Prod Poems

Solidarity Soldiers

...They use their words to prod and poke us

Then use their laws to sod or stoke us

Let's sit down for the fight

Worldwide workers unite

Ain't it time that Ghandi awoke us



Sorry friend...

Strained

...Always concerned with mental strain
Anxiously hiding it to numb the pain 
Not quite living more like a mode 
However life will always prod and goad

Dragging you out from behind your cloak 
Whe...

Rummaged

...Rummage
If you must.
My presence here
Is based on trust

So dressed am I
In Summer svelte
Yet you're to check
My trousers belt;

I'm scanned 
As if each cell is rogue
So scrutinised
Desp...

Guaranteed No Characters Were Hurt

...Come on champ, do it for the story,
for metaphor and allegory.

     Get away from me.  Are you cracked?
     In all your stories, I get whacked. 

     Give me some space with that cattle ...

Cattle Prod

...Cattle Prod

Taking Anything 
Too Serious
Makes It Dumb.

ZZZZTTTZZZTTT!

Ow. Still Dumb.

ZZZZTTT!! ZZZZTTTT!!!

Very Stupid...

ZZZZZZZZTTTTTT!!!!

OWWW!  Buncha' CraPPP!

ZZZZZZZ...

walk the talk

...Recognising this form is dust,
an urn shaped from Mother Earth’s crust,
enlivened by the touch of God,
we feel each heartbeat as love’s thrust.

To get to the source, heart is thawed,
that thus...

The Wordsmith - Apr 4, 5

...Yes! day and night, inside my roaring shop,
pounding my heavy hammer ceaselessly 
against the hardened anvil Poetry,
I ply tough steel into a pleasant shape.

Working words cleansed of cheap and...

Mayhem of Diadem Forsaken

...Locked behind the gate, a jewel lies hidden.
The wind emits a mutter of love smitten.
A shadow plays a game of hide and seek,
With a tantalizing prod, and a sneak peek
...

Thieves of the Heart

...One takes what does not belong 
In depths of darkness, moonlight night 
Daylight's ruins, breathless soul it feeds 
Our demeanor broken beneath the flesh 
Heart broken, emotion of evil devour 
H...

Today, even the hills seem blue and other painful verses

...Today, even the hills seem blue.
Unhappiness is just happiness ~
being torn to shreds by you.
Bartleby:  "I would prefer not to."
Lawyer:  "But Bartleby, you...

Time to test,

...Its time at last..The furor'e is well past.' For those who fronted
Who shamed? And claimed the high ground? and spoke of a
Deaths knells blast.' Who trotted out (so called experts?) And ranted as w...

8 months free

...8 months down the drain
Blood congeals then clots but has no time to scar
I bleed myself empty, my vessel full of progress, full of hours and days and weeks and months
lies slashed and broken on t...

The Axe Boasts Not

...The axe boasts not, nor lets arrogance reign. 
By whose hand did buds sprout forth from Aaron’s rod? 
Balaam kept blessing God’s people, was all this in vain? 
Can man know the might and mind ...

Polarity

...I love you so much, that
you can only disgust me now
All your flaws and red flags spark 
crimson, like a seductive rose.

Gross and yet longing for your
body to seek for every blemish there
To...

Annetjie

...Demon comes with smiles
Very carefully veiled wiles
Prod another to take the fall
A Victim through it all

Demon guise as a mother
Looking for another to smother
A wife a husbands fall foretel...

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