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Real Monster

Oh, if ever the devil donned flesh on this earth

          'Twas that beast, Hitler, by length and by girth

               And ne'er a god's temple, nor any man's ashes

     Will make sense of closing so many dear lashes

Or not granting wake to those millions of dreams.







Written on November 19, 2020
For the "Quin-To Your Five Line" Poetry Contest
Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.

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Robert Lindley Date: 6/12/2021 8:04:00 PM You my friend packed so very much into five verses. I have went back in time and destroyed that monster many times in my fantasies. He was evil incarnate and is most certainly in hell where he belongs, imho. A fav. Login to Reply

Krish Radhakrishna Date: 12/20/2020 1:38:00 PM Greg a very lovely write! devil incarnate was Hitler! a disgrace he had such a huge following! the terror and the pain still lives with us!! Login to Reply

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Date: 12/2/2020 6:17:00 AM Eloquent and succinct ink! xomo Login to Reply

Andrea Dietrich Date: 11/27/2020 6:57:00 PM gosh, still nobody else!! keep up your spirit, my amazing friend! Login to Reply

Andrea Dietrich Date: 11/22/2020 3:53:00 PM This is very very good, Greg, and why I am first here to comment makes absolutely no sense at all. Hitler is alive and well today, in the sense that he is living through the actions of the elite intent on destroying our world with their eugenics. God help us all. Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 11/23/2020 8:05:00 AM Thank you so very much for the kind comments, Andrea, I greatly appreciate the time given ... I remember feeling discouraged at getting one comment for every ten (or so) hits, now it takes over a hundred, lol! Oh well ...