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Free Them O' God

Free them O' God! For, the wind is spewed with ashes of hatred, The bilboes that wait to bangle the innocents, Hauling them down the barbed streets, And caging them up, to blaze in iron aviaries. Free them, O' God! For the ocean is not thirsty any more, It is full till its gullet, quaffing in pints the viscous gore, Sluicing out from the naive skulls, And from the distressed hems of their hearts. Free them O’ God! For the sod is no longer bleak, It has drenched itself in the guileless claret, Flushing out from their green dead ingenuous veins, And sloshing about under its skin. Free them O' God! For the day doesn't know, for whom to wake up, When merry-go-rounds and slippery slopes, Are becoming the roller coaster rides to deaths, And the juvenile paper crowns breed orphans. Free them O' God! For even the night hasn't slept for years, The sounds of tormented voices, in the lap of gunshots, Are hovering and echoing in its ears, Making it stone deaf in every midget of seconds. Free them O' God! Free them all! Free your pure and guiltless mortals, What sins have they sowed? That you are making them plough for! ~Nayanika Dey

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Date: 11/3/2017 1:49:00 PM
Wonderful poem. Enjoyed it immensely all the lines. It is very compelling.
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Date: 7/8/2017 7:19:00 PM
Beautiful poem read from you first time. Loved always, bl
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Nayanika Dey
Date: 7/12/2017 6:29:00 AM
Tons of thanks!
Date: 6/25/2017 6:00:00 AM
A very beautiful written poem, I really enjoyed reading it, their are some questions of which we can t get anwers so it s better to just leave them, you seems like new one here, so I should welcome you, may you enjoy your long stay here and continue to write as I ll be looking for your poems however I m also new on this site and would really appreciate if you could find time to read my poems and give your honest about them
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Nayanika Dey
Date: 7/3/2017 11:17:00 PM
Immense thanks for such kind words of appraisal!

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