#lapses poems on Hello Poetry

annh Dec 2019

Time lapses, as quick sands sift from flask to flask,
Half empty - a flick of the wrist - half full;
Hours of glass, ground into powder, measuring my frailty.

'He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.'
- Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

#empty #full #glass #half #hours #lapses #quick #sands #sift #time

Alem Hailu GKristos Jan 2019

For a Front that sees democracy as an affront

We shall make
A recourse to the gun,
If for election we run
Devoid of ideas,
Sell which we can,
We could hardly win
The heart of a single fan.

Also labelled
"Corrupts,atavists
And narrow nationalists"
They can
Put on us a ban
So that sinks on us
The Sun.

Climbing into
A political ivory tower
Is not for us,
Let us beat
The drum of war
To garner
And to monger to power.
.

recalcitrant, retrogressive, detractors,mongers,war

#for #parties #and #fronts #given #*** #chance #democracy #that #lapses

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