Dispossessed
DISPOSSESSED
Running,
Running…
We are always running,
running again.
I clutch my son’s small hand,
his fingernails drive into my palm.
Running, Running again,
and the cold is catching up to us.
Every step is slippery, against the
permafrost, and muddy sludge.
Running, limping, run…
What to tell my son.
Do I make this a game?
A lie, like Santa Claus
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Categories:
dispossessed, fear, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Thief
THE THIEF
I circle you slowly,
blow in dust from the south,
I smother your nose,
and breathe in your mouth.
I force you to strangle,
to spit up black mash,
Stinging your tongue,
turning lashes to ash.
I can make myself hotter,
I’ll broil your braids,
then sauté your ankles,
and french fry your legs .
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Categories:
dispossessed, fire, loss, nature, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Dispossessed
Down and out, destitute
In dire need , no help or
Support only war or dispute,
Poverty for those we adore,
Overlooked, become invisible
Spiritually and morally
Subjected to the impossible
Exploited so horribly
Societies lack of conscience
Subdue emotional control
Ending or to recommence
Dispossessing heart and soul.
8/9/2018
CONTEST NUMBER 1 - AN ACROSTIC INCORPORATING A QUATRIAN
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Categories:
dispossessed, abuse, conflict, discrimination, identity,
Form: Acrostic
Demonically Dispossessed
Demonically Dispossessed
...man has the ability to express great love,
and dispense great evil...
The legions of darkness descend as they beastly bewilder and offend
The serpents of Babylon attend as their ecumenical evil does extend
In a pandemonium plunge with pernicious pains and succulent sponge
With tenacious tongues they lunge and fast fade away as they expunge
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In their fallacious faculties
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Categories:
dispossessed, conflict, evil, fear, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Destiny of the Dispossessed
As you flee behind you hear
Your hate filled screaming foes
Pillaging and burning
Their tutored hatred beyond reason
For no reason
Loudspeakers hastily erected amongst the rubble
Play a dirge of victory
As they hold a pyrrhic parade
As you flee to who knows where
North, south, east or west?
Don't know. Don't care
Just away
Unknown lands ahead
There be monsters?
You only hope you've left
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Categories:
dispossessed, courage, farewell, grief, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Dispossessed of Love
Oft my mind to your sweetness flies
For the sway of you is the life of mine
Serene smiles and your light coincide
To unbolt my spirit and distort my time
But my ears must unopen to your murmurous chime
Long I've been dispossessed of your touch divine
Yet I persist and pursue in such torturous rhymes
But now has flown when
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Categories:
dispossessed, lost love, love hurts,
Form: I do not know?