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Artifice V - rowens - 05-24-2023 Artifice V The philosophers talked coffee on the way to the home where the living slept deadly in shifts, blanketed in hotelroom art. Basket-Case Artimus, the towndump of the organization lay the introduction to the small selected group who sat passively by the tv. May moonlight casting its purple aura through rich green limbs and shaded grass with the scant scent of flowers and honeysuckles, also once rich, before the bulldozers, was the thought of one drowsy-drifty old man. Another thought of flying ships, shapes he could not identify, as the screen passed mutely over old newspaper headlines and b&w photos. The thought-experimenters' lesson came to be 'Everything in its right place.' As though this were something new, the sitters all stood up from their seats. Those standing sat and drew pictures on paper strewn across their tables like carmine. The novelty of the situation had one old woman fold an origami karaoke machine they'd later get up and dance to. This is progress, one of the janitors said, or at least art. A scientist took notes, went home and recorded every- thing that had been said and seen in his handwriting innocent as goldfish. He lived another 43 years. RE: Artifice V - rowens - 05-25-2023 Epitaph Smugness is worse with a closed mouth. Eyes dryly glistening, poised as a mob. Beauty is beautiful whether or not ugly exists; intensified by the sacrifice, ugliness is sacred, beauty holiness. Love and sing in Mocking Ways. And in Mockery there's love. A rooster ate the pious piper's goat; twirled somersaults on Alcatraz. To have done with our judgments. .............................................. Beware Any Word that Starts With Re Animals come to reclaim sound. Mix truth with anxiety, throw out the towel. Burning the sun in heaven, incinerating the word; how high a man can jump, being low by his own standards. OfficeMax has a sale on old typewriter ribbons. This is 2009. RE: Artifice V - TranquillityBase - 05-25-2023 (05-24-2023, 05:12 AM)rowens Wrote: Artifice VThough I needed to read it several times to absorb it all correctly, really enjoyed this poem, especially the final 3 stanzas, but all of it really. RE: Artifice V - rowens - 05-30-2023 Love Even the sound of the airconditioner, humming steady motion, presents the love, the particular, the cavern love for those near, those dear, and this ever clearly. Though the laws it takes to hold separate patterns together run ever on, water from the gutter to ground, like scattered rain. There's a humanity to thunder; huddled together in different tones, moods like the rainbow: Nature is its own discovery; people, like written texts, glow over their mummery, breathe kisses like incense, hug like chilled wine from the storm. Build, like the pressures of air, higher, a wider perspective, atop the ladder where all is seen and shared, all forgiven that could separate from this whole that's home regardless of space and loss, certainty, the selfsame giving holiday when you realized that you are God, how lonely. RE: Artifice V - Mark A Becker - 05-31-2023 Well now rowens, seems like spring is sprouting some pretty cool ideas between yer ears. Among them, this: The novelty of the situation had one old woman fold an origami karaoke machine they'd later get up and dance to. RE: Artifice V - Bunx - 06-03-2023 The imagery in the poem is so solid, I feel like I could clearly picture these scenes clearly as I read the poem. The word choice in this poem is spot on, I feel like I kept trying to piece together the context around it the poem. Using terms like philosophers and the Artimus reference puts alot of connotation behind what could be jobs, science testees, and things often not looked at with symbolic significance. Thanks for the read |