Ill Used Poems

Red, White And Black Blues

...
The white man stole their land
now the red man has the blues
the white man sold their families
and the black man's still ill-used
the white man shot the American buffalo
now the red ma...

A MINISTER RETIRES: SOLILOQUY

...A MINISTER RETIRES :  
SOLILOQUY 

I arise as infant Phoenix 
from Akasha ashes 
counterparts frozen 
with foibles intact
a still Arctic of death
sheath for recalibration 

Source Light bre...

BLANKETY-BLANK VERSE

...Alas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse

To stab the darkness with an ill-...

Woodwinds

..." (Two roads) diverged in a yellow wood and I choose the
            the one less traveled by and that has made 
                              all the difference. "
                       ...

Surface Pollution

...The surface of the water is filled with pollution, It's sad to see such a precious thing so ill used. 
Plastic bags and bottles pollute what should be clean, 
Turmoil for animals who live beneath t...

The Refused Is the Confused

...Heart with Joy suffused,
Later Help refused!
So, No Hopes infused,
It’d remain confused…

A Factory Worker,
For twelve years Dock Worker;
One could not be great,
If one would just wait.
“Who...

Daphne Has No Plans To Cry

...Daphne has no plans to cry:
She shall another man try:
Not The Old with hairs to dye
Nor One others think might die…

Asking she has been: Why? Why?
She never for once did lie
To Mac with his ...

Happy To Father a Baby

...A complete neglect of the dirt
On his labored wife’s skirt
And the ugly one on his shirt …

An Ageing father’s mirth
Continues to squirt 
From Son’s birth
That challengers hurt, 
Intensely en...

Hunger Strike

...Target for use by the Cruelly Ill-Used
Morally targetting  his torturers,
Nobly tending a body and mind bruised
By the meanest sadistic adventurers.

All the time, a choice handgum of prisoners ...

Shadow of Your Wings a Petitionary of Praise

...a delightful
     sweetist singer
after the Lord's 
                      heart
with perspectives
under
   the shadow of 
                His hand
at points of need
at points of failure
   ...

A Poet Cries Real Tears

...a poet cries real tears

I am speaking to you
from inside my head
I shake it and out tumbles
words in scrabble pieces
shiny lacquered squares
to build a thought 
that will express the what
a...

October

...Halloween rogues place outhouse upside down.
Nighttime, white sheets ghosts ride broomsticks sky high.
Felines cry topmost gates - they wail all-round,
while wives, mates make pleas, moans, a grie...

The Colosseum

...Stone rests upon stone;
They glow in the light
As if to atone
For ill-used power and might.

Column on column,
Tier upon tier;
They weep with the knowledge
Of what happened here.

The cries...

Stains From Muddied Yesterdays

...There's a pile of sullied threads 
from our muddied yesterdays
of a life we stripped bare
to be thrown into the wash

a hoard of soiled toggery
too foul to be cleansed
I tried to bury ...

Reflection

...Oh, innocence of trust unchecked
How stare you back at me?
T’was you who fled this heart laid bare
Oh, barren calamity

Empty now the heart ill used
So used to gentle dreams
No more to see the flower...

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