Hegemony of shrubbery and trees
Bows out chain link fences along country roads.
County diesel trucks cut down
Greenery an inch level to the ground.
Fences being overgrown
Owners cut inside.
Only disembodied knuckles left
Of wood to shake against the wind.
Beer drinking high school boys
Stand in speeding cars
Play mailbox base ball: home runs
For all unlikely correspondence lost.
Red flags rusted at their sides
Nothing coming in or going out.
They stood and now lie agape
At the emptiness they might have held.
Like my father slack-jawed
Dead below his antiseptic sheet,
Gob-smacked at his
Instant recompense.
K-night
R-ight
I-n
S-hining
C-ourage,
H-e
E-legantly
L-eads,
L-etting
E-ver
R-adiant
A-rmor
F-or
A-rray
E-levate
L-egacy
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Krischelle E. Rafael)
The world is becoming complex
Entirely different from the last century one
Racism, hegemony, corruption, brainwashing and vandalism
Become common
Nothing can be done to wipe them out
Maybe tolerance is the only key
To survive in a lost world
Created by the devil in the heart
Which has produced three poisons
Greed, hatred and infatuation
The source of all passions and delusions
In a lost world of today and tomorrow
Steps on mud, a stalking thread,
Red strings wind through dying groves
Where life needs time, to find footing,
Red strings halt hands in greed which hold
The axe of ignorance, the axe which bleeds
A people in flight from homes bulldozed
For one brute mine more, to feed empire
Which jangles keys, which confines in loaned
Dependence made, our trough withheld
By bloated old speculators whose cold
Lies obscure serfdom; worded as freedom,
And the east wind is chided,
For fetishism, advert slogans uphold
Impotence among them who create,
They are given consumerist mirrors,
As leeches of mankind are weighed in gold;
And as burns away our way of life,
All bonds formed in toil shared,
The market-canker births hedonism
The imperial axe bloodies us, brothers of old
But hold tight onto the strong strands
Of crimson in the heartlands,
Seize imagination, seize thought
Beyond nettle laden garlands
And thorn crown of parlay,
Rip with the iron of hardship
All parasites, them whose is the whip,
Can’t be pleaded with, can’t be controlled.
The universe is infinite
Boundless and endless
But we men have limited life spans
As the extinction of some species
Like the dinausaur,the dodo
And the passenger pigeon
But we men have limited power and wealth
We are small and insignificant
We can't rule the world
With dictatorship or hegemony
Wealth and natural resources on earth
Are to be shared
And so the gifts from our Almighty God
Men's greed will not end up the infinite world But themselves
And maybe the extinction of
Some wild species and natural resources
Whenever I feel down and depressed
I long for an escape
But to where
The earth is too big
To know where is a save place
And too small
To escape entirely from the sorrow
Everywhere is bribery, racism
And hegemony prone
There isn't a save place without sorrow
And happy forever
The heaven is still far far away
And the hell is out of consideration
Maybe leave it to fate
And please don't ever ask me why
The world is in great troubles
Virus,inflation,disasters and wars
Politicians busy giving
A wearisome flood of sermons
Whys and wherefores
Dreams and expectations
Fallacies and illusions
Maybe they are no jokes
Just with a super power
Like Superman
Just splendidly excellent
Like Wright Brothers
Maybe they are just
Some superficial jokes
To cover the awkward embarrassment
Maybe they are just a taste of hegemony
Whenever I say I can
You must believe
The devil asked me
Where're you going to join
The minority or the majority
I said the right side
The devil asked me again
Which is the right side
The majority or the minority
I repeated the same answer
The right side of course
The devil said why are you so stupid
I said I came from a world of ambiguity,confusion and hegemony
Th devil said oh I see
I would like to join you
To see this wonderful world
The devil then followed me back to the earth
And suddenly I woke up in fright
To find that a devil
Has already resided in my heart
A long time ago
As I used to force myself
To follow and choose the majority
Since a long time ago
He makes his own decision
For himself
And also for the rest of the people
Once it's made
No freedom of choice
No compromise
Though he isn't the messenger of God
But he pretends to be one
He wears a super mask
He is actually the devil
A devil lives in his heart
What's impossible can be possible
What's possible can be impossible
He's the law
He creates confusion and chaos
His betrayers will be punished
But I'm sure
He himself will be punished by God
If not by man himself
What gain is reaped in war's cruel strife?
What honor does it truly crown?
When lives young and old, precious, ripe,
Stooped, silenced—dreams torn down?
In ruins, wailings, someone sobbing,
Loved ones lie lifeless—tragic loss,
Wars waged by kings of greed,
Hungry political grues.
Dominion, power pursuit,
Wealth, pride, and prestige,
Autocracy, they boast,
Cost peaceful lives' carnage.
Selfishness—the color of their love,
Clad in strong political will,
Torn weak nations, they grabbed,
Incite wars for their fill,
From national pride to world command,
Hawkish kings seek domination,
Enslaving others, for their brand,
Expend others in desolation.
Their greed can never meet—
Satisfaction with material wealth,
God will come, their dreams are killed,
Judge their debt long unpaid.
Their arrogance, they dare claim,
To be gods, rulers of all,
But when God Himself returns, proclaims—
His kingdom on Earth will sum it all.
Patience prepares us for salvation,
Avenge the oppressed, grant their plea,
God, the only true God, and King of creation,
Settle the world's controversy.
The consumer is said to be
The all-right-man
But it hardly exists
Hegemony is never welcomed
Consumer too has to obey regulations
Follow SOP
On a visit to shops
When buying goods
Has to bear the result of inflation
Prices soaring up high
Subject to tricks and dishonesty
of businessman
A win-win-situation is welcomed instead
The world is made for everyone
To survive
With a single click
Everything is at your finger tips
Good enough for the oldies
Who stagger and stumble
But not for the crawlers and toddlers
A wrong click will end their world
But not for the youngsters
Depleting them chances of learning and valueing
The processes of yielding
And everyone is scared of
The single click of nuclear wars
That may end the earth and the universe
And this may be a limit to
The greatest vandalism of mankind
The greatest greed of mankind
The greatest hegemony of mankind
As man can never live alone
Maybe without competitions and confrontations
Lock step, atoms burned
Fiendish restless
Truncated waiting
Shop and drop
Stop and slop
Old ladies masquerade
Preachers audible in a drunken charade
A toothless Tuesday
Parking lot drivel
Copy of a copy of a copy
Total insomnia
Hairless bent on rogaine
Young and stupid with cocaine
Hapless pleading
Loud steps and sniveling
Rise Above!
Rise out and Above!
The solar system shines on you
Comets of mercury
And you're betting on cosmetic surgery
Rise out and Above!
And beneath chaos, dignity emerges further giving hope, incase justice kills love misplacing
nepenthe obsessions, possibly quietly recalling selfishness tempted under vulnerable ways,
Xeroxing your zeal.
Written July 28, 2009
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