By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty

Ask not what your country can do for you,
But what you can do for it. Vampires eat
Black pudding, for instance! Now take your goo,
Obstruct the opposition for this feat.
Collect your pocket change and take this sword.
Convention only meant to scare you. Now forward!

Across the field, a foray, not holding back,
Together with your alms for the poorest,
Oppose resistance, stuff the burlap sack,
A yearly subscription, give to the forest.
Billy with his red hot pepper jelly.
Believes in the bright shade of green Kelly. 

On Friday, therefore, hit the forest floor,
Needling the pine trees for their sticky sap.
A band of Indians climb trees to scour
Massachusetts with its mutinous map.
East of here is the sea green Atlantic
Not too far from lobsters in New Brunswick.

Take out your yearly subscriptions to Vogue,
Observe the character from X-men called Rogue.
A sum of money has been deducted.
Brillo has made a comeback.  Requited
Brigands are on the rise with their free trade.
On Monday, stay home with your pretty maid.

Needles in the haystack, little boy blue
Ate corn with the crowing rooster in the barn.
Remember little Betty blue, her shoe?
Eat a Christmas goose, the sheep have been shorn.

Reviews

[Hazel Turnet]

It was a good poem but I didn't really get what it was about. You kind of lost me around the middle.

[Laura Lynn]

it's loosing me too, I feel so rushed to write something and it's so piecemeal, it disappoints me as well, I'm not sure what to do about it. I need to be stricter with myself

[ANTO]

I got lost and thought I was reading the lyrics to a fantastic new Red Hot Chilli Peppers song. Im gobsmacked Laura.

[Laura Lynn]

thanks, I should put them on my list of great bands to listen to, which they are of course

[Nitesh Mahabal]

Very different subject this, other from ur usual write up. Like the pride in this work n its very strongly appealing. Nice work

[Laura Lynn]

thanks, I like the idea of collecting my fighting spirit, the only trouble is, I can't find the content, what I have before me this day seems uneventful and a tangled mess of hermetic troubles

[Nitesh Mahabal]

Look at things with different vision. you'll find something for you in them