Poets of a New Dawn



Taking a long ink dip in a desert pond,
rejected drake words
ripple echoes in the wilderness: Tread with care!
Dreadnought thoughts silicate crystalized,
glass menagerie opens to a darkening sky
Wing-tipped metal muse raised to the foreboding air,
infusing liquid lightning to the bard birds
Watching intently as the anti-gravity atoms abscond,
executive electrocution is on a delay timer
Prose avian sentries see
Splitting anti-social charges
seep into the hate-soaked, polluted atmosphere
These momentous crisis changes,
poets of a new dawn articulate so very clear
Tho’ labeled by a scornful society
as being conscientious ugly ducklings,
the fear factor in the swirling wind
keeps increasing it’s whirl war buffeting
Incoming V-formation of ionized mallard birds
dropping kinetic malevolent words
Stork deliver radiation babies — 
Blackhawk moving targets that glow
with surgical stealth Caesarian precision
Whilst the designated survivors 
be the fleeing flock having open duck ears
Poets of a new dawn
continually pen agitate 
strong current ripples in the desert pond
Letting their U2 ugly quill mirage liquidity
dose infect the minds of those 
who syringe swan dive in beautiful disbelief
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Breedt Avatar
May 6, 2018 at 12:55 AM
Yikes Freddie a word mechanic and a prophetic vision of a darkness. Metallic ducks and stuff ! You are such a powerful visionary my friend. I get it I get it. Love across the ocean from me to my brother. Jannie
Capitano Avatar
April 17, 2018 at 7:32 AM
Totally loving this avian assault on the senses and should I be one of those New Dawn Poets, don't wake me until the war is over. Fantastic.
Hamilton Avatar
April 14, 2018 at 4:58 PM
Awesome interweaving of bird analogy and referencing poets as such, a very difficult modern write but artfully done, really amazing poetry Freddie, you are a one of a kind poet on this site!
Gupta Avatar
April 10, 2018 at 11:38 PM
This is a modern poem ... not found much in the soup ... or maybe I have not read much ... the last six lines keep lingering, Freddie ...
Swartz Avatar
April 10, 2018 at 6:12 PM
Wow! Radiation babies! Dreadnought thoughts! Syringe swan! I could go on and on Freddie. This is awesome and a fave for me!
Lindley Avatar
April 10, 2018 at 4:39 AM
Iam in awe of the massive amount of creativity required to have thought of and then composed this brilliant poem. I read it three times , to make sure I got all of it that my mind could absorb my friend. I have to say-- BRAVO!!! A fav...
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