Silk Tongue Order of Discord

 

She is queen bitch,

a dark storyteller who

plucks words from

a coffee-stained alphabet

that makes pretty sound

like it has fangs and crows are

lullaby saints of midnight cradles.

A poised midwife of birthing mordacity

she sings mockingbird hymns

to narcissists whose self-absorption

has no skill in the discernment of mockery.

Sister Eris, of the Silk Tongue Order of Discord,

has a pharmacy of ironic elixirs, drivel of headlines,

and bombastic bloat, to anethestize sheep

so they will remain oblivious their promised future

is being built from recycled failure of the past.

©Susie Clevenger 2022

Shay's Word Garden List ~ Susie Clevenger

Denial Legislates

“A few of us are going out after work to pretend it’s not the end of the world,

if you want to join us.” Quote from New Yorker cartoon

There's a river in my kitchen,
swamp at my back door
(denial legislates - earth revolts).
If I can get government out of my uterus,
we can go out for a drink and ignore
our ice is straight outta Flint.

©Susie Clevenger 2019
For those who don't know, Flint, Michigan's water is dangerously polluted.

Real Toads ~ Poetic Irony

Ritual of Irony

She talks to the peonies

knowing they can’t respond.

Her red painted lips whisper

secrets into the petals

 and watches every blush

 as she tucks them

 into bouquets.

It is her

 annual

ritual

of

irony

where

she

invites

 guests

to her

 spring

filled

 rooms to admire

the  beauty of blossoms

honeycombed with  her confessions.

©Susie Clevenger 2019
Real Toads ~ Artistic Interpretations with Margaret