The Jury
...Though they filed in one by one and marching to the music
The decree was silence yet those devils kept marching
The Day of Judgement has been coming for a long time
Praying for solace , and ...
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Categories:
rubberneckers, courage, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Friday Night Lights
...Faster than a precipitous squall, ivy spreads and climbs the wall. It's quarried a landlocked structure in Nepal. Through the cracks wails an ominous battlefield call. The preamble of turnacets tied...
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Categories:
rubberneckers, allegory, emotions, evil, life,
Form: Prose
Rescue Trucks
...The flashing lights alerted us
That something was awry,
With rescue trucks preventing
Any traffic getting by.
Adjacent to the river, there were
Police upon the scene
And rubberneckers focusin...
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Categories:
rubberneckers, city, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
The Man
...The firefighter lurched out of the building carrying a boy
So limp, pale, eyes shut
Black soot covered their faces
Smoke billowed from the windows behind
Hard to see through the throngs of rubber...
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Categories:
rubberneckers, dark,
Form: Free verse
Life and Death
...Morbid curiosity,
Rubberneckers on the highway,
Expectations of disaster,
Agonizing cries of survivors.
Lost at sea,
Buried in water.
No flowers to keep,
Mourning cries of disaster.
Hurri...
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Categories:
rubberneckers, loss, natural disasters,
Form: Prose