Donations are essential to keep Write Out Loud going    

victory (Remove filter)

Recent Comments

Greg Freeman on Dominoes
1 minute ago

M.C. Newberry on Combe Gibbet
41 minutes ago

Ian Whiteley on Citizens
46 minutes ago

M.C. Newberry on Sashaying to Byzantium
49 minutes ago

M.C. Newberry on IT AIN'T ME, BABE
59 minutes ago

Auracle on Festive FM
2 hours ago

Tim Higbee on Grandfather
3 hours ago

TobaniNataiella on She Says Goodbye
4 hours ago

R A Porter on Sashaying to Byzantium
6 hours ago

Ray Miller on Dominoes
10 hours ago

You can't Streep poverty under the carpet... - NaPoWriMo Day 9

A silence fell upon the city,

contorted shadows twisting moonlight.

Stuttering in a speakeasy seemed so misplaced

bottles rattled flickering like Fedora feathers

in an unforgiving wind.

 

The wretched odour of deprivation

a stench that sticks and degrades ones existence.

Even by day this city remains a lifeless sap

and by night the vampires feast on th...

Read and leave comments (0)

PoliticsHumanityMobstersBankstersWarNaPoWriMoGlobalThatcherMaggie ThatcherMargaret ThatcherFilmFilm NoirNoirProhibitionAmericaBritain1930s1980s2013universalpovertypoliticiansexploitationinequalityhatedivisioncelebrationclassClass Warvictorybattlestrugglecooperationcohesion

What is this you call victory?

What is this you call victory?
by Ushiku Indigo Angel Crisafulli on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 at 22:35

What happens when a triumph

doesn't ring like titanic trumpets?

Hopes remain Titanic,

exceptional, erroneously erred

and sinking with realisation.

 

I decapitated depression, deep

...

Read and leave comments (0)

depressionmoneyvictorylovelongingdistance

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Find out more Hide this message