The Main Event

Posted for a variety of prompts:

Easy Street Prompts (“rumors,” “the road ahead,” “the promised land”)

Heads or Tails (“loud”)

Meme Express (“Sunday invitation” and “phantom”)

Monday Poetry Train

One Single Impression (“if I only had time”)

Simply Snickers (“clown,” “country” and “consider”)

Slice of Life Sunday (“the light of reason,” “storm of controversy” or “writer’s choice”)

Sunday Scribblings (“phantoms” and “shadows”)

Weekend Wordsmith (“sensible”)

The Main Event

“But I have promises to keep,

and miles to go before I sleep,

and miles to go before I sleep.”

Robert Frost

American poet

(1874 – 1963)

Stage One –

Taking an Oath or Aching for Growth?

With rumors of the Promised Land,

The crowds compressed the great grandstand.

Consider this:

Who wants to miss

Loud celebration in demand?

The country waits with breath on hold;

Is this one worth his weight in gold?

No simple clown

Could wear such crown,

By sensible bystanders told.

If I had time to hit my knees,

‘Mid phantoms, shadows – “Mercy, please!”

I’d ask the Lord,

To stop the sword.

And storm of controversy ease.

The road ahead is yet unfurled,

As to the future, we are hurled.

Without delay,

We watch and pray

For all who lead in troubled world.

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