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Premium Member Popcorn and Wet Spots

The media has two faces: mayhem and disharmony.
They bring in the highest of ratings.
Harmony and unity are ratings disaster for the media execs.
They couldn't care less about the people.
They get off on Plane crashes and train wrecks.
They are voice boxes for evil.

They love mass shootings, wars, and church arson fires.
Most of all, they adore a high-profile white-on-black crime.
Then they sit back with popcorn in hand. 
Enjoying their heavily biased, fueled race riot.
 Playing the same clips.24/7/365/ from a one-sided perspective.
Then enter the clowns.
The politicians in their ties and stilettos. Hustling for votes. 
Then the activists and reverends slither in. 
Stirring the golden pot with bullhorn rhetoric.
Hoping everything turns to rot.
The Soros's anarchists are there to make a quick buck
Get off and leave their greasy wet spot.


The Chopper Cyclone

The Chopper Cyclone

Oh Wild Wind!  Why so rude?
Oh Dear God! Why no mercy?
Waited for rains; what we got is rage
Nursed hopes; only horror remains

December last, unbridled floods,
December this year, the Wild Wind
Gory events; misfortune manifested
With none to stop; our life is on hold

Oh Wild Wind! Why the dance of death?  
Felling thousands of trees, we loved      
All cables and power lines snapping to halt                     
Through howling cries; all passed away en-mass                                   

A moment of mayhem, wrought havoc untold           
The tall trees all, massacred, maimed
The wild aerobics; snuffing out the breathe,
Mauled and mangled the city is left mourning

Those that escaped wrath, some flora exist
Battered and bruised, broken and bent, 
Twisted and tampered; crippled they lie
Centuries old, veterans, in ruins, they cry

Revival; may take a hundred years,  
Alas, many of us will be gone by then,
Our companions, all through they were,
On a mad noon act; all vanished to nowhere

Ten thousand trees lost; is the count we have
As the city lies barren without, the green it wore
Family of trees lay victims; in parks and on pavements 
While every road and compound added to the lore

Yes we waited for our reservoirs to fill
For flora, fauna and fields to survive
In turn; only received tears in our eyes
Only numbness remains, all hearts bleed

Last year water; this year the storm
Call it what you like; but curse is same
All elements that we presumed were allies 
Turned a foe; that tale, God alone can tell

In a moment of madness; hate let loose
The ghost wind, showed rage unending
The fierce storm, hell bound it stood
Decimated everything in its path                                    

Relenting only after revenge; extracted 
As everyone around was in sheer disbelief
Dazed and shattered and shocked were we 
Too numbed to think and too dumb to act

Yet the calamity will soon be forgotten; 
As History’s bosom has many such stories
But both the scars will remain for decades,
The World has its dark side too!
Form: Ballad

O Well

I have almost absolved myself 
from causing that emotional mayhem
that a youthful spirit engages upon
not having yet acclimatized itself
to whom it is, or what it would become. 

All those lovers and haters
bought into an early copy
an unedited work in progress.
It’s the pity of youth that we 
never give each other time for regret. 
Apologies may or may not arrive decades later
often they are just  told to the sky.

Forgiveness is given and accepted
between distant shadows of us.
We tidy up past regrets in an old room long vacated,
until eventually we arrive 
at that state of stabilized imperfection 
most of us hope to achieve.

Premium Member Natural Cycle


Some people think these recent disasters
Are caused by abuse of the planet
I tend to think they're natural occurrences
The world is just running the gamut

The ebb and flow of changing conditions
Are normal like any time previous
The world has existed for billions of years
Foolish to think we'd be impervious

It's how it's been since the dawn of existence
Today, we're in a technological time frame
To imagine it's the reason for all this mayhem
Is wrong, we shouldn't assume all the blame

There are certainly mistakes man has made
That surely hasn't helped the environment
But to suggest that these are the only reasons
The blame has an unjustified placement

No doubt, we've had some manmade disasters
Without question, can't dispute their effect
Humans certainly are not without culpability
But we've never been thought of as perfect

We are only visiting for a relatively short time
And our challenge is to try our very utmost
To leave it a much better place than we found it
What a great reason for us humans to boast!
Form: Rhyme

Destruction and Decadence

I have no idea what you are facing in this segment of life
You are like a labyrinth; I can’t untangle the mayhem without any clues
Spill out your emotions…there’s a waterfall in your eyes ready to collapse
I don’t have the time and willpower to hike on your colossal mountain

Are you fit enough to climb with my echoing praise?
I doubt I ever have the strength to crawl into your agonizing thoughts
Of destruction and decadence
Of despondent dreams and isolated guidance

Do you accept my benevolence towards you?
Do you believe that I can mend your shattered dreams?
Do you accept my fondness towards a friend like you?
Do you have faith that I can make your dreams a reality as it truly seems?

