Balveen Cheema Poet Elegiac Lyric

Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol-Contest

Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol

The autumnal equinox period 
Spells time for worship, pilgrimages
Rituals and a pandemonium
Of festivities and gay hyperactivities

The elephant godhead idol
Over decked, anointed
With all fervour is immersed 
In its watery bed amidst chantings
Its worshipped form 
Turns to formlessness

The formless deities rise at dawn 
Bleating like sacrificial lambs 
Leaving a trail of dismembered limbs
On shores like the carnage of pilgrims
Heaped on one another in Mecca
After the great crane's death knell

A convoy of trucks arrive to pile
The mutilated aftermath of their godly images
Littered unwanted on the golden sands
Sweep the once worshipped but
Now shredded and tattered earth's burden
On their slow funeral cortege sans protocol


SECOND
Balveen Cheema
November 11, 2015
Contest: Dark Poetry
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron

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Kelly Deschler December 6, 2015 at 9:27 PM Very powerful and vivid imagery really brought these sad events to life... An interesting poem, Balveen. Very well written! Congrats on a great win! Balveen Cheema December 7, 2015 at 6:15 AM Thank you so much for your praises!

Skat A November 16, 2015 at 9:15 PM Hi Balveen, congratulations on your sweet dark win. SKAT Balveen Cheema November 19, 2015 at 5:21 AM Thanks Skat!

Nayda Ivette Negron Flores November 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM Congratulations Balveen. Balveen Cheema November 19, 2015 at 5:21 AM Thanks Nayda!

Michael Tor October 19, 2015 at 10:56 PM So sad you wrote here. It will do well Balveen. Balveen Cheema October 20, 2015 at 12:31 AM Michael, should it not be for the Dark & Twisted? I had been very disturbed after seeing the images of these two incidents and had penned down the similarities.

Jan Allison October 19, 2015 at 12:51 PM really really very deep and sad imagery Balveen - good luck in the contest Balveen Cheema October 19, 2015 at 9:13 PM Thanks Jan! The images of crane deaths and mutilated remains of the idols on the shore seem the same!