Greg Gaul Poet Rhyme

Notes About The Poem

Cascading retrospective through time touching indigenous people, philosophy, religion, genocide, racism, climate change, nature's power and the spirit world. References to The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's landmark work on morality, conflict between faith and doubt, free will with an author's philosophical perspective added.

Enormous Effects

Unseen forces like real native spirits
in red clay cliffs who show painted faces.
Singing songs echoed in faint voices:
tattered tribes, shamed souls, sacred spaces.
Hidden hurts of primitive peoples
have effects that only time erases.

Unseen forces from privileged powers
that move across ages in a raging rush.
Conquistadors, crusaders who dominate
amass riches from peasants they'd crush.
Kingdoms and cathedrals built in God's name
that alas would even make Versailles blush.

Unseen forces that effect the very planet:
invisible laws, natural order.
They rest in stillness and unfelt for eons
then quake all humanity, every border.
Unknown elements seething so lowly
beneath the surface impacts even broader.

Unseen forces heat polar ice caps slowly
slipping silently into the world's sea.
If one were to pick each single flower
then denude the last three trillionth tree,
the enormity of causes brought then to bare
never stops spring from bursting eventually.

Unseen forces for wrongful genocide
history does tell of ethnic cleansing.
Many million Indians moved or died,
one race is not above another.
Evil acts can't be set aside
will we ever learn there is no other?

Unseen forces show The Grand Inquisitor
believes man only lives in ignorance.
Decried by the disturbing visitor -
poses "bread and circus", not impermanence.
Christianity spares man from doubters -
their "soft kiss" disallows free will's advance.

Unseen forces traipse through thickets of thought
among rotting minds who have ruled.
Madness that denies thinking hard fought
the deeds they did and fools they fooled.
If power is the thing some have sought
sadly they've been poorly schooled.

Unseen forces of hardened awareness
can be trusted to turn their affinity
over time to an enlightened world view.
Therein lies the true fate of divinity.
Deep down within humankind will rise up,
setting minds to reach for equanimity.

Unseen forces exist away from sight
look outside beyond your own bubble.
When the hatred dwells dark within us
intolerance is the worst trouble.
Released in its own deadly time
it can render our earth to rubble.

Unseen forces arrive very unexpected
so humanity can create wondrous things -
the inner search for true empathy.
Celebrate what change of seasons brings
surprise emerges often through legend.
We will rise to our own human spring!

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Aditi Mishra July 1, 2020 at 8:14 AM This is such a thought provoking and terrific write Greg! A message that should be heard by everyone. Congratulations on your win :) Keep writing and inspiring. Blessings! Greg Gaul July 1, 2020 at 9:40 AM Your notice and interest is most appreciated Aditi. As well, your flurry of high placements are most impressive. Your comments regarding content are supportive and show a enlightened view of the power of poetry. Sincere thanks.

Funom Makama June 29, 2020 at 1:12 PM Wow.. this is more than an opinion, these are truths and facts.. A big big congratulations on your high placement. Greg Gaul July 1, 2020 at 9:42 AM Funom, your thoughtful insights and visit are most appreciated. Thanks ever so.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart June 29, 2020 at 10:38 AM This piece sends me, and my muse. Unseen by those who refuse to see due to their lack of empathy. Great, as in much magnitude, a write. Congratulations on your win Greg, xomo! Greg Gaul June 29, 2020 at 1:04 PM Terrific comment, most appreciated your notice. Be well.

Paula Goldsmith January 26, 2020 at 2:15 PM Congratulations on your win. What a story you told.............. Greg Gaul January 26, 2020 at 2:18 PM Thanks Paula, I appreciate the comment and understanding you have for the subject matter that i attempted to tackle. Great that you visited and remarked.

Sheri Fresonke Harper January 24, 2020 at 5:31 PM Congratulations Greg, for your first place win in the "Jump" contest. I found you jumped from idea to idea and dug deep into what it meant to have unseen forces at work. Enjoyed reading it. Thanks for entering. Greg Gaul January 24, 2020 at 8:11 PM Thank you so kindly for your insight and judgment for your most interesting contest. I am honored to be part of the placements with so many other fine poets. Namaste.