Death General Poems

A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace

There are 7 Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist or Communion, Penance or Confession, Extreme...

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We were at the story-changing funeral 
Of the Genocide-implicated General:
A drunk and mourners were all served mineral!
In the paid tributes linked with the ethereal,
Though his...

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So much lost - so little gained - time after time after time -


While planning out a strike one day, a boy ‘round nine years...

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Requiem in your false hope
Laying flat on your back praying for death
Shut your eyes and everything else out
Drown your reality and float on what you...

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Drones embedded in the crotch of battle
while the white-collar generals
bark orders from remote hills.
Every now and again
patting our virtual heads.
Never telling us the vital things
although...

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Rode around Essex with murder in mind
With evil followers from town to town
Matthew Hopkins was the worst of his kind
Hunting for witches that he could...

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I’ll always  preside over right deeds
And will not be immoral over right deeds
My commitment will be my loyalty 
And every fruit of it will...

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Smoke from pursed lips wafts and wends
Its crooked path from lung to grave,
For a second perched in my trembling hand,
Quiet like a wisp of snipe...

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Scotland voted with a nationalist head,
England voted to keep the torries ahead,
3 Million people voted UKIP instead,
And I ask myself why?
Some voted tactically,
Whilst others voted...

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The two combatants were 
Cast in a deceitful duel
Enmeshed in the charming world
Of wounded psyche’s 
Where thoughts 
Take arms and batter one another
I opened the...

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General M.

She was General Memaw to a few.
Now she is at rest and cannot stew.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 24, 2010

Poetic form:  Epigram...

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The Tiger General
Hobbes

The Tiger general strode onto the field of battle,
Tail flowing eloquently as he walked.
And then he turned to his men and began to...

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“Let us cross the river and rest in the shade of trees”
Converse like gentlemen, with our bayonets at ease
We were once brothers, declaring independence for...

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