one Moses
the true Merlin died
overwhelmed with emotion
this Moses
the new Merlin cried
tears of elation
in jubilation
that he had lived long
enough to witness at long last
this modern magic
this Joshua enter
the Promised Land
this Joshua lead
his people out
from bondage
of willy-nilly Lynch philosophy
into the house
that once
was all white
one Joseph
the true dreamer died
believing that one day
character
and not colour
would determine
the worth
of a man’s skin
this Joseph
the new dreamer sighed
so much depends
upon
this one head
on this head
the crown of thistles
weighs and wears heavy
so beware
young man and protect
our head from the hairless head
of Three-Lettered Aberration
Copyright ©2008 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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