Sparkling dewdrop on green grass
Slowly sliding - able to go
Dull life - not all free
Like our love - all gone
What an unfree newspaper writes
According to a leading English newspaper
the alarm is the upcoming election
will labor be back in power
like that would be different from now
England (not Britain) is meddling in the war
in Ukraine, which is not of her concern
England, which had once been a colonial power
has a long tradition in military tradition
going to war against the reluctant masses
this since the cousin of Queen Victoria's cousin
was shot by the communists
and therefore crossing the red line
which is historical
England is a small, but the Nobel classes are a baggage
of arrogance, they won, we are told about
one the last war.
No, that England is a second-rate military
might they not help but think they are relevant
Great English writers were at odds
with the upper classes hanging on to violence
but habits die hard
the noble call to arms by the noble
represented by a dusty kingdom is still
there, it is a call that can't
be resisted, we are still a great nation
not for us to be Holland
Amidst the turmoil of running feet
Vile words instead of flowers under trees
Poison flooding homes
An under-age girl half naked is found on the street.
She stumbles on rickety knees
This ageless is still in the womb
Years end and re-start
For her no more than 6 years have passed.
The shirt reaches no further than her navel
A swollen perched on wasted legs
She staggers towards the traffic to beg
She has lived as if for a 100 years.
A lurching corpse
Unable to hold the weight of her
Trying to feed herself in a world that feasts on flesh.
OCTAVE:
LORD, as morn yields to noon (or dawn) my SONnet will please, tease, release:
I greet thee, having access to Your throne by Jesus
And His sacrifice on Calvary: We pray against the Virus
With a sunshiny name, an aura of a name, "a garland" ...
Corona Virus, COVID-19, or SARS-Cov-2, Thy Hand
Is mighty and righteous, always Righteous, even in judgment
God of Grace and Love, forgiveness and Provisioning
Forgive me my greed, envy, jealousy, smallness and scheming
SESTET:
I intercede for others now, nations and peoples, as did Moses & Joshua
All countries that begin with the letter "G" even if I privilege Great Germany
Bless Greenland, with ice in the veins of history, Leif Erikson (Vikings?)
Ghana, named for an Empire of Gold, but "Ghana" itself means "ruler" I think
All "G" countries, so many I cannot list them all, but we do pray for planet (s)
We forgive tourists & others as we're forgiven! CORONA time when unity begins
ENCHAINED UNFREE
Who has believed the reports,to
whom has the arm of the Lord been
revealed.Who has heard His voice,
who stands in the light.The sun
rises and shines,and shadows of
darkness occur.Who will understand
and respond.Who will stay in the
shadows,spiritually blind,who will see
who remains enslaved,enchained unfree
Listen to me recite all my anthology(Christian & otherwise) on youtube
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