Here’s what I should have done
I should have heard all the indications that the level of danger was low; no shots fired, no weapons, no anger or injuries, and no screaming, just a possible exchange of counterfeit currency.
I should have arrived on scene happy and glad that this was not a place of terror from gun shots, citizens hurt and
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Categories:
authorities, corruption, hate, power,
Form: Free verse
An Old Story
Sometimes we pray so that
The Kitchen God
Will not tell some of our mischievous acts
When back to heaven end of the year
It is not an old story
As a bribery is a comman way of life
Nowadays
To soothe the anger
To satisfy the greeds
To zip the mouths
To blind the eyes
To stuck the ears
Of the authorities
The stony hearts
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Categories:
authorities, anger, corruption, heart,
Form: Free verse
Obeying Your Authorities
C-leaning
H-ands
R-emains
I-mportant
S-o
H-umans
A-lways
N-egate
N-otorious
A-dversary
J-ust
O-beying
Y-our
A-uthorities
T-o
I-solate
B-ody
A-s
G-overnment
O-bliterates
S-ickness
Topic: Birthday of Chrishanna Joy G. Atibagos (April 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
authorities, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Covid-19
I’m perched upon my rock
Up above the full high tide.
The water as calm as I’ve ever seen it
With shades of blue and mirror reflections,
Stormy dark clouds hanging over the hills
Across from me on the far shore.
An eery silence envelopes me,
No birds chirping in the trees above,
No waves crashing into the shore,
No fishing boats
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Categories:
authorities, community, emotions, health, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Wise Men and the Roman Authorities
“Are we under them or not?” they debated,
“Do we owe them explanation?”, they demurred,
Sure of their validation of this baby, they stated,
To Herod that one day it’d be the king conferred.
They knew they were doing something wrong,
To the Christ family and Jesus life which awaited,
Making his work harder by allowing scoffing
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Categories:
authorities, baby, birth, christmas, corruption,
Form: Quatrain
The Wise Men and the Roman Authorities
“Are we under them or not?” they debated,
“Do we owe them explanation?”, they demurred,
Sure of their validation of this baby, they stated,
To Herod that one day it’d be the king conferred.
They knew they were doing something wrong,
To the Christ family and Jesus life which awaited,
Making his work harder by allowing scoffing
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Categories:
authorities, betrayal, bible, birth, christmas,
Form: Quatrain