Darkshine

The fundemental framework falls around our feet.
Confusion proliferates with
contradicting claims
of victory and defeat.
A lonely nation isolated by regulated hatred,
like a lover in an underrated matrix.

They crawl upon my skin like a million tiny bugs,
pestering with lonliness,
and cries of up above.
Leaders sputter rhetoric like broken sprinkler valves,
while we seem far less concerned,
the farther we dig down.

Anarchists are screaming,
and conservatives are dreaming.
Leaving all the rest of us to wonder,
what the hell did we do wrong?

And the common masses sit like mallard ducks
in a clear-cut forrest pond.
Oblivious creatures, out of luck!
This here, is what's so wrong.

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"The trouble with poets is they talk too much."
-Paul Mulvey

Kitten Courna

An interesting poem that did have something to say and said it uniquely. I have to say that I was taken immeidately by the words, and how when they were all put together, they created a rhythm of their own. It was a very, very well done device. Your imagery was also very good, moderated by the things you wanted to say. It turned out well in balance, I think. A very nice poem

-Kitten

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Cadmus: Poor child, like a white swan warding its weak old father, why do you clasp those white arms about my neck?
Euripides; 'The Bacchae'

Rage2Fury

A nice poem indeed says me. Imagination leads to wonderful creation. Imagery... a well written though. Thank-you for this, I rather liked it!

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Darkshine

Thank you Kitten and Steven for your kind words. This one kinda came outta nowhere for me, except maybe frustration after dealing with a certain political party leader that shall remain nameless. Ah angst!

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"The trouble with poets is they talk too much."
-Paul Mulvey

Beatrice Boyle

Excellent Darkshine...one tiny thing, Contradict was mispelled.

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Darkshine

Ah thank you Bea!

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"The trouble with poets is they talk too much."
-Paul Mulvey