Destruction of a child's self-esteem- with my invented form- for Slam |
Ominous looks ravage just because you are six and you ripped your sister’s prayer book. Cain’s splintered shadow washing over your eyelids in callous spirit. The Priest’s voice sharpens as incrimination’s blade. At battlefield of messed up selves, your fierce survival chop apart dysfunctions, as hypocrites sob for fruit withering on the vine, while trauma-hammer’s beating ruins. Ridicule batters you to pieces, tears to tatters, tramples, rips, razes, and burns. The beast could eat you; you would not even know it with numbed emotions. Black crosses, unflinching, point to your demise. You’re empty, aching, eating crow from hands of nuns on endless hours. A phoenix out of blazing shame, do not give up your soul, your creed reminds you to absolve yourself. Perk up, pick up, re-create; progress is destruction’s intent. ======================================= My invented form “Olla Podrida”: 1 sentence 1 haiku/senryu 1 sentence 5 metered unrhymed lines (any meter throughout) 1 sentence 1 haiku/senryu 1 sentence 5 metered (same meter) unrhymed lines 1 sentence |