Not your touch but your overloaded need
chained the world’s tongues to legends
of blood-smeared gold and iron tears.
Your souls broke like the planet’s heart,
drew us up from the dead waters
of your lives’ sudden insanity,
tumbled our apathy like burned bones
across the void of our bleeding names and faces.
We sat on cliffs of twilight overlooking hell,
struggling to dream ourselves blind
over the orgy of the furies of 2005:
the tsunami that ate humans raw,
the howling that raped Haiti numb,
twin hags Katrina and Rita tripped out on heroine,
the pornographic disease of terrorism and war,
and this earthquake that snapped the camel’s skinless back.
As if the frozen geometry of heaven’s sorrow
multiplied and spread like a tribe of wandering orphans.
The atomic white horror oozing in and out
of naked and bewildered humanity
stuffs our mouths with the scabbed flesh
of prophecies dipped in honey and acid.
Out of light and unseen years, we moan new beginnings
that no one has promised, and no one delivered.
By Aberjhani
© 10/9/2005
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God bless, Aberjhani!
Sandie.
Sublime write dear friend.
Paul;-)
Excellent...mankind is on a slippery slope, and there ain't no stopping the slide. It's not only the "natural" disasters plaguing us, it's also our own man made ones...God help us.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Man has called up The Furies by his overloaded need and greed.
The Furies: Megaera [jealous], Tisiphone [blood avenger], and Alecto [unceasing in pursuit]....
Brilliant, Aberjhani! It does feel like it these days. Like what the hell! Who the hell! Who's fucking mad at us now and what in God's name did we do to you to deserve this? Gee, think about it, Humanity. But then there are those who'd say don't connect any dots this way to any divinity of any type. Whatever happens, happens randomly and there is no spiritual cause and effect on laws of science at work. Funny thing with that is the most brilliant scientists, after years of study and in their twilight years, frequently come to the conclusion that there's so much more to life than science and what can be explained by numbers, charts, taste, touch, and feel. "Orgy of the Furies of 2005" Fucking amazing, man!
Makes one think. What has 2006 got instore.
Don't mean to sound like a party pooper. But celebrating the old year and welcoming in the new. Is not for me.
I'll just stick to a reflective Christmas.
Such a powerful write here..
peace and love, Carole
In the cosmos of the Poet – TIME ignited the wind of imagination –and the wind of knowledge blew the picture of reason in the commanding spaceship transporting the VERB of wisdom, and the Poet was given the symbolistical lines to compose
"Page from a Red Scream Burned in Translation"... A voice duly refined and attuned to his mastership was given to be released by the Poet's tongue, when actions in cycles of warnings are depicted from the cosmological port of the Poet to be carried by the readers’ spaceships loaded with messages for the new colony of responsible citizens of the Earth.
I have read this "Page from a Red Scream Burned in Translation"
enjoying the privilege to see The Major Art glowing.
"Page from a Red Scream Burned in Translation" has paid its poetic dues enriching the treasure of Poetry.
May this magnificent wisdom carrier unload its cargo in all vessels moving on the seas of this century, and may it be etched on the doors of the millennia to witness the Poet’s passage on Earth.
I salute, You, Sublime Poet!
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
Thanks for sharing your amazing talent!!
Love Tinka
Stunning poetry!
Eileen
good to know i'm not the only one feeling the clawing and shifting moments of insanity in the air lately
I'll be posting my take on it in a couple hours when i get home
but the new beginning has been prophesied as have the labor pains....exciting times we live in, even if the labor pains seem too much to handle
:)
GYpsie