James Moore Poet Narrative

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Echo Chambers

("Outside Looking In Merit Badge" - MB #40, 2011, original oil)

Echo Chambers

'Everybody’s talkin’ at me
I don’t hear a word they’re saying
Only the echos of my mind….'
And so it is, and so it goes.

Everyone in their own worlds
Safe and secure within the confines
Of confirmation biases
Building castles made of sand.

Meanwhile the tide swells,
Waves come as they always have,
And always will, as everything we believe in
And hold dear will be washed away.

And still we dream
Secure in the folds of our ignorance
Of the rightness of our cause
Whatever it may be.

(6/2/24)

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Indiana Shaw June 2, 2024 at 9:48 AM In interest, I put your poem through the syllable counter, and with a bit of tweaking you would have yourself a nice sonnet there, nice work . . . James Moore June 2, 2024 at 10:19 AM Interesting.... I never give the type or "form" of poem much thought (if it's not an obvious rhyme or haiku), maybe I need to look into sonnets, but they sound like too much work! Thanks for the suggestion!