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Premium Member They Call It Sport

Trackers follow the animals, 
herd them towards the waiting guns.
Big money paid by lazy hunters
who just want some trophies.

Not for them the slog through bush
they want an easy kill.
A bit or two taken to hang on walls
meat left where they fell.

Uncaring if they are endangered
they drink their beers in the hides.
Not wanting to get dirty or sweaty
they picnic on delicacies and wine.

Bodies of the slain beasts pile up
to be dragged away by scavengers.
While the men toast each other
proud of the day's work.

Tomorrow it will all be repeated 
who I ask are the real beasts here?
Form: Verse


Premium Member The Mystic Valley of Dzoku

While rambling like a vagabond in a seraphic poetic submersion, in a remote region, witnessed the most captivated sight ever, 
a sleeping valley rippled in wild blooms, as sparkling in mystical celestial beam, in the mesas of the clouds, the Dzukou Valley, 
a remote dale at the border of Nagaland and Manipur, 
in the untrodden tableland of India's Northeast!

The picturesque landscape was ringing with the
once in a lifetime scene of emerald shades of hillocks 
paving the way for azure mountaintops,
 luminous flowers waving in the winds amongst the tall grasses!

The vale was tweeting and twirling amidst the virgin vegetations enriched with the spectacular sights of verdant forests, 
exquisite flora and fauna, 
serpentine streams, myriads of panoramic pink 
and white wild blooms that dot
 the vast caldera of the valley and its' verdant meadows, 
alongside the meandering rivers of Dzukou and Japfu,
 appeared as the absolute paragon of serenity and tranquility!

Surrounded by the whispering platonic hills, 
with numerous colorful flying creatures,
the valley seemed as smuggled over
the dewdrops' fragrant feral fruits, 
Oak and Rhododendron forests are a feast to the eyes!

Half way up and any signs of tracks disappear,
and one is just left with wheezing enigmatic bamboo thickets!

Botanists' delight, trackers' paradise, seraph's psyche,
 rovers' riddle, is reclining placidly , 
the untrodden earth's lulling lullaby,
 in the abode of the divine Lily's
 anomalous nature's absolute pamphlet,
 a rich biodiversity hotspots
of endemic species, the Dzoku Valley;
an uninhabited unsullied phosphorus valley

Note: 
 The Dzüko Valley is  located at the borders of the states of Nagaland and Manipur in Northeast India. The valley is  known for its extremely rich biodiversity, seasonal flowers and flora & fauna. It is situated at an altitude of 2452 m above sea level.

© Silpika Kalita

Premium Member People Heal Thy Self

We want to heal-
scab stealers wont allows us too 
sneaking up on us-
giving us new busy work
side trackers –
killing us 
the only hope we had left 
invested in our progeny. 
progenitors
Our children become our ancestors
Arrested -
Denied freedom.
assaulted, 
Degrading us our offspring.
They make examples out of noble men. 
Leaders not knowing what day will
be their personal doomsday while 
They recite a healing prayer on balconies
Thinking “is this my end”.
"As they risk healing folks in large crowds with
un-trusted friends watching their backs 
Let me get these words in As
We begin to heal from
the power of love.
These "scab thieves’ who snatch
scabs off the old wounds. 
Create and open new wounds,
As they dare us to heal.
We fall to the ground.
as the targets keep
Dropping they 
Kill the mighty to
Control the weak.
We are angry -No time to heal - 
Angry People 
Bopping ignorant
Pop ups- Bobble heads, popping up
like bobble heads at a carnival.
We needed the big black men-
who soon after that
Perplexed us
Who were they that stood
on Hunter street? 
In front of Paschal Brothers
Over near "Don Clendenin’s"
surrendering
Waving  White hankies 
at tricks and enemies
We are bleeding now...

The scab makers are winning
where and from wince –
Do they come from?
or go to?
Wall Street or colleges-
White collar preppies-
promoting separate causes.
We still chant 
Free Mandela 
“we loved him too
They all were gone 
to the grave or to prison.
Many wounds open 
blood everywhere.
Perplexed.
 
Things fall apart again in...2013
2013 is here.
We are still with open wounds
Remember now wonder 
can we heal if they? 

keep re-opening our wounds. 
My tolerance is no more for 
nincompoops and
Poot—butts, chastising
Empresses and Kings.
Knowing nothing.... 
While pulling off scabs
Who am I, if I lose focus?
There will be no us-

So, I relent, 
Leaving them where
they are - or at least
where I found them!
I really feel that until I die
I have a connection to someone’s
future I have wounds to heal. 

