Sonnet #1

Instituting your basic youth conflicts --
Warning it may be hazardous to health --
Investigating will reveal the depths
Of how you must face all that you are dealt.

Metamorphic ingest of babe to teen
Does hard expose much to ponder this way;
In such as how to find one's self esteem,
When to fight, when to run to save the day.

But worry no more for the tempests wane
Ritual scars, and seeming bars will disappear,
As hard work and study rises again
You grow as blemishes of youth are sheared

And you become ever more beautiful,
Imperishable, to life suitable.




Patrick Darnell (2012)

Modern Warfare

Show no Mercy!! 

by Pat Darnell

Graphics that inhabits
Our house and lawn
... do the best
... to calm the storm

We are an uproarious crowd
And we usually get very loud;
Because the cute Avatars in us are proud
Of our techno-cosmic shrouds ...

The thing that is new
is 'Modern Warfare Two' --
Seems it is too fun for Pat 2 and his crew;
They go to their various homes
and boost each other's gnomes

And laughingly slaughter each other
 with their sisters and mothers at home;
Murdering each other with machete
... with daggers, machine guns, and curette
Virtually, they do, while hardly breaking a sweat.

So, certainly, we are not complaining ...
... for this strange techno loop remaining ...
In our homes, gardens, and glade;
No, we are pleased, satisfied, and gratified;
Their virtual blood-soaked battles are ratified ...
...
We just wish Mid Eastern heads
could learn also to play war instead.

Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

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