Humanity Can’t Hear
by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen — Read all 1,670 poems by Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Humanity’s fears are my hot, salty tears,
Emotions' arrears of long bitter years,
Complying like sheep as we desperately weep,
Emptying our minds to our more vicious kind.
Humanity’s peers are my salty, hot tears,
Mistakes left behind continue to bind,
Absolving with shrugs and false-hearted hugs,
Forgetting our search for feelings of worth.
Humanity’s jeers are my hot, salty tears,
Emotions compress, reality seems less,
Attaining hell’s depths and heaven’s fake width,
Delivering slain souls to a bottomless hole.
Humanity fears our salty, hot tears,
Mirrors abhorred can’t show we once soared,
Rejecting respect we compound our debt,
Compilings disappear, for Humanity can’t hear.
Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen
© Copyright 1/23/05
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"Humanity Can’t Hear" abounds in contents and art. Its lines match the sound and the subject dealt within the precision of musical harmony, and conducts the theme showing the ideas in linked rings, (Lines 2 and 15, for example.) – forming the chain – of a poetic-pholosophical concept, delivering an outstanding message.
The combination of – Triolet, Pantoum and Villanelle in the composition of "Humanity Can’t Hear" made this poem a fresh
scented FLOWER. This poem confirms that the twenty-first century is Poetry’s, and that it is going to be the REVEALING century of the "I" and Humanity.
Healthier be the eyes of those that can read this masterpiece.
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Truly mesmerizing, truly powerful, emotive excellence! Well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(
powerful , very powerful!!!
Such clarity, and so well articulated.
Bravo!
Love Tinka
Ron
a deep glimpse into humanity's inability to comprehend its own misgivings ...
Here, again, I find confirmation that so many of us are speaking
to the same spiraling state of our collective condition. I pray the cumulative effect will inspire us to the place of doing what it takes to stop it. We can--it all depends on settling collectively that it is worth it to forego convenience and our preconceived false securities to come into authentic balance with Nature. Thanks Vicky