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Open Poetry #45

A Random Act of Violence

AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

0 posted 2009-11-25 09:20 AM

Chimeric wisps
of anger
filter through
the fog of being.
Chance encounters,
choreographed
by Chaos,
put spark
to tinder-dry emotions
shaped by paranoia's
hopelessness.

The sudden, explosive,
culmination
of a wasted life,
irrevocably,
irretrievably,
changes the lives
of Innocents.

From the series, "Anger in the Street"

"We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock"

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2009-11-26 08:47 AM

There is a sense of helplessness in this write, crafted with excellence, dear Jim.

I tend to believe that no life is wasted, because no one experiences exclusively the magnetism of negativity.

But when children are the victims it is ever so hard to rebuild their trust in life.

Love,
Margherita

AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

2 posted 2009-12-11 08:21 AM

Dear Margherita: I am always forced to wonder when we, as a society, became so insensitive to the needs of others. One remembers the phrase from "The Island of Dr. Moreau,": "Are we not men?" Society, it seems, has adopted the "corporate bottom line" syndrome as a leitmotif, and has abandoned the Golden Rule.
Sad, indeed.
Jim

"We are stardust: we are golden: and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden." --Joni Mitchell "Woodstock"

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