Christyl Rivers Poet Blank verse

Are You Real

https://medium.com/@christylrivers/are-you-for-real-b892f0d16d87

Everything that is real to human beings
Is not so real anymore
We invented money and gods and robots and twitter-feeds
We sit behind a blue glow
Wondering where we are.
Or are we, at all?

Were we?

We were. There. East Africa?—?maps are real?—?
Because we dragged lines in dust,
Then made them from trees,
Then electrons
We collected mind pixels,
(a made-up word, like thoughts)
We abstracted those bits,
Into symbols, into shapes, into policy
Then we asked
Where did the sky go?

Once…

Gods and goddesses, centaurs and dragons
Swirled above, spiraled into heads and hearts.
Around our campfires
Bears grumbled, lions haunted, elephants huffed
Until we borrowed some sparks, blew them into the dark
Then. We emerged with those sparks tell each other stories
Like the one you are reading now.

https://medium.com/@christylrivers/are-you-for-real-b892f0d16d87

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FJ Thomas April 18, 2018 at 8:16 AM Wow. Well we definitely have different thought processes on the topic but your poem is still awesome! Welcome to Poetry Soup Christyl.

Sunlite Wanter April 6, 2018 at 11:56 AM Your first two lines got me! And I loved reading it all. Welcome to PS!

Caren Krutsinger April 6, 2018 at 3:14 AM Christyl, this is beautifully penned. It went straight to my fav list. I especially like bear grumbled, lions haunted, elephants huffed. Whimsical and fine!