Rapaciousness Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Fat Cats

Fat cats are fat, that's where they're at
Their greatest ambition's to accumulate fat
Some may start small
But few will grow tall
Cause they mostly accumulate where they have sat

Wolf and Lamb

Wolf
                  Ravenous, Vicious
           Hunting, Preying, Devouring 
Edacity, Rapaciousness, Greediness, Hungriness
          Appeasing, Mollifying, Placating
                     Meek, Gentle
                          Lamb

Premium Member Privileged Caste Fragility

It feels fascinating
that horny voracious passions
dissipate in the presence of fear
of pain and suffering
and ego-defeating loss,
disability and performance anxieties,
wounds
short-term through permanent
satiated energy,
absence of active hope
for future holistic integrity.

In this time of climate degeneration
fear and cultural distancing,
frustrated leftbrain dominant
StraightWhiteMale monoculturing rabidity
looks polyculturally threatening like,
sounds prejudicially like,
feels and touches sacred EarthMother like,
smells and decadently tastes like

Manic
predative energy
inflamed by unnatural sleep deprivation 
festering fear-and-anger rapaciousness

Rather than restorative green restorative justice
reviving passion
for multicolored
trans-generational
testosterone+estrogen
yang+yin
polyamorous win+win
inclusive sentient integrity

Of cooperative green/blue powers,
EarthPeace compassion

Not so red dominant
states of capitalistic
monotheistic
straight white patriarchal narcissism,
worshipping a punishing God
made in His own frightened anthropocentric image.


The Fear Hiding In the Shadows

The fear hiding in the shadows

Terror and fear inhabit the mind of the unbelieving soul
Gloom and doom unite together hiding in the shadows
Chaos and anarchy combine filling humans with panic and fright
War machine starts it's engines again, preparing for the fight

Malevolent rapaciousness is an obvious sign of the times
Evil last days are marked by vitriolic hatred and violent crime
As a novel's suspense is shattered, when first, is read the last chapter
So this evil world's end is just the prelude to our "happily ever after".

If you only knew what God knows, you would, know how the story goes
Then your inner peace could grow, supplanting the fear hiding in the shadows.

John Derek Hamilton
March 26,2016

Fear of Terrorism

Fear of Terrorism

T raumatized tortured tumultuous feelings of trepidation
E ncapsulating effervescing emotions everywhere eventually
R esponding rapidly to ruthless and relentless repetition of
R evelations of  revolutionaries remorseless rapaciousness
O bstreperously obliterating outrageously the innocent
R etributions replicate as ramifications remonstrate
I nsurrection insidiously intensifies as ideologies immortalize
S trategically surreptitiously suffocating silently sons sanity
M ankind muses meticulously as methodologies morph into misery


John Derek Hamilton
March 24,2016

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