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Cursed
It's all out there, waiting to be found
While we think merely of what has passed
Too much influenced by example;
And then there is ego,
The manic need to display the intellect,
Which is really only a regurgitation
Of what someone else has thought or done
And we excuse this re-invention as education
An elucidation of what is wholly redundant.
Cursed
That's what we are
Believing we have discovered new ways
As if the old Gods no longer count,
But they do . . .
Oh yes, they certainly do;
They will have their say again,
But our expectation is that some,
Those of us in the know,
Will be allowed to survive
To build a new world?
That is where we began
And it is where we shall end.
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Comment by: - 2006-05-11 15:44
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| Yes-you've certainly hit the nail.. |
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Comment by: - 2006-05-11 08:53
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| it's got a nice ring to it. I like how it sucked me into reading more of it! |
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Comment by: - 2006-04-24 11:29
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| I found this very challenging, I hate the thought that we are cursed or that we have not found a way to be original. I think we all have potential to achieve. Aside from that emotional outburst it's a wonderfully written poem of the highest standard. Thanks.-B |
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"There is nothing new under the Sun". The truth indeed, does not change. How we interpret it might, and certainly the particular way we choose to express it is what gives us the illusion of originality.
Or perhaps that is all it means to be original, to find a new way to describe something familiar...hey wait a minute...that's metaphor...it's poetry ...its....it....
Damn it Richard! You brilliantly found a new way to tell us something familiar and make us think about how to say something familiar in a clever new way. You Poetic Scoundrel! |
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"The manic need to display the intellect,
Which is really only a regurgitation
Of what someone else has thought or done" I really enjoyed those lines. On the other hand, if we did not write about familiar topics, no one would know what in hell we were talking about. |
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