From lies in books they set us free
Encyclopedias are redacted
And Satie’s fourth Gymnopedie
Flooded with likes from the attracted
I’m living in the brave new world
It works far freakier than Huxley’s
I’m bought and sold and I download
I get the codes to use them aptly
I’m quite a modern chap these days
No more a fossil left in lurch
Daedalus AI builds new maze
Keeps every Theseus in search
Where is that famous silver thread?
But I just passed the exit gate
I heard the Minotaur is dead
The ambulance arrived too late..
A squeaky wheel gets the grease,
but a sneaky fox gets the geese -
will wonders never cease?
A rolling stone gathers no moss,
but only if he uses dental floss -
I am at a loss!
The early bird catches the worm,
but dies from a food-poisoning germ -
It makes my stomach squirm!
A confused old man wonders why
the old rules don't seem to apply.
It makes me want to cry!
Each instructive allegory,
each proverb in the inventory,
tells a different story.
Cooked, ready to eat
April 2027, we meet
The 2026 Finance Bill
A new order, bitter pill
With it you are tracked
Affairs, neatly packed
Taxed here and there
To them, you must be fair
The reverse doesn't hold
Not belonging to the fold
You produce, they don't
Work like you, they won't
Order the world, anew
To benefit just a few
Cannon fodder, the rest
To the front line, the best
When we sought a new world,
We looked courageously to the skies above,
To create an atmosphere of love
Where man could see and simply live.
When we sought a new world,
We scorned and laughed at the hate they bore,
The many troubles of hidden agonies,
And the daring competitions of life.
The man I know is not one of cruelty or hate,
But a man of genuine integrity and pride,
A man of virtue, with an eagle’s pride.
When Obi was a boy,
He played at hide and seek,
But now, in the new world we sought,
He is a man who lives for others.
Draw the sword to the heart of man,
Gaze at his face with lifted eyes
There, only sorrow you will find,
Hidden for a thousand generations.
The strong, independent fellow,
Who lives for his fellow man,
Who ignores his pain.
He barters his happiness for a flower’s smile.
Some say
The heart's too tender,
Therefore easily bruised
And long to heal – because
The heart has tendency to
Overly feel…
Some say human love’s too fragile;
Too easy to chip and ruse -- take
For granted, and selfishly abuse --
Say welcome to The Metallic Age!
Electronic Brains and alloy skin --
Conscious soul no longer needed
With an App your day will begin –
No need for spirit correction, robots
Will bear all sin. AI this and AI that,
AI dog and AI cat – an AI baseball
An AI bat – instead of change the baby
Keep him or her cool and dust free --
If a mistake made, the AI’s will calmly
disagree…. Right. Good luck with that.
Color is red, yellow, blue, pink, rainbow
across sky scape
Is black and white, only thing separate
white man from rest race
Where does hatred start against that
is not dominant
Many race scattered islands, Columbus
Idea to new world
Existing world European strip native born
Slavery or man authority to wealth is seek
Where we find ourselves better than that
sleep's gutter
Wealth of a nation broken down poverty levels
Benefit to life is to breath the price you pay
Life to the man, material way high living
Kings of whips my gash deeply bleeds
Even my own to survive old wars ashe skies
Can we not be free without chains rattle steps
Clocks of time ticking civilization existence
White out cover black while it's color brings
darkness depths
Describe as the pain, torcher of famine death
Is a man what they represent to be or lying soul
behind which evil presence lurking
Blood still red, stop heart and we all dead
Forget not colors fought in death as
one's have your back
Good and bad in each race that breathes
Color new world, isn't beauty in eye of beholder
Have a heart, not a mind of misconception
no man woman ethnic race
lying cheating poker face
for christian fury
presents less worry
some know less about this place.
Streaming like the rain outside
The windscreen wipers working like
My heart and chopping onions stuff
A testament to will the good of another
The kids are in the back and can't see what's going on
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling in the driving seat
I think of my wife and when we first met
She was always running late
As I was shoegazing on the corner
I needed a parrot sidekick
High on Belgian waffles and coffee
A hip new sensibility
The dash cam records the journey
Join me on my magic carpet
Grant me three wishes
Give me some tassel
In the Maghreb
I'll be your magic lamp
In order to reveal myself
Let's pick out curtains
New World, Old Design
Dead the present. Memory the past
Can’t find the space. For love. Life
Can’t live—this life. Unloved. Pressure
I need. Just live. Alone. Maybe find love
I want the past. Again. Feel. Hope. The hope
But new life. Presented the past. My design
Leave the past. Live the past. Loved design
New World, my life. We want. The new life
Be the presented fate. Hope. Not a design
I love it. I want this life. New World. Design
I need this love. My past. Lost. Flower. Life
Loved my past. Suffering. Heart. New desire
New World
Saved
Old design
We need a new world
A new one. But eternal, ancient
Without psychology. But with life
The life. The original. By God
The heart. Honest reality. Sky
God’s love is life. Love, eternal
Let it pass this life. Comes new past
Passing life
Passed lives
A new world
We need
Pass
Away
This
Life
As I continue to deep in myself with poetry
I discover a new language, foreign
Almost like unscrambling the word pattern
Using a mixture of ingredients to describe a pride
Finding early 2000 websites to create a blog
Showing people my words anonymously.
Hello new world! Please welcome me with such care.
New World Order
Moving toward totalitarianism.
Dictatorship, absolute power.
World polluted government.
Globalist agenda.
Shut down the protesters.
Slaves to world power.
Our words are meaningless.
Our opinions don’t even matter.
Selfish supreme rulers.
Ideology.
Corrupt politics.
We the people are locked up in a prison.
Apocalyptic, complete destruction.
Economic disaster.
Control with no limitation.
No place to run.
Fight back our freedom.
Raise your fist in the air.
New World Order.
The false leaders of tomorrow.
The beginnings toward the end.
Our leaders have always been the enemies with sin.
Control the world.
Worship only money and themselves.
Dictating the human raise.
End of days.
The old facts lie, the old truth dies
Everything needs update
The new facts open our eyes
Revisionism is great
New lemming-minded must observe
This harsh reality
The world we thouroughly deserve
Our ancestors couldn’t see
So after cleaning it looks fine
This good old brave new world
Its pharisees and philistines
Its glorified absurd
What’s new, looks old, and in reverse
Its all the same, my dear
The truth enacts with inner source
Of deepest secret fear
In order to avoid the bad
Consequences we see
We drink more wine, and eat less bread
Watching the tides at sea.
Ideal World
Ideal World. Everybody wants it. But what world is the right one for the ideal?
There are so many ideal worlds. Subjectively. All the people want their ideals
One planet, one ideal. Right. One planet and so many ideas, it doesn’t work
Ideal worlds. Everyone wants their own – the personal one. It is a selfish choice
Ideal World. Everyone needs the best future. Collectively. Proactive individuals
Proactive individuals, the creative parts of the new world, flourishing living ideals
World's often unfair to everyone,
There's a better world promised though.
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