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Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 1:39 am
by the mingo
warlords don't understand war
pacifists don't understand peace
everybody understands loneliness
loneliness disagrees with everything
no exceptions
so the seer
sneaks to treat the weeds
a breeze blows a plastic bag
across a street
born to serve
born to swerve
a wolf weaves trees
into the broken car
as creeps are freed
weeps the word
a prick priest bends to grease his keep
catch & release
sweeps a hand over silent screams
what's good & obvious
leaps up beyond sneer
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 9:31 am
by Arcadia
bravo mingo, bravo poem!!!
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 9:47 am
by the mingo
Morning Morning Morning Veronica !! Thank You too !
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 2:23 pm
by justwalt
seems it means lots of things,
moves just fast enough to keep
from putting a finger on it,
but great just the same
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 5:40 pm
by the mingo
Thx walt -
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 6:40 pm
by whoaisme
i did enjoy the beginning but it seems the thing really got going at "born to serve/born to swerve"
well done!
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 7:29 pm
by the mingo
Thx whoa -
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 26th, 2015, 7:51 pm
by theirishsea
the rhyming moves this along. Does have a Blues feel to it. The last two lines are outstanding. great close to the poem.
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 27th, 2015, 1:02 am
by the mingo
Thx irish - been fooling with rhyme lately - not so much exact rhyme or near rhyme but vowel rhyme - that shit caught my interest
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 27th, 2015, 10:43 am
by sweetwater
lovely refrain
Re: Past the Midnight Blues
Posted: January 27th, 2015, 1:55 pm
by WIREMAN
howlin wolves crying lonely in the dead of night......diggin this