Mike Banda Poet Ode

Wake Up, Silence.

Wake up, Silence,
War has plucked away his eyelids.
Blade and shield
Have become limb and dust,
We all bathe 
In death's lust
For maiden blood.

Wake up,Silence,
Rain has unburied 
The skull of Fear.
The sun has shunned
The love of summer,
Gravel has swallowed wheel
And man has walked
Into sea.

Wake up,Silence,
Lava has smothered island.
Night has darkened our breath
And fire has watered our bloom
Till poison to the hand.

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Beata Agustin January 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Have a blessed New Year.

Skat A January 19, 2016 at 8:48 PM WELL PENNED.......SKAT

Carol Sunshine Brown June 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM Welcome to PoetrySoup Mike. I am hoping to read many more poems written by you. Love, Carol