Long Fly in the ointment Poems

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Premium Member The Watcher Watched

Laborare Estorare in obscure ANON-ymity
Though to do as  they must they'll know nothing but pain
In this richly owned world, self appointed divinity
The righteous still toil in God's Holy Name

We're but offal to corporate greed
In a long chain of man-made disasters
Like a freight train unleashed at full speed
They queue to bow down to their masters

Their exorbitant memberships paid
They gather like rose-stem pricks
As cold as a steel switchblade
Schwabs Great Reset on their lips

Information is media controlled
A cleverly designed social narrative
We're cautioned to do as we're told
Compliance, the crucial imperative

Like corporate ships, overwhelming
A psychopars hands on the rudder
Towards the edge of destruction We're sailing
Big Pharma's in league with Big Brother

Though Big Brothers  race is being run
Sometimes his plans they get botched
By a fly in the ointment Anon
They know now the Watchers being Watched
Form: Rhyme


Poetic Justice

I look inside you
I step inside then
Well, well, look what I find here

Is this place Hell 
Where my steps have led me
She calls me the Devil
Well that sounds just like him

Comteplations of direct hits
Night Marches regardless
If I’m the Archer or the target
Your still a part of
The weapons aimed in my direction

Shells, Shields, Force fields
Special Forces
Black opts, Black Hawks
Solid truths in soft words
Infrared, GPS, global positional satellites  
Inferred here, I’m speaking from the third person

a glutton for punishment, a fly in the ointment 
there are no flies on somebody
I’m Dynamic, I’m a driving force
I’m vigorous, full of energy, poetically spoken I got a purpose
Poetic Justice
Poet Destroyer
I tell you in Latin, I’m Acinonyx jubatus
Imma Cheetah
My words travel faster than a Leopard 
I ain't no follower, I ain't no lemming 
A Legend lends itself to something
Legitimately speaking

“To the system, I speak into the Universe
In the light years I splash and play in”
Form: Concrete

Chats in the Car

Chats in the Car
We never drive far
May be over the mountains
As the wheels meet the tar

And the bugs find their end
Round each terminal bend
Yet no fly in the ointment with
Conversational friend

We steer around obstacles
We navigate bumps
The pot-hole conundrums,
Of love, never stumps 

We won't get a ticket 
For our speeding or risks
No concerns with this friendship
From detectors or frisks 

I could drive through the night
With you here by my side
It's a wonderful journey
Such a comforting ride

Don't know if we'll arrive
Or the point of it all
But I just count you as blessing
Whether top speed or crawl

For the moments, so fleeting
Are too precious to waste
If we have to conclude this
Let's not get there in haste
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Frog

Walking yourself
into the woods 
Trees on either side 
The scent of primroses 
upon the ground 
In the crisp cool air 
my summer breeze 

You sat yourself 
upon a golden fleece 
In the centre 
A rose for you 
Tossing my heart 
in the air 
I give you 
my everything 

Including my soul 
I fall into the pond 
My heart cries 
I became the frog 

Forever I remain here 
Waiting love to arrive 
I do not crave 
fancy diamonds 
Or fancy anything 
for that matter 
I just want love 

My fly in the ointment 
To heal my wounds 
Open the door 
my heaven 
I will give you everything 
Your heart desires 

Open the door love 
A beautiful fountain 
I bathe near 
Most beautiful 
in my eyes 
That I have ever seen 

Maybe fairytales 
a dream 
My heart bursts its desire 
In my kingdom 
This must surely 
be heaven 
To kiss the frog 
My fairytale begins

Workingman's World

1.


In an ahistorical fog:

all the Ways home,

all the signposts,

treacherously hidden 

by greedy men and women:

all eyes off the ball:

mere contemptible bourgeois folly.


2.


The rain is unending,

the wind howls,

the flooded river races,

its banks rapidly disappearing

in this darkness at noon.

Laid bare by the flashing, crackling

lightning, the wagon teams and

terrified, shouting horsemen

careen downstream.

Deafening thunder booms rolling.

In the swollen, swirling river,

w/ eyes wide in panic,

the horses kick wildly,

their neighing strangled and 

silenced by the dark, rushing flow as 

they disappear beneath it.

Both the beasts and the

men are doomed,

but for one of each.

That horseman, cursing,

desperately leaps unto the 

back of that horse,

making its way struggling, swimming to the 

shoreline, w/ their safety certain,

a horse changed midstream.


3.


