Promises Made Out of Sight
David J Walker
The projection on the wall of
Solid imagination
The illumination
of what might be
tomorrow
a day of sorrow
a day of borrowed joy
a day that employs
furloughed friends on
borrowed time
I rise early in anticipation
Believing the moon will set
And the sun will rise
As yesterday’s page turns
Into tomorrow’s light
The illustrations are vague
But such is the stuff of
Promises made
Out of sight
Categories:
furloughed, future,
Form: Rhyme
Both
Sides
Stubborn
Not budging
Washington impasse
The government shutdown drags on
While the furloughed and unpaid federal workers suffer
When will the captains of complacency in Washington finally end this madness?
Date written and written: 01/21/2019
Categories:
furloughed, anger, humanity, political,
Form: Fibonacci
I let a boy, a Roundhead* boy, to live...
I knocked him down, and said, 'stay down my boy!
You're fourteen, and your mother waits to give
You letters** - HEY THEN! THAT is not a TOY!'
(For he'd stuck me a bit wi' a little knife,)
It only hurted summat, so I took it,
And said, 'stay DOWN! THESE words are worth your life!'
He cried a bit -- I took his hand and shook it,
Then, I pulled out the knife, and gave it back.
And knocked him out, then, and left him for dead,
'You'll wake up well alive, lad!' Then a 'crack'!
A Roundhead* bullet took me in the head.
So, I lay down a bit, to rest me eyes,
And I am lying there still, I must surmise...
* 'Roundhead' was the Kingsmen's name for the Parliamentarian forces of Oliver
Cromwell
** it was not uncommon, after a battle, once the boys were furloughed, for
family to send the boys back with letters for the men who still fought
Categories:
furloughed, courage, death, devotion, irony,
Form: Sonnet
Scorched earth flows from Rump’s rumble
And feds are furloughed and grumble
Although he seems glad
For us it’s rather sad
While his wall and our cookies crumble
Author's note: The world's economic and social ills won't be fixed by a wall, but the US steel companies will benefit. In the "America First" isolationist world, some assume that we can exist without sharing and caring. That's a recipe for apocalypse.
At least Nancy Pelosi and the democrats in the House have the sense to stand up to the obese narcissistic T-rumpasaurus meanus.
Categories:
furloughed, betrayal, child abuse, education,
Form: Limerick
“Messages,
trapped in the wind
Words,
burrow deeply within
Voices,
emerge from the past
Memories,
and dreams overcast”
Leaves fall,
branches reach for the sky
Winter clouds gather,
snow starts to fly
Furloughed—the seeds
march distant and free
The season long,
its transients flee
Vision impaired,
past futures to fade
Acceptance—rejection,
a choice to be made
The first Nightingale sings,
its call from beyond
A feeling unfreezes,
old words to a song
The hills begin thawing,
new tracks to reveal
Salvation once promised,
no longer concealed
Winds from the west,
bring rebirth and enthrall
The sun melting lies,
—and winter recalled
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Categories:
furloughed, spring,
Form: Rhyme
In the foothills of the Ozarks Arkansas
Those mountains a calling, come and play the game
From prison came Joe to see his ailing pa
Furloughed from prison won notorious fame
Frances met him in their secret rendezvous
Sweet blonde Frances Standridge, eyes of baby blue
Her lover the sly fox of Chigger hollow
Taught her teenage virtue a newfound shallow
For and in Honor of Dr Rams Contest
Categories:
furloughed, passion
Form: Rispetto