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Traumatic Memories

You should feel ashamed.
What are you an idiot?
The woman is standing there with a baby crying in her arms.
The train is starting and stopping, rapid, erratic, uncaring.
Get the hell up and give this woman your seat!
God, you'd think that Tufts education would give you even a shred of common sense.
Unbelievable.

You should feel ashamed.
He is your blood.
You don't turn your back on him.
No matter what he says to you, take it lying down.
Like a doormat with too many footprints,
he'd stomp you into the ground so flat you'd barely qualify as human.
Disgusting.

You should feel ashamed.
I am your elder and caretaker.
How DARE you be fresh with me!
(Smack!!)
There, now your shame is made manifest
in a handprint across your cheek.
Do not misbehave.
Deviant.

You should feel ashamed.
A sinful heartless monster.
She was just a little girl .  (i was just a little boy)
All for gratification.
God you make me sick.
Perverted.

YOU SHOULD FEEL ASHAMED, BIG TIME
THE VILE HORRIFIC THOUGHTS IN YOUR MIND
I MADE YOU IN MY IMAGE
GO AND TELL THE PEOPLE
GO AND BURN DOWN THE CITIES
GO RAPE AND PILLAGE THE INNOCENT
THIS IS WHO YOU ARE
BECAUSE THIS IS WHO I SAY YOU ARE
IF YOU QUESTION ME EVEN FOR A SECOND
I SWEAR ON MY LIFE GOD WILL STRIKE YOU BLIND
A SINFUL HEARTLESS MONSTER
I MADE YOU IN MY IMAGE
DEATHWORSHIPPER

(ok ok i get it.
 but i don't think i should feel ashamed.
 because shame is misdirected anger,
 and anger is another name for fear,
 none of which are even remotely loving)

(so i'll tell you what we're gonna do...
 you can all feel ashamed on my behalf.
 you carry the overwhelming guilt, the recorded evidence...
 i am a sinful heartless monster)

(just keep repeating that to yourselves over and over again,
 and leave me the hell alone.
 i'll be outside on a long overdue leisurely stroll.
 believe me, i could use a breath of fresh air)


They're Cute At This Age

subtitled:  The Bolder Boys  (rivals of The Golden Girls)
written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones

Two graying seniors with appalling chimera
bantering back and forth - mental meandering. 
Be it mirage or dreams from another era - 
they diminish the other's philandering.

Fanfaronade - from high school boys I would expect
now it re-appears in quite perceptible measures
from our retired magistrate whom I quite suspect
of erroneous accounts of addled pleasures.

While his cohort, an erratic ex-engineer
relates with brazen gibberish his tete a tetes.
At one time more clear and swift of eye and ear,
on blogs they ordain to publish communiqués.

I have found no diffidence which they jeopardize
making harmless though delectable advances, 
Noted but honest attempts to digitize
their forte, their skill in dubious romances.

I offered an honorarium of great size
for the first one who would divest his florid page
of any contentious items - to sanitize.                              .
Gaga girlfriends grin and gush. They're cute at this age.

September 18, 2021
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Chaos From the Shadows

It began as an unknown disturbance, as
    Confusion to chaos denied any remedy.
        Yet answers must find a way forward,
            Giving solace to a captive referee.

Since emerging and becoming noteworthy,
    Any prediction fades to shadows overnight.
        And whether hidden or simply erratic, its
            Very nature demands restoring the limelight.

Can ignorance be the fuel of this torment,
    Causing pain to put forth and lash out?
        Or has a fantasy been sorely interrupted,
            Leaving solitude with a weapon to shout?

What's known is that misery often enjoys some
    Company, looking to find a kindred soul.
        And its search may recall some false notions,
            Where reality forces truth to take its role.

Premium Member Ragged

Ragged

Ragged heartbeats,
Shut in
But not 
 Shut out,
Tattered heartbreak,
Tragedy 
 Flung 
  From high towers
Swooping down in towering tornados
Descending

Ascending from foul marshes
 Quick sand
  Stalking careless footsteps -
Stealthy quagmires – fetid slime -
 Like a shredded storm -
 Lurk by the doorstep
  Round the corner
   Up the highway
    On the highroad
     Near the low road 

Alone
 But not lonely
Colleagues of long ago,
 Companions on the quests,
Coax my muse to contemplation
Far from the scheduled, frantic crowd,
Erratic cacophony
Blowing horns, sirens, 
 Lonely whistles of nighttime trains
In frayed harmonies
Wooing scruffy inner child 
 Emerge 
  Play again;

Bundled up against the frozen banshee’s breath,
Sitting in the lap of time -
 Lost and unrestrained
  In candied dawns and lavender midnights,
Ignoring the scream of seconds to pay attention
Startled by life peeping in through rosettes –
  Intruder with vacant eyes -
Calling dance with the dance macabre
To the dirge of who knows when shutters close;

Turned out
Not turned away
Turning ‘round -
Grabbing the hand of verse – friend called lyric -
To the sound of remembered carousels enchantment;
Freeing elfin earthbound energy;
Essence escaping boundaries at a welcoming hearth,
Exploding
From isolation’s shabby womb.

10-5-21
Contest: “R”
Sponsor: Constance La France

Premium Member Whoa, Nellie, Whoa

A lot of fancy gizmos befuddle me in this technological age,
Where perplexing computers, texting and twittering are all the rage!
I can empathize with the feller who renounced horse and buggy days,
To subdue the baffling horseless carriage that became all the craze!

