riot-ous indig-nation

04 Jun 2020 19 Comments

by lynn__ in rhyming verse, tercet Tags: , , , , ,

twenty-twenty’s canceled year
contagious virus threatens death
people hiding at home in fear

victim fights for final breath
under law officer’s cruel knee
“racism!” claimed as shibboleth

martyr suspect held up to be
reason for more murder and mayhem
lady justice still cries to be free

every violence we must condemn
learn to listen before we speak
protect dignity of all shades of men

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Frank challenges us to write verse in triplets (tercets) at dVerse today. I used ABA BCB CDC rhyme scheme for my current events poem. Pray for America!

violence against humanity

05 Aug 2019 2 Comments

by lynn__ in haibun, question poem, Uncategorized Tags: , , , ,

 

Awful week of three senseless public shootings by U.S. citizens at garlic festival in Gilroy CA, Walmart shopping center in El Paso TX, and popular nightclub neighborhood in Dayton OH.

We wonder why domestic terrorists perpetrate violence against unsuspecting victims? Why should innocent people die while enjoying their life? Why is our society spiraling down into a culture of hate and mayhem?

Why is it legal for mothers (whose nature is nurture) to pay doctors (whose profession is healing) to dismember their preborn infants? Why do fathers abandon or abuse their own children after conceiving them? Why do we insist our lives are superior and consider other lives expendable? Why not choose to love and protect one another, starting with our family?

Perhaps there is some connection here, an unnatural progression from selfishness, disrespect, broken relationships and alienation into a macabre culture of death. The shooters are guilty of crimes against humanity but we are all culpable.

shopping

killing on home turf

abortion births death culture

all victims bleed red

 

 

concerning…

02 Mar 2018 11 Comments

by lynn__ in letter, quadrille Tags: , , , ,

 

another absent father

whether unwed, divorced,

or imprisoned.

 

family needs stability, child lacks security

 

boy without manly model,

abandoned heart.

educational system poor fit,

disillusioned mind.

socialization by bullies,

tormented soul.

 

when slow burning anger eventually flares into violent rage,

 

why are we surprised?

 

 

An open letter in quadrille form, linking to d’Verse Poets.

inheritance of fools

21 Feb 2018 8 Comments

by lynn__ in haibun, scripture Tags: , , , , , ,

Wrote this “grey haibun” to share at dVerse Poets pub…

 

A mist of grey grief hangs over us all. Roll call of promising youth, senselessly gunned down before their prime, grows irreversibly longer even as numbers of disconnected, angry youth swell precipitously. Education leaves God out, letting demons in.

Hate disrespects human dignity. Rage destroys human life. Violence disregards meaning of community. Selfishness and rudeness rule (un)social media. We refuse to walk in the life-giving Light; choosing to crawl into the darkness of our own souls.

The civilization of Man is graying fast. Without fear of God, we will fear each other.  Beauty of human culture  fades. We follow a suicidal path and wonder how to write our own obituary.

 

ashes to ashes

ravens cry over ruins

grey twilight descends

 

 

An insightful article regarding philosophical reasons for school shootings HERE…

 

hideous powers

24 Mar 2016 2 Comments

by lynn__ in tanka Tags: , , ,

 

world of violence

when we tolerate evil

cultures in rubble

 

align to  higher standard

pursue peace with sword of truth

 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  (Ephesians 6:12)

 

trimeric crisis intervention

09 Oct 2015 14 Comments

by lynn__ in trimeric Tags: , , ,

It’s not really about guns
maybe a lack of funds or
whether our society chose
the wrong kind of heroes

maybe a lack of funds
for helping mentally ill
who need treatment still

whether our society chose
to glorify ugly violence
media pumps nonsense

the wrong kind of heroes
who can bully baddest?
criminal suicide saddest

Mary is serving trimeric (poetic form) at the dVerse Poets pub

religious rhetoric

24 Nov 2014 5 Comments

by lynn__ in Uncategorized Tags: , , ,

 

Who will tolerate the suppression of women threatened to silence?

What kind of god calls his followers to murderous acts of violence?

When do you know you’ve been accepted by fulfilling all requirements?

Where can people be free to make informed choices of what to believe?

Why would God need defending and why is conversion forced on neighbors?

How is it possible to restore our right relationship with God?

 

I will hide my eyes from you;

even if you offer many prayers,

I   will   not   listen.

 

Your hands are full of blood;

wash and make yourselves clean.

Take your evil deeds out of my sight!

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right!

 

Seek justice, encourage the oppressed.

Defend the cause of the fatherless

plead the case of the widow.

 

“Come now, let us reason together,”

says   the   Lord.

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

they shall be as white as snow;

though they are red as crimson,

they shall be like wool.”

 

(God writes poetry to us through the pen of Isaiah;  chapter 1:13-18)