NOT BY MERCY
[caption id="attachment_3281" align="aligncenter" width="390"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Not By Mercy][/caption]If I marry you, not of love but of pity, And with you I face the altar to declare this union As a...
TIME TO BREAK THE BOX
[caption id="attachment_3319" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Time To Break The Box][/caption]How long will this dryness last This arm rest in anguish The cloak of self-pity and plunder When will the river...
A TRIAL TRIOLET
[caption id="attachment_3277" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [A Trial Triolet][/caption]I want to summon You, God. You must account for those swine! Will you, or must we use that rod? I want to...
PROSPERITY OF LONELINESS
[caption id="attachment_3282" align="aligncenter" width="419"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Prosperity Of Loneliness][/caption]In my glowing substance I sustain the hope Of the heavens beyond; To the many wounds, To all unfulfilled To the flowers and...
MARTYR
[caption id="attachment_3280" align="aligncenter" width="418"] www.facebook.cm/WRRPoetry [Martyr][/caption]I speak of a different special kind of affection Not the one we rent out to all that show emotion My tongue is burnt, with...
CACTUS
[caption id="attachment_3253" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Cactus][/caption]I am born as a cactus And destined to live and die In this land of thirsty sand On which happiness rarely rains! I lack...
BEHOLD THE MAN
[caption id="attachment_3252" align="aligncenter" width="415"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Behold The Man][/caption]Behold the man; Whose life is worth that of a thousand slaves! Whose wife shall tread upon our wives with imperial majesty! Whose...
MEMO TO MR. POLITICIAN
[caption id="attachment_3237" align="aligncenter" width="368"] Memo To Mr. Politician[/caption] You have built walls Round your fortress Maginot lines of defense To shield your opulence. You laugh at them, The poor and...
REMEMBER ME
[caption id="attachment_3219" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Remember Me][/caption]I am a poetic hero; In my veins flow rivers of satire And my words are the locusts, Munching corruption’s green leaves! My words...
POET’S RAGE
[caption id="attachment_3218" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Poet's Rage][/caption]If my pen could sputter bullets, How I would riddle your frame With a thousand heated words! If I could ink, now, scalding acid,...