silent things at night
hiding behind the house walls
roaches are breeding
They line the streets
In a shanty confined
The cemented floor
A cold refuge
Embracing disgusted busts of energy
Lost in the wilds
A strange world
The Privileged ones…
What can they do
To assuage this continuing distress
About 1.7 billion
Held hostage in
This grueling tunnel
Manifest in varied dimensions
They lack voice
Human dignity violated
Insecure exclusion of individuals
Habituated in marginal environments
Astronomical cost of living
Must be apprehended
Cities and states must be
Built on God’s foundation
Harbingers to this state are:
Scarce basic needs
Unwilling governments
No economic freedom
Weak rule of law
Bureaucratic burdens
Lack of industralisation
Ailing financial services
Contaminated tendencies
WATAMALA
("Contagion", 2020, original oil)
Contaminated
Everything we taste, see, hear, think and feel
Is taken in as a layer
Upon layers within our mind
Adding to the library of imaginary things
Which makes us distinctly human
All too human.
This world of the collective unconscious
Is worse than any one imagination
Could imagine
A world of angels and demons
Morphing in real time
As we, the collective
Write our novels, make our movies
Indulge silent fantasies and forbidden fruits
In the dark web of Mind.
Everything so consumed
Adds to this web
And adds to the collective weight
Of being human
The stuff of dreams
That end up nightmares.
This is the world our children inherit
The real world
Beneath the one we see
A world as old as time
Mythical in proportion
Dwarfing the fragile balance
Of what little we can handle
With all we know.
(12/29/23)
R-abidity
O-f
D-readed
A-ilment
N-astily
T-hreatens
E-veryone
E-mploying
C-ontaminated
L-ink
A-s
R-isk
I-n
N-otoriety
A-ttacks
L-ungs
Topic: Birthday of Rodante R. Eclarinal, Sr (June 05)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-outh
I-n
C-ontaminated
H-ands
E-ventually
L-ets
L-ungs
E-xperience
E-pidemic
C-oronavirus
L-ink
A-s
R-espiration
I-s
N-astily
O-ffended
Topic: Birthday of Michelle T.Eclarino (April 07)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
CONTAMINATED
Contaminated
Don’t understand it
Fell in sewer, can’t stand it;
Live and dead rats raccoons;
Walkin, floatin
Dirty, polluted waters
Manure other unspeakable sources
Don’t understand it
Contaminated
Harmful bacteria on food
Food poisoning
With bacteria, viruses
Chemicals or poisonous metals
Such as lead or cadmium.
Contaminated
Something unpleasant
Is harmful if spreaded on
Ends up in food, in our lungs
Land dirt, grasses
Air, animal/human skin
Even breathe in can happen in one of three ways
Physical spiritual condemnation
Contaminated
When items such as hair, glass, plasters, dirt, insects
Other foreign bodies are present in food.
Usually visible,
Contaminated
Most time hard to live with
Variety of mechanisms.
Inadequate hand washing
Mouth to mouth
Touch to touch
Body to body, yuk!
Body to inanimate objects
Contaminated?
4/2/18
You made me live a life of hate and passion
You’ve given me poison and I die from love.
I no longer hear the birds songs nor see the
sun’s rays Because you are
no longer by my side
You provided me with a world I had never seen.
I know now that world was dead and full
of lies, misery and pain.
Now I cannot feel the caresses of anyone else.
I accepted your lies because I loved you.
I accepted the hemlock you provided every
night and
I became contaminated.
I’m poison to myself and others.
Oh Heavens above, forgive me, I still
Want to taste that poison, even if it
kills me.
When think of ill of others
Your soul is contaminated
It goes far away from God
And is never illuminated
Ill thought is an infection
Spreads quickly to others
You are prone to downfall
And lose all your features
Your mind is busy in tricks
And becomes like a bog
Your creativity is trapped
Your soul is draped in fog
Your illness is on extremity
When you fall in frustration
This is the end of humanity
You face inner humiliation
Breathed noisome pernicious whiff of dorp
Atmosphere spawned by amiss vicious deeds of humans
Piercing in my physique
Perforating soberly in every single venae of my being
Wrecking, ceasing this substantial existence
Deserting me ... Lifeless...Inane.
Stagnant water,flush of toxin.Stay away you lethal dose.Crippled baby.Was it the
poison?Maybe.Who is to blame?Our child attorney,the money he claimed.Filter needed,enemy
defeated.We left this polluted place.
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