Ists and Ism
Posted on March 21st, 2015
Susantha Pallage Wijesinghe
I see through facets of a prism,
Beautiful hearts, few faces of evil
Nurturing doctrine of terrorism
At the behest of the sordid devil.
Golden hearts breath fire in optimism,
To scorch the doctrine of fascists,
Yet dreaming in the sea of realism,
A state of malignancy exists.
Evil minds see visions of racialism,
A precursor to be separatists,
What good to the world is fanaticism,
Leading life as segregationists.
The young and old, like socialism
In democratic splendour, to coexsist,
Peace, happiness are lessons of idealism,
Fostered in the eyes of redemptorists.
No place in this world for cynicism,
When noble savants as instrumentalists,
Play in concert the cords of literalism,
With advent of supreme society of jurists.
Susantha Pallage Wijesinghe
A Melvin Jones Fellow.
Recipient of The Shakespeare Trophy of Excellence and,
The Poet of The Year Medallion, for “Ists and Ism,” at the
Famous Poets Convention, held at the Reno Hilton, Nevada, in 2005.
Published in The International WHO’S WHO IN POETRY, and Great
Poems of The Western World.
March 21st, 2015 at 3:41 pm
Very good work Susantha Pallage Wijeysinghe
March 21st, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Well done SW.
But the losers referred to in the poem don’t understand poetry!
March 21st, 2015 at 6:27 pm
Bernard !!! Happy you appreciate the poem. Speaks out for todays ‘ crazism ‘.
Lorenzo !! Thanks. Yes, possibly, it may be too much poetic language to understand.