The Repugnant Underbelly's Malicious Persona

Thoroughly enjoyed it !!! Might even enter the comp .. I do love a good acrostic poem, give me something to focus on other than broken kidneys and a broken foot lol

Now to the topic, I'm not american but I think your on the mark so tightly nothings hanging off .. I think this should be posted elsewhere not just here if you get my drift

your message is a universal one from my observations

love to you both Jayne x

Btw that last line .. so jealous lol that's a spectacular ending !!

Hugs ;)

Motivated, political, principled poetry like this doesn't come along often enough. Intelligent, sinuous composition - would make a great performance piece. Well done. You guys have to choose between two equally repugnant oppressors - down here, we have the banal convergence of two increasingly right of centre parties into one grey political mediocrity, beholden to political lobbyist from the energy, chemical and armament multinationals.
And - the message in your Acrostic - right on the money, with relatively small countries like ours (in terms of population) - willing accomplices.

Great read,
Thanks.
Chris.

Great write, loved the political spin. It summed this election up nicely.

Thank you for sharing. I especially loved the metaphoric reference to the raven and the sleet. Very effective indeed.

Once twice three times a read and its gut wrenching wonderful. I looked for the 4 must used words. I only see three; rumbling, Raven and sleet. I read a forth time for extra notice, but just couldn't find berries anywhere.
Have I overlooked it

in the contest, but damn sure enjoyed this one! My guess as to how we have finally arrived on the shore of such chaos and destruction? We have let ourselves become complacent in the idea that our basic rights were secured back in the days of the colonial times after having won our independence. That we no longer need to stand up for ourselves. It's been done already! Our government is what we fought for and it would never do anything to take those rights away from us! Well... First of all, being a Senator or Congressman, was never meant to be a life-time occupation! Secondly, they were never meant to vote themselves raises and perks in closed sessions and if that had occurred in the early days, when the reasons for our war of independence were still fresh in our minds, we would ejected them from office and had a new election! [Never mind how far into term!]
Maybe everyone should have to serve some kind of duty in or supporting our government, no matter what their disability. Not the other way around! I still remember JFK and the words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" Sorry to rant, but you started it. LOL Anyways, Great poem and I will re-read and look for actual critique of this piece. Thanks, ~ Gee.

Can anybody see my Contest submission. It lonely lol

A powerful write.- great word usage
just one question - I can't,make out what the second stanza's beginning letters spell .... no doubt just my ignorance - but can you enlighten me?

Very scary is the American political scene at the moment....
love judy
xxx

I unpublished my poem In this contest.