Posted on 04/29/2014 3:39:11 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Execution
Her hair has been shorn
Her face cut and bruised
Her flowing gown torn
The beauty once in her eyes
Faded
Drone strikes
Warrant less searches
Roadblocks and pat downs
Eaves dropping
Secret eyes and ears
Always listening
Always watching
Be careful what you do
Or they may come after you
Swat teams and armored cars
Men clad in black
Weapons at the ready
Waiting to attack
They have her now
Imprisoned
Cold shackles hold her hands
Her breath is low and shallow
Seems that death
Is now at hand
You can almost set this to the tune of “My Favorite Things”.
Poem? It doesn’t even rhyme.
Ima gonna give props to libwackman anyway - he has the cojones to ‘put it out there’ - I don’t. And not ALL poetry has to rhyme (imo), though, my favorite poetry does.
Check the bottom post here (I’m skeered)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3148181/posts
ok? pass muster on the rhyme requirement?
Oh, that^^^, and I like his name. spankem had to say that at least.
Metered poetry is so passé!
Beat poetry is where it’s at, cat!
Seriously, as a college graduate with a degree in English, it pained me to no end having to sit through poetry courses with beatnik 1960s burnouts for teachers who espoused contemporary poetry as superior to the classics.
I had to sit through those classes with those same folks getting masters degrees. The smug is strong in them.
Incrementum of dominatus
It was relegated to the old root cellar
Dropped in haste in forgotten storage
Where dimmest beam of shafted light
Kept it ‘live in yellowed life , weak and twisted
Root and vine, seeking sickly , striving life
But now it’s out in planted field
Furrowed in and giving yield
Vine and bud quickly growing
Spreading out and surely choking
All the other crops of life
Air and water , precious light
Strangled , starved , beneath the blight
It feeds upon all below
In rapid spreading nourished growth
Soon to cover , spread to all
Like a weed , all fields will fall
So grows the tyranny imposed on men
Carefully planted and watered in
I can do the rhymie thing when I choose.Better?
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