Try individual intrinsic; nations..
Or bland homogeny
Will become your state.)
T W O T'S IN the media and on the bench.'
Black as sin, are the gowns that are meant
To instill fear.' Well they give me a laugh like
Bad theater actors..They have no heart.' For
The art.' No realization of reality.' Hell must
Be their room of rest.? When they gather do
They swagger.? And compare of whom they have
Robbed the most.' Then there are T W O T''s
In the police force..we find our most unfriendly clots' but they are best described in homogeny ( just label them all as (t w o t s)
There are those who will not hear the siren's wail,
But will know the wheat has turned pale.
Winds will sweep up from the south and the west,
His chorus of trees swaying bravely are Blessed.
Shields aside, faces lit in harmony,
Destiny, homogeny, all God's Children once more free.
Lightning, earthquakes, tsunami seas,
Herald His Coming while evil flees.
Shooting Stars, like hail from above,
Will cleanse us from sin on Wings of the Dove.
And balance in nature will sweep o'er the land
With God in His Glory
Grasp all in His Hand
12/12/21
Homogeny
Our situations may be different--
farms, cities, alone, many
Our opinions may vary too--
content, despair, passivity, fear
But has humanity ever been so homogeneous in its actions?
Have we ever before all been doing the exact same thing?
Has every human ever been so united in purpose?
--No
It is an unprecedented alignment of activity.
We have never all been working towards a common goal.
We have never all been doing fundamentally the same thing.
It is a never-known rush when you realize everyone posting anything
online is in the exact same boat as you,
And the boat is our small Planet Earth,
Headed to an unknown destination;
But her crew has never before been so united.
In the midst of a storm, the body is at rest.
Society
an illusion, the shimmering mirage in a blistering desert of homogeny
with silicon grains seen only as dunes
mass minded sheep willfully penned in suspiciously safe paddocks
fearful of everything and nothing
tumultuous ocean with waves of conformism and exclusion
where rivers of contrast flow diluted to extinction
one and few dreaming in clouds and walking on air
tethered to a wonderfully disparate and inclusive reality
September 24, 2016
Poetry Contest: What is Society?
Sponsor: Ir0nic ZiNk
Rules:
- Let's see if you can describe society better than the next.
- You may terrify me.
- you may glorify me.
- You may even simply summarize society to the best of your ability.
- 10 lines max...
- bring it on! No holds bar
- Any form allowed
As in
The ice petals of an orchid
challenging an entire glacier
comprised of all that enchanted
the very same seed from which
it became.
As with
The golden grain of sand
searching for significance
so undirected and mystified
by the very beach from which
it derived.
As in
The loneliest child in time
running as fast as the light
will allow into the same grave
by which he was indelibly once
beforn.
As is
Imagine a world where nothing matters
Think about it for a second, really
No questions like, was it worth it anymore
Not seeing the point of a world in tatters
Consider; if no one felt any fear
And people with confidence and no doubt
If they carried their dreams above themselves
Knowing how useless, all that they hold dear
Envision this world of variety
A kaleidoscope that creates a self
Picture each individual lonely
But deep inside there is homogeny
Day after day the cosmos continues
Then a final day where nothing matters
©david byrne jan 2013
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