A request is made known
A promise to fulfill
Circumstances dictate
What members see as real
The machine moves
The cogs bite and roll
Emotions tied in knots
Caging and keeping the soul
Even if one escaped
What tissue could remain
Mauled and utilized
For the operator's selfish gain
Learning to connect and relate
To those outside the field
Is like trying to enter a gate
That has always been locked and sealed
What is it that bears the weight
Of a life plagued by war
A solvent soul hooked in hope
Chained to a revolving door
Written by Trudy Schrader on 06-09-2026
I’m Puzzled, the pieces all look the same.
My Glasses, do hover over the aim.
What was I thinking?
Might take to drinking!
Bamboozled, the pieces I’ll trash and frame.
When the Devil shows his hospitality
And tempts you with your own resentment
Do you flee, fight or freeze,
Or simply laugh and offer your hand
In gratitude.
(11/20/23)
Soft Thud, concrete shakes, yet tower solid--but dread,
water always wins.
3/28/16
For contest: "In one line (monoku # 10) write what you SEE or FEEL"
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A
America Still Remain Solvent
How can America still remain solvent?
Whole world have too much involvement
Sending what's left of our money overseas
Are becoming bankrupt and everyone agrees.
Takes dollars from here and put over there
Pretty soon money is spread everywhere
The foreign lands become big nuisance
Complaining about all of our influence.
Oh my gracious and also good Lord
On spaceship we have aliens aboard
Am understanding and starting to know
Why people like seeing illegal alien show.
Want you to let my poem be your teacher
After seeing ugly faces on an alien creature
I am beginning to think it was no accident
When one of them wanted to run for President.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran and Poem
And predator and editor of
funny news
What do you need?
Loneliness
Behind your heart’s curtain
Standing defiant
Kneeling slowly
Flowers of hope
We have sowed in flesh
Withering
Under narcissistic necessity
In An atmosphere
Made for self protection
Clouds consisting of consciousness
Evaporating
Lost like empathy
Apocalyptic accusations
Fingers of fate
pointed
Producing
Stressful souls
Sharp words
Rip and tear
All meaning
That lives
When your eyes open
Let me burrow
To secrets
Held so close
Gasping for your breath
And dying for your life
Let me in
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