Academicians …
masticating and
grinding their ‘truth’
Spewing out
what they would have us swallow
in gagging choking egotism
Regurgitating it back
in the toxic chunder
of a narcissistic reality
Papering the walls
of modern thought
with the bibs of their retching
As they hide within
their ivory towers
—festering in mass
(St. David’s Pennsylvania: September, 2023)
Categories:
academicians, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Free verse
UNDER THE GLASS CEILING part 1
Mary and Angelica ,ladies of great renown
Painters extraordinaire in Ol' London town
Still life,portraits & history on a grand scale-
Left out of a group painting because they were not male !
NOTE Mary Moser & Angelica Kauftmann help to found the R & A but were left out of the 1770's painting of Academicians .There were to be no other women members until 1922.
UNDER THE GLASS CEILING part 2
Forbears,Edie,Kate and Ann
furnished with brush and pan.
Each a Victorian 'Miss'
tied in service's abyss.
NOTE Upstairs and down stairs ,no in between,just thirteen and just there to please as Master and Lady take their ease.
THROUGH THE GLASS CEILING
Deborah,God annointed Judge&Prophetess
a matriarch,overseer of men,..no less;
Mary,at Jesus feet,studied...just as a man
in Christ there is no gender ban
Categories:
academicians, discrimination, history,
Form: Quatrain
Angel, tell me about humankind
Not a lie I expect to hear from you
Gift of mind urges me to die for truth
Ear that loves to hear and nurse lies
Lies and slumbers in the plain of lies
Tell me one truth from these rails of lies
Every man I hear, is a bundle of flesh
Lying mouth tells me man is a tree
Living and surviving on walls of the earth
Men of robes tell me humankind is spirit
Every action or inaction ruled by Super Spirit
Academicians and Scientists of all colors
Bang tables and shout saying man is an Ape
Overdrafts, blank checks dollar-men give me
Universe is for pleasure- dollar-men claim
Trillions of beads on abacus human life is
Humans are fallen angels in the universe
Under blind power, they act as rebels
Man is dust, came from mud, lives as wet dirt
Action driver is a dark power without him
Non-action driver is impotent power without him
Keeping man in glory is bright power without him
In other cases humankind is an empty suitcase
Nice looking, swollen with big issues yet
Dearest to him is lone survival instinct!
Categories:
academicians, humanity, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Acrostic
success
joyful,intrepid
satisfying,enduring,mesmerizing
merchants,academicians,politicians,students
cheating,rioting,killing
sorrowful,fretful
failure.
Categories:
academicians, life, people,
Form: Diamante
Mary and Angelica ,ladies of great renown
Painters extraordinaire in Ol' London town
Both founding members of the R & A
Still life,portraits & history on a grand scale-
Left out of a group painting because they were not male !
Mary Moser & Angelica Kauftmann help to found the R & A but were left out of the 1770's
painting of Academicians .There wer to be no other women members until 1922.
Categories:
academicians, art, people
Form: Narrative