The town folk were in shock Page 5
As they saw blood run like water
As the mob set out to kill
All their sons, wife's and daughters
The men of the town
Drew their guns and started shooting
All the murderess men
And the others that were looting
Like shooting fish in a barrel
The mob became depleted
But there were so many
They could not be defeated
By the end of the day
Not one soul was left standing
As the buzzard circled round
And the Sun remained demanding
As their blood ran like a river
Down the streets onto the plains
Then, and only then
Did the sky, begin to rain
The End almost !
Categories:
rg,
Form: Ballad
They marched on to the town Page 4
Armed with shovels, rakes and knifes
Preparing for a battle
And talking many lives
There wasn’t chance, for reason
For their hatred made them blind
Killing was the only thing
That fostered in their minds
When the crowd, reached the town
The town folk came to greed
The men carried water
The women breads and meats
But the crowd, in a frenzy
Did not see an invitation
By then they all went Mad
From thirst and near starvation
The mayor, with his hand out
Prepared, to do some good
Met the leader of the mob
Who slew Him where he stood
Categories:
rg,
Form: Ballad
Some folks found it hard Page 3
Unable to believe
But after much debate
The crowd began to cleave
They turned in the direction
Of the town, they now were sure
Had a hundred wells just brimming
With fresh water that was pure
They walk for days unending
Through sand and dust galore
Until the reached the town
Nestled on a canyon floor
Some then posed the question
"What if they don't want to share"
That fearsome doubt persisted
And began to fill the air
"If they won't give us water
Then we'll be force to fight"
Let's get ready to attack
And make them do what's right"
Just 2 more pages.......I promise
Categories:
rg,
Form: Ballad
Hot winds everyday Page 2
Blew a cross the naked land
Made the farmers go astray
And leave their farms without a plan
But some one heard a rumor
And that some one told two more
And it kept on spreading further
Till it seemed it reach a crore
Each one kept on saying
They know a town with a well
With water over flowing
As far as they could tell
This town with all this water
Should not be left to glut
The people started chanting
The town’s name of "Rotgut"
This town was rather small
Few people dared live there
In the middle of a desert
Where the sun was hard to bare
Categories:
rg,
Form: Ballad
All my mortgage years
This featherless gosling flightless
Kept chickens for peers
Suffering gravity's wretched pain
While dreaming of the southland
Coded in my bones
Like a chicken I circled
The pond of tears, while the lake
Brimmed with spectacled
Difference of salt ambition
O how the memory hibiscus
Withering seared my heart!
I did not know I did not have to pay
For home if I let it go again
To the bankers that count day's
In piles of cents, I shed
The modern chain and fled the shed
Of tumbling debt to joy.
I shed her savage memory
That held like a cyclops
Gripped my fledgling history
And all the goats there
Were too starved to carry whom I am
Protege of the risen lamb
Categories:
rg, education
Form: Verse
And some nights I did not sleep
While the rustling leaves still tell
Your footsteps of vengeance steep
In their dead cortege toll the knell
Of human trust and human peace.
And in all thy wickedness to excess
They flocked the Baal of your feast
Believing in the piousnes you profess
Believing creature more than their
Creator, shaking heaven with despair
But in fervent watch against your sin
Missed the bloom of many spring
Until I forgave you and felt the wind
From the altar where angels sing.
Unleash at last from demon memories
I praise the Lord for faith's firm victories.
And now with your chapter close
I smell again the blushing rose.
Categories:
faith, forgiveness
Form: Free verse
Reason bare of structure like a storm
Ovulating in an angry sea
Stir sedition and juxtaposes its norm
Ego-wise against a season's glee
Latent turbulence primed with insecurity
Drizzled from a tempestuous sun
Altar of a sadist's alternating history
Gulp your blustering track to the mark
Rendered as God's boundary
Exert not your vain effort to spark
Excitement of lightening in the air
Never more your rage shall cloy my heart with fear.
Categories:
rg, angst, hope, people
Form: Free verse
O God, thank you for empty hands again
To hold the daylight
And release my pain
Thank you for teaching me
To let go
The weight of misery
I stood above the cliff
Of hope
And watched gravity
Brought down
The house of glass
Like shiny splinters in the grass
O God, teach me now
Where to walk
My soles are soft with love again.
Categories:
rg, faith, recovery from...
Form: Free verse
You were the frozen stalagmite
Within my chest
Feeding my breast with toxic streams
Of unhappiness
Many wandered into my cave, and
Called you beautiful ...
The waste of rocks, the bleeding
Cancer of the land
You made the hole that sucked
The life blood of rivers
From the potential fertility of plains
You made strong mountains
Porous with your constant seeping
And dripping, and wasting
The calcium milk of my strength
You, my nemesis virulent
My antagonist malevolent
My chameleon serpent
My jealous foe of evil intent
You the spoiler of praise
And the spurious twister of arguments
O the earthquake shifted the land today
This cave is full of light
All your bats have flown to seek another night
Categories:
rg, angst, loss
Form: Free verse