Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
and your bigotry and hate smokin’
from the race fires you are stokin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
and the woke that you have woken
are like toads in the swamp croakin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
but the media are too busy cloakin’
and your addled fragile ego strokin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
since Trump border policy revokin’
now kids in the Rio Grande soakin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
yet Hunter was drinkin’ and cokin’
gettin’ richer off your name invokin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
and her greatness must be spoken
but you are too stupid and oaken
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
and a trial a martyr’s death evokin’
yet race and fear you keep pokin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, America is broken
and the Green New Deal is chokin’
so what the hell you must be jokin’
Hey Sleepy Joe, as it was foretoken
it is clear now America has spoken
that you are the one that’s broken!
Written: April 2021
Pine rustles in gloomy afternoon
Foretoken of turbulent storm
Thunder tremors with violet lightning
Descend electricity
Burning pine tree forest
Enamored couple walking in the forest
Ensconce for shelter in an abandoned house
Awaiting that the heavy rainfall drops stop
Discovering a far away red lighthouse
Calm reigns in ether
Garnet sky is scenery
Setting love story
Carved as a heart and arrow
Romance symbol in a tree
For It Takes Four Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings
Third Place
8-11-2016
A
Face
With a
Evil smile
Appears as a bad
Omen in the demonic night
Torturing with malefic thoughts and bad dreams the mind
Escaping to the deep and black forest to flee from the legions of demons attack
4-2-2016
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