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| A Slaves Life |
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They say go and I go They say do this and I do it They say gather and I gather They say sow and I sow For I am but a common slave and They a cruel and capricious master Who cares nothing if I live or die For my daughters are like sheep and goats And my sons like camels and oxen All my children in the fields Are bent by this burden And bear the rod of the taskmaster And at night by the fires Amid the smoke from the smoldering pots I pray to the Lord who is my freedom And my deliverance Whose reach is greater than the Nile And whose bounty flows more freely by Doug Tanoury This poem is © Copyright 2001 |
[The Moses Soliloquy | A Slaves Life | Blue & Purple & Scarlet Stuff | Burnt Offering | Cherubim Skillfully Worked | Favor In My Sight | Up on Sinai | Molten Calf | The Finger Of God | The Pharaoh of My Past | The Red Sea Between Us]
Doug Tanoury is primarily a poet of the Internet with the majority of his work never leaving electronic form. His verse can be read at electronic magazines and journals across the world.
The greatest influence on Doug's work was his 7th grade poetry anthology from Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Of Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse (Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company) He still keeps a copy of it at his writing desk.
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