AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  Jeff Mason, iDavid Clure, iPeter Jessop, iMargot Dillard, iMaryAngela Nangini PhD, iRochelle Brandon, iDarryl Jenkins, iTeresa Walker, iJoy Pedersen, iJudith Bailey, i

  Home > Mainstream > Poetry        Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry        Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

pat medlin

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Poetry
· Stories
· Messages
· 136 Titles
· 1,420 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Jun, 2007

pat medlin, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.



Closing The Lid
by pat medlin → (All Poetry by pat medlin)
   Rated "G" by the Author.
Share   Print  Save   Follow   Share on Facebook

I saw him last night

holding court center stage,

spewing forth

smug parroted political drivel.


He waves high
his sword

over the Gordian knot

for flat concurrent faces

to behold and marvel.


A cheap politician

running from his life.


Knowing as truth

the frail core of him

I smile

and with conflicted sadness

close the lid.

 

 


  

Want to review or comment on this poem?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


 Reviews of "Closing The Lid"
Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on March 23, 2014
Lid up or Lid down
The product is always the same
Odor control is critical
Your confliction is without blame

Happily, Patrick


Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on March 6, 2014
Made me look up the story of the Gordian knot. The idea of solving our complex problems with simple solutions has always been the snake oil of political rhetoric. M.True

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on March 3, 2014
Good for you, Pat.

Always,

Deborah

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)
Reviewed on March 3, 2014
This poem I find full of strength. Yours. Well-written observance. ~~ Diana

Reviewed on March 2, 2014
if you could flush the politician that would be cool too ;)

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on March 2, 2014
You can do that with a laptop. Like putting them in a garbage can. I have to turn off my big screen. ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger
Reviewed on March 2, 2014
~Pat~
Splendid write.

Lady Mary Ann

Reviewed by jeanne watson
Reviewed on March 1, 2014
Excellent character snapshot ...
I don't want to know the person you've described and I am glad you closed the lid.

Fine write and I enjoyed reading and rereading.

jeanne

Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on March 1, 2014
3-01-2014

Lets Hope You Don't Open Lid

Pandora's Box...

TRASK...

Reviewed by Douglas Bentley
Reviewed on March 1, 2014
I'm not sure what the story behind this poem is. . . .
You make it sound very interesting

Superb

Reviewed on March 1, 2014
I can't help but think of Kim Jong-un as I read this. In closing the lid, were you closing your laptop? Fine work here!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on March 1, 2014
Sounds personal. Maybe it'll be better to keep that lid closed.


Popular Poetry (Mainstream)
  1.  Nolan Xavier Wells
  2.  NINE/ELEVEN
  3.  Leadership: American Style
  4.  Flood
  5.  Fleeting Verse
  6.  Prayers for J. Allen
  7.  Losing You
  8.  The Arbitrage of Solitude
  9.  Intimacy
  10.  HORSE-SHIT !
  11.  STREAMS OF MEMORIES
  12.  Walls and Dreams
  13.  My Last Request
  14.  Rub Off
  15.  I Only Know...Once Again, We Mourn! Or
  16.  See Something, Say Something
  17.  My life, is this the end?
  18.  Future
  19.  Seasons Of Life
  20.  How are We Doing?
Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

Gilded Prisons by Linda Gould

Major League ballplayer Justin Moore is kidnapped from his own ballpark and transported to a foreign land. It might take high-level international negotiations to free him. Or maybe he will take matters into his own hands.  
Member BookAds

Giving Myself 'A' Reason For Going On by RickthePoetWarrior

A homonymless man writes shows what it's like to look up the laid he skirts when you’re lying prone(d) to the sidewalk, beer / joint / needle dangling from your hand /lips / arm.  
Member BookAds

Soldier's Gap by David Schwinghammer

Deputy Dave Jenkins investigates the murder of local high school principal, Jerry Egge, but this is a multi-faceted novel that deals with spiritualism, romance, friendship, and children who fall through the cracks. "Murder isn't usually this  
Member BookAds