Our world seems to be filled with endless waves of chaos
Everywhere you turn it tends to be following us
Where can you go to avoid its relentless grip on everyday life
Trying to confront it just seems to add to our strife
We seem to be drawn to it as it is casting its spell on us
It seems that its main goal is just to create a lot of fuss
Our world has created this creature that we need to destroy
By working together we must develop a strategy that we can deploy
It will do everything in its power to make sure we continue to submit
Let. 's all slow down for a moment and take a deep breath, it, 's really time to eliminate it
Chaos now seems to be a very big part of our daily lives
Should we choose to accept this, or perhaps do something about it so it does not continue to thrive
E-liminate
M-orbidity's
A-trocious
L-ink
O-bliterating
P-andemic's
E-eriness
Z-one
Topic: Birthday of Ema Lopez (June 15)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
E-liminate
L-ethal
M-ystery
E-rasing
R-abid
S-ickness
A-s
L-ink's
V-icious
A-ttack
D-isappears
O-r
R-etreats
Topic: Birthday of Bro. Elmer D. Salvador (June 03)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
E-liminate
N-ightfall
A-s
M-orning
B-eacon
I-s
O-pen
N-ow
Topic: Birthday of Jen S. Ambion (November 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
R-ays
O-f
S-un
E-mitted
B-y
E-ffulgence
L-et
L-ight
E-liminate
N-ight
Topic: Birthday of Rose S. Bellen (October 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Ensnared in greed’s deadlock
Where I can’t open the lock
To the barn in which kindness stock
That humankind in its hour of need
Longs to free its soul from the greed
That frustrates the compassion feed
To save humankind from self destruction
Embedded in the social malfunction
In need of urgent rehabilitation and action
To braid the dreadlock
On which the empathy cock
Banishes spirits that mock
Restoration of rights unbroken
For the poor and the vulnerable forsaken
In curses in verses spoken
In tones filled with foresight
Both during the day and at night
To remove the blight
That bedevils my society
In every manner variety
That overlooks satiety
Which unless cured
To remove injustice lured
Into chords featured
In bonds of slavery
That overlook bravery
To promote the delivery
Of a more just social order
Which melts the border
Between fairness and unfairness for good removes disorder.
5/18/17
Cat stalked a mouse
Trying to hide and crouch
Then it pounced
From the West, North, East, and South
We don't know what everything is about
Quit sticking out your snout
Don't pout
Or whine and shout
And quit relying on word of mouth
As well as bragging about clout
Get off the couch
And bounce out
Of the house
Instead of being a slouch
Valuables stored in safes with or without a pouch
Near and far from waters that do or don't have trout
Times of flourishing and droughts
Hurting or helping bank accounts
For you, I just can't vouch
Considering that you may just be trying to oust
Or joust
Then you will eat your own words, and possibly get gout
When I come in full force, and eliminate all doubts
By: Dalton Ogletree
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