Clyde Schlunk reluctantly retired his faithful horse and buggy wheels.
He was the first in town to own one of those new fangled automobiles!
'Twas simple to harness a horse, feed him oats and shoe him all those years.
Now he must master complex clutches, cranks and shifting gears!

'Twas hard to break years of habits spent driving a buggy and horse.
He still had his buggy whip near at hand in the automobile of course!
When trying to stop the machine he'd yell, "Whoa! Nellie! Whoa!"
As he tried to avoid a tree or slid through slippery sleet and snow!

His erratic driving terrified chickens, horses and little old ladies,
As he whipped about that sedate little town like a bat out of Hades!
The only pain he suffered from his horse was a kick now and then.
But when cranking the carriage he busted his knuckles over and over again!

He still hollered "haw" to turn to the left and "gee" to turn to the right!
Did the town folks' ridicule bother him?  Not by a blame sight!
Clyde never learned how to control those forty horses under the hood.
He couldn't rein 'em in causing all sorts of havoc in the neighborhood!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved

Placed No. 2 in Joyce Johnson's "Your Very Best" Contest - February 2011
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member My God, Thank You For Conquering Me

December 22 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 6

Key Verses – Revelation 6:1-2 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.  And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR CONQUERING ME
                    
Thank You for Your conquering me and my degradation
Against hell’s terrible destruction
Fully rescuing me from sinfulness-degeneration
By Your compassionate heavenly direction.
 
Thank You for Your conquering me and my infirmity
Against carnality’s lustful iniquity
Fully pulling me from transgression-impurity
By Your dignified honourable integrity.

Thank You for Your conquering me and my filthiness
Against worldliness’ fearful perilousness
Fully driving me from corruption-fruitlessness
By Your constant gracious faithfulness.

Thank You for Your conquering me and my arrogance
Against pride’s selfish allegiance
Fully covering me from deception-appearance
By Your divine fatherly assistance.

Thank You for Your conquering me and my sentiment
Against discontentment’s foolish supplement
Fully correcting me from doubtfulness-statement
By Your wise eternal settlement.

Thank You for Your conquering me and my preference
Against changes’ erratic persistence
Fully upholding me from compromise-prevalence
By Your supreme sovereign permanence.

Thank You for Your conquering me and my fright
Against backsliding’s agonizing blight
Fully guarding me from quitting’s flight
By Your loving Word’s might.


December 22, 2022
Form: Rhyme

Trimmed Tongue Atonement

Menace intends to mow
         Ruthless slices stem renegades
         Remnants flap erratic, 
         Resilience remains unafraid 

          Virtuous dispose overgrown 
          Scorn of manicurist imbalanced
          Courage operates alone 
          Realisation spurred by challenge

         City's mesh messiness
         Accepts intended bedlam mosaic change
         Faceted shadow corners glint
         Light slides, vertical snake rearrange

          Cult harbingers cut opposers 
          Whip and snip straight edges
          Goaded by nurtured clones
          Rebel dispels lectures

         Scope stacks psyches intermingled 
         Hand clasp members hope 
         Allegiance tucks members beneath wing 
         Anonymous chase, utopia
         



         2nd August 2020

         Any Form, Any Topic 
         Brian Strand, sponsor
Form: Rhyme

Poetry of the Walls

THE LEG

  Who has
   a crooked leg,
    do not walk 
     at
       railway track ...

    DESERT...
  Is there any sailor?
   in the desert... ?

     WATERS ...
   Sea is not a place
    for camel
      Stream is not
      a place for
         sharks

       UGLY FACE...
      Cannot fear
       ugly face, who
        already faced
          in the mirror...

          SET...
        Erratic is the future ...
        Failed is the past ...
         The present does not stink,
           do nor smell

           UGLINESS...
         Calm down ... you
          are not so ugly ...!
           Ugly is the dark ...
            terrible is an
             endless hole

Premium Member The clicker Thief

Does your TV have a timer?
Will it turn off automatic?

I miss the days of simple viewing and television static.

On switch 

Off switch

No subscriptions and way less problematic.

Before never needing a broadband service ,

electric installation or a qualified mechanic

Thirty-nine minutes I've searched in a crazed and frenzied panic.

If you could see me now
How I am reacting...
you'd think I was about to board the sinking ship Titanic.

I've even looked in all the pockets, of everybody's jacket. 

But how else am I supposed to watch my favorite drama?
And all of its dramatics

The only silver lining is my toddler's nursery rhymes
She asks for, so eagerly erratic

Ive not had to endure such noise or listen to its racket
Form: Rhyme

Lovers Undercover

God, forgive our love, as we sink in waves of fear.
Unrestrained sizzle and savour, a web tangles us near.
Our starving souls burn, ablaze in glowing ember.
Sparks of fiery frissons, so exciting to remember.   
Forgotten promises broken, we choose not to hear.
Thrill of forbidden love, simmers in lively cheer. 
Friendship laced touch , takes an  amorous steer. 
Wanting what we shouldn't, in guilt we drown together.
 God, forgive our love.
In addiction of passion, our conscience go unclear,
Moths dancing on flame, we still risk the chandelier. 
Erratic hearts yearn and swoon, in captivated tether,
Under clandestine cover, we feel worse or better?
Illicit, they call it, but isn't it also love,.. pure, sincere?
God, forgive our love.


17th March 2019
Form: Rondeau

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