Is it ISIS or ISIL?
I think it is the latter
It really doesn’t matter
True, ISIS rhymes with crisis
Let’s not lose our heads about this
But ISIL rhymes with evil
And also with the devil
So if reason still prevails
The devil’s in the details.
Robert King is a retired lawyer and poet living in California.
Featured Image: “Battle of the Crusades” by Jan van Huchtenberg, Oil on Canvas Signed, 1720
A poem of both beauty and irony. Having done my time as a metal detectorist and working through canal sludge…
Brian, you have deftly written about a subject that has been much on my mind lately. Even Orwell and Huxley…
This is a magnificent poem, of unbelievable perception and power. And it brings Eliot's "The Waste Land" up to date,…
Brian, Mike and I are in a rush to go out today, but having just read "The Trojan Horse" I…
This is a powerful and ambitious work, Brian, at once elegy and warning. Civilizations do indeed fall not only through…
Exccellent poem for the days
we are living in. Isil actually does
make more sense, though most
call them Isis. Who cares of their
name, only have a desire that they
burn in Hell.
What a wonderful poem by Robert – so witty, great use of metre and rhyme.
An amazing mixture of satire and reality. Interesting . A usual component of Robert Kings work.