What ails the age, that man to beast must turn;
At this late stage, the twenty first century,
The more we teach, the less we seem to learn
Of sincere love to ease the misery.
Why all the war, the senseless violence,
The nuclear arms, the suicidal bombs?
This trade in war and weapons makes no sense;
We need to build more homes instead of tombs.
When will the greed and prejudices end,
Will mankind never tire of bloodshed?
Will God, another prophet have to send
To teach, we need the living not the dead;
That after all the fighting all these years,
All we have gained is loss... and lots of tears.
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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