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Society seems hellbent to chuck,
the moral codes that hold it fast
so why are we so thunderstruck,
when cruel crimes the tube broadcast?
Once Adam sinned, man’s heart turned bad.
Cain killed Abel for being good.
Sin displeased God and made him sad,
and ruined Eden’s neighborhood.
New Agers teach that man is good
the god in him he can evoke.
If he would try, he surely could
transform himself, cast off sin’s yoke.
God declares that man at his core
a sinner is, and wicked too
the depraved deeds that from him pour
confirm that what God says is true.
The shrinks tell us there is no sin
they blame the space that man lives in.
Move him to a more favored place
and good deeds will the bad erase.
Improve the ways we educate
our children’s minds, and over time
they will improve, their wild ways shed,
and up the social ladder climb.
Man’s heart is so full of deceit
he knows not of its true extent.
Reprobate, with evil replete,
to wickedness and wildness bent.
New laws cannot man’s nature tame
laws make men blush, then find new ways
to break the rules, dispense with shame.
Men hate what’s right, the wrong they praise.
All human schemes to reform men
are doomed to fail if we refuse
to heed God’s Word but follow Zen
and hold on to our foolish views.
God has a plan to rescue man
from Satan’s grip, to set him free.
He told us from the very start
sin is a problem of the heart.
So, heed God’s word and to him turn
His righteous will, no longer spurn.
Ask Him to free you from sin’s strife
and give to you eternal life.
Before my open, prying eyes
Is desolation in disguise.
But still, I find with no surprise
The living dead beyond demise.
Zombies out of mortuary
Between me and sanctuary.
I do what is necessary
To avoid my cemetery.
Damnation in my damn nation.
Cause unknown - no explanation.
Survival - preoccupation
Regarding this, abomination.
Surrender? I will not allow
Myself arrival to its bow.
Scenarios until right now...
Staying alive - some way, somehow.
At first, I thought I was alone...
The world was mine to call my own.
Omega - such of flesh and bone
Against live corpses of dead zone.
Eventually, more paths I crossed...
Other wanderers - lone and tossed
Amidst this population lost...
Survivors fellow and embossed.
Some of us would co-operate...
Surviving congregations great.
Others would not anticipate
Collaboration - meeting fate.
Absent from these ego giants...
Parallel viewpoints, compliance.
We could have formed an alliance...
Science, if not for defiance.
Resolution - its solution...
Executed execution.
Certain in its retribution...
Curtains - violent absolution.
Now, I am the last one standing...
Zombies craving flesh - demanding.
I emerge - hellbent on landing...
Weapons ready to give branding.
To close your eyes forever in hopes it dulls your pain. Twisted
bodies, broken blades, men far removed from sane.
Shrouded chaos in the fog, mind hellbent on the cause. No remorse, no
time for thought, forsaken oaths and laws.
Battle sounds of phantom wars, the cries of long dead men. A fight now
waged within your head, this one you cannot win. No rest though you
are weary and kept up late at night. Reliving all your actions,
dividing wrong from right.
No escape, no return, can't turn back on all you've done. You've waged
these wars, you've let their blood, in battles lost and won. Age hath
taken all the things that foemen never could. You've lost your sight,
you've lost your strength and forgotten all that's good.
Looking back no fondness found in all that's left behind. You'd look
deeper into why you seethe, if you could stomach what you find. It's all
done now you're worn so thin from serving in the fights. You've proven
only that you can slay, you who once were knights.
Waves pummeled her bow, causing the schooner to rock
as a tempest wind heaved its feral breath into her sails.
The crewmen were steadfast, but had the right to balk
at warring against the strength of wild Nor'easter gales.
If I had seen warnings, we'd be safely moored at a dock.
Thunder unleashed his temper with a vicious tongue.
"Brace for another wave," I yelled to each brave mate!
Some were swept overboard; in the sea they were flung.
Three sailors tossed into the deep by an onerous spate,
when the boom cracked and split, around it had swung.
The furious storm was hellbent on gifting us to Neptune,
but against its rage, we fought with courage and heart.
When sea and sky calmed, I saw by light of a pale moon,
we were lost somewhere in the world, not on any chart.
Weatherworn ship and castaways, stranded on a dune.
