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Sing Broken Beyond Mankind

Sing Broken Beyond Mankind


because I speak


                IN   

           
        T       oppressors tongue
            H      language of
                E     conqueror


MY IMAGINATION

              excludes 
              my distress

              furnishes 

              NO

              means 

              to bring charges

NO WORD

              for my complaint
    

NOT EVEN

              a prayer



THEREFORE

          I forge       
            a weapon
              from
                s i l e n c e 

 CAPTURE
                      the
                        s p a c e s
                           between                   


       THREAD
            SUNS
                   rake
                   to                       
                   prosecute
             every             
             choral
            
                         to plumb by no measure                                    
                           the Tide·Raw Prayer·Witness
                               of a sinking ·g·O·d·

                               and to
                               those
                               who came before and
                               those
                               yet to be

                       a venge ME
                        mi  eneME
                         bi
                          sa ving his soul


              ·  he
                ·  dis  TORts
                   ·    MY
                hu   ·  MAN ity
                  des  TRO ying
                his       ·   own


because I speak                    
              
               IN

        T     phones of
             H    massacre I bury
                  E   tones of
                          dead



           a voice
        compels
     no air

           a heart
        contrives
     no future

          a history
        walks
     without eyes
    
          my complaint is
        the moon
     mist rising


Rise
      bright
    you   sea dusty
      dragons   

your hero
      disguises
     a     sun rapier'
      view

Rise
      bright
    you   hopeful wild
      places


Mammon
      matricide
    pricks  in pacific  
        hues



T
  H
    E
      N


renounce the strains                                 
                                 of all that cant
                                 be spoken

                                 say right the broken
                                 hearts that they may heal

                                 as breath bares light
                                 and dream our understanding
                                 
                                 we charge the spring
                                 to sing beyond mankind
                                                  

'though the dead G®D rein

                                 The Destroyer of The World




             
                            
                         WE THE PEOPLE
                           of earth are
     
                           THE EARTH                           

              and                
                         we are the earth singing
                        
              and         
                         we are the song

                         the master song singing
              and
                         the song of the dead


         Sing brightly
                         the song of the damned


         Heal the river
                         beyond mankind

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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Date: 1/13/2025 4:50:00 PM
The answer to Neo-Feudalism ~ https://prospect.org/economy/rise-of-neo-feudalism/
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Date: 1/8/2022 4:52:00 AM
Yes Robert a lot of soul you put in this.' I shall have to go over it again, I will receive thought and illumination No Doubt once I digest more.'
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Robert Warlov
Date: 1/9/2022 9:18:00 AM
Thanks
Date: 12/5/2021 11:40:00 AM
This is very cleverly arranged and powerful poetry, Robert. Lots of thought went into it, which I appreciate.
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Robert Warlov
Date: 12/25/2021 2:27:00 PM
If Society can no longer afford the resources necessary for each to continue ones life as 'a great adventure', then it is failing its primary objective and needs remediation. Thanks friend!
Date: 12/4/2021 5:01:00 PM
Poetry Soup's limited space didn't allow me to include the attribution. ~ "Thread-Suns" from the poem: "Breath Crystals" by Paul Celan.
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