Babel Poems - Poems about Babel

In realms where thought and tempests meet where shifting sands outpace the feet a creature stirs with cunning guise Circumlocution cloaked in darkened skies its words like desert viper’s sting they strike the heart then coil and cling. Through jungles thick with tangled green where vines obscure what might be seen it stalks like the jaguar sleek and sly its golden gaze a riddle’s...

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God scattered them Civilization began Government began....

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Those chairmen are in the tower of babel again Painting and repainting the future of our land with crooked hands Laughing at things as the world pass us by. Those chairmen are in the tower of babel again Writing us messages that have no bloodline. Although black oil runs in our veins like water of vegetation There...

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AI is the ultimate plagiarist mimicking patterns in human devised data. Its models needs training on high quality data, billions and billions of bits and bytes of high-quality human derived thoughts and information. But, AI output, with its hallucinations and flaws, now has begun to flood into the data sources themselves. Just like inbreeding, the training becomes regurgitative, feeding off its own...

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Do you believe in faith, enough to have faith in your belief? Do you know enough to know that you do not know sufficient? Do you listen or merely talk? Are there really several radios on the table - all saying different things? Like you, from Babel? Do you wish they would listen and not babble brashly, brazenly? You’re one of a couple? Does the other...

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"A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.” -Alexander Smith Everyone is talking, No one is listening, It’s an ambience of confusion, It’s an aura of commotion. No one understands each other, It’s...

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. Babel: “A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.” Alexander Smith The preachers preach what they've been taught. Reporters say what they’ve been told. The politicians lie and lie. I watch a tragedy unfold. On social media I see some folks who like to blog or play while bullies bully; haters hate. “Talk to the...

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[REVISED 2024 April 04] Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria, near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of a weakened shade made idle by the pause of its agile host, named Nimrod, son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and Noah's great-grandson. No sign of depletion, hence the shade returns to motion. Nimrod is the soul ruler...

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"A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers." by Alexander Smith Muscle. like beasts, humbled the virtue of humility Each one showed as though each one was a ruler and not ruled. Fight for fight's sake, like wild bulls, became the ability Shouting, yelling, crying, and screaming, as dams got pooled. Physical,...

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BABEL It was a tower, built to avoid a second flood Erected in Babylonia, that Nimrod planned Using bricks made from sun-hardened mud It was to deny the power of God’s own hand But to a proud people it made so much sense A famous tall building that appeared so grand But the presumption caused God great offence So made many languages that...

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global social media - dialect of babel...

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Antibiotics inventions for surgery more effective and renown – disinfectants so germs are deadly affected, yet disease and poverty abound – we build our towers ever higher loftier into the ground...

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I've seen that face, I see in crowd I know that new place, on arrival I've felt all this familiarity I know, I know this being has all been there before. Past lives, past sense, past tense, become alive in present tense, evoked by the yearning for context, meaning in the empty void....

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Build them wider, taller let us reach for the sky when we run out of bird's we'll clip angels on the fly 90,000 lb. sperm whale wandering, searching for his misplaced tail... but elite global outlets will never fail....only us commoners stuck in the dark, our vehicles needing, only one gear~ Park!...

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Enchased in the tower you speak all languages I confused further dumb remain....

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