Poem: Red Molly

Red Molly (Red Molly)

  

Harmonious beauty from angelical sounds

The rhythmic flowing of the music astounds

Eyes closed in wonder as the notes cast their charm

Melodious ocean of these songbirds disarm

The healing vibrations breathe a life-giving force

A three-part performance is the stage and the source

Warming of spirit can be felt in their presence

For the purest of pleasures, represent the quintessence

The listener leaves nourished with remarkable calm

Sustained by the power of mellifluous balm

Which finds me next morning with this pad and this pen

Inspired to writing ‘til I hear them again

Copyright SGW 2013

Poem: Fanatics

Fanatics

  

Fear takes its measure in infinite shaping

An ignorant basis there can be no escaping

Intolerant, fanatic, often religiously zealous

Cling to a panic that is fervently jealous

Limited thinking is the fabric it’s sown

Science discarded, fact-based reason disowned

Blindly accepting carnival barker’s lament

They preach as if righteous; somehow heavenly sent

They can only find comfort in what their mirrors reflect

Frightened by difference; twisted cause and effect

Racism bred from an uncertain dread

“Brown people coming and a black as our ‘head’”

Create boogeyman government to nourish their story

The more they can fear then the more to their glory

Twisted and tangled in deformity of view

The fear’s all they know, so they mindlessly do

  

Copyright SGW 2013