Tag: Robert Prospect

145 words

Towards the Sun he flies in his golden boat,
wings gleaming, born from time beyond time. (more…)

61 words

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HAIKU 4

She drifts from above,
lying on our resting place,
skin pearl, divine, dead. (more…)

189 words

Crawl

Crawl across them, warrior!
The corpses are your own, the skulls
you stared in to the eyes of a week or
two ago, now nothing but death before
you. Their mothers weep, somewhere, (more…)

152 words

I Shall Stand Against Them

I shall stand against them, whether I be like
the willow, or the ancient oak, trembling
or impersonally strong, I shall stand against them.
The sun may shine upon my corpse, and cause
the rot to quicken, but in my memory they
sing, and I shall stand again. (more…)

64 words

The bell is tolling!
Crows swarm like flies on a carcass,
wings thumping the heavy air,
thump, thump, thud, thud,
the drum of death is sounding there! (more…)

89 words

When fire burns on distant horizons, the heat
is felt within our home. The clouds loom over our heads like prophecy,
and we stand and weep, then sturdy ourselves, as what shall come (more…)

123 words

To walk among inhuman chapels
brings pain to heart and mind.
I see the flock, their eyes diverted,
from what shines from above. (more…)

A fellow officer lays flowers for police officer Keith Palmer, who was killed in Wednesday’s terrorist attack.

95 words

These once-green fields now soaked in blood,
the blood of those here born;
their cries were heard by few in number,
though millions in their heart.
Now comes the time to raise our steel,
the sunbeams of their blades,
to go beyond our homely shores,
forever more,
forever more. (more…)

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While Marine Le Pen could be said to be more “liberal” than her father, Jean-Marie, she is still undeniably the key figure in relation to the destruction of the European Union. (more…)