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Books
· A NEW RACE OF HuMANS

· Between the Cracks

· A Monumental Journey - first edition cover

· Beyond Understanding

· The Underground River

· In Search of the First Tribe

· A Monumental Journey - 3rd Edition


Short Stories
· Rejected (a curse or a blessing)

· The Visions of Saoirse Gilbride....

· An Irresistible Transformation...

· Surfing on Silent Skies...

· Doorway...

· The Strange Case of Kicky Cano...

· A Matter of Perspective 2...

· A Surprising Discovery....

· 10 North Waverly Place...

· Old Friendships (not forgotten)


Articles
· Thanks Giving...

· Kennedy and Lincoln...

· The Art of Poetic Prose...

· What Makes a Poet Authentic...

· Paul Harvey’s ‘If I Were The Devil’ transcript- 1965

· Direct Characterization

· Aphorisms (a collection)

· Hey Cortana...(2019)

· Origin, or Destiny?

· Stream of Consciousness


Poetry
· When the Heart is Flawed...

· Catching Happiness...

· The Fragments of Hatred...

· 'Malama Ka Aina'...

· On Open Wings...

· Generations....

· Dewdrops....

· A Gradual Decline…

· Like Wildflowers and Weeds…

· In Nature’s Design…

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Juggernaut (1260 Days)

by Richard Lloyd Cederberg — Read all 280 poems by Richard Lloyd Cederberg

Something different. Another kind of Halloween horror. *Juggernaut. Used metaphorically in the English language as a force that is relentlessly destructive, crushing, and insensitive; that which is seemingly at work now in the United States and around the globe…

Tuesday, October 30, 2018


Poem Artwork
Caught betwixt unassailable principles,
Archaic red-robed caricatures
(Pious abusers)
Offer atonement in
Tasteless garish rituals
.
Fragranced as pathways,
Immutable theocracy fumbles
(Correspondingly) for supremacy
And advantage
.
Wafers of religious
Sacrament (proffered)
Absolving notion, loose tyranny,
And all remorseful declarations of guilt
.
The season is upon us,
For Juggernaut
To emerge
From subversive rest
(Concealed) for millennia;
Seething hatred entombed within coral skeleton
(Revealed) now to fulfill ancient prophecies
.
Gaze on all you have oppressed,
An abomination that causes desolation
Erected deep within cultivated territory
PONTIFICATING as
Cymbals clashing celebratory rhythms
.
Come forth and be recompensed briskly
For the discarded blood of angry innocents,
Come forth
(Flawed)
And stand serenely culpable,
Readily condemned beside blood-stained lambs
.
Releasing accountability to formal ritual -
Abstention sowing seeds of arrant perversion -
Formal procedure as a means to false illumination -
Hierarchy as a means to humanist achievement -
Rich costuming as expressions of piousness -
Modus operandi as a means to collaboration -
Furtive society as a means to inscrutability -
Floating over seven hills of recall
Slowly expiring.......
.
It’s emerging now,
A new order of the ages,
Amidst clamoring confusion
And escalating hatred,
(The feet and toes of
Iron and miry clay)
Emerging
Worldwide,
The wicked ones kingdom,
A frightening Halloween horror,
Indignant and tumultuous, (pleased)
Across eons fraught of interstellar expansion,
Spouting and blandishing dogmas and accordant
Acclamations from an ancient book of shadows
And one diseased angelic mind (condemned)….
.
Come forth Juggernaut, (at precisely the appointed time)
And when the 1260 day horror is done, your reign of terror will end…
.
richard lloyd cederberg
2018
          richardlloydcederberg.com



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Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on November 6, 2018
INDEED THE 'FUN' AND INNOCENCE IS GONE...REPLACED BY THE HORROR THAT SEEPS FROM BELOW. AND IT'S THE WORLD'S FAULT BECAUSE IT WAS CAJOLED WITH ADMIRATION INSTEAD OF DISTANCE AND CAUTION. BUT LIKE YOU SAID...IT'S NOT LIKE 'DANIEL' DIDN'T WARN US. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce
Reviewed on October 30, 2018
Scary how the world has become.

Sandie

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on October 30, 2018
You were very much horrified within the lines of this in depth the up-coming end of life as we know it. Scary is the word.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 30, 2018
A doomsday view filled with prophecy of this kind or another. It is easy to conjure up this kind of horror when all around us unexpected pimples of hate burst forth on the skin of society. With our almost instantaneous grasp of worldwide news speeding the bad news far faster and in our face than the good.

We are on the verge of a kinder, gentler (President Bush's words) world if only we take the helm on two fronts: seriously reduce human population by whatever means necessary and address global warming in a positive, scientifically driven way.

That is the true juggernaut waiting in the wings to be let loose. Or do we let our baser thought free it?

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on October 30, 2018
Such a timely write, Richard, full of nuance. Excellent work.

Reviewed by Mystic Rose
Reviewed on October 30, 2018
Diseased angelic minds. Even Lucifer was once the brightest angel of heaven before his downfall. There are many dark angels in the world, that is why we need to immerse ourselves in the light of Christ . Wonderful write as usual, you always put heart and soul into everything you write, have a great day dear poet friend.


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