Poetry Blogs (day 23)

USA

Empty crucible

Once full of righteous fire

Now just grey ashes

The snake rears its head

Striking blindly at targets

That are imagined

Adopts power stance

Arms crossed - closed for argument

Pin head and big mouth

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Nature’s Banquet

I am the humble Wildebeest -

Mother Natures moving feast.

My mother warned “Don’t wander off

or you’ll end up a Lion’s scoff”.

Some folk call me a Gnu,

I’ve heard it all, there’s nothing new

In puns that you may decide to frame

around this inauspicious name.

I guess I’ll never have a life

of family bliss with kids and wife,

cause every da...

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