The Days Drag On

The days drag on. You are not saved;
Your smug dead soul persists in pride.
You can’t admit it: you’re depraved,
The truth was never on your side.
But truth affirms what you suppress;
You cannot stand before the Lord.
Your knee, unbowed, must soon confess
In light of God’s eternal word.
Just let it go. Give up. Give in.
By faith be pardoned of your sin.

 

 


PROMPT #13: write a poem that joyfully states that “Everything is Going to Be Amazing.”

That vile poem about Grown-ass Woman Soda referenced in today’s prompt
almost brought on a poetry crisis… but I bounced back.

Regaños de la musa

LA sabiduría edificó su casa,
Labró sus siete columnas;
Mató sus víctimas, templó su vino,
Y puso su mesa.
Proverbios 9:1,2 (RVA)

 

Un regaño de mi santa musa
Mi linda y poética medusa:

No des mi inspiración por sentada
O te reduzco a cenizas, luego a nada.

Ni confundas mechones por cascabeles—
No soy yo como esas Jezabeles:

Falsas profetisas decapitadas,
Infames bestias profetizadas;

Ahora que reciban sus laureles
A su maestro satanás son fieles

Beben ellos de la copa de oro
Ingieren el nauseante tesoro:

Cáliz Babilónico de abominaciones
Vacuna Coca-Cola de corporaciones
Veneno repugnante de las naciones.

Pero yo te daría algo más refrescante—
de mis fuentes líricas te haré un amante . . .

 

These leetle poem
I make for ju en Sponeesh
Please to correct it?


PROMPT #12: Write a poem about a very small thing. 

Quantum Limericks

 

Dark matter that dwells in black holes
is still subject to cosmic controls.
It opposes the light
and can never be right
but there’s lots of it left in our souls.

Extinguishing all that is bright
darkness flows, to invade with the night,
overtaking the towns.
overthrowing the crowns
of the powers that reign in the light.

Although darkness will claim I offend,
I’ll use verse as my means toward an end:
it’s OK to see light . . .
it’s OK to to be right
(if there’s anything left to defend).

 

 

 

 


PROMPT #11: write a poem about a very large thing (the universe)