Three Poems: Liberty, Death, and a Frog [with Commentary on Liberty] -

Home
>
Poetry
>
Three Poems: Liberty, Death, and a Frog [with Commentary on Liberty]

Three Poems: Liberty, Death, and a Frog [with Commentary on Liberty]

Frog Summer

Summer grows hot, for the
New-blooded frogs;
The bugs are thin, yet the
Frogs stay fat, young and sassy.
In these palsy times-they
Only listen, as we wither away.

Night fritters-away in sleep.
The morning brightness comes late,
Among my pithy-jointed bones-;
Frogs annoy me, as my clay loosens.

Rain drops for the frog. The
New survivors of creation-
Make their homes everywhere,
As we thin ourselves out!...

#765 7/21/05

A Death Overnight

Overnight she died
Discreetly, quietly

As she lived, so she died.

The air is not the same,
I breathe anymore?.

Nobody stops by to see
Her ashes, I stored?.

Earless and eyeless
All her friends remain silent.

My love for her has turned
Into sadness, overnight,

Discreetly, quietly.

7/12/05 #766

They Hear America No More!

It once had seemed a little thing,
When I was young and but a teen
That to lay my life down if need be:
For honor, justice and country,
That in doing so, we might hear songs

Of liberty!

But now I'm old-, no cares have I
To fight alone, so I pass on by
The fainted hopes that liberty buys.

#767 7/24/05

Note [by the author]: "Our Constitution, perhaps, the most valuable document we have in America, or that the world has ever seen-which is the law of the land, seems to be diminishing in value; it was made for the people, not for the government, like most constitutions are. It doesn't matter who says this, or that. Be it the Supreme Court Judges that seem to have ongoing issues; and presidents that come and go. It is although the Constitution that remains, and when judges implant their personal will into it, it no longer holds the value it should. It is like giving a piece peace to -to someone who starts wars, it diminishes the price value, which I've seen too often. It seems I witness so much of this nowadays; it's quite disturbing; and thus, our liberties fad with it. And so I have written the poem, 'They Hear America No More,' I suppose in protest."

POet Dennis Siluk http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

In The News:

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://www.citywebshopper.net/articles/includes/redirect.php?url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/10/10/poetry_has_its_proscid=1256041626ei=9KnvSJWuI5f-6gPOsMG8Bwusg=AFQjCNEenJVnHUaOpeEcOj2jKBSvHrQtkAbPoetry/b has its pros/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fBoston Globe,nbsp;United Statesnbsp;-/font nobr19 hours ago/nobr/fontbrfont size=-1EVERYONE is talking about the creative economy, but the first-ever Massachusetts bPoetry/b Festival is doing something about it. b.../b/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://www.citywebshopper.net/articles/includes/redirect.php?url=http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article%3FAID%3D/20081010/LIFE/810100319cid=1256041626ei=9KnvSJWuI5f-6gPOsMG8Bwusg=AFQjCNGETsHbj3skMXIoeJi9xw6SP4lfIALocal poets to read at Lowell festival/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrSouthCoastToday.com/nobr/font/fontbrfont class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclientie=ISO-8859-1rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-22,GGLG:enncl=1256041626hl=ennobrall 2 news articles/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifa href=http://www.citywebshopper.net/articles/includes/redirect.php?url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php%3Fnid%3D58094cid=0ei=9KnvSJWuI5f-6gPOsMG8Bwusg=AFQjCNFGVHCAMozbLfGXiH50_eEMk7tAIwimg src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=w-UTpSPj_54Jimgurl=www.thedailystar.net/photo/2008/10/11/2008-10-11__bk13.jpg width=43 height=80 alt= border=1brfont size=-2The Daily Star/font/a/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://www.citywebshopper.net/articles/includes/redirect.php?url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php%3Fnid%3D58094cid=0ei=9KnvSJWuI5f-6gPOsMG8Bwusg=AFQjCNFGVHCAMozbLfGXiH50_eEMk7tAIwThe passions in bpoetry/b/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fThe Daily Star,nbsp;Bangladeshnbsp;-/font nobr1 hour ago/nobr/fontbrfont size=-1bPoetry/b is more precious than other branches of knowledge, according to famous critics and scholars throughout the course of history. b.../b/font/div/font/td/tr/table

poetry - Google News