RANDOM POEMS 37
-saiom shriver-
SEMANTIC ANTICS
When someone kills 10 others
and himself he is called
a suicide bomber.
When Harry Truman instructed
someone to drop
an atom bomb on Hiroshima,
it was a polycidal bombing.
The death of 10 is called terror.
The death of hundreds of thousands is called
defending freedom.
When 10 million a day
in US dollars
launches against
Palestinians .. missiles
they are not love's
but hate's epistles
Tree-less lynchings which have
occurred on the street or in police
stations or prisons.. are still
lynchings.
FIDELITY
one can
get diseases such
as leukorrhea
from infidelity
even in Korea
(sparked by Mirror Man's thread)
SANCTUARY
They said to Him
'no room at the inn'
but He said
"I was a stranger
and you took me in"
*
BREAKING THE CHAINS
Sadness lead me
to gluttony which took
me to sloth which
dragged me to greed
and then to anger..
the evil brood was linked
NO MORE PIETAS
The Pieta.. carved from
stone marble
inspired by the flowing
grief
of Mary holding her
decrossed Son's body..
No more Pieta's God..
no more mothers holding
their fallen sons in so
many countries..
thank You for ending
all wars today and forever
UNFOLDED BUD
GOD help me to love
the unfolded bud heart
as much as the one
fullblown
Help me to love
the sour green fruit
as much as the sweet
tucked in her leafy throne
THEFT
Every sirloin
Every pork loin
mankind did purloin..
both from murder
and from theft
SILHOUETTE
They take the
silhouette of a cow
and draw dotted
lines ..
carving up the one
.. dividing her lots
CLEANSING RAIN
Christ's blood
its crimson rain
washes off
chalked racial slurs
from ghetto walls
LORD OF LOVE
When I was angry with you
Father Mother GOD
for allowing bombs in Iraq
axes on trees, knives on
animals
I could pray to You only
as Lord of Love
LIGHTNING
Grey clouds of despair
.. the lightning of his
humorous cheer
has cleaved
PURLOINED
neighbors bait
traps with tuna fish
and lure cats
.. into the cages..
then take them to
the Summit County Animal
Shelter, from which they
are grabbed by Ohio State
and other Frankensteins
INGATHERING
As arrows are
magnetized to
their mother quiver
so the sea is
constantly
ingathering her rivers
CHICORY
Oh the fields of chicory
have been made a cricketery
WISH WASH
The mountain gossiped
that the sea was
wishy washy
as she washed all
the coins tossed into
her wishing well
and helped GOD
to actualize them.
...So it goes: Insipid dialogue, double standards in the playground, and justification is as easy as the English dictionary. To this day, Hiroshima is classed as a conflict, not a war, and I still fail to fathom the distinction.
I thank you for this piece, I stopped visiting this site awhile ago and had all but forgotten about it until your poem was sent through to my email. It's inspiring to read such refreshing work and I must come back again to read more. - Renée =)