Faith Lift/Star Century
Two opposing poems
Faith Lift

nacre pages, gleaming press,
virtuous couples, quality lives,
selfless teachers, absorbing work,
ice sculpted castles, neon dress.

lasting peace, endless friends,
nature expanding, crystal air,
seamless intellect, striving wills,
glorified beasts, all wounds mend.

peacock art, beauty shares,
treasures doled, comforts ease,
solar brilliance, joyous games,
giant spirits, and everyone cares.
Star Century

yellow tabloids, seamy headlines,
morals bereft, qualities askew,
wasted schools, corrosive jobs,
particle-board homes, clothing redlines.

techno wars, passionate foes,
nature diluted, diminished air,
tortured psyches, thriving ills,
vanishing beasts, compound woes.

talent shorn art, ugliness blares,
wealth unrefined, poverty norm,
polar heat, meaningless game,
tiny spirits, and not one cares.