I must remember-
“I cannot get angry for you”,
Lest I get stuck fighting your battle.
“I will get angry with you”
I will fight aside of you.

Silhouette

I miss the me before my hope was stolen in broad day light 
Sadness impressed it's will on my mind
Making my mind sick
So, to all the kids "take your vitamins"
My mind doesn't feel like mines 
I have a couple of time trackers that I try to race from time to time
Feeling like I just can't find the energy to simply live a normal life
My mind is often moving too fast for my body
I feel like a nobody when I'm around everybody
Knowing it's not true 
Mind tricks have me thinking maybe my time is coming to an end
Telling myself you know that's not you
It's your shadow
The dark side trying to finish you
My shadow is my best friend that I never wanted to meet
A constant battle
I wish I could cut my shadow off
But I can't get rid of it without killing myself
You need the dark side, past, and future in order to grow
It may not be a part of the life you want to show
But the show must go on
And then I receive the count down
On in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
Hello vengeance let's kill my depression
p.s. the shadows only cool me down now, I won't let the darkness take over...
Form: Rhyme

A Time For Small Poets

This is an age of blood;
an interesting era,
corn and potatoes rot in the fields
or are sold into slavery.
Money walks inside a Viking helmet,
Mars is rising red with anger.

This a time for poetry,
for the old and young
to scribble over burnt stones,
to whisper into hurricanes.

The world spins on
but an axis of madness reigns,
its spin is out of kilter,
drugged by addictive illusions.
Only the wild child
with a charcoal pen
can write down the pain,
can see the fire simmering bright
in the chilling snow.

The path is crazy
it has lost itself in a concrete maze
of insane ideas and frothing words.
It babbles, it has only spears
to shake, as if such weapons' were
as sharp as clear eyes.

The soft neural tentacles of poets
wave in the ash filled air,
gather reasons,
moments to sew together
incautious words
on the edge of a dire dawn.

A pale light feeds them
they report the storming storms
camouflaged as they are
by the in-between;
their small testaments
writ upon scapes of scorched insights
for the readers and trackers
of lost footprints.


Premium Member IF I COULD TALK WITH NED'

If i could talk with Kelly.? What would the convo be.? About; the times he ranged the
Bush, shot his own game; and tuckered free.'
He was only young, a hero now.' Who handed back
Mortgage papers, he'd liberated WOW.' good
Action Ned, you did not just sling lead! And
There ' were also some lowlifes who wanted
You dead' I reckon what Ned would answer me.' Is i did, what I could with what I had the
Rest is history..Had a few more stood? We
Would have shattered the chains.' That held
Us under, I reckon thats pretty plain.' Do you like
A drop of whiskey..I'd have to offer him you see.? to
This free strong Aussie spirit, I'd say that he'd agree'
We both could take a shot.' And i would embrace the man, who rode really  With his
Familiy, rode against an (evil gang) made up of
Some blackgaurds.. they called themselves 
Victoria constabulary, they would oppress, and shoot
And hang; way;way too many.' Not the type who worked
For real peace, they hired cannibal black trackers, that said upon Ned should feast.' No wonder he was bushranging .' Much better than being eaten, after death.? Yet as we
Know he shot it out..Against a great mob of these scummy
Cops.' Ned you did your best, mate stay at rest
I raise a glass today.' I toast the memory of
Ned Kelly.' One more true hero, of a whole and hard country.!
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Soldier of Fortune

There will come a time
Maybe today, or tomorrow
Where a soldier of fortune
Will gloat in his sorrow

For his trackers and he
On a mission to tame
Will hunt him down 
And leave him in maim

Through the wires of code
In binary bite
This soldier of fortune
Will, with all his might

Where will he start
It's for his prey to guess
When he knocks on his door
Instant distress

Before he is taken 
A justice is served
For some times in this world
Some things are deserved
 
He is handed over to their FBI
In the land of the free, their justice he's tried
For if he was left, with the soldier of fortune
He would remember that day
His day of misfortune



http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/war-4.php
Form: Rhyme

Elliptical Part2

The moon is the compass to more than lunatics 

 the world shines forth on course to break the habits of Heretics

                         The void, the miasmic zone

               The desert a monicker of mine to show 

what on an empty canvas I can do, or to leave desolate as an epiphany to grow

Nomadic trackers seek me out in the signs

in the sands of 

the

Mountains of the moon

             they brave the desert to find, signs written in the dunes

                           Craters, calligraphy written of the Creator
                                the sands of time just rivulet capulet capitol letters
of loves endless sea where miracles are all the better

skylined wink of nursery bard story shine, on

the starlight makes the moon an adorned and pregnant bride, from the Sun

having a little me time as the nativity hears the tales

                                                    The sun, the moon and stars

they make nimbus across the sky as the Battle En tales

                          The stardust makes for night light, blink of the divine 

to shine and shine and shine

the light of the stars, and fill the dark like fruit to the vine

                                            Like star and moonglow on the desert snow

The moon and sun meet as two stars adjoined-to each other to know

in marriage, 

one shines to, as the other beams, with child, aglow.

