The Ringed Women (Play Series)

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: PLAY SERIES

The Ringed Women (Play Series) 

 

Ringed women of the forbidden forest

The numbers four and seven

Earth wind rain and fire

A place next door to heaven

 

Our hero must survive the test

For seven days and seven nights

He cannot sleep he cannot rest

Till he completes the seven rites

 

In the end he will succeed

By remaining just and true

When he meets the one he loves

He knows what he must do

 

The two are joined together

An enemy to kill

Freedom reigns throughout the land

The prophecy fulfilled

 

(Aphrodite House and Other Plays

By Jack Random)

Putin the Killer

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS

 

Putin the Killer

 

Old Joe Biden tells it like it is

A cold and ruthless killer

Murder is his biz

 

Putin rants and raves

A child’s little ditty

I know you are but what am I?

Isn’t it a pity?

 

You got away with every crime

For four pathetic years

Now it’s time to pay the piper

For all the pain and tears

 

Your act has gotten old

You’re not fooling anyone

You ought to be in prison

For the beastly things you’ve done

 

So take your toys and go away

We’ve tired of your face

No one would shed a tear

If you vanished without a trace

 

Walk into a Dream

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS

Walk into a Dream

 

I once knew a working man

Who labored hard for forty years

Married a sturdy woman

Raised three fine kids

And hardly knew their names

He hiked into the woods one day

The next he was never seen

He did not die says I

He walked into his dream

 

I knew a woman of great beauty

Who lived a life of leisure

She gave her days to comfort

And gave her nights to pleasure

She had a child and married

A man of sufficient means

She breathed her last in a sigh

And walked into her dream

 

We live a million lives at once

And never know what’s real

We learn what’s right and wrong

What to think and what to feel

We seek adventures when we can

We work when it’s expected

Comes a time we take a stand

And hope that we’re respected

In the end we always wonder

Is this what it all means?

We do not die says I

We walk into our dreams

 

The Old Oak

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS

 

The Old Oak

 

They still call it a live oak

Though it is clearly dying

Its naked arms reach outward

In all seven directions

People have supported it with

Thick wires of steel that

Make it seem invented

A work of human hands

Though it is clearly one of nature’s

Most magnificent creations

One of the tallest order

It has witnessed the best and

Worst of humankind

It has watched the parade of

Style and always changing fashion

It has laughed at human folly

It has roared at human error

It has shed its leaves

Over centuries of toil

It has seen the river break

Over its earthen banks and

Swallow the land beneath

It has stood its ground and

Steadied all around it

A home to hawks and eagles

A perch for crows and jays

A playground for squirrels

A refuge for creatures great and

Small and bountiful as nature

It tires of the mystery now and

Yearns for the peace of solitude

A shadow of its former glory

It is time to let go sleep and

Rise in live oak dreams

Dangerous Words (On Tyranny)

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: ON TYRANNY

 

Dangerous Words

 

Beware cries of terrorism

Be they real or imagined

For what soothes the heart today

Can turn on you tomorrow

 

The attack of September 11

Became the endless wars in Iraq

Afghanistan and Yemen

 

Beware the word extremist

For though it may seem true

When it comes to them

Soon enough it turns to you

 

Beware the term exception

We should learn this one in school

For what once was an exception

Can easily become the rule

 

Words often have double meaning

And can pack a lot of power

They can steal away our rights

Before democracy can flower

 

Superiority

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: EQUAL RIGHTS

Superiority

 

To feel superior to someone else

Seems a basic human need

Like jealousy and hunger

Like avarice and greed

 

In America we are equal

It says so in our creed

But it only takes a single slight

To plant an evil seed

 

We divide ourselves by color

And again by our beliefs

When a horrid crime takes a life

We divide ourselves by grief

 

Everyone feels better than

And everyone feels worse

It’s the state of our humanity

It’s civilization’s evil curse

 

The time will come to start again

To change the way we think

With all the problems confronting us

We stand together or we will sink

 

 

The Anti-Vax Movement

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES

The Anti-Vax Movement

 

How have we gone so wrong?

 

It was the virus against humanity

Now it’s us against them (again)

The sane against insanity

In a war we cannot win

 

Everything is politics

Even the rain is politics

Hotdogs and apple pie

Sweat on a summer day

The way the crows fly

A random tweet

A message from our college days

Our favorite films

Our favorite bands

A jazz refrain

 

Everything is politics these days

 

So we cannot be surprised

When the GOP takes sides

With the virus against vaccines

We’d rather burst at the seams

Before admitting we were wrong

We were foolish all along

 

We were winning this deadly fight

Return to normal within our sight

But now it moves away

The anti-vaxxers have their day

 

They are marching in London

They are marching in Berlin

They march for the virus

To claim its toll again

 

Hear the bells

Hear them ring

Hear the dead

For whom they sing