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The Wakening World A new world spins kaleidoscopic, a whorl of color in revolt. Oceans quake, molding into fissures of tectonic hunger, ravaging the deep, stirring the primal need depressing populations unseen to the denizens of land, left in man’s wake. From diatom, to whale, from single cell, to open hand from sun, to star, to mushroom bomb, we have light. Within the orb of eye, retinal flares of light an inside-out, upside-down, yin and yang revolution; juxtaposing wealth with poverty, throngs rise asking for hand- outs, aching with a human need to know, hungering. Childhood ends as the predestined ouroboros wakes. Death’s rattle subsides, as head eats the tail of depression. Communication becomes the global antidepressant. Aborigines in Australian huts and Inuit in igloos see the light. There will be no holding back the tide, for hand in hand, cells wake. No longer can knowledge be held. “Phone home,” a revolutionary cry, the breast will not be ripped from the lips of hungering humanity, tyrant and saint will be juxtaposed, their time at hand. Instant contact scrapes the barnacles of blight handily. The stroke of fingertip to keyboard or keypad depressed sends ignorance fleeing, freeing the knowledge hungry; showing the way out, the way up, the key. Light-heartedly heads bow in prayer, the we will rock you will revolt. Let tyranny be eaten, and righteousness wake. On the egg of earth, we float in celestial wakes. Solar tides stir the shards of glass raising death’s hand. Round and round the top spins each revolution forced by the pumping thump of nuclear rods depressed, rods magnetized or charged with lightening will energize the populous for we all hunger. Evolution brings revolution, each thirst quenched brings new hunger. Repression will never depress the desire to wake, nor, will the fisted hand ever bring the light.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 5/10/2012 10:08:00 PM
*Communication will become global Antidepressant*......WoW!!!
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Date: 5/10/2012 11:57:00 AM
Wow....you went above and beyond in descriptions galore!! Such thought and imagination went into this...... Amazing job...deserves a huge congrats!!
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Date: 5/10/2012 11:00:00 AM
Congratulations on your placement in Tracie's "A New World" contest Debbie. Love, Carol
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Date: 5/10/2012 8:40:00 AM
Wow Debbie. Well done. Congratuations
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Date: 5/10/2012 7:13:00 AM
Debbie congrats on your win..David
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Date: 11/26/2011 10:10:00 PM
This is a world class poem,Debbie.This poem is rich and fantastic... touching all aspect of our lives from politics to science,religion to social, economy to education,nature and emotions.You`ve been able to show great dexterity in this write.Kudos to you my good friend.I am proud of you.keep flying....may be you`ll teach me how to write this form of poetry....Hahaha...
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Date: 11/26/2011 11:27:00 AM
Well Debbie,, i pick up the light..i think also you have pointed out the see-saw..or teeter-totter. Is that the right spelling..? of unforseen negative input i was deeply impressed by the content, and it is so good to have read..!
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Date: 11/24/2011 1:04:00 AM
Awesome Debbie, keep at it, happy Thanks Giving!
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Date: 11/20/2011 1:56:00 PM
The Headmistress strikes gold with this fantastic piece. It's like reading Tolkein. An absolute joy to read Debbie, and I'll always be your shining knight by your side. Have a lovely Sunday :)
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Date: 11/17/2011 7:41:00 PM
if light prevails, this will come to pass....if not, then eternity will wallow in suffering, your treatise here is brave...I hope it arrives...love, jimbo
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Date: 11/16/2011 3:06:00 PM
Debbie, You are on it today, ride the mystic wind. Tony
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