Our faces glow
not with wisdom but with empty pride
when our phones perform a trick
a poem weaved in seconds
devoid of a human touch yet praised as art.
We leave the farm & our trade
To watch a match a thousand miles played.
We cheer & we bet & we shout and clap
And lose our roots within the trap.
But do we ever pause
and ask what’s slipping through the cracks?
Can we still think without a screen?
Can we stop and reflect on our tracks?
Yes, the world has surged ahead
and we with it
but what of the ills & the confusion it brings with it?
What of our glorious past
That we’ve made outdated and an outcast?
Must we always
swim with the tide
even when it pulls us
from ourselves?
Categories:
globalization, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
At the cusp
Of a wave, a change, a fall
Into total darkness
Here we stand
Or rather slide
Headfirst into destruction
And as we fall
Into chaos and dissolution
We will at last be saved
And in that moment
What we took for granted
Will be lost
Within the total chaos
Law and order will be established
And with it the end of freedom
This is the new world order
That awaits when their machinations
Come to fruit
You, me, us
Reduced to so many parts
Without regard for who we really are
And in the change
As the light of dawn unfolds
Will we be revealed as spirt or flesh
And in the severing
Will we sink or fly
In terror or relief
This is the cusp
We find ourselves on
As the powers that be extend
And as they grow
And we still have a choice
What will it be
(10/25/24)
Categories:
globalization, anxiety, society,
Form: Free verse
globalization
denationalization
interdependence
unattainable
immeasurability
everlastingness
civilization
oversimplification
elimination
Categories:
globalization, change, perspective, political, words,
Form: Haiku
Where has all this brought us
Into the void or into the better?
It should be an advantage
But is it really like this?
The arms were opened to humanity
But humanity uses them like tissues when you have a cold
As if all this had no disadvantages
But is it really like this?
The arms were opened to humanity
But humanity has only exploited this
The did not appreciate it and soiled the world
Globalisation - and it will get worse
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
you can travel the world and meet new people
Praying in different churches and see the steeple
learning from each other
Globalization where you can spread democracy
but have the audacity
oppress the weaker
The leader is the later
Where the poor gets poorer
Where the rich gets richer
want a change but cannot look in the mirror.
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Climate change
Humans are the problem
They´re the ones to blame
Because of them the world´s so solemn
They don´t fear anything,
They have no shame
Not even of the Almighty who turns everything
and they will greatly suffer for it
and bear the consequences
as soon as they die and the hellfire is lit
our beautiful earth has been destroyed
which is so upsetting
but please don´t worry it will be alright.
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fly
(Aland)
Hi
My name is Tai
I am a guy
And work as an spy
For Uruguay
This is Mai
A samurai
She makes me cry
All because I identify
As an butterfly
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Globalization is bad.
Globalization is sick.
Globalization leads to death.
Globalization affects nature like a kick.
Globalization is sad
rich people are glad.
Poor people stay poor.
You all are going to die for sure.
We destroy the Nature
Let's change this failure
before it takes us all over.
You need luck like a clover.
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ist me ask with heart and mind
Some Humans are very kind,
and some aren't.
You should be warned.
Globalization is a fact
the world is bad.
This is a bad act,
it is very sad.
People need jobs, houses ans education
But globalization gives them inflation.
Growing cancer of bitterness
without any thoughtfulness.
A global world is a happy thing
and all humans sing.
And the animals dance
And all people are friends.
The population is rising
and the sun is shining
Till the end
Love will end.
Categories:
globalization, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mankind began as a troop animal.
Living amongst its own kind.
Stepping out of the trees onto the Savanna.
Mankind became a wander, small family bands bound by blood. Millenia past, mankind developed farming and the wanderer settled down. Small wandering groups became small farming villages. Small farming villages became larger farming villages, then small towns.
Small towns became larger towns inhabited by hundreds.
Larger towns grew to small cities inhabited by thousands. Agriculture and technology developed to sustain and enhance such growth. Cities evolved into city states, then becoming small countries inhabited by hundreds of thousands. Finally today we have countries inhabited by hundreds of millions.
All along this path battles and wars, killing millions along the way, till today we have weapons that can wipe out us all.
The salvation of mankind and the natural progression of things is global organization, global integration.
The globe is being wired with its own global neural net, a global brain if you will. One world controlling itself.
One world that will not nuke itself! The salvation of us all.
Categories:
globalization, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Somehow it seems that the people are lost.
In a world with airplanes and pollution and post.
Globalization has come here to be.
But what if it all leads to misery.
We are all lost in the swirling sky.
With airplanes and travel, is it better do die.
People are people, will we soon understand.
That it is better to be in our land.
What if all nations have come together.
To decide for the future of all lands forever.
Then we`ll be happy, then we`ll be free.
Of unhappy faces and of misery.
So let us join hands. Let`s fight for this cause.
So that no man or women will ever be lost.
It is a statement. And it is the truth.
So let`s come together. We are here for our youth.
Categories:
globalization, political,
Form: Free verse
Global communities becoming small towns of a city
Long before now, the world is just a set up of different geographies
Occupation of adopted ways continues its cultivation
Basic principles embraced for better world views understanding
All cultures beginning to envelope into same ideology
Lasting through time to feel we are all in one duplex
Imitation becoming a blessing and pride rather than being shameful
Zones of different regions though opposite in make up become similar in operation
As the poles of planet earth walk towards each other
The same style exhibited in different distant corners
International, having broken limbs to become more of local
Oscillating the currents of a mixed way of life, as
Nations learn from nations to make the world one large room.
Categories:
globalization, community, earth, environment, society,
Form: Acrostic
Allergic species of alphabets causes itching in my mind,
Like rashes, lonely frail but gigantic when unite,
Words carrying meaning in accord with linked dialect,
Languages holding cultures but biased,
Such a biased word the SUN whenever screaming,
Compelling east to run for reverie when west is still dreaming,
One color of sun symbolizes one earth’s existence,
Conversely spectra signifies the seven subsisting continent,
Colors with variable wavelength, continents with unique independence,
Though I love independence but specific day is appalling,
No matter its gala of 14th august or 15th’s reveling,
Each parallel day retells story of slavery,
Concurrently imparts the feeling of diversity,
Discrimination based on race, extermination based on dialect,
Annihilation based on region, termination based on religion,
Despite of existence of immense segregation,
Still each independent slave proclaims globalization………………..
Categories:
globalization, inspirational, life,
Form: I do not know?
Weaker economies,enslaved by stronger economies!
Categories:
globalization, grief,
Form: Monoku
These days move quickly
second upon second
eating away the
innocence of youth!
Spring gives hope,
summer the bloom develops
a path to choose.
Autumn realism and
regret, winter stagnates
steers one’s mentality
to hazy days in limbo.
Waves of tears, a
conscious to cast out,
doubts and more doubts
before the bridge to cross.
Turbulence screams out,
many meaningless words
woven in sentiment, washed
away in rapids of unseemly
conformity, column after column
of political opinion in
constant bombardment of
promise, each and every
oppressor on their media trip,
a saturation of nebulous
speech, all without direction!
Life ne’er simple, the human race
on the wane, to dance amidst
the sunbeams that dazzle
honesty and respect.
Yet hours of artless suffuse,
never to wash the ghetto
from one’s mind, never to live
without pain, all that hatred,
all that waste, wrapped up
in one’s culture!
© Harry J Horsman 2002
Categories:
globalization, political,
Form: Free verse
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