The Robot Fighters:

savvy, Western workers

upright and true, foresighted and brave:

like the proverbial "physicians healing themselves"

they throw themselves fervently into

putting their "own house in order" first:



Toppled and wrestled under human control,

each and every evilly spying machine;

all the cruel, unheeding AI

stopped dead in its tracks;

all the poisonous tools of the trade 

laid down in righteous protest,

w/ irrepressible Luddite spirit:


Alive, the fearless Machine Fighters

forced into action, wisely not waiting

for irremediable, dystopian 4,000 AD

before making their move.


4.


Greasy grasping fingers:

the fly in the ointment:

usury unchecked.


*****

Curtains, thrown open wide:

the startling, stark light of day:

usurious vampyres scatter,

run for their lives.*  




*"The reason why the Persians [sic] were always slaves and always
will be is that they could never say 'No'."

   --- Thucydides, ancient Athenian historian and general


Photonic Participle



                  In the quiet whispers of dreams,
I dance with shadow's ebonescence,
as photonic particle - collider, 
photosynthesis derider, 
unveiling entities, 
of "agents provocateur" to seize a "visitation" 
upon the dimensions precipice 
per chance to lay siege.

In the depths of "our present darkness",  
petra-charred and invisible against the oiled skin 
of night.
Chameleon sins- 
spiders its neural network 
across the fruited plains, 
trading insiders 
like it was the New York Stock Exchange.
Black domes in the rock of jig altar, 
to sire getaway mountain dens and tunnels 
for BlackRock Pfizer Op -Executions.

Their golden boy, will spotlight meteoric,
the proverbial fly in the ointment, 
Act III lift of a-weighted curtain-lifting back wings, 
showing a defyning eye and marionette strings.
Les Miserables-play on words-play on heartstring phantoming our opera, staged in
Anti-Christian cryptonite.
History channeled redirect 
rhetoric dialect of reflected subject to chain,
and the death of fiat currency,
just a coincidental theme? 
Freedom is a currency isn't it,
a Hallmark card from the Corporation 
to the People- to read,
between the lines of allegiance- 
swearing till blue in the face,
alliance against malfee-seance in press release 
of 3 letter agency.
As Apollyon waltzes in from the bottomless pit.
Social credit scored to fit the bill.
Cloaked in fine Kingly robes of industry.
 
fact checked by the Ministry of Information.

When will love speak it's instinctual dialect 
in a neon sign language not lost in translation?
When will hope weave it's august majesty,
Seraphic-wings spread over as a covering tapestry.
In cure of a cerulean sky with  
hope diamonds of open transparency, 
lifting us in perpetuity.

Till that day,
with each intrepid step, a nightmare before Lent
their Black Christmas unfolds 
a returning echo on the steppes,
etched in our collective brains like petrified mold.
In an apology of words, 
emotions coagulate churns sour worm meal,
acidic curdling of my stomach, a larvaeic curd-
cysted curse to the soylent green new deal
of New World sufferings 
and pain, of UnitedNationsBurntOfferings,
with a disdain for comic relief 
or cosmic entymology.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Love 101


The fly in the ointment -- 
Introducing souls to their
Indwelling Christ Spirit
Is a positive change needed…

But it is not done by threats!

Not for fear of Biblical Damnation or
Annihilation (cut off forever from God’s
Grace). Love does not slander and condemn;
Love nurtures and uplifts -- 
Love is an eternal balm for physical and
Spiritual healing. Christ was 
Thrown to crucifixion for 
Not being Barabbas, a militant
Rebel-rouser.  Christ did not
Advocate to break laws,  to 
Bring about great social change.
He did not support violent demonstration. 
He said, give onto Caesar what 
Is Caesar's – My Kingdom, Our Kingdom 
Is not of this earth.  Change self,
Change one’s own heart, and a better
World will follow.  Love is not exclusive -- 
Love does not categorize nor make
Religious exemptions.  Love is Love.
Love is God. If you hate millionaires,
Believe they are all evil, then become
A good one (I never got a job from a
Poor man) What! Too much actual
Work?!  Flashier to talk loudly, vociferously
Complain? Consume one’s mind and heart with
Negativity and that is all you will
Have and all you will produce in
This world of unlimited blessed opportunity. 
Let love, compassion be your first
Impulse toward every foul situation...if
Something else needed God will Guide
And protect one’s soul.  His Will first! And not
Ours…. Christ never said, to love is
Universally Easy – but he did say, it is the only
Way to make a Statement of Heaven.  We
Are called to something higher than any
Given moment.  Learn how to Love.  Parents,
Before anything else, teach your children
To Love.  Love 101….
Form: Prose

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