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brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

0 posted 2000-06-14 05:44 PM

We return as animals to the place
when we were born,
crawling in transition
from tree top to forest floor,
from delicate ovary to foul monkey,
implanted with inheritance of this world.
The embryo, ovary to monkey,
hatches from the Darwin-womb
onto the soil of a world yet to be tamed.
In its genesis it creates weapons
from rocks, for blood shed is in its nature.

It leaves a path of destruction
in the wake of its first step.
It can not recognise the harmony of nature,
seizing control as a primate terrorist.
From monkey to parasite:
the host is drained from fertile plains
to desert, the selfish son starves
in its greed fossilised in a world of sand.
We arrive as animals to the place
where we were born, where simians
once spoke that fatal wisdom:
“We should have stayed in the trees.”

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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one". Edward Keating

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lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

1 posted 2000-06-15 05:12 AM

A pretty succinct version of the history of our species. Great stuff!
My only comment:
We return as animals to the place
when we were born,
that's a bit funny. Wouldn't it be better if you said "where" like you do at the end? Or is it a typo? Or did I miss some significance there?

Lotharingia
"For God's sake, he's a poet. Poets are meant to feel miserable. Otherwise, what the hell are they here for? What are they going to write about?"
Tom Holland

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

2 posted 2000-06-15 01:19 PM

lotharingia, thanks for your wonderful response.

"We return as animals to the place
when we were born," by place I meant place in time, just a bit of play word. I know it does not seem to make sense. My weird sense of humour I think. anyway thanks for your reply.

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"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time".

Baltimore Grotto

"To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

E.E Cummings.

"Art is a lie which makes us realise the truth." Pablo Picasso

"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one". Edward Keating

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eldridgejackson
Member

since 2000-04-30

Posts 91

3 posted 2000-06-15 02:15 PM

I liked the poem. Of course I am partial to monkeys.

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