WC's Battle Cry

A cry to arms echoes creatively

Spreading across the mythical realm

With visionary general OT at the helm

Imagery flies across the white screen

As stunning talent burst at the seams

 

While Muse passes secret messages

To each member in the poetic war

Swords slashing popularity at its core

Duplicate profiles will be torn down

Imagination the victor wearing the crown

 

Genius metaphors fall from the sky

As monroester thunders his booming voice

Where reading crapocalypse is a choice

Slinging slimy words into the daunting night

Allowing brilliance to soar in flight

 

A claymore wielding poetic beauty

Swings her words across the page

At inconsiderate teens, with fire and rage

Dedicated writers take a verbal stand

Stabbing with pens and notebooks at hand

 

We are here with ideas to convey

Not to cheat and bribe our way to the top

This multiple personality profiles must stop

Battle screams for love of the word

Resound our passions need to be heard.

 

 

 

Author's Note

there are many I wanted to mention in this poem but that would have taken forty pages so simply know you are all thought of as talented.

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Very skillfully penned stanzas PB. I see you have given this poem an airing from when it was first posted thirteen years ago. Much before my time, but a reminder perhaps that things haven’t changed a great deal. I guess life moves in cycles. A wonderful arousing battle cry from your talented pen.

Chris

[Poetic Beauty]

A little different then. People would make multiple account to move themselves and their work to the top writer spot or top reviewed. Some trolls back then but not like now.

[Dave Brown]

I had not seen this before
Certainly something quite different and especially well done
But please be careful with that claymore

[Poetic Beauty]

I haven’t needed to weld it for quite some time but I shall be careful with it Dave lol
read moreI haven’t needed to weld it for quite some time but I shall be careful with it Dave lol

This one is old but kind of fitting for the trolling and negativity that is going on at the moment. Back then it was more about multiple fake accounts to boot the top writer spot on the front page.

[Sami Khalil]

Lots of bots and fake, multiple accounts on this site; sad but true.
I write for the love of the art, to share and make a positive impact, albeit small on people.
I see the few who are genuine poets, good-hearted and the rest I see as fakes, with different agendas, biases, hatreds, goals.
Glad you shared this poem.

[Poetic Beauty]

It’s quite old and back then it was more about popularity than trolling but there was some of that as well.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow. All understandable

[OT]

hahaha! how did I miss this!! lol brilliant!! we gotta take it for our own - an inspiring war cry - to get us all pumped! and I appreciate the name check lol and musey passing those messages and the monroe-monster just dropping bombs left right and centre haha!! this was so good! also I don't get why people down-rate EH's reviews - must be those d*****s you noted lol!

[KimLove "The Beautiful ..]

This is really an awsome piece of work here Beauty. I love the last two lines they are perfect. xo

[Bubo]

Intelligently done!
You have voiced many reasons why I am not here as often, years ago this was a fabulous place to be, many have now left, which is sad ~ because this was once home for all of us ~ well done.

[I Am Svetlana]

We all have our own voice and need to express it if we expect to be heard. If we want to be heard, we have to take the risk of coming out of our box and PUT OURSELVES OUT THERE. Make ourselves get noticed by someone, anyone at that. We just want someone to hear our deepest, saddest cries and our lost stories of who or what we used to be and how we could be better. We all want to change, but can't do that without helping ourselves out first.

[KAREN]

Thanks for the poem. It is a very good creative write.

[Bare Bohemian]

Name dropper. ;)

[Ladysue]

excellent meter in this well expressed piece...