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CAESARS DUE

The chord wrapped around his neck
As he was unwilling to pay the penalty of the law
Why should he bow his knee to derelicts
When he had preached against the sin of the fall

She came in looking all cute and coy
She's a girl, I'm a boy...a very little boy
We'll play a game in secret and feel connected
I'll tell her life will be destroyed if "IT" is unprotected

What a wonderful WORD to deliver to the hopeless
Spiritual leadership has the highest protection
When the flesh ROARS at little girls and boys
They cover "the fall" from open detection

Denial is a weapon against ignorant liars
Rushing around, stirring up blazing fires
The institution must survive all attacks
Lest our deceptive nation show what it lacks

......TRUTH.....

For those who are called to walk in LOVE
Caesar's due must be paid, first
Drunkards, Harlots, Murderers and Thieves
In prison, while predators give drink to those who thirst

But the one who bore all the guilt and shame
Hung on a Cross, innocent, without blame
Humility will come, unbidden, without recourse
The heart will submit or harden without remorse

....in the balance....

Written by Trudy Schrader on 06-28-2024
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member With just a stone

Goliath was a big threat to Israel
A giant with intimidating records 
Of military prowess which turned Israelite soldiers 
To a bunch of faithless cowards
And to an army of lily livered derelicts
As they capitulated in fear 
And let the sleeping dog lie
While Goliath had his fill
Threatening God’s own army 
But it took a lively faith and just a stone 
To bring the mountain of a giant 
Crashing to a disgraceful end
As David used faith as heavenly currency 
To purchase heavenly grace
And brought the boastful philistine
To a dismal end
Are you faced with any life’s challenges?
Look back with faith on God’s track record in your life
And be filled with amazing strength and power 
To overcome all Goliaths threatening your very existence


Fallen

At the bed of our mother
We raised dependence
While charging opposition
With the message of repentance

Gave names to savages
As we raped and pillaged land
Declaring enlightenment
While making derelicts understand

...god

It is bricks that make walls
Yet we erected steel beams
Nothing in between
So that the fall would be quick and clean

No one rises again
The fall is a permanent dead
No amount of cleaning
Can erase what's been bled

..dry

All evils exposed
Lying, broken, without a hope
There is no getting up
No elusive rope

For the FALLEN

written by Trudy Schrader on 02-11-2023
Form: Rhyme

Njorun

Best, not to arouse those shades from their fragile sleep that lie in thy hallow ground the realms of 

fragile sleep in lands of lost imagery cast away cracked things, springs, and mechanical deities  

flying on strings of installer membranes the skin of creation the in-between and unseen the known and

unknown the lands of dreams racing leagues of nightmares across a vison-scape of darkness n

fractured dreams, where lost things lie as derelicts in purgatory best not to arouse these shades from 

their fragile sleep in dreams of Plutonian night splinters the eyes of Morpheus the bringer 

of sleep best not to arouse those shades from their fragile sleep that lie in hollow ground 

the realm of fragile sleep in lands of lost imagery n cast away cracked things, springs, and mechanical deities…

The Uterus and Democracy

I feel more stressed,
Then ever before.
  Life delivers some blows,
That is hardcore.

  My financial difficulties are
On the increase.
  I hope I get out of this,
In one piece.

  It looks like luck,
It is gone for good.
  I have even tried,
Knocking on wood.

  A general malaise,
Has found a home.
  Confined to a wheelchair,
I can't even roam.

  My personal problems
Exponentially grow.
  It is getting harder and harder,
To go with the flow.

  The cost of living is at
An all-time high.
  Most of us are barely
Getting by.
 
  I see more drug use
There are more addicts.
  People are strange,
there are more derelicts

   Women are losing there
Personal autonomy.
   The uterus does not 
Belong to democracy.


    Turbo1904 ?
Form: Rhyme


September Moorings

Slips marked and mapped across the intercoastal waterways
 a scanning breached out of high low tidal waves,
silent, still, obscure, and not well hidden
 liveaboards hold steady isolated sheltered misgivings;
embedded and anchored in place
 buoys secure contested living space,
Matanzas Pass, Sarasota fields, Titusville and Sunset Bay
 the Gulf Stream Key Largo flow a mainstay;
honker down between the wind, the rain, and sun
 vessels sturdy and rickety, short and long - all come, 
house and home hum interludes for a sing-along,
 push aways and pull in tights
safeaways and derelicts amidst stormy plights
 resident and transient, occupied and abandoned
faceless vacancies, sequestered and random,
 marinas and harbors within hurricane holds in tandem,
dockmasters and dock slips. environmental folds alluring
 beleaguered and bewildered landlocked sailors touring
in their trawlers, boats, cruisers and yachts adoring
 September shelters in the Florida moorings.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Orgy Island

Rich devil fashioned a money net
dangled it over forest of chrysalis
awaiting the emergence of innocents.

