Real friends are exceptional guardian angels
Like devoted and trustworthy brothers and sisters
Like T58 heavy tanks assuming defensive roles
And like invincible armors - formidable defenders.
True friends turn neither allies nor rivals into vile devils
Real friends always protect one another’s interests
True friends don’t behave like manipulative pests
And real friends act humanely, on all conceivable levels.
Beware of all fake, faulty, fallible, frail and faux friends
Choose your friends meticulously, wisely, and carefully
Our world abounds with futile, tawdry despots with tainted hands.
Friends don’t create troubles for nobody even for the foes
Our world teems with vermin eager to devour babies’ toes
Be fully aware of the surrounding waters and the slumbering sea.
Copyright © April 2026 Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved.
Hébert Logerie is the author of several poetry collections.
Gotham City’s local hero Batman
for every villain devises a master plan
He never fails to outwit his foes
whose maniacal ploys fall like crumbling dominoes
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
L-ife
U-nder
C-reator
I-s
A-lways
S-tanding
A-gainst
M-any
A-dversities,
N-aturally
G-aining
C-are
A-new
©bfa051025
Monocrostic (Birthday of Lucia Samangca)
Veracious vanity about victories over
veils shows vain values corrupted by
vicious volatile villains in hopes for
votive to vindicate,
Grossly gluttons gain grains over
gloomy groups of ghastly greiven gulls,
Foreign fighting by ferocious foes gets
fulfilled here by fat-headed fools
fulminating for their unknowing fatalities,
Deep dark derivatives of evil dance daily
drawing delusional dimwits to drown
devishly in damnation,
Multimedia manipulates millions
maliciously magnifying multitudes of
mass misguided many,
Local laws layover latitudes of laundered
logistics layering subliminal taxations
lowering lifestyles lived by the
Land of the Limited.
Through the eyes that see
In the mind that think
Faces are powdered white
Like a kings face in horror
Lo! The foes in light
From the mirror of the only terror
Poaching minds;
Like a deadly stings of a cobra
In a solid white-wind
Two in one power
Around the neck at home
The journey is yet to come
Yet they are extremely greater
Many voice are still unheard
As the harshy weather bashes hard
Turn the world to me
In a trouble sunny maze
Restless are mind then
We were amid by them
Paths are full of griffin roads
Many still wait anxiously in moads
sometimes..beneath conceited clouds we swirl~cloaked in rainbow radiance..
self-serving songs sung by familiar faces~ but are we too naive..
to see past nebulous spheres ~ cunning wings of bittersweet butterflies..
not every tuscan twinkle is gold ~ nor do they speak tea rose twilights..
Your sufferings, all alone
To your rescue, a loan
Instantly, a seed you've sown
Finally, you smell nice in your cologne
and now, they say him we own
Their hats, each takes off for you
Like a gullible ewe,
Thou attend to the needs of not just a few
In the mad rush to help all in queue,
Their jealous minds have you no cue
A pit, they dug and covered with a mat
In the night, they dash out like a bat
and in the morning discuss where you sat
In the midst of cats, an innocent rat
Playing not outside its flat
Certainly, the one you love you know
The one who loves you? No!
Sometimes the one you love, a foe
In your creator, you glow
and reap what you sow
With vital role as antagonist
Marked by being oppositionist
Foes become functional activist
Bringing out best from protagonist.
Good show midst evil scheme they insist
Villains defy hypocrisy mist
Even in truth, group is terrorist
Like “Serpent Society” of theft-heist.
Snake-themed criminals on business twist
They would fight hero and aim, resist
Yet Captain America’s kind fist
Still won while deceit he did desist.
Learning from adversaries’* wrong whist
To God I cling as faith's optimist
Since He reigns in love’s champion wrist
Making me His righteous conformist.
*1Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
July 4, 2022
5th place, "Captain America's Friends or Foes" Poetry Writing Premiere Contest; Sponsored by Robert James Liguori; judged on 7/5/2022
Unable to know their enemies
the wretched fought
blindfolded in a battle
their true foes forgot.
She is about to disclose
What we reluctantly expose:
What in envelopes we enclose
And their display don’t suppose…
About to queerly propose
An idea other oppose:
What you wouldn’t on one impose,
Except it was what you wickedly chose
And could channels for complaints close:
A blonde asking that she nude pose
While funnily holding Thorny Rose
And a child bleed a foe’s toes
For the blood that evenly flows!
Who wouldn’t her tag ‘The Badly Uncaring
The weirdest of the thinkable baring?
Discrimination? Never -
Like charlatans, we claim,
Aren’t guys and girls, here,
Like fantasy, peripherally, same?
Nourishing the boys,
And starving the girls, yet, dear,
Is, in real life, like sun and moon,
Seen, at this juncture, crystal-clear…
If female infanticide
Has exhibited its ugly faces –
Isn't female feticide
Spreading fast in many places?
We have left plants and flowers hitherto,
There might be a time coming soon;
When men-folk might start considering,
Selective-destruction of female flowers, a boon…
12 January 2022
When a child cries inside
their tears will never show
Their life is full of masking hurt
so not a soul will know
The pain and anguish seeping out
on every blessed dream
till all that’s left is a life of woes
flowing all up stream
To every branch and every corner
all hope soon disappears
The exhausted fight to one day find
that purely fallen snow
to echo humble visions
of a peaceful safe abode
When a child cries inside
it doesn’t come and go
It walks beside their every step
a dreadful lifelong foe
We were like the snails in the shells
We promised to go together to hell,
We believed each other as Angel does to devil,
It's my fate to hate it, things we did
I admit I regret it....
From eating each other's food
To solving each other's feuds,
We grew getting beaten together,
No, I can't believe you left me for someone better,
In case you remember me, wait forget it
I admit I regret it..
I have new friends now hope you too
I'm sure they won't turn into foes like you,
I'm much happier than earlier I did,
I admit I regret it.....??
~ Occult Reacher
Scheduling time for you
out of their own convenience.
holding your past against you.
I know how you feel.
feeling trapped
whenever they are around.
discrediting your dreams and abilities.
lying to you more than once.
their negativities rubbing off on you.
excessively envious of what you have.
motivating you to be judgmental.
encouraging you to be hateful.
wanted you to be someone else
besides your divine self.
you must recognize bad company!
The worst of foes is the one who conceals evil's dagger under amity's garments!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
20 April 2017
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