Sustaining Progress: Love's Guiding Light
by Lukman Nurudeen Adeniyi

In the pursuit of sustainable progress:
Wholesome love, relationships, light the way;
The architects, they are, of reform.

Warmheartedness leaves an enduring white trace,
Their significance echoes—ever to stay,
Illuminate an indomitable force amidst storm!

They form the foundation of justice—
Indisputably, they bring harmony's soothing display;

......

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The Poet's Progress
by Robert Burns

THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice maternal I complain.
The peopled fold thy kindly care have found,
The hornèd bull, tremendous, spurns the ground;
The lordly lion has enough and more,
The forest trembles at his very roar;
Thou giv'st the ass his hide, the snail his shell,
The puny wasp, victorious, guards his cell.
Thy minions, kings defend, controul devour,
In all th' omnipotence of rule and power:

......

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