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Jon Mewett Senior Member
since 2000-03-04
Posts 1304 |
Tyrants reign across this world Nations with their flags unfurled By politicians insults are hurled Can’t they hear the waiting silence? Children starving wracked and thin Their flesh is creeping hanging skin Their woeful cries a screeching din Don’t you hear the waiting silence? Asylums stretched the prisons’ full The sullen atmosphere is dull Will nature next the sapiens cull Can’t you hear the waiting silence Annihilation of yourself You don’t need books upon your shelf The end is moving slow with stealth Don’t you hear the waiting silence? The statues shout of victories pride Appeasement with excuses hide Justification is just a ride Don’t they hear the waiting silence? Realisation in chaotic fear The truth as always been so near In watercolour painted clear We’re from the waiting silence Jon Mewett [This message has been edited by Jon Mewett (edited 06-02-2000).] |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
How I wish this could hit every newspaper from east to west, from now until election day. Well done! Sunshine ~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller ~~~ |
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Swåmp¤Faerÿie Member
since 2000-03-29
Posts 358Illinois |
You did a great job of slapping the pain and silence onto the screen. It's very......poignant....and so sad....but you did a great job of expressing the condition!! swamp And there she weaves by night and day, a magic web of colours gay.~Tennyson |
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Jana Tovey Member
since 2000-05-30
Posts 257USA |
Wow. I love how you grab everyone with the dire pronouncements about maniac world leaders, starving children, genocide, and the death of education for all. Just like the real world. Your pronouncement of the techniques that policticians, and world leaders, use to placate us, the public, are so astutely described...patriotic references to past moments of honor, excuses and justifications, all for a public that NEEDS to be appeased. And the Waiting Silence, that's the ones that we've turned our backs on, but it's also us (I think) because in turning our backs on them, we are defeating HUMANITY. Wow!! I loved the message in this poem and the way you put it all together. It has punch...makes an impact. |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Indeed it does, Jon. Excellently done! Denise |
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Jon Mewett Senior Member
since 2000-03-04
Posts 1304 |
Thanx everybody It's a sought of sullen mood I'm in at the moment,sometimes consternation rules and frustration is king. So a kinda rant I guess. Jana seems you have the same 'complaint' thanks  Jon |
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Alle'cram Senior Member
since 2000-02-28
Posts 1816Texas |
Jon, Thanks for this one. Powerful and I agree with your every line. No ranting found in this heartfelt poem. marcy |
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Jon Mewett Senior Member
since 2000-03-04
Posts 1304 |
Thanx Marcy You are very kind here. Jon |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
JON wow, I agree with every one, a powerful poem. If only the people in power could hear this, though they would probably need the people to explain it to them. I can just imagine it. One politician turns to another, "what? some people don't have as much money as we do. There are people starving..." really enjoyed this poem. ------------------------ "I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else"-Richey Edwards "Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time". Baltimore Grotto "Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity" Nicky Wire, A design for Life. manic street preachers "Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany Culture, alienation, boredom and despair" |
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childomine Senior Member
since 2000-01-25
Posts 818st. petersburg, FL |
Jon - this doesn't sound like ranting to me. More like reality stated in a powerful, passionate way. Bravo!! Excellent, excellent job. |
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