Offensively defensive posturing
No stopping in sight
No reflection in view
Poisonous to everyone around you
Syphoning greed at record speed
Unchecked unseen
Hollowing the land
Blindly defending your position
Against any raised hand
Any voice of reason
How did we even get here?
We’d have to go back
160 years or so
To explain what should have been buried
A hatred left to fester
A war lost but never truly ended
We rebel against suppression
Understandably so
Sometimes history demands it
An opportunity was missed
The undercurrent of hate
Bubbled up unchecked
A backlash exacted
160 years in the making
A theft imagined
A grievance never real
Where ignorance never left
A way of life
Thought to be put to rest
Was allowed to linger
Civilly unbalanced
Cutting down and
Cutting short lives
The symbolism
The sentiment
Front and center once again
Stirring old fears
Handed down like inheritance
Times change
Some things stay the same
Worse than the hate
Is the silent acceptance
Silence is a choice
One we can break
Categories:
offensively, america, conflict, hate, political,
Form: Free verse
Why is it?
the louder
and more ballistic
my self-righteousness
offensively becomes
The more
at night
I feel self-loathing,
when all is quiet
except dark ruminations
filling my silent bedroom
overwhelming my mind
and body.
Why is it?
we RightWing worry
that nonviolent communication,
too lovingly applied,
would leave us defenseless
against colonizing predators?
And do not worry enough
about LeftWing social anxiety
chronic worrying trauma tales
of violent communications,
too profoundly
ubiquitously applied,
leaving us offensively polarized
by inside fascist autocratic hate
hoarding angry power
and fear filled paralysis?
While unallied corporate fat cat
capitalists,
sell defense industry prophylactic lies,
mad ecocide
predicting global anthroprivileged
demise.
Our inhumane history of violence
leaves uncontested
a healthy silent mystery
of preference
for compassionate personal experience.
Categories:
offensively, anxiety, culture, happiness, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The children pop out of the cars and head for the school door.
Some parents barely let their feet clear before they drive off.
One or two will give a cherry wave.
One mom always yells “have fun, you brats!”
I never know if she is speaking to them or us teachers.
One daddy makes this dropping off time an enormous production.
He drives up rather late and does not turn down his offensively loud music.
He gets the child out, unzips her backpack, hands her a mask.
She rejects it for another color. So, they start rooting around in the back seat.
The other car drivers are all rolling their eyes by now.
I think “it will be another fifteen minutes; this Daddy is needy.”
Sometimes the child will run to me and give me a hug.
He has to call her back to straighten her hair, her shoes, her bows.
We have no other parents needing this kind of attention.
I wonder about this.
Categories:
offensively, school,
Form: Narrative
Hindsight
you are watching someone all too familiar
hovering anxiously above and apart
a shadow puppet
bound to neither be seen nor heard
again you sigh and shake your head
they stumble down the wrong path
unhurried though running offensively late
how many times must you wince
as they pluck poison berries
and wash them down with tainted water?
as they lose themselves
amongst dense bracken
chasing mirages of shimmering falsehood?
your lofty position proves advantageous
panoramic views for miles
surveying hidden shortcuts
pitfalls peppered with sharp spikes
to break bones and tear flesh
charming strangers with arms outstretched
and naught but ill intentions...
you scream until your throat bleeds black
you wring your hands and cry of frustration
as they stagger toward a cliffs sharp edge
to plummet and shatter like porcelain
for they do not hear you
they can not hear you
and veiled by tears
now you yourself
are flying blind
Categories:
offensively, feelings, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
What Would Wallis Say?
What would Wallis say if she were there that day,
a divorcee too, American through and through?
Did she offensively blink when Diana winked?
She and Adolf were friends. Let’s not pretend.
Her man was the King, who discarded all things
to take her as wife, this love of his life.
In that space of time, divorce was a crime
so, he put down The Crown when Wallis was found.
Life was no fairytale but great love did prevail.
Ugly words were said and ugly words they read.
Socialites all the style in unspoken exile.
What would Wallis say if she were there that day?
Would she turn up her chin in a bigoted grin
or grow greatly dazed by the change of ways?
Do you think she’d be glad that this woman had
been loved and accepted where she was rejected?
5/29/18
Categories:
offensively, england, history, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Our newest principal will arrive, ready to change all of our existing programs.
I heard this two weeks before her report date.
Her small non-listening ears will be closed as tightly as her heart.
I was emailed this on a Sunday night, but did not see it until Monday.
While eating my yogurt I overheard my co-workers getting up a little petition
and none of us had actually met her yet!
Whisper. Whisper. Giggle. Whisper.
I could feel my eyes rolling.
Incredulous that anyone over twelve
messed with petitions; let alone more than one of them.
Someone relatively new who had never responded to two weeks of "hi"came in at 9
to ask for my signature.
I hee-hawed her out of my space.
Mrs. Will Change Everything started work at 10:30.
She was offensively decisive, assertive, confident, smart.
I could see what they were afraid of.
She cared nothing about social cues, or getting along.
She was here to do her job.
We became
Instant
Lifelong
Friends.
Categories:
offensively, 12th grade, community, confidence,
Form: Free verse
I sit in my den gazing at that 2nd place trophy from that chamionship, that slipped through my hands. Asking myself is it possible with hard work will I be able to get another chance.
They say put the past behind you and just move foward you see. I know I'm a champion and 2nd place is just awkward to me.
I know my all around game is better then my competition's is. My defense needs work by offensively...I'm the best there is.
So back in the gym I go because I've got work to do. It's going to take blood, sweat and tears. I've got a championship to win and put that 2nd place trophy in my rear view.
I am willing to take on any opponent because I feel no one man can stop me. Showing off every move that was taught to me, using every inch of my ability.
Yes....I am the best there is, was and ever will be so I have to show the world how important that championship meant to me.
Champions are not born, they are made. Championships are not given, they are played and with this championship victory , dreams come true followed by a parade.
So line up every opposition..I wait to take on the best competitions. I can't settle for 2nd place because I'm seeking redemption.
Categories:
offensively, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Simon:
Who is that woman, what's she doing here?
Before that man kneeling, spreading her hair
Weeping and sobbing, why doesn't he see
What kind of woman she has to be
Oh the disorder, such a commotion
Spoiling our meal with excessive emotion.
Jesus:
Listen to me I've got something to say
How did you treat me when I came today?
No welcome, no washing for my dusty feet
Offensively silent you chose how to greet
Do you see this woman? I don't think you do
A much loving sinner, forgiven, but you -
You gave me no kiss.
Categories:
offensively, christian, jesus, kiss,
Form: Blank verse
Hopeful in the face of defeat
Outlasting their opponents
Urging the fans into frenzy
Standing the test of time
Taking every play to the limit
Offensively growing each season
Name bringing smile to faces
Team united toward a goal
Each player working as one
Xenium to the Lone Star State
Aggressively seeking victory
Never quitting always fighting
Sunday gladiators
Categories:
offensively, sports
Form: Acrostic
When a person approached investigatively,
He chases his relations suspensively,
He finds clue and works dramatically,
Suspection always works progressively.
Confirmation of belief confirms sensitivity,
Growth brings a change to work relatively,
Hunger is seeking growth for productively,
A limit of growth confirms value qualitatively.
When population has highly density,
Unemployment works offensively,
Poverty grows to increase crime,
Disaster comes to balance creatively.
Everything is naturally fast and slow,
A person has patience for a balance flow,
Air can’t across a gravity line,
Sun has different heat rates a limit to grow.
Categories:
offensively, adventure, business, caregiving, happiness,
Form: Verse