Damocles Poems - Poems about Damocles

...I was thinking of the last Dawn Service I took my mother to at the War Memorial on North Terrace, Adelaide…. Lest we Forget ANZAC in Australia A sparkling morning on dewy ground A crowd of peo......Read the rest...

... Into my death I’d delve before I go, Not out of curiosity per se, Where, why and how I sure would like to know To steal a slim chance to cheat my doomsday. I’d leave off nasty habits, gi......Read the rest...

...'Twas bit of a joke for most of the folk that had rallied round the town 'twas the first I heard a bit absurd so I went and asked around 'twas up the hill and down again......Read the rest...

... Growing up in the Catholic Church the rules and regulations were so demanding… but it was the dichotomy of the nuns behavior I had trouble understanding. How they could be so brutal in their at......Read the rest...

... The world is at the tip of the sword of Damocles; all it takes is just one misstep ......Read the rest...

...It wasn't like a dream It was rather a scream There wasn't any peaceful floating Or victorious taunt and gloating It was frightening and scary and red all over Damocles dangling as the scythes h......Read the rest...

...Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches global threat half cocked. Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttime......Read the rest...

...Ease is to your own ruin, to this fight at once, Life offers no escape, Fight you must. No candies or featherbed on your way, No comfort or ease along your path, the dagger dangles over th......Read the rest...

...Lets go lets go lets go lets go See and greet and meet and be Do and say and be ok A ghostly damocles escorted away Leaving lucid merriment to save the day Christmas tree christmas tree how y......Read the rest...

...*Image of Pendulum by Pixabay. Of Fatalism 'Tis past the eleventh hour, As time ..., Here in the bunker, I walked away from the Atomic Clock whose pendulum terminated its sway, Walked I, aw......Read the rest...

...Let's cast these words at a funeral like shards in clay pots like hard sounds n bright noise of memories of this lot of feelings real and surreal meant of just lies like this life as words are......Read the rest...

...A Concealed exercise concocted, Wuhan Lab the playground, secretive China obliges, Western media consenting, Medical experts silenced. the age of censorship, Dictators feigning incognit......Read the rest...

...Vladimir Putin itching to loose nuclear bomb end of the world scenario ofttimes iterated throughout history though an atheist (actually Unitarian), no doubt this, that or another psalm countles......Read the rest...

...A Harlem hoodlum, (albeit respectable)... ready for night time in bedlam after swallowing me favorite dram, cuz reasonable rhyme resembles flimflam. Whiling away his time playing solitaire.........Read the rest...

...tiptoeing through a minefield of disaster in-between games of love and war. the heart's timpani drum faster and faster; the sword of damocles soon t......Read the rest...