Category: Poems

Breaking Free

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riot_police

 

Swollen and bruised,

They cower in anguish,

Uncomprehending.

Afraid to look conspicuous,

Wrong height, wrong color,

Hesitate to comply.

Brute force silences,

Those who dare ask why.

 

Pushed to the pavement,

Held against cars,

Praying to live,

Beaten, intimidated,

Arrested and killed.

 

Practicing mass control,

They target citizens,

One by one,

Building confidence,

Where there should be none.

 

The curtain is pulled back.

The tipping point is reached.

One by one, they become many,

Standing as a pack,

Taking back the power,

toppling the ivory tower,

Cruel field masters impeached.

 

Awareness is key,

for prisoners must see the cage,

in order to break free.

 

Sweet Remembering

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Celestial-Journeys-fantasy

Sweet remembering,

takes the place of sorrow.

The body forgotten,

discarded, unborrowed.

Pain of yesterday,

fear of tomorrow,

slip away.

Soldiers halt their surge,

mission aborted,

borders purged.

Waves of oneness,

flow through eternity.

Illusions of fractals,

compacted,

then discarded.

Flowing, being,

love unguarded.

Judgment Day

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storm

 

Thunder rumbles,

Lightning strikes,

Savage winds rip the skies.

Thou trembles in fear,

Falls to the ground,

Eyes mired in mud.

The storm rolls by.

Silence ensues.

Lift thy face,

Rise to thy feet,

A judge waits for thee,

The gavel pounds,

The verdict announced,

Words resonate,

Quite unexpected,

Courtroom unrest as,

Perfection is declared,

All crimes lost in thin air.

The Shattering of God

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big bang

God sat on his throne,
His thoughts spanning the infinite.
Bored, he wondered how it would feel,
to not be God.

He stepped down,
looked outside of heaven,
and in an instant,
a blink of an eye,
heaven exploded.
Shattering with a force unknown.

Planets burst forth,
and angels became stars.
What was spiritual, became physical,
every particle a piece of God’s cloth.

I do not like fracking, Zach-a-wacking

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sam i am

 

I am Daniel.

 

I am Zach-a-wacking.

Zach-a-wacking am I.

 

That Zach-a-wacking,

That Zach-a-wacking!

I do not like,

That Zach-a-wacking.

 

Do you like fracking?

 

I do not like fracking,

Zach-a-wacking.

 

Would you like it,

Here or there?

 

I would not like fracking,

Here or there.

I would not like it anywhere.

I do not like fracking.

I do not like it, Zach-a-wacking.

 

Would you like fracking,

Near your house?

Would you like fracking,

Near a mouse?

 

I would not like fracking,

Near my house.

I would not like fracking,

Near a mouse.

I do not like fracking,

Here or there.

I would not like it anywhere.

I do not like fracking.

I do not like it, Zach-a-wacking.

 

Would you like fracking,

Near a bubbling stream?

Would you like fracking,

Near your baseball team?

 

Not near my house.

Not near a mouse.

Not near a bubbling stream,

Not near my baseball team.

I do not like fracking,

Here or there.

I would not like it anywhere.

I do not like fracking.

I do not like it, Zach-a-wacking.

 

Would you? Could You?

Near a playground?

We drill up, down, all around.

 

No, that is not sound.

I would not, could not,

Near a playground.

 

How about in your county?

Just wait. You’ll see!

Fracking brings bounty.

For all! For me!

 

I do not like fracking,

Zach-a-wacking.

I do not want it,

Near my house.

I do not want it,

Near a mouse.

I do not want it,

Near a bubbling stream.

I do not want it,

Near my baseball team.

I do not want it,

Near my playground.

I do not want it,

in my county.

 

Zach-a-wacking,

I can’t let this be.

Water is too important,

to let you drill for a fee.

 

Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

Author of Earth Sentinels: The Storm Creators

Parody of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Time’s Prison Poem

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pulling on time

Time works for you.

You created the rules,

Expect the slave,

To obey the master.

Manifestations of your making,

Spawned from a desire to separate.

Time is your creation.

How else could you escape?

Asleep in eternity,

Angels wipe your tears,

As you toss in nightmares,

Reflecting your fears.

And when the dream is over,

Time will be no more.

Laughter will appear,

at the futility of it all.

Freed from time’s prison,

Eternity is revealed.

Spirits fly high and soar,

through heaven’s door.

The Lingering Song

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releasing spirit

Past the dark bark of a tree,

To the mossy earth below,

A makeshift grave beckons me.

I rest against the dirt made hallow,

While life drinks my mindless sea.

 

A ladybug crawls across my face,

Dragonflies vacillate.

A dove coos from a branch,

Her lonesome song floats in space,

Mesmerizing the leaves,

Fluttering a windless dance.

 

My spirit flees,

Briefly lingering above,

Before dissipating into the trees,

The bugs and the dove.

The song becomes strong,

For just a moment,

Before it is gone.

 

The Black Mist Poem

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black mist

 

A black mist churns,

Discourse, fear and anger.

Separated by darkness,

Few see the flame,

Pawns in sadistic game.

 

Few brave souls dare,

Catch snippets of truth,

Concealed in the air.

Secretly plotting their escape,

Hiding as sleuths,

Beneath invisible capes.

 

Full moon reflecting,

A greater might.

Pounding hearts,

Flee warm beds,

Under cover of night.

 

Broken shackles disarray,

Darkness screeches rage.

Tracking bolstered prey,

On a broken-glass stage.

 

Escaping tyrannous hands,

Rebels scourer,

Over treacherous trails.

never turning back,

For to leave is attack.

 

Haunched teeth bared,

Control and force.

Armies climb down,

A tyrannical chain,

Prey and predator,

One and the same.

 

With fearful scope,

The all-seeing eye,

Extinguishes light.

For change is death,

For those who worship the night.