America 2016: In Protest of Donald Trump by Judy Shepps Battle

AMERICA 2016: In Protest of Donald Trump

Silent keepers of the sacred flame
mute the voice of protest
flood the pastel marketplace with
stale rhetorical bullshit

Build flaming Babel towers with
mortar of seared infants
bricks “made in Afghanistan”
foundation poured with Imperialism
(thinly disguised as benevolence)

Planet Earth, the message is crudely clear
we must gather wooden sabots
cast them with vigor into the war machine
stopping destructive gestations
with our bodies and hearts

Until peace permeates senseless chaos
our bodies are our sole currency
steel actions carry unspoken words

Tomorrow peace may enter unarmed
today dissent must walk unafraid.

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Bio: Judy Shepps Battle has been writing poems long before she became a psychotherapist and sociology professor at Rutgers University. Widely published both in the USA and abroad during the Sixties and Seventies, she deferred publishing to concentrate on career and family. Fortunately her muse was tenacious and she continued to write during the next three decades filling a file cabinet with scrawled and typewritten poems that are now being organized into chapbooks and individual submissions. The material submitted for publication represents her return to active participation in the writing community. She can't think of a better way to spend her retirement. Her poems have been accepted in a variety of publications including Ascent Aspirations; Barnwood Press; Battered Suitcase; Caper Literary Journal; EpiphanyMagazine; Joyful; Message in a Bottle Poetry Magazine; Raleigh Review; Rusty Truck; and Short, Fast and Deadly