Your contemplation is another expedition to trek
You are like an island, separating cramming chaos from undying peace
Rise from the cave and attack…there’s a bear in your nature, watching over her cubs
I don’t have the ability and determination to trudge in your soggy wasteland

Are you slick enough to trek with my shielding gaze?
I doubt I’m nowhere to be found in your thoughts of desolation
And destructive formation,
Springing forth the equipment of your
Turmoil and damnation

With any luck, I hope we can arrive in one piece
On the other hand, I wish that we both escape from this horrifying journey
Because I want to discard the labyrinth, crafting puzzling pathways that draw me back to
Destruction and recklessness
That I, by no means, address


Menacingly Waiting

It’s all around
It’s everywhere
And when you least expect 
t’will linger and await 
Invisible in the air
No indication 
No warning 
Your innocent breaths 
You are unaware

Donning your mask 
Do not wait to be asked
Safely distancing at all times
For this dreaded virus 
We're unable to see
Menacingly waiting
For the likes of you
Menacingly waiting
For he likes of me

And in the meantime
After all cautions taken
Find pleasure in all
Mother Nature doth bring
~  her morning sunrise
~  her calming sea
~  her full moon mesmerising
Her many gifts for you for me 
oh such joy they are bringing 
when you hear your is heart singing
For this virus can’t destroy them
Even though it’s causing mayhem

Take care of this miracle crafted
As you stroll through her woods and her fields
Created for us by a force up above
Encompassing us with his tenderest love



Written 26th August 2021 after someone I love tested positive...

Contest A Brian Strand Rime Me
Sponsor Brian Strand
FIRST PLACE
Form: Rhyme

Lifes Mysteries

Look here, John, I did a thorough research
Inside, outside, up, down and all around
Facts, fables, hearsays and temple or church 
Eager to know where mysteries abound
Stranger-than-fiction true and credible,

Mine and yours: life, death, God and the devil 
Yet to grasp; to relate, impossible
Sages, prophets, saints – stringent or civil,
Torah or Bible, Koran or Gita
Eager to explain the meaning of soul
Rationalizing life's unique vista,
I believe life is beyond our control,
Easier it's to take life as it is
Sans all the mayhem and the mysteries.


Contest: Rhyming Acrostic sonnet - 10 Syllables/Line
Sponsor: John Hamilton
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member If I Could Change the Past

I feel the challenge.
Can I change the past?
Only the good Lord knows,
but I can try hard.

And what can one do
to achieve such a mammoth 
enterprise?  Don’t you know.
Only one thing suffice, an impossibility.

I pray that I might be given a chance.
Time creates a vortex
and into the past I am sent.
I shudder at the sights.

All evil lay behind me,
Murders, massacres, mayhem,
terrorism, turbulence, strife,
diseases, ugly like plagues,
still born babes, Lyme Disease*,
infections, dermatitis, blindness
and so much more, so much more.

Until I come to my destination.
The garden is decorated 
with myriads of beautiful trees,
flowers spread their fragrance
enticing all sorts of flying insects,
but no one can be seen.

On the hill are two stately trees.
No one is to touch the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.
But why?  Such lovely fruit
resembling sweet olives.
I reach up and began to eat.
A vortex of angry wind rises up.
And I am back where I was.
It is far best to think of the future,
for the past cannot be changed.



*unable to walk.

Premium Member The Light

I'd heard one day 'about the light'
UK independant paper circulating 
By day and night
I'm going to get me; a copy to see
How well it reads.. Is its editor free?
To discuss and discourse? 
Now that should par for the course.'
Yet the path has been beaten
By  those hell bent on disreason 
Moguls of mayhem,
Till some; people are too numb; 
To gainsay their dark hum-dum
Maybe I'll read of freedom and  living?
Where the hokey cokey; comes easy? 
Easier than sunbeams, on rooftops
When you're all fatigued with sad headlines 
Turn a page,  I'm willing for revelation
To hold the balance of true reason; in nations.'
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member All Hallows Night

All Hallows Night

It’s a dark wicked night 
When the spirits alight
From graves and tombs, to wander
Tis the brave that go out
The strong and the stout
Whose sanity they risk to squander

The ghosts and the ghouls
Are out for those fools
Who roam, for trick or for treat
With every step bidden 
Dark forces are hidden
Madness, they’re certain to meet

This is the night
Dead come out to fright
The release of the former deceased
Vengeance they seek
Mayhem to reek
Their passage to heaven increased

Heads revolving clockwise
Revenge in their eyes
To drag you down to catacombs
Once you are there
They’ll strip the soul bare
Inflict on you ten thousand dooms

So before you die
Look into the eye
Of those, that have done you wrong
Remind with a smile
You’ll be back in a while
“Hell’s waiting, I won’t be long. (Mhuahahaha)”


For Everything Halloween Contest
Sponsored by Russell Sivey
Poem Written: 1 Oct 2013
Form: Rhyme

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