Pedestals Poems

complacency brought us here

...for-A Draconian State Poetry Contest-Sponsored by: Sara Jama
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out into the midnight hour i was trudged-
silent eyes watched as i was bludged-
as i sat bloody and bruise...

Pyre Pedestals

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Written: July 30, for contest Sponsored by: Rob Carmack 

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I sketch your pedigree in marrow script,
each speech slice out of salt spines— 
No ledger can...

Tabled, As Always

...They all took their seats round the table,
It had no head, but all knew where Power sat.
Summoned in haste by Ideology itself,
for the matter was pressing and oddly stressing.

Capitalism sat ba...

Mandrake and Other Temptations

...I sat where the ferns stood guard—
solemn sentries on wood pedestals—
my back pressed against her bookcase,
cradled in the soft hush 
of the window seat
as snow rehearsed its silence
just beyon...

ANZAC poem 2

.....they were sent by those
who sat upon pedestals so high
whose life was sheltered and dry 
and saw the new days bright shining light

and they were  the ones...
who kept their hands fresh and c...

The Elect

..."Our nation needs to prosper,
"Our people deserve to thrive,
"But the old ways do not foster,
"The betterment for which we strive!"

These words erupt at every campaign
And that part, at least,...

White Mongoose

...Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers.
Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers.
Doldrum office charts demons...

White Mongoose

...Steel insulation warm thin hot smooth downy shepherd smoothness. Pistol clasps palms crystal misses birching basket weavers.
Fluffy firm pedestals release hard deniers.
Doldrum office charts demons...

Shock on us

...What manner of vengeance 
As a stench invading fragrance 
The kind unlike princes and kings
Worthy to be denied pedestals and wings
To never be beheld when people look up
For it shall be bile in...

We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock

...We are born into a world of sublimated madness, calculated with the precision of a broken clock,
amid the shattered stained glass of desolate factories, where the echo of emptiness reverberates,
in...

Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves

...Cloaked in misty judgments, we have dressed ourselves,
Finding in condemnation a kind of sacred and dignified sport.
An inert paradigm, where blame is like a talisman
That people wear proudly, bel...

IF VAINGLORY WERE

...If vainglory were a preacher
It'd resemble a rustic pastor
Lost in how profound his grasp of scripture is
Therefore echoes more of his fervent faith
Than the Creator's boundless might.

If vain...

2084

...It’s winter in the year twenty-eighty-four
Hell has landed on every shore
Devilish eyes aglow as they rose to dominate
People now captive to a totalitarian state

Society is now ruled with an ir...

Heart Broken

...I love you baby, forever and a day.
I'll always be here you would say.
  Up on this pedestals where I sit, 
looking like a fool for believing that .
  The signs were there right from the start, I...

Defeating Our Goliaths

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There are soft whispers only I can hear
coming from shivers deep within my soul,
"Save me from that which I most fear.
Hostility around us that we can't control."

My heart be...

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