by Roberta Batorsky
These verses searchlight wrongs,
thrust into the light
all injustice lurking in the shadows.
Stanzas pry loose prison bars,
insights scorch wrong-doers,
violators of decency
No place for you to hide as
my couplets cauterize you.
These devices are unsparing
instruments of revenge.
Haikus hunt you
Elegies eviscerate
Ballads batter
And meter mauls you.
My lyrics bear the sting
of sincerity,
passing merciless
judgment in rhyme.
This poet for hire.
Roberta Batorsky, a New Jersey poet, has published this month her first book of poetry, Perihelion.
