Empty Rhetoric

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    Empty Rhetoric

    One more transition;

    A moment to reflect,

    a moment to collect all the ongoing

    travesties we live in earnest.

    Never again to be perceived as the

    conscience; now to be played out

    by the ignorant.

    Not that ignorance can’t be healed;

    you can’t heal the weary, while

    misunderstanding the prejudice.

     

    A rolling stone will lose no mass

    rolling along it’s padded course.

     

    The scenery will, however change

    wildly around it, but it is seemingly

    controlled.

    A funnel’s effect- a collection of all

    that is on top feeding to the bottom

    the quickest way out, while what’s

    necessary is steadily being replaced

    by what’s stationary, or stagnant.

     

    “All in due time.”

    Father time seems to echo from

    a not too distant future, this time

    which feels like an utterly

    ridiculous test of the signals we’ve

    received.

    All our emotions seem in check:

    desires, needs, and expectations,

    yet it’s the patience I’ve found I’m

    collecting none of.

     

    Ooooh, how I wish anyone could

    value the souls locked within two bars.

    On a page as puresque as the place

    all thought seems to stem from.

    My words now seem like graffiti.

    I now know it’s the intense fervor of

    their release that makes them a

    masterpiece.

    In a theater of disjoint images,

    disconnected freedoms, it’s become

    the will of my nature. A nature

    uncovered only if you criticize

    yourself hard enough to find it.

    A soul can never be trapped. When

    you’ve got a pen and this here road

    map.

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    contraban commented on Empty Rhetoric

    07-06-2009

    Tight! I give it 2 thumbs up like the Fonz. Aaaaay!

    LouKyBabe commented on Empty Rhetoric

    06-24-2009

    Nice work, I also liked the ending, i like your style. keep it up.

    MsKrystle commented on Empty Rhetoric

    06-14-2009

    Wow I really like this. Especially the last part "A soul can never be trapped when you've got a pen and this here road map" perfect way to end this powerful poem. Nice work

    bforibus commented on Empty Rhetoric

    06-14-2009

    true to its name through and through. the emotion is hot. it was like hearing a speech. very good job on observing reality

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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