Wednesday,Mar 3 2010, 07:34:17 PMFeather Power

Feather Power

Warriors seek to show their form
strutting ever upon their lawn
heed not at your peril they seem to say
all who pass must never stray
onto this grass so verdant green
or they will redden this perfect scene

Such aims of forceful exclusions take
freedom from all who stand and quake
or fly by in a greater haste
no time for such, have they to waste

And so the peacocks strut afresh
no need for them to place some mesh
to defend the grounds they claim
all part of their old mating game
until such time as fresh young males
come to start their own brave tales

And so it was for many centuries
a strategy they learn with ease
from genes that carry to every male
or they won't be displaying tail
as splendidly as we've come to see
in places known from our history

But while I find their splendour very fine
for vigilence I would make geese guardians mine
as such alarm they make to strangers seen
their noisy vigour doth look so very mean....

©Rhumour
March 1st 2010

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Monday,Mar 1 2010, 08:17:02 AMBitter Pills

The air grew chill as she sapped my will
with the heat of her words and manner
though it was all on the phone and I was alone
still my skin became redder and redder ...

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Friday,Feb 26 2010, 08:59:08 AMSign Up

Long done with the prisons of anger, he watched helplessly as flickering images dashed across the flat screen of his monitor where news was filled again with pain born of rages.

Sat in his chair with no means of standing he recalled again the flash and the deafening boom of the mine exploding beneath his feet and thought of the thousands of others maimed like him. So many limbless soldiers and civilians returning home with hopes dashed like their shattered legs knowing their young lives were scarred forever by the act of men who do naught but sign ...

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