Thundering from the public podium,
Ugly voice dripping with vast odium;
Tiny man of god preaching shrill and loud
To the passionately receptive crowd.
Each wicked exhortation abounds
With the ugliest sort of racist sounds
Lapped up by an audience full of hate
Twisting the religion they desecrate.
Baying and howling, the old and the young
Respond to the scorn from his yellow tongue.
Their faces are wet, watery with tears
Shouting an unholy chorus of cheers.
The writhing mob hangs on every word,
Wide-eyed, believing in the absurd;
Now worked up into a furious rage
Responding to the false prophet on stage
The voiceless innocents cannot believe
The tight tapestry of lies that they weave;
Coaxing the dense wooden masses to life.
Power’s the reason he proposes strife.
The whispering lemmings kneel at his feet;
The absolution is now complete.
Let it be known by all far and wide
If you are different you cannot hide.
Author notes
Wordbank prompt, 16 words used in this order: thundering, ugly, vast, tiny, wicked, ugliest, young, yellow, wet, watery, wide-eyed, voiceless, tight, wooden, whispering, wide
Image source: http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/bad-religion/album-recipe-for-hate.jpg
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A contest entry
- Adjective Word Bank by GotLilt.
900 points, ended October 26, 14 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Congratulations on a great write and well deserved gold my friend
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Thank you very much. I am glad you enjoyed the poem. Demagogues need to be put in their place, regardless of the religion they misrepresent.
Mike
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I clicked because the album cover here, well I've got the CD and a great CD it is too. Your poem is very well written, and with racism at its core. Yes I guess we all have the right to freedom of speech, well at least in countries where they don't lock you up, or worse still, shoot you dead for speaking your mind. And racists too have that right, for if we say they can't, than who next do we deny? Here you've done a good job applying the words from the word bank into this poem, and the rhyming comes out strong too and makes your poem flow along beautifully. Still you did it holding true to the serious subjects covered here, something that is not easy to do when you rhyme. Thanks for sharing and good luck here.
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I do not know the band, but I have been told by Cyanide Milkshake that it is a good one. The very dilemma in freedom of speech is allowing those who spew hate to have their say. Our current laws are not perfect but compared with many other countries they are pretty good.
I am glad you enjoyed the poem. Other than haiku, all of my poems rhyme and many of them deal with serious subjects like this. I appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to comment on my work. Thank you.
Mike
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Good usage of vocabulary according to the criteria of the word bank. You exposed the ranting and misuse of religion poetically, sadly this is the duality of freedom of speech when there are those that are verbose and inciting racism. When will they see that we are all members of the human race?
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Thank you very much for reading and commenting. I defend the right of free speech for all, including racists, I also defend my own right to disagree vehemently with them. I think as long as people have faith in religion there will always be charlatons who will abuse that faith.
Mike
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Such vivid description! You made the pulsing perversion come alive.
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Wow I love this, it has your usual perfect rhyme and passion and Ioved the line about wooden masses that was great imagey and the last lines really finshed the poem off with a punch
Let it be known by all far and wide
If you are different you cannot hide
Just fantastic
Good luck in the contest 
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I am glad you enjoyed this. I am a religious man. I do not care for those who twist religion to meet their own means. Thank you for reading and commenting on my work.
Mike
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Bad Religion are awesome XD
Love the poem! I see these kinds of people in the street sometimes, and on TV, and they make me sick
Wonderful use of words!
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I don't know the band. I thought the image was well suited for the poem. When I was writing it, I was thinking of racist preachers like Al Sharpton and Obama's preacher along with the Muslim radicals. But it could apply to anyone who twists religion anywhere.
Mike
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get busy
love,
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finished.
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