Warhorses on thunder
Blaze the tyrant’s skies.
How many, how many
Innocents shall die?
The smoke lays down the valleys
The silent cannonades.
The men and children crying
The women’s bodies lay.

Oh silent wake of thunder
Oh warhorses ride!
Oh Chivalry, Oh Chivalry
How you have almost died!
The women are now warriors
To ban in silent throws;
With the hatchets wander
To cut down fleeing foes.

At last the canons thunder
At last the bullet’s flash
Has caused the stormy wonder
To pass by at the very last.
The bodies lay in hurdles,
The horses lay like dung.
Oh victory, oh victory
At what cost were you won?

At last the tyrants looked
And their eyes did terrify.
The bodies lay around them
And the tyrants raised their lies.
They had won the battle
They had won the fight.
With all races under
They put men to their plight.

At last the tyrants begged
To have God loose their life.
But the world they had bartered
The world lay its strife.
For the tyrants fought their wars
For there world’s right to stand…
That they would raise high
And rule over all the lands.

Man and woman fleeing
There were no subjects near.
The man who won the world
Had no one near to cheer.
Thus in desert valleys
In the sand he did lie…
God would not be sorry
That the tyrant could not die.

For the tyrant calling
To gain the world’s peers
He was the last man standing
In a desert land of fears.
For flesh was dung upbounding
The silent wars were near
The mind on them was dwelling
He was the last man on earth’s bier.

For all men lay in silence
All flesh was but dung.
The man who gained the world
At last had naught but won.

So this poet singing
Says to this his fear:
If I get nothing onward
I at least will have my cheer.
I will be in heaven
While the world fought its wars.
I shall be repentant
While the seas recede all shores.

I play.

The best all enjoy it.

I throw myself down.

I lose their interest.

I play again.

Some of them continue.

I throw myself down again.

I lose their respect.

I play for a third time.

They cautiously probe my intents.

I stay in the game this time,

But with a walking cane.

Read the poem for its beauty.

Read it again, and see an opaque light.

Read it a twain, and some elements come in focus.

Read it a thrain, a frain, a fifth and sixth

And soon the poem begins to shed its full light.

All through life, the poem reveals

Its hidden parcels.

 

A poem is not a work read in one sitting

And never taken up again.

 

A poem is read a lifetime.

So choose your poems wisely.

A tiny ant.

It neither has the ears to hear

Nor the eyes to see.

Yet, it knows I’m in the room.

 

What organ do I lack

To perceive God?

Like the ant cannot perceive me.

It knows I’m there by my voice.

It doesn’t hear it.

It doesn’t see it.

It simply knows there is a voice

Calling to it.

 

I must be that same tininess

To God.

There is Trochee

Stressed and unstressed.

 

There is Spondee

Two stresses.

 

There is Iamb.

Unstressed stressed.

 

There is Pyrrhic

Unstressed Unstressed.

 

There is Anapest

Unstressed Unstressed Stressed.

 

There is Dactyle

Stressed Unstressed Unstressed.

 

There is primary stress.

There is secondary stress.

There is unstressed.

 

It is possible to get more creative with literature

By looking into the primary

And secondary stresses.

More interesting meters.

More ways of looking at it.

 

Why does cruel power

Hold back my meal?

When I know all of this…

It seems like all are being withheld their labors now.

 

Poet Laureate, you had written well

Of Waterloo and its wicked swell

Of thirty thousand men fell dead.

Of old women, whom tyrants stole their bread.

 

For what aim was it that the bodies piled high?

Did they really, or is it just poetic lie?

Regardless, at Borodino they stood fifteen foot tall

The gore of a multitude torn asunder by cannon balls.

 

For Napoleon’s ambition, and worldly gain

Men swept through Europe, Russia and African plains;—

Men were killed, women raped, children dashed

Against the rocks. Their feverish souls were mashed.

 

Great men who start a war

For the sake of glory always fall short.

For, at the end of the days

Even Antichrist with all of his fame

 

Will do what every great man had done.

He will aim two ways his gun

And fight in two directions

Get lost in Russia, like he’d never learned the lesson.

 

For great men will do what has always been done.

They will begin with a powerful firing of the gun.

Then, they in small numbers will pile men high

Gross bodies of women, children and cries

 

Will be heard among the most savage of men

That they wish the battles would come to an end.

Bloody reigns of a man of this world

With no Christian patience, do make the guns hurl.

 

Do know this is the last sort of defense.

That Antichrist will have won the Earth

But lost to our Hope in Heavenly glens.

For he will have expended all terrible force

 

To subdue this great plain,

Our fallible earth.

And when he has done, and lost so many of our foes

The LORD and His angels will kill him in the mightiest flow.

My only Talleyrand poem.

If every wicked

And great man had a demon

Talleyrand’s would be the worst.

Could only be Wicked John.