The ecliptic a carriage and around we go.

Family, children, Husband, Wife, Creator, its written in the stars.

Heaven a front row seat in a vast ampetheatre.

God has his actors His scripts and His laws, that plan for the Future.

They say their lines without flaw, learn to love! 

The main attractions and the special features.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Bury Me In Datil

West Texas is a vast, wide-open area, dusty, windy, and dry. Many a time I hid the mostly unbranded calves I took from the herd on the XIT ranch behind the tumbleweeds that had built up in the small valleys across the open plains only the moonlight could see. I tried to move at night as much as I could because rustling cattle had become a dangerous occupation as I was finding out. Cattle barons had hired gunslingers and trackers to bring justice to outlaws like me and they were on my trail. Hoping the wind would erase my tracks I moved as many miles as I could, stopping only when water was found which wasn't often enough and the cattle, I stole were gettin' weak. I was halfway through New Mexico territory trying to get to the Magdalena cattle drive to sell my stock to wranglers I knew but I had to let the calves go and save myself. I could see four mounted cowboys on the mesa under the clear blue sky with me in their sight. I ditched all the weight I was carrying except the rifle and Colt on my hip as I headed into the Sawtooth mountains when a shot rang out. My horse, spooked by the noise reared up, throwin' me off onto the hard ground below as another shot rings out. I feel a burning sensation in my side as I get up to run for cover in a grove of gnarled trees' close by. Bleedin' from a gut shot, I know I won't recover as I hear the four cowboys drawing near. "Give it up boy, you aint goin' nowhere, this is the end of the line" the cowboy said. I replied "go to hell lawman!" as I fired from my Colt hittin' one of the riders. I tried to run further in the brush when I was struck again through the back. Mortally wounded, I thought about home and the woman I loved there. The cowboy on the black steed said "your rustlin' days are over son, anything you want to say?" "Give me a drink will Ya". The cowboy dismounted and handed me a bottle of whiskey, I pulled the cork with my teeth and took a swig. Handing the bottle back to him, it was getting hard to breathe as I said "grant me my dying', wish will Ya". "What is it boy" he said. With my last struggling breath, I said "bury me in Datil".

Premium Member Australia and opportuniy '

Great country rich, land of my birth, that cradled my childhood and taught me of
Worth.' 
Land of struggles, and dreamtime lore.' 
A country of invention, and of weathers raw.'
Do we have an easy history.? I must answer no.' I owe us; that much at the
least.'
In my mix of emotions, i shall try to so'
Well, to put a relief of our history in this
I'll tell.'
Of a crowns avairice, of some humans in
Chains, others free agents who came to
Make gain'
They came to Australia..with expectations
And dreams, some of great horror' they did
Create scenes.'
Then there were the existing, the Aboriginal
Mobs, living for millenia with their corroberee councils..
Hunters and trackers, survivalists and they paid their costs, leaving newborn infants, in 
The open to die.' If the extra life would be too much? This was a part of their bush lives; to oft..
Then there were the guvenors, and officers of the crown, instructed to tame the country.'
With their own views.' As they built the settlements, and kept their convicts
Down.'
There were lashings and hangings, And genocide too.' All tasmanian Native
Peoples wiped out..Its quite true.'the decades advanced..

( The boomerang factor )

From the past collision of cultures, a new country was emerging..Herb Elliot was to become a champion, Lionel Rose Evonne Goolagong, 
Shane Gould..We were really flying.'

In the 1960s and 1970s there was an atmosphere of change and hope.' A wish
To be more unified, and a regret.' I tell
No jokes.. I ask all Aussies can we
Go back.? And fix the wrongs we did not
Do.'
Or do we move forward on Australia day.'
And all the days that follow too.? Can we
Be free of trauma.? Yet refer to lessons past.? I advise resume in the ' true blue spirit ' and give the world a blast.' Avoid the
Forigen influencers who want to rake dead
Coals..' Only to enslave us all..!!! Now 
get up' be your best; be really bold.!!!

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