All posts by Philip Wardlow
The Santo Mon – A Political Poem
The Santo Mon-
Monsanto.
Yeah Mon…You know the one.
Mon
san
to.
Remember it.
Founded in 1901 by
a rich family full of ambition.
Your grandmother’s mother washed
her linens with one of their first brands
and hung them to dry in the warm
afternoon sun.
ALL, the detergent of the ages.
Other products flew off the shelf.
Who do you think made Coca Cola taste so
sweet?
Saccharin, supplied by the Santo Mon.
Here, have a drink.
It set them up real good for what was to come.
If your head was aching, grab some Aspirin.
Pop a little salicylic acid to turn that frown
upside down.
Why stop there Mon, because chemicals were their
specialty ya know;
DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange by the barrel load.
Ya see, the US government had this little war in Vietnam,
They had this idea that they could keep down the Vietcong
simply by killing off all the foliage mon.
All it did was deprive the good citizens of growing food,
causing them to flee to the city
where they crammed into
the slums by the millions.
The Santo Mon knew the dangers of what he sold, it was all in the notes as the studies showed; what it did to animals surely it could do to us,
cuz we be but animals as well bro.
Those wonderful products broke the bodies of the natives living there
and the vets who came back.
Woe be war, but woe be more the chains you still wear, for it never be over for some.
Misshapen babes born to proud
Papas and Mamas who are already themselves half in the grave.
Kiss your wife dear solider and hug her tight, for something burns inside you and it ain’t
never coming out.
It’s gonna strike
When?
Who knows.
Today,
Tomorrow.
But you will be the fool
to feel Santo cares about your
welfare.
Don’t hold your breath if you don\’t want to turn blue.
Men in suits;
lawsuits been settled they say,
reparations be done.
Some say it would have been better
to have pissed into the wind to get what
the victims won.
Go about your way,
we be the New Monsanto
all improved.
Our business is growth and nature.
We want to show you the way.
The New Santo Mon only engineers seeds nowadays.
Oh, you haven’t heard that story either?
Well sit down my friend I’ve got a lot
more unpleasant things to say
by Philip Wardlow
Instruments of Us – A Poem
Mind, mouth, eyes and hands;
all potential instruments of
sin.
If left unchecked.
Wantoness awaits
Mind your mouth.
Keep your eyes cast in their proper place
Keep your hands
at your side,
Lest it give rise to illegal transgressions
on this wild ride.
Always fighting the feelings.
Always fighting the weakness from within.
Why not follow the beat, beat, beat of that other instrument
so often ignored.
The heart, heart, heart…
It sings true,
even it is
a fool.
But yet it does tend to keep the other
instruments in line
from time to time.
by Philip Wardlow 2014
Another World – A Poem
Another World –
Always a flash she is,
the light of the moon catching her at times
when I am out upon the dark deep waters
of the great sea.
I remember locking eyes with her once.
Just once.
A look which pulled at my soul.
A look of wanting, a look
of yearning to approach,
to be seen, to be known,
to be not so alone in
the darkness
below.
Fortune to find me,
but fate made us all fools to believe.
She another life force
beating in an alien world.
Where she dwells, I cannot go, nor can she
venture out.
Locked away in the skittering
of the waves
below.
Just as I am locked in the salt stung air above
never to mingle
never to dance
never to share
a kiss as
the need arises.
by Philip Wardlow 2014
A Kiss – A Poem
Something I do in my off time
Here’s a little a something I started doing earlier this year. FENCING!…It’s something I have always wanted to try. I just finished my last class this last Thursday in June and I loved every minute of it. The people I trained with at West Michigan Fencing Academy there were great and the instructors were awesome.
I went for about 14 weeks non-stop and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. I learned so much and sweated a lot at times. I hope to go back come September in the Fall when classes resume.
I love the friendly competition that it brings about and the support of your classmates and teachers…All in all a fun time. Now I can write what I know as they say in regards to some sword play in any of my stories….:)
Spinning – A Poem
Spinning –
The little blue eyed blond girl told
me it made her smile
to see the top spin.
A thousand colors coalescing and mingling
in infinite layers
as it made this little blonde girl grin.
Broader than the Milky Way
with pearls of white undamaged
yet by tooth decay.
Gloriously it stretched across her face and
there was no finer secret to be had in the universe
that day.
by Philip Wardlow
Awesome Art by Blule
Words of Discontentment – A poem
I will just sit here and smile
like a marionette
with a painted on grin.
Shall that make you happy?
Nothing is wrong.
Seeeeeeeee….:)
I’m smiling just for you.
Aren’t I a good little boy?
Why should there ever be anything wrong?
Yes. Yes. Pat me on the head
All is fine in Whoville.
Why talk when
you can just
live in your own world of favored
opinions that works
just for you.
Judge me. Throw me away.
I have no friend.
I would hold your hand as you
walked through hell.
But you would kick me there
just to not be offended by
my presence you have already
deemed unworthy of your
company.
I guess I didn’t rate.
I guess the present I brought to
the party was found wanting
from the rest.
I guess I thought too much
of a friendship that was never
there.
by Philip Wardlow








