Short Herded Poems
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Weary travelers weave through silent
Passageways like cattle herded to market
Masked faces, eyes shifting anxiously,
Everyone wanting to be somewhere else.
written June 8, 2021
Categories:
herded, anxiety, travel,
Form:
Light Verse
When confronted with
edicts of expendability,
the sanest of minds
condemn usury as a practice
defecating on
the nobler edicts of survival
until all herded
charge the very gates of compliance.
Categories:
herded, social, war
Form:
Free verse
Crippled thoughts
herded together,
fenced in,
anxious,
desperate to
bloom and die
like dammed tears.
Perhaps I could write
if not intimidated
by contours of ink
that might
disturb the pain.
Categories:
herded, on writing and words
Form:
Free verse
I remember a smile
and shuddered a laugh
those kids gasp at trumpet
a latent talent scrambled
our laughter grown in disapproval
leaving before removal
In between her smiles and howls
until the echoes are herded
gently into memory
Categories:
herded, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
The cows, they lowed
The sheep, they bleated
The pigs, they squealed
Herded together tight, overheated
Squeezed into lines
Individuality stripped
Indignity's design
Poked, prodded, whipped
through airport corridors
lines stretching forever
making tasty hors d'oeuvres
for blue-uniformed beasts, however...
Categories:
herded, animal, flying, food, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Life is burning quickly away
Find those who wander astray
Bring them here to realize
The need to hide such curious eyes
Find a way to disappear
To make them think you were never here
Through countless hells you're to wander
Do as your told, don't stop to ponder
Herded as sheep into a pen
Soon to find out it's the lion's den
Categories:
herded, life, people, social, time,
Form:
I do not know?
Herded humans
Sweltering trains
Dead cargo
Suffering remains
Gunshot glory
Spurting spite
Guarded genocide
Barbwire lights
Warsaw widows
Stripped of food
Numbered days
Ribs that protrude
Anesthetized surgeons
Screaming knife
Smoldering smokestacks
Vacating life
Conveyor belt corpses
Rolling into ravines
Six million taken
Will no one intervene
Categories:
herded, death, history, loss, sympathy,
Form:
Quatrain
Lured across the world were we,
to setting sun, ancient sea,
lured to pastures greener?
Wanderlust gripped the core of me,
to setting sun, and ancient sea.
Naiveté fueled, footloose; free,
lured to pastures greener?
Herded, prodded, poked,
primed-pumped,
gripped by fool's gold's glittering sump;
always searching never free;
to take a moments time for me.
Categories:
herded, introspection
Form:
Rhyme
Nameless faces
The streets are filled with nameless faces
Wandering through the town
No one talks, all are strangers
Herded up and down
Trudging steps they take and go
While staring at the floor
Thoughts they flutter to and fro
As they do their daily chore
Conversations never heard
Companionship's unknown
No one speaks a single word
Where the nameless faces roam
Categories:
herded, loneliness, sad, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Twilight curls her lips shyly this foggy morning
Gone is the twinkling of her pearly white spring
Gone are the greedy songbirds herded away
Their perches now bare of whim and whimsy
Cherish your larder as does the ant who dances
Welcome warmheartedly all of Gravity's prances
He has furies of voids to fill, each moment anew
For the seeds that pull through with you, renew
Categories:
herded, nature, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
a frosted farmhouse--
smoke blends silently
into the dark clouds
first winter storm--
tire tracks fill quickly
along the old dirt road
snow blows sideways--
north winds
rattle a window
a flashlight glitters--
cattle are herded
into the barn
laden with snow
the trees succumb and bend--
a farmer prays over supper
embers burn low--
the fields have white blankets
for a frigid night
Categories:
herded, seasons
Form:
Haiku
Lured across the world are we,
to setting sun, ancient sea,
privileged ones so carefree
lured to pastures greener?
Wander led the core of me,
to foreign suns Pharisees.
Naiveté fueled, footloose, free,
lured to pastures greener?
