Damocles Sword Renamed Donald Trump Dagger O' Type
...Emotional guillotine clefts
irredeemable psychological umbilical accord
witnessing heart breaking,
woe-begotten inhumane rip cord
gut wrenching shuffle board
(indiscriminately spo...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
epaulette, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Crow's Feet
...Crow’s Feet
What dark epaulette drapes
the scare crows shoulder?
Gazing bleakly upon
withered corn stalks
rustling in the wind’s
disdainful howl.
What mistaken duty
denies dismissal’s c...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
epaulette, dark, sunset, winter,
Form: Free verse
It Hurts
...It Hurts
April in light rain you leave
Bright epaulette on your sleeve
Hearts pounding a final goodbye
Can’t let go what do we say we cry
Gone from sight gone to your station
With you goes the ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
epaulette, absence, bereavement,
Form: ABC
Wole Soyinka
...Covered with prowess
Like mushrooms on a rock
Afraid not to speak
And spit-spat on the demon's face
A man as a battalion
In war with the rotten maggot
A man of great intellect
Thrown into the dark si...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
epaulette, death, death,
Form: Free verse
Who? (For Rizzy of Sami)
...Who'd dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the truth for the street?
Night, night oh barbaric...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
epaulette, confusion, death, sadnight, night,
Form: Free verse