Short Repugnance Poems

War…
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

War is good for greed.
Hatred!  Repugnance.  And death…
It reinstates need....

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L-et life live in love, 
O-n the fifteenth of May; 
R-age and hate are cast, 
N-egative deeds are thrown
A-way.

E-agerly let life live in love, 
C-herish not the enmity; 
H-owever dismayed or disgusted, 
A-im to leave the animosity.
N-ever let repugnance fall from God above; 
O-bliterate the anger, let life live in love....

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do you have an abhorrence for anything?
murder, rape, child porn, sex slavery
any repugnance for anything else?
negative attitudes, bullying, meanness,
any other revulsions?
know-it-alls, vandalism, arrogance, inflexibility
hostility toward any animals?
I am not super fond of rats, snakes or mice
but I do not think I am hostile, merely fearful....

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Harbours quick repugnance and self explosive memories
Anger heats up the heart, burning any string of positive emotions, but
Torture is not escapable by the body covering such an oven
Rage in quantum amount produced by aggression even in atomic sizes
Eagle’s eye fixed on the negativity and mistakes of the victim
Dead compassion then decomposes to emit biogases of evil...

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We enjoy reading poems from the past.
They describe those ages, their horrors.
Should we regret delectation as we suck in,
and smile at, repugnance, misery, sadness?

Should we repel such poems of sorrow
choose only humour, gladness, joy?
So easily can we turn our backs on
misery that tortures so many.

So quickly may we lie on the ground,
punch it with clenched hands,
roar with our cries; or may we smile,
get up, forget what is so far behind us?

(11 December 2023)...

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