DANIEL MILTZ

DANIEL MILTZ

A Visit Back Home

Long prior - I took to the wheel

On a day fairly surreal

Amid, one of my visits back home

I went to see, tailgating, all alone

My boyhood city --a city on its knees

I began patrolling, unemotionally

Among, the hollowed disintegrated arteries

I've gone into a run-down, stepping ground

Of relinquished houses, torched down

Cess-pool of spoiled industries, shook

Dismal, diminishing, to tears look

A catastrophe of block, smoke, and gook

Miles and miles of wrongdoing, invaded places

The most exceedingly awful --that humankind embraces

Free, with the blazing fury

Of youthful, spontaneity

I started to take pictures, ardently

Of drifters, hobos, winos, and the beggarly

Wearing, worn out, robe of strands

And vagrants with solidified hands

Crouched around, enormous, hot drum cans

Without modesty, I eagle-eyed

The crestfallen, with nowhere to hide

That permeates everywhere, I spied

Offering itself for examination

A photo of urban immolation

I was alone, in a no man's homey

And in a no man's city

Town Rejuvenated

Tidied up, upped

Of defilement corrupt

Up 'til now, figuring out upset

A town be fond of

Never flicker hereof

The once blast town improv

Of long time past over

Its forgotten beat down cancer

Smashed breeze murmur

And blinked denizens

Arousing, breathing again, done

The beginning of fresh vibrations

Trapped In

The prison is locked in, forlorn and deep

But he has promises to keep

Tormented with nightmares, he never sleeps

Revenge is a promise, a man should keep

He rises from his cursed bed

With thoughts of exodus in his head

A flash of rage, and he sees red

Without a hesitate

He broke and fled

Gambling over deadly high gate

A resentful rapscallion once trapped in

Whilst now fleeing --the fenced coffin

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DANIEL MILTZ

DANIEL MILTZ: Born in Michigan, resides in Hampstead, NH.  Freelancer Writer & Poet. Devoted 40 years to an Engineering career in Government Aerospace programs as a Mechanical Engineering Designer. He has won over 250 accolade awards from numerous Poetry Forums and has been in 23 anthologies with two published books to date.