BELOW IS MY SUBMISSION FOR W3 PROMPT 129. IT’S BEEN A HOT MINUTE SINCE I’VE WRITTEN POETRY. I AM NOT SURE OF MY IAMBS AT THIS POINT. IT’S A FIRST STAB AT GETTING BACK INTO CREATIVE WRITING. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT EXERCISE!

LAND AND SEA AND HATE by J.E. Lillie

What heart is there now in this hardened land

That bends the ancient truths of Sovereignty?

Predispositioned to the will of man

All rebels rise, bequeath indignity.

To troubled souls made dumb by double speak.

All hearts are lost in ocean waves of lies.

That beggared sea embroiled with frothy peaks

Pulls down the great ships filled with wounded lives.

The sea meets shore and crashes all the more.

Men flop in shipwrecked garb upon the beach.

And gasp for life against this drowning war.

Then hand grasps hand to break the hardened breach.

A Thing called Friendship now necessitates

We turn the tide of land and sea and hate.