First New Year light
lit Holy Night
Brian Strand: 2025 posted Short Form- Tenth place Winner
Categories:
domini, jesus,
Form: Couplet
ERRATUM DOMINI
There must have been some terrible mistake!
A fault in records or in time continuum
Check my birth cert. for a counterfeit or fake!
They got wrong the name or date at very minimum
True I recall sleep in Morrison shelter for a duration
Ration books, powdered eggs and friend: ‘Al’ the young GI
But perhaps that was in a previous incarnation
To account for so much time passing by
Told my mental age and acts are immature
Though the body has moved on a way ahead
My taste in music ends round 1994
And I like retiring early to my bed
But I’ve so much still to learn and yet to do
I’m not ready to tell the grim reaper: “welcome here!”
So it must be a non-fatal misconstrue
That I’m rapidly approaching my umptieth year
Categories:
domini, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Written on papyrus in the presence of different entities,
Thousands words written in Egyptian on a stone slab laid cryptic piece,
Dreaming realm of hallow wrath plague ridden disease,
Helms, spears, and tyrannical vengeance no apostle increase,
If the missions complete and the village is piled with burning deceased,
Then dear Nero let us move out and head on east,
For Gaul is in line, Germania is stuck with a barbarian decrease,
Mongolians are circling the river as the Goths retreat,
Growling lions, eagle insignia, war drum my heart beat,
Never falter, never fail, we die before we face defeat,
Bleeding feet on the pinnacle of this mountain surrounded with only sick to treat,
Macedonians upon ruination looking to Jerusalem to find the weak,
Holding back while we are cut off without a bite to eat,
A two prong pincer maneuver cutting off supplies while we sleep,
It will always be blood upon blood ravage savage feast, For when we die is the only time we will truly know peace.
(2017)
Categories:
domini, conflict, dark, history, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Here’s my chores
duty become burden
unless glued as necessary
Skills to handle outer injection
broken balance reclaims future
lit in beam to disclose
one tiny matter all applause
Named it many as disclosed
left to right, up to down
like duck as quarks
runs in human body
Partition so many
how matter differs in cell
Short circuit I have
Sour future -Domini-
Categories:
domini, inspirational, nature, science, future,
Form: Free verse
Here’s my chores
duty become burden
unless glued as necessary
Skills to handle outer injection
broken balance reclaims future
lit in beam to disclose
one tiny matter all applause
Named it many as disclosed
left to right, up to down
like duck as quarks
runs in human body
Partition so many
how matter differs in cell
Short circuit I have
Sour future -Domini-
Categories:
domini, future,
Form: Epic