Not in nursery; in standard class one I got admission there
With elder brother I went to school till standard class three
For loquacious mockery I was beaten punitively by a teacher
After a week in fever when went there I felt fear of study
And in nineteen ninety five I changed to Islamic academy
© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
14/11/2022
Categories:
punitively, life, self,
Form: Free verse
Punitively regressive are 'Progressives'
Defunding charter schools
Crippling the academically aggressive
Denying school choice
to gifted students
from poor families ~
without a voice
Categories:
punitively, education, political, poverty, school,
Form: Rhyme
Once a nation
Supremely white as driven snow,
Singularly Christian, white and male,
Purely untarnished, and aglow,
Grandeur unparalleled in fairytale.
Hence a grievance
Punitively bold as bloody hellfire,
Potently prosecuted in seats of power,
Oppressively waged against objects of ire,
Prisms of nonwhites seeking justice in the hour.
Now a leader
Colossally void as sterilized weaponry,
Glibly sanctions white phobia and rage,
Lethally enflames this proto-fascist fancy,
As corporations provide aid to the rampage.
Thus a faction
Devoutly for leader, they stand down,
Steadfastly ready for the order to kill,
All woke-ish elitists, and enemies black and brown,
That white men reclaim their rightful place at the till.
Violence of mind
Shocks no one in America,
Where thugs are part of romantic lore.
With our ascendant authoritarian replica,
Are we ready for what washes ashore?
Published in Dissident Voice: 01/09/22
Categories:
punitively, america, anxiety, culture, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Deep Death Debilitating Dreams
Oh take my hand this eternal sleep for my sorrows weep bondage of yesterday
Black veils demand my soul to keep as they are thirsty and sweep my core away
Succulent of my being escaping thoughts in tangled knots admits rains of gray
Marauding music dwell the sounds of emptiness confounds the silenced stray
Harbinger of hell hath no bounds as it punitively pounds wounds wilted weigh
~~~
Melancholy maids in the mist begotten brides with tenacious tides everlasting
Within the darkness, we exist amongst great divides as our solitude slides fasting
Beautiful baneful banishing lost in forever of the nefarious never of my grasping
Resurrecting river of death in your endeavor with banks of clever evil surpassing
Pillaging my benignant breath as you sever and take pleasure my abysmal assassin
~~theme...this eternal sleep~~
May.15.2018
A Poem about DEATH
Sponsored by: Broken Wings
Categories:
punitively, death, deep, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
A reflection of radiant beauty flair,
snowy jeweled orbs through images, of golden hair,
particles and waves, as energy phase,
light’s unlimited atoms of love’s spheres.
The mighty grace of awesome formations,
the unlimited form, love’s innovations.
One of the beauties of conservation,
the light of the night, a lover’s delight.
Awesome magnetism, the bosoms’ tides,
uncrosses snowy expressions, as lunar divides.
A body upon to reflect the perfect,
upon the golden truths of the select.
O` lunar of lights, shine on earthly delights,
personify your sights, delight earthly knights.
May never they be in spite of loves lights,
dissolves of community, punitively.
Reflections for sake of light’s perfections,
and connections of many of light’s inspections,
bring the gruesome dread, of many lies fed,
thus many illusions to light, in Luna’s night!
For Contest: Luna-goddess of moon
In honor of: Dr. Ram
Honorable Mention
Categories:
punitively, love
Form: Personification