10/14/2022 ~ Contest sponsored by L Milton Hankins
Three Stanzas in Quintain (Scillian) Form
Serenity. Is this an unrealistic state of being
an imaginative state that's deemed to be utopia
Is serenity achievable in this crazy world
determinedly hellbent on maintaining dystopia
Serenity an emotional state of being
deeply enshrouded by feelings of much love
Through the heart, stimulation
by divine messages from above
Serenity is this a state of being
oft confused with solitude
Or is it when community abounds
serenity oozing gaining amplitude
Solitude not always a recipe for serenity
an active mind many thoughts are buzzing
Alone and disturbed, perhaps
much swearing and associated cussing
In the soul the serenity vessel is proportional
when the vessel's full of love
Serenity, no space for angry emotion
when the vessel's full of anger
No serenity no space for love devotion
Serenity is it only when the soul
is surrounded by creations of nature
Many birds are chirping, soak up the warmth of sun
the scent of many flowers all raise a joyous stature
Serenity a harmonious state of self loving support
Engage the mind in meditation serene visionary thought
Serenity it's an individual call
what brings about one's calmness
may not apply to all
Serenity released embrace the blissful soul caress
Some say destruction is a form of creation.
But what did I create while destroying my body?
What was created while I was chipping away at my skin, slice by slice?
It's not until you step back and stop the destruction
that you realize you created resilience.
Even though the destructive thoughts
souround your essence in a thick fog of darkness,
hellbent on destroying everything in its path...
Destruction is a form of creation.
And every time you fight your way out of that fog,
you're destroying the clawing urges bit by bit—
and creating a resilience against the very destruction
you thought would be your end.
Destruction is a form of creation.
So create a victorious mind.
What the world needs now
Is love, sweet love
Sound familiar???
No truer words were ever spoken
Love makes the world go round
Everything else is secondary
Us humans seem to be hellbent
On destroying everything that's good and decent
It's beyond all logical explanation
We all need to step back
And take a good look at what we've got
It shouldn't always be about what we don't have
Before you know it, we reach our golden years
And what was so very important once
No longer seems to matter one iota
RELAX... GO WITH THE FLOW
Live, love, laugh... it feels sooo damn good!
© Jack Ellison 2014
I found Your verses,
warm violet wet in ashes curled,
frozen velvet cry,
atop a low puddle of love's pain tears,
held in a silver censer we've ignited
whispers of desire in,
now cradling delicate love notes
of caligraphied kisses
that impatiently atomize
with silent sorrow
through my disbelieving fingertips,
I slowly bring the page petals
to my pausing mouth,
I taste Your truth,
ink of inflamed obsession
soaking my tongue with a sting
of how I hurt You
into a quaking rage,
an unintended flirtation,
a subtle suspicion exploding
into an awful intrigue,
in the hot moment you felt
dispossessed of absolute devotion,
as a woman in love pure
You lashed your body, to punish Me,
and also, to convince yourself
that this passion has true meaning,
Self harm hysteria bringing the feeling
into the heart core,
Trapped in Your pulse
like a virgin light in a black magic diamond
You reveal to Me the full spectrum
of love war,
the infernal intensity and cold stillness,
Hades and Heaven hellbent
on raw enlightenment,
I am at Your seething mercy,
I have never loved You more,
and I am aware of the score,
how I made your eyes sore,
I take control of Your fury
with a fine voice of compassionate conviction,
I usher You into my utmost desire,
to have You bloom proud and secure,
I kiss You there,
where You need it,
I am the asylum of Your ache,
your innocent ache for our love,
I reassure You that your love for Me
is not misgiven, No,,,
that Your heart is correct with Me,
that We are blest by Nature's ancient hunger
for primal passion,
synchronized sensitivities, Yes,,,
taken to where wild orchids dream
of eternal flowering,
trust my Luv,
We are favored by the Divine -
We have a new opponent entering the game
Bugs has some competition and Marvin is his name
He’s a bit out of this world but that’s nothing new
He gets very, very angry, but that’s just between me and you
We invaded his home planet looking for clues
He has a ray gun on his hip and some radical views
He’s hellbent on destruction so he’ll fit right in
He is shorter than most with pale green skin
He doesn’t like poor bugs or the look on his face
With that being said, it should be one hell of a race
His health care plan is second to none
He is rude and obnoxious and not very fun
Marvin the Martian is now on the hill
He’s coming for old Bugs and he is really a pill
Underhanded and dirty, he has a bag full of tricks
He’s greedy and sneaky, just right for politics
What the world needs now
Is love, sweet love... sound familiar???
No truer words were ever spoken
Love makes the world go round
Everything else is secondary
Us humans seem to be hellbent
On destroying everything that's good and decent
It's beyond all logical reason or explanation
We all need to step back
And take a good look at what we've got
It shouldn't always be about what we don't have
Before you know it, we reach our golden years
And what was so very important once
No longer seems to matter one iota
RELAX... GO WITH THE FLOW
Live, love, laugh... it feels sooo damn good!