barbarity sells bloodlust tickets
recruits mindless monsters
attended by ancient depravity
burning hot sand fills their hearts
satan squats in the flames of a
ruined and distempered creed
shits his love of hate fouling
whole cultures with victims
of virulent violence the child
who dares learn of secular
knowledge the daughters and
wives who pay with their
lives for the sins of their fathers
and husbands the numbers of
warm slaughtered innocent
corpses of civilized sects
these dead trophies amassed
in the name of an abject
devotion its clarion call
to rain down retribution
on any and all who would
challenge authority seized by
new caliphate agents those
deoband mullahs who stand
dripping butchery blood from
degenerate words of doxology
feet planted filthy and proud upon
bodies of women and children
A beautiful expression of the pain surrounding yesterday’s deplorable events! You never disappoint.
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much appreciated
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Imprecatory, like some of the Psalms . . .
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my desire for revenge feels more personal and visceral than the hatred of sin borne by the psalmists
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Whereas the likes of me spit out profanities in order to air anger you Paul do not sink to that basement yet express said anger through the stab of the sharp blade of eloquence.
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I spit my own stream of profanities and entertained fantasies of being their personal executioner
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I wish I had a million “likes” to express how much I appreciate your verbal artistry, and a million “dislikes” to express how much I deplore the behaviors that come from the abject poverty within some people’s souls
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your thoughtful comment is greatly appreciated, michael
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I feel that barbarity is such a small word to express this act of cruelity
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indeed
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How else can we feel? Cowards, every one.
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you called it correctly
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brilliant writing
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thank you kindly
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WOW-powerful, and what an image to accompany.
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a powerfully evil event
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Yes.
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Reblogged this on Simply Poetry and commented:
How much ever said is less….
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thank you for sharing my poem with your readers
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Words of courage and support to all those affected….i.e. humanity.
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indeed, we are all diminished by such horrors
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Wonderfully expressed…the incident made me cry…and I also expressed my sorrow through words…a poetry on my blog….
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it tears at every human heart
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Hertbreaking. Any credo that does not uphold a child’s life is mistaken to hell and back.
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evident evil is abroad
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This is so intense. Loved it.
Also would want to thank you much for reading my poetry. Do drop by the blog and do a critic analysis sometime if you’d like. Would love that.
Thanks,
Insanets
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thank you, insanets – I don’t do critiques, but I am enjoying what I find on your blog so far
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I hope you continue to do so. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Poesy plus Polemics and commented:
(Regarding the December, 2014 Taliban massacre of 145 school children at the Army School in Peshawar, Pakistan)
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I say this as kindly as I can — God has reserved a place for those butcherous bastards,,,may they burn forever in the fires of Hell.
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amen
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I am left dumbfounded
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I suspect the event struck every sane mind the same way
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Extremely graphic and powerfully strong words.
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exactly what I’d hoped to achieve
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