April Betrayal Poems

On being emotionally bankrupt

Sentient beings distraught
psyche rent asunder
courtesy false accusations
heated words exchanged like gunfire
pox upon the house of Deborah Hunter,
a vicious vindictive 
girlish looking septuagenarian...

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Written by Gail DeBole
on April 24, 2024

He ransacked the dumpster near the vacant campground
Looking for small trinkets like a well-trained bloodhound.

You know the story. His...

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I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made appendages
allows,...

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Earth Day April 22nd 2024

I lament bidding Gaia's creatures adieu,
an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee...

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Sans sixth (psychic) sense...
poise zen dystopian rant

This prognosticator doth predict
potential based at current rate
sinister debacle that will
instantaneously annihilate,
United States storied republic, 
which alarming horror 
points...

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Ah, behold, the celestial dance, a cosmic spectacle for all to see,
As the moon gracefully obscures the sun, a moment of unity.

But wait, let's ponder,...

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[REVISED 2024 April 04]

Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria,
near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of 
a weakened shade made idle...

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HEROES IN EXILE
By Kyile Jacquin Carter  

waiting is about knowing
writing is about visions of self expression
identity is about place or time, Immigrants lives which...

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I Fear This May Be Curse, That Dead Vikings Sing

Who believes it will come one fine-bred day
Not a beautiful queen but a beauty
A doll, a...

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Unspoken Words
April of 2008 


I know you would love to tell me
 all the things that you feel
But before you do, you got to decide
what...

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"HIGH TECH LYNCHING"

April 6, 2023, a dark and sad day in Tennessee history
Black men striped of their first amendment right to tell their story
The Declaration...

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Awake in the morning,
It’s the beginning of the end,
Stretching and yawning,
Remembering when,
I found out the truth,
And you could no longer defend,
You knew it was over,
You...

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“Guilty, Sir, if you insist that I am--
Yes, ‘twas I who cut her with a knife and
Took her heart out, so very gently while
It was...

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We had once an enthusiastic scientist,
so much keen to visit our laboratory,
for which he did persistently insist,
but that did not make us worry.

He was a...

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How can they only love and support you when it benefits them?
How can they cheer you up when they just want to benefit from you?
How...

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