When Freedom Grows Cold
(not a nice poem)
One day the dogs will not bark.
I/we will not be ready,
as they will have failed...
to do all that was needed,
and asked of them.
Perhaps not their fault,
as in Venezuela...
they are eaten by the poor.
There are a lot of hungry, there.
Not so many dogs, anymore.
At church, we fold dollars,
with funny pictures,
of past and present rulers,
unimportant now.
Once hailed high in that foreign land,
now laid low by socialism,
and "FREE for ALL".
Basically worthless colors,
to make butterfly bookmarks,
small angels to fly from tome to tome,
and hail the dangers of censorship,
the lack of freedom to discuss ideas...
freely from both sides of the fence,
fake news and propaganda,
one in the same,
a mirror into manipulation.
Built from the bones of the sad,
and the lost,
impaled on indecision...
once the high and the mighty.
Guns and violence given bad names,
bestowed as treason, and murder.
The truth, defendable land...
against tyrants and kings,
that pressure the weak into pits,
and shoot them for sport.
Categories:
defendable, allah, arabic, atheist, grandparents,
Form: Free verse
Are you a queen or a quean?
She looked confused as she was neither.
Why do you want to label people she asked me.
I was astounded.
She was coarse like a quean.
But she was direct like a queen.
Now I was confused.
Having no defendable answer.
Categories:
defendable, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Life is a Series of Unmade Choices
Written: by Tom Wright
2/12/2018
Our life path is populated with unmade choices,
And mode of travel accelerates us on our way.
Too often we’re influenced by clamoring voices,
Leaving un-defendable choices on judgment day;
We face each day with a propensity of choice,
Then, by others, discover our options predisposed.
In allowing another to resonate as our voice,
We’ll soon realize that we’ve just been hosed.
One path was made for the straight and narrow,
The opposite encumbered by gimmicks and turn;
To be left as the ground of a pulverizing harrow,
And along with hushed voices, as chaff they burn.
Categories:
defendable, life,
Form: Lyric
All leaders are enough capable
To remove problems analyzable;
They set few goals achievable,
And strive to solve snags tangle.
Ready to meet challenges triple
Without any hurry or hustle.
Calm in disasters are as a temple
Faith and hope run apprehensible
In them, and are always adjustable
With all – top to bottom in jostle.
Have rights and duties analyzable
Keep them at length allowable;
War! Can forever involve trouble
Ready to fight with vigour amusable.
Leadership is a quality - acquittal
For those in difficulty are adjustable.
Beating below belt not admirable
Kind yet hard like a steel, abominable
And sweet both lie in a leader capable.
Solidly soft, yet greatly defendable;
Rigid, tough but right in tight tousle.
Napoleon and Gandhi are available
With him to any problem tackle.
Modi’s tongue, Teresa’s struggle –
All are there in a leader capable.
Categories:
defendable, leadership,
Form: Monorhyme
Deliberation is functionable, actable or actionable task.
Denouement is defendable, chargeable or restrictable mask.
Delicacy is cureable, correctable or subjectable bask,
Demonstration is testable, referable or retractable ask,
Driftwood is adoptable, retreatable or careable Rask.
Categories:
defendable, education
Form: Haiku