Russia's done it again
This time they've blown up a dam
Flood waters cover the land
Farmers' livelihoods wiped out
Stranded Ukrainians shout --
Help! as the 'civilized world' checks out
The Devil Knows
Revenge is sweet and best served against Russians. Or so ISIS/Daesh thinks. They claim to have blown up a Russian airliner with a bomb. Over two hundred dead. An American satellite saw the flash from space. There was no missile launch unlike the Neo Soviet terrorists shooting down the Malaysian airliner.
What will Putin The Dog do? Hide in his Kremlin kennel and run round in circles? Pawing at his head, paranoid delusions. His slaves are in a new war, forget Ukraine. Syria is getting bombed. Lots of civilians being martyred. The Dog says he's bombing Daesh.
He lies. It's mainly the American backed opposition and some real terrorist groups getting hit. But did some bombs hit ISIS? Their alleged airline attack proves they're not happy. Something had to give, opposite reaction. What will the Neo Soviets do now? Ground invasion, eighties Afghan style? The Devil knows in advance...
Poetic License
Pure Frustration
If I could not
Kiss you with my sonnets
Explain you symbolically
Or say “I love you”
In metaphorical ambiguities
Like Braille, I’ve felt tipped over you
With my flair
For words
My paper is kodachrome canvas
And in a split second thought
I’ve blown up a verbose
Enlargement of your essence
Blessed am I
Above all lonely women in love
I can illuminate with alliteration
And say
Marvelous, money hungry, miserly, macho man
You’re missing
I can, at anytime
Anyplace
Make out in meters
And when it comes to it
Write down, whatever
Fast, faster, fastest, forever
And sleep.
2/20/16
This was my first poem on PS. It was written in 1976 and revised prior to submission. I was young, in love and wrote free verse much more then but now I feel the need to rhyme everything in a sense of completeness.
The deer's house bears no human heads upon it's walls.
No grizzly bear was ever fined for trashing the forest.
No gorilla ever built a nuclear power plant, nor split the atom.
You will never see a Bass snag a 160 pound human on it's line.
Slaughter houses are not run by cows, pigs or chickens;
you can't buy “human-burgers”.
No crack-buzzed rabbit or squirrel has ever been arrested.
No cats have ever "trashed" a rest stop or public park.
I have never seen a white sheep,
burn a cross on a black sheep's pasture land.
No dolphin ever buried a land-mine on the ocean floor.
Not one NASA Astro-Chimp has ever, knowingly,
blown up a shuttle full of it's own species or any other.
There are no records of lions, tigers or elephants
burning temples or synagogues.
And yet, we have the audacity to call them...
"Dumb-Animals"!