THE AFTERMATH
[caption id="attachment_3838" align="aligncenter" width="392"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [The Aftermath][/caption] Let thunder hold her roar Like the muteness of a potter's field. The cry of the bugle that woke us to war Is...
ADIEU
[caption id="attachment_3830" align="aligncenter" width="409"] www.facebook.com/ WRRPoetry [Adieu][/caption]Covenants are promises kept, not twisted or broken. Words are emotions birthed in the grave quiet of the heart. This day, words have betrayed...
LAMENTATION
[caption id="attachment_3834" align="aligncenter" width="378"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Lamentation][/caption]This is my pain: What I get as gain For playing this game, Chasing after fame. My hunger I could not tame, My want I...
OUR FATHERS
[caption id="attachment_3861" align="aligncenter" width="393"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Our Fathers][/caption]Our exalted fathers kissed the steel and made thousand crowns of chain upon their throttled necks from barns where their being beamed dim. Fetid...
WOE TO THE KEEPER
[caption id="attachment_3843" align="aligncenter" width="422"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Woe To The Keeper][/caption]What cake do we have to eat When even the last of it is thrown to dogs We are crying for it...
DRUNKARD’S PARADISE
[caption id="attachment_3832" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Drunkard's Paradise][/caption]See the drunkard in a paradise of his own A paradise in which nothing is known A paradise where he trudges inside a bottle...
LIVE MEAT TRADERS
[caption id="attachment_3835" align="aligncenter" width="405"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Live Meat Traders][/caption] The day's down a-winding For them it's just a-starting To homes people are retiring Their homes they are departing. Shaming their mothers,...
CRUCIFIXION
[caption id="attachment_3815" align="aligncenter" width="436"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Crucifixion][/caption]LORD how shall I own Thee dying on the cross For the world's redemption to redeem our loss? Where with thorns they crowned Thee, I...
WEEPING SAINT
[caption id="attachment_3807" align="aligncenter" width="394"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Weeping Saint][/caption]I am Valen. Your debauchery Is my burden; I'm ill, forbidden Of recovery. My deathbed's golden. No meds or Steve Harvey, Nor trick or...
CHARIOTEER NIGHT
[caption id="attachment_3731" align="aligncenter" width="453"] www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry [Charioteer Night][/caption]In the crotch of silence A smothered desire of flight The final whistle of the train That never reached an end. And there we...