Pride of Their Makers

Pride Of Their Makers

The monsters are coming

their heads in their hands

mouthworks drooling

 piano-wire screams,

with a vitriol kiss

to french through clenched lips

acrid and hot, frozen but soft

masks falling off.

The monsters are coming;

clown cars in the dark

unload at the QuickStop;

pass round the fear,

drink that flag beer.

The monsters are here.

The monsters are listening

with their crucifix remotes

mob on the knob, gloat upon gloat

brains slowly tugged out 

coaxed through the nose,

 thoughts ground to dust

in a hate cooked like meth 

love's disappeared death,

hell's stinking breath

shrill screams at the bus---

the monsters are coming

the monsters are us.

~July 2015

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Challenge: I Must Refrain

The often heterodox Herotomost, Corey Rowley (Mexican Radio) challenges us to use that time-honored poetic device, the refrain. I did my best, in this little cynical spit-poof of bitterness on our glorious times.

Optional Musical Accompaniments

"I know you're out there..."

Images courtesy google image search 

Bottom photo : Anti-immigration Protests,7/7/14,  Murrieta, Ca~Sandy Huffaker / Getty Images

Class Warfare

 Class Warfare

A Triolet

 

I watched the day the castle fell,

saw dove and gosling put to sword;

a yowling Vixen rang the bell

and laughed the day the castle fell.

They burned the deer park, sealed the well

unlocked the cage of the talking bird.

She flew the day the castle fell,

calling fools to bring the sword.

March 2012

Posted for  FormforAll~Triolets at dVerse Poets Pub

Gay Cannon has invited Samuel Peralta (of Semaphore)to discuss and inspire us in the triolet form, one of my favorites. I've bent the rules a little here in my political roman à clef, but hopefully I will not be put to the sword.

And those who are counting may notice that there are also 
55 torches and pitchforks present
 for the G-Man.

Image:  "Der Thier und Jäger Krieg. "A broadside satirizing ordinary people and their aspiration to gain political power by showing the world upside-down, with animals storming the fortification of the hunters..(Nuremberg, Fürst: 1652)[Public domain], via wikimedia commons