PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

To call the larger

US by the

smaller Schenectady

is an example

of a synecdoche

as it is

to call war profiteer

cartels

America









AUTUMN ROSE



The spring rose

holds petal clothes

in fear and shyness

very close



but fearless of

foes

is the

the autumn rose

open to the sun

her petals grow



UNTRUTH



Falsehood

is the black velvet which foils diamonds

the purple sky which contrasts the ignited stars

the lies which magnify Sathya



BEKNIGHTED NIGHT



The sun as his vassal

did beknight

the starstudded

moonjeweled night..

but His presence

is so garbed in light

when he does the night ignite

hurt are the eyes

of the beknighted night



MAD COW BY OTHER NAMES



A rose is a rose is a rose

but Mad Cow deaths

and Mad Pig fatalities

and those of Mad Chickens

and Mad Fishes and Mad Lambs

by the CDC

are called

Alzheimer's and encephalitis

brain tumors and meningitis

leukemia and brain tumors

food poisoning and Newcastle's

Disease and of course

West Nile Virus



BEN GAY AND ARTHUR ITIS





She heard her fiancee

had in the past

been in bed

with Ben Gay

and Arthur Itis

but she did not

worry

for vegans rarely

contract AIDS

and without uric

acid

it's harder to

get arthritis.



TR and Pinocchio



They say that

Pinocchio's nose

when he lies

does grow

but in T's case

the throat constricts

changing the sound

of the voice..

and the eyes dim

. for clouds have

passed over the sun of

truth





NOTRE DAME ROSE



As beautiful is

the pink light philtered

through softly to the

aisles of Notre Dame,

some want no grid

between them and

the blazing sun..

nor priest between

them and God



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EFFORTLESS LIGHT



Draculas and

Frankensteins

and black magic priests

easily slain

by the dawn in the East



Now God's light

destroys the shards of night

Now God's light

melts iceshells of hell