Maraud Poems

Wimbledon the menace of celebrity tennis

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Mr Dennis...grimace..what the Dickens is going on...the menace 

Inevitability of a celebrity on every terrace at the tennis..

The profanity and insanity of rampant vanity..

The gist..a...
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Categories: maraud, celebrity, society, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Calmer Sharma Karma

...So that’s it for Rohit…and have to admit his parting gambit

Little to cheer in his career nadir year ..was all rather *****

Hard not to discard someone supposed to be leading the men

Even wi...
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Categories: maraud, sports,
Form: Rhyme


Farmers Markets Matter

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Wee ditty about the loudly, proudly beating heart of our oh so pretty city.

No hustling..strolling along...to the rolling soundtrack..bustling throng

A musky busker hums, strums and sings t...
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Categories: maraud, food, nature,
Form: Rhyme

The House of Lords

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Bored of deplored 

Hordes of frauds

On abhorred company boards

Who applaud flawed

Seats stored…for cheats

Apply or buy on the fly

Enjoy till they die


Getting podgy..bet...
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Categories: maraud, political,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRehashing History: War Stories

...Attila, Hannibal, and Genghis Khan
Were comparing the many battles they'd won.
Hannibal boasted o'er the Alps he had coasted
On elephants and conquered the Romans.
Khan's hordes did maraud both a...
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Categories: maraud, history, humor,
Form: Rhyme


Pirates

...Their ships must ride
a rolling sky,
masts too high to sail into view.

They appear, board the land,
they buccaneer.

The clamoring mob
fall upon a scuttling prey
pluck the weakest
into hun...
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Categories: maraud, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Eternal Maraud

...They were the first to be birthed, Tamed the lands of the earth; Took everything they needed, and gave back in return.

Then came the coloured,
Of whom they were meant to fear; Took their lands an...
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Categories: maraud, community, cry, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Vagabond Poet

...I live the life of a vagabond poet
    now approaching my winter years.
         A time for reflection
               through introspection 
 of my true heart's desires.
     A time when challen...
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Categories: maraud, age, introspection, poets,
Form: Free verse

Hunger Hunger

...Hunger hunger,
the enemy that
fights intestines.
It keeps on 
demanding even
when you have lost
a mother on Hunger
Hunger.

Even when you are
sick hunger keeps
on demanding. Even
when you...
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Categories: maraud, anger, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme

My Spiritual Path

...As I walk, my own spiritual path to God.
I Feel, the devil is always lurking close by,
Disguised, with a sinful grin he hides his maraud.
His persuasion, although so clever, I'll defy. 
M...
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Categories: maraud, anti bullying, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Dark Days

...Dark days dreadful indeed,
Promiscuous
 peasants planting their seed,

Foreign to peace with galvanized hate,
With doubt in ourselves we submit to the great,

We say we are free but tend to co...
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Categories: maraud, conflict, death, deep, depression,
Form: Romanticism

Prime

...Dead thoughts
Rotting flesh
Create living cages
creatures paraded on stages
Go to church, pay bills, working; a living fraud
Self-awareness begets Self-deceit a reflection
A mirror unfairness -...
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Categories: maraud, animal, god, longing, space,
Form: Suzette Prime

The Shepherd and the Flock

...The shepherd in the winter cold
Gathers up his grazing fold.
Upon the misted hillside bush
Within a frosted evening hush.

Before the glimmer turns to dark
Before the wolves maraud the park.
To steal...
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Categories: maraud, nature,
Form: Pastoral

Free Cee Am I the Only One Who Knocks Off Half of a Pint Bottle of Vodka At Three a M

...LASHES TO ASHES IN SLOW MOTION

Might I please present myself as a prologue to death
Because unless I am terribly wrong…….
I can’t have too terribly long
And I’ve been lazy too long
But I don’t...
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Categories: maraud, angst, me, night, people,
Form: Free verse

Devine Recognition

...god is a loving god i'm told -
but might not fit to be so controlled
as to only love us mind and soul
fear and loathe can not take hold

if god only wants the best for you
is what most mankind does n...
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Categories: maraud, faith, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain

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