EG TED DAVIS - POEMS

EG Ted Davis is a poet residing in Boise ID with work that has appeared in both online and print literary journals in both the US and the UK.

To choose

​And I stood on the corner
of Erection and Redemption,
and as a fool filled with folly...


I promptly and
proudly turned
down Redemption.

​To be deceived-to be outspoken

And to trust her
to speak for
such a great chamber,
when sworn to
overturn one
man's greatness
and gratitude to
a beloved nation,
in which
he voluntarily
set out to protect,
and to rebuild,
when the likes
of hers' has
destroyed such,
by the very
manipulation of
the laws upon
the congressional books-
for their own secretive
and selfish gains,


and you believe
that she speaks-
as she states-
for only a limited
amount of time...


only to hurl more
ruin upon its citizens.

​The Leprosy Carriers

​They pursued and attacked the
desert roaming Nomads,
cursing them for
the incurable leprosy.


And the Nomads
sang out,
Never does He leave us,
never does He forsake us.
He is our helper,
we shall not be afraid,
for what can these
mortal enemies do against us,
slay our bodies-
Yeh-
but not our souls.
 
And they continued-
well ahead of
their pursuers-
as Nomads do,
in a desert with
so few oasis...
 
and carried it they may,
but immune they were...
 
of the terrible leprosy.