A European among starving nations.
Some of the things I see
still startle me.
Pangs of hunger know no humiliation.
Starving children, their faces ashen,
with sunken eyes and bloated bellies,
God forsaken, gourmandize what they can seize
from mouths of dogs in dog day heat.
To the hungry soul
every bitter thing is sweet.
A chameleon can change his name many times
But it won't free him from the guilt of his crimes
He hides behind fake names
To play malicious games
A gutter snipe who'd dance for nickles and dimes
From keyboard he types a harassment and threat
His pathetic appetite for evil is sharpened to abet
A coward's way of life
Belligerence is rife
His abhorrent past is something he should regret
On and on he barks like a rabid dog in the night
I know a bulldog who'd take him down in one bite
One more bully beaten
A geezer, a cretin
One who always seems to be spoiling for a fight
Rabid Putin
The crazed cliché of Putin went mad
And invaded Ukraine from four sides
Three on land and one by sea
Using choppers jets tanks
Missiles bombs rockets guns
Killing till killing was done
Getting killed in return by their bros
Who defended their land
Never turned their backs
Fought and died for Ukraine
Splashed several enemy aircraft
As Putin threatened NATO
With nuclear war but hey
It goes both ways
So smokes the mushroom clouds
In a future chapter of this Putin play book
The Baltic republics will be next
Then Poland and others
Putin will lose but so will we
Except the Devil so many dead...
supervisor edgar white
following a nasty bite
screamed since some find funny
me mauled by a bunny
all get to work late tonight.
sheep sleep surreptitiously
spiders spin shredded silken seances
song birds sulk soporifically
rabid ravens rave rapturous rhapsodies
capriciously caught in clangour
I die dire deceptive dreams
tepid tears tear through torment
viscous vapours vacate venom
pus pelts my pitiful pillow
oozes omnipotent oblivion
alliterations alight anger
freeze fervent fear
reiterate raucous refusal
ruminate reverberate rancid rile
I wake the wake of weary waste
recycle random rubbish remonstrate
then morning mourns Morpheus
mocks mountains of morose meanders
day dawns dubious daunting delight
as I tease temptation to take a tally
send syllables into space and shuttle
to morphing metaphors from my mind
until excruciating echoes become echelons
of cumbersome circuits and contempt
when restless rest revisits and revolves
recoils at respite and the raven raves
20th December 2020
R-abid enemy or opponent
O-f the entire humanity
L-ets lethal link infect
L-ungs with dirt so
Y-ucky.
S-ilence of the rabid enemy
I-mplements invisible virus;
M-ystery of the morbid menace
B-rutally brings risk so vicious.
L-ockdown and community quarantine
A-bate the spread so eerie;
N-eatness, health, and hygiene
T-ake away therabid
E-nemy.
Topic: Birthday of Rolly C. Simblante (June 20)
R-abid sickness in spread
O-f terrible threat takes charge;
C-ontamination is worldwide,
E-pidemic colony is
L-arge.
G-ruesome and rabid sickness
O-nerously causes pain;
N-otorious nastiness increases
Z-one of risk to contain.
A-bate the atrocious ailment,
L-iquidate themorbid menace;
E-liminate the lethal link,
S-top the rabid sickness.
Topic: Birthday of Rocel Gonzales (June 18)
E-nhanced
L-ockdown
M-agnificently
A-bates
R-ugged
G-rime
A-nd
R-abid
D-irt
U-ntil
Q-uarantine
U-pends
E-pidemic
Topic: Birthday of Elmar Garduque (June 16)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
L-ink's
I-nvisible
B-acteria
E-mploys
R-abid
T-ransmission's
Y-ucky
A-ilment
L-etting
B-rutal
E-pidemic
R-elease
T-hreat
Topic: Birthday of Sister Liberty V. Manalo-Albert (June 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
E-rase
M-orbidity
O-f
R-abid
D-irt
I-n
N-astiness
A-bating
D-readed
O-utbreak
Topic: Birthday of Jem R. Ordinado (June 12)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-orbid
A-nd
R-abid
I-nfection's
T-hreat
E-mploys
S-ilent
R-isk's
E-erie
G-rime
I-n
S-ilence
Topic: Birthday of Marites H. Regis (June 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
K-iller
R-isk
I-s
S-tarting
T-o
I-nfect
N-ations
E-mploying
J-eopardy
A-s
V-irus
E-erily
D-eploys
R-abid
A-ffliction
Topic: Birthday of Kristine Javedra (June 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
U-pend
L-ink
I-n
E-erie
T-hreat's
P-andemic
E-rasing
R-abid
M-orbidity
A-s
L-ockdown
E-liminates
S-pread
Topic: Birthday of Juliet P. Permales (June 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
N-astiness
O-f
R-abid
M-orbidity
A-pplies
L-ethal
E-pidemic
D-uring
I-ts
N-otorious
A-ttack
Topic: Birthday of Norma R. Ledina (June 06)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
V-iral
A-ilment's
N-asty
G-rime
I-mplements
E-pidemic
Z-one
A-pplying
R-abid
A-ssault
T-o
A-ttack
N-ations
Topic: Birthday of Sister Vqngie M. Zaratan (June 06)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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