Herded child of Galilee
primed-pumped, then set free
fool's gold seeking protégée
lured to pastures greener?
Stop searching, surely, you see
beauty is all around thee.
Categories:
herded, adventure, childhood, introspection
Form:
Sonnet
Lest we forget
The face of evil
And deny the truth
Of history
Remember the victims
Who suffered and died;
Tormented, persecuted,
Dispossessed, taken captive,
Herded like animals
Into the crowded carriages
And transported
To the Nazi death camps.
Remember them
Remember them...
W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly. 2018. Posted on 6th September 2018.
Categories:
herded, holocaust, world war ii,
Form:
Free verse
Land of the free, home of the brave
but on the brink our freedom sways
What can we do
Make sure she stays!
Let's stop and think
that flag we raise.
Machiavellian regime's-Coordinate
An Orwellian theme
A prophetic haze
cyberspace and blackout craze
Death by drone, Killer clones
IPhones herded them to zones
A Sodomized Pompeii
Normalitized unpure
Lord show the way
So much still so unsure
In these last days
Categories:
herded, adventure, allegory, allusion, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Inti, the Sun God, was happy always
Moon deferred to him in all kinds of phase.
Incas pussyfooted under his gaze.
He ruled Mexico in the good old days
The priests and alpacas met Inti’s gaze.
Mita system was society’s craze.
Children of twelve were not allowed to laze.
Boys herded llamas and alpacas for days.
Girls gathered plants for medicines and glaze.
Inca society will simply amaze
Conquering others whose children are slaves.
Categories:
herded, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Monorhyme
I used to chase cattle
Which we called riding herd
It sometimes was a battle
Some of you may have heard
My dog herded cows
Better than Jim
Even I could run plows
Better than him
You see I like farming
I just let you know
My plantings not harming
And my seeds are to sow
It is the season to harvest and reap
The fruit and the veggies I’m going to keep
The winter is good with lots of food
I can just sit here in my hot-tub “nude”
Categories:
herded, life
Form:
I do not know?
The devil sits on your shoulder
So you’ve grown more bold
This joke is past its prime
Every time you open your mouth
Dust pours out
Your mind moldy
Manufactured to fit ideals of your ancestors
Lost in the pool
Just part of an institution
A herded sheep
Told when to wake
When to sleep
Told when to wake
When to sleep
Our not my master
You may think you have me beat
Still I breathe
Fighting for us
My horns will be felt
My roar will be heard
Categories:
herded, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
And the world slumbers on,
While its sons and its daughters,
Are herded, like sheep,
Down the dark streets, to slaughter.
How fragile the thread.
By which street life hangs
With the guns and the drugs,
And the warring of gangs.
Dismount, while you can,
From that street carousel.
It's end destination
Will be prison, or hell.
With the world on the streets
Swiftly going insane,
'Stead of gettin' more guns,
You'd best be growin' some brains.
Categories:
herded, death, life, people, world, drug,
Form:
I do not know?
Ashamed
I see what you have and I want it.
I am immediately ashamed.
Indignant over the fact that these feelings could breed with in me;
dismayed at the buckeye of truth that may lie dormant.
Time has a way of encouraging one on their way.
To feel crowded and herded onto the paths that are tamped down before us.
Expectation in the abstract is just a thought.
However, once that possibility comes anywhere near, it is time to move on.
An epiphany cures all.
Categories:
herded, conflict, confusion, encouraging, jealousy, lonely,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Angolan Shipyard
Portuguese Courtyard
Slaves
Indentured servants of
Black seed
Sadist sovereignty
Dutch property
Animals
Herded into a treasure chest
Of disease
Shackled humanity
Shipwrecked Christianity
Excess
Baptized on the bottom
Of the sea
Altered Destiny
English colony
1619
Stock on a manifest
Of greed
Work your land
Savage not man
Bartered
A pound of flesh for
A crown overseas
Sold by brethren
Held by heathens
Caimile
Your daddy was
Born free
Categories:
herded, black african american, history, introspection, life, sad,
Form:
Narrative