Dragged a kaleidoscope of butterflies
off to a hell hole called orgy island.
To fondle their wings for a little awhile
then vomit them to the slag heap pile.

Rich devils -virgin powder on their fingertips.
Will beg and barter for freedom... again.
Karma chants they'll spend their slippery years.
In semen scented metal nets, with other derelicts.

Premium Member A Fitting Prayer

Someday. In old age.
My well-being will be in the hands of: 
Underpaid cutters and x-addicts 
serial texters and sadists
tide pod eaters-assorted derelicts
the odd minister, 
lost Christmas carolers...

I pray to remain somewhat fit.

Dead Awake

Hexed window swing devil swang, opening for derelicts that look out a black 
and tortured sky’s howling wind, pain so great that the house creaks 
and groans, moving now and then.
Father has a mind to kill himself, yep, he isn’t insane of course, just living among zombies.
I tend this ageless man with Alzheimer’s, wondering where he has gone.
I have patience for a patient who won’t wake up despite being fed stories,
spreading the word of hope that help us cope.
I was bullied by birds that feast as one with no pecking order in gouged out 
eyes belonging to others.
Friends of the night are stranger by the day.
Everyone was fainting away from stench, the land of breath having 
unnatural breathing.
The end we sought has decay of lying about the rotten truth when the living
come by chance far and few between roads of ruin.

The End.

Premium Member Dented Can

DENTED CAN

kicking it down
an old dusty road
mind chasing dogs

a type of relay race
legs release, next guy
kicks the bone

no wonder of what
sup was spooned
nor if a homeless man

kicked the can
did the dent do him in
were the vittles spoilt

man’s worst abuse
human, beast or
aluminum can

a drunk picks it up
toothless, smiles
crushing it

against his skull
the derelicts say
“aw, you ruined it”

1/3/2018

Premium Member Bag Lady In the Portrait Gallery

BAG-LADY IN THE PORTRAIT GALLERY

In all my failed moments of ambitious grace,
The truth, swarth-headed, lifts its greenest shape
To madly light the curls of whitest lace
Edging your throat, and redeem the nape

Where a brown knob burnishes the bone.
Such well-bred tenants of the proudest hock
Like ancient grandees, dawn on my lone
Outride of the politic, and who can mock

The wasteland where now our dreams
Have only the patina of reality to make us sad,
Where derelicts abound in housing schemes
For the heart’s homeless moments, and the bad

Lands of myth are skeletal. Public thresholds
Invest our private myths, and the flesh holds.

FROM IN MEMORY OF HER 2004, 2008
Form: Sonnet

A Non-Voter Asks

Educated derelicts,
Professor of fools,
Scholars of crap,
Leaders that moo;

What is then intellect,
If honor is your weight in gold?
Such mineral torch can test,
Molten like poo.

Vamp Through Idyllic Darkness

Vamp through idyllic darkness
The silent void willing to cradle you for a while
Only a while
Dance alone
Dance together
Just move in any case
Guidance is subjective
Available only through wicked heat and token redemption
Sit center
Sit still
Let the lack of motion propel you to unearthly heights
Those suggested by derelicts which spot the dormant horizon
In they walk
In they stammer
Leveling granite and assumptions with every stumble
Cozy in the still life which captures blooms and blemishes
Searching for core which alludes even the earnest traveler
And the original sin leaves a pedestrian skid mark
Against the surface that dares not breathe a word.

(9/3/10)

Premium Member Not Worthy of Trust

To see this happen, I am not at all surprised.
Forty million bank accounts appear to have been compromised.
It happened at a popular chain of department store.
An incident on this grand of a scale has happened just once before.
This was one very big security breach.
Personal identity information is within almost anyone’s reach.
In these modern days of cyber identity theft,
something like this can leave many persons bereft.
There are many derelicts out there who can’t be trusted at all.
When we receive news like this, it certainly does appall.

From a news story found on FoxNews.com
Form: Rhyme

Stone Cold

He betake himself to his room
Does a clear blue sky betokening a bright day?
His motivating memory needs to retrace the day,
The reverberating revival and the doom.
In the boulevard, sloppy and slippery
Derelicts yet living on the streets
Where are the members of the expedition?
Buster! Prominent players on the pains.
In his fatherland, full of luxuries,
Where he is used and kicked
With nothing like honey moon or period
His readiness is there forever,
Like compatriots who look to their history.
For words he wails in himself is not of doubt:
What goes around, comes around
And what comes the world goes the world.
A deranged attacker, could he be?
Form: Narrative

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