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Reptilian Army Searches For Recruits

The oil lamp of eternity
flickers
with melancholy....

There are hand puppets talking to the wall,
there is a resignation letter written by the human race
with too many crosses to bear,
a locust drone of anti-Christs proselytizing from the pulpit,

the mind dulls and blanks out
enigmatic,
the spirit breaks,
divested of its human kindness;
too many rumpled suits and ties in the army of the nearly
dead-of-heart
and they're coming for you
to scavenge what remains,
and you wait
for someone to save you,
just like always.

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I like this piece

never sure what good, and smart poets are talking about, so I take stabbing guesses most of the time.
This particular piece read very easily, and smoothly.

Reptilian army: I see these images on you tube of world leaders really being of a different species, or are you implying snakes,i.e. snake oil salesmen?

the question of pronoun choice entered my self-converstion while reading this.
Why not "us" or "me" Who are those who need saving, who are those that don't?

I also sensed allusions to Socrates, the bilble, and the new atheist movement. Probably not even close, but that what i came away with, ( a general degragation of everything )

you are a much more political being than I am. I've never known the world to be different in its political aspects than it is right now, so I take it as the natural way of the world. I hardly notice more than I notice the mountains eroding.

Uh OH! am I one of the ones you are speaking to?!

you caught my attention with this...sometimes that is enough (interpretation not withstanding)

Al

My whole life I've been apolitical, still am, however I calls it the ways I sees it. And whichever way you sees it my dear Al, is so for you. Me. Us. Them. And there it is.

~Thanks for reading & your comment.

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Nothing a good poet ever says is not political, it just can't usually be equated to a party line or dogma.
The call to action and thought is what makes it "pure" politics.

I have had an epiphany of sorts, of late. Become entirely atheistic, abandoning belief in anything spiritual except as a psychological metaphor. I no longer call myself a Shaman.

But as your are a spiritual/political poet, I guess part of me is still a Shaman.

cheers,
Jess
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My life is the poem I write of my life....with *your* help (or hindrance).

I and Thou. There's no one else.

~A

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look at all the new poets, some might call thesm leves 'rappers'
who write with meaning, content and intent

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

I have been to a few countries and have with interest seen the, what you call the reptilian army sucking away at the landscape.
In Africa it is not seen but one day, the West will awake and say are we the only West and what does it mean, the dominoes didn't fall they quietly laid down and died.
If only someone could now decide what is the best for the world, fat chance, I am so glad that I am my age.
I really hope that 21-12-12 is the end of our stupidity I think that the Mayans would have started from the beginning again it is a cycle, and my old stone mason was getting tired lol.
Reptiles you have been watching V again, Take care out there I hope that USA becomes a leader that means something one day, Yours Ian.T

.
There are a million reasons to believe in yourself,
So find more reasons to believe in others..

If we look at fractals, patterns within patterns within patterns. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEw8xpb1aRA we see how interconnected we are, always have been and will always be, no matter how ignorant we are of this.

We as a world-civilization are at the crossroads, some of us may grok that. Each and every one of us have a choice; however, 12/21/12 will have come and gone on 12/22/12. What will we create together?

It takes only a moment of stillness to ask that question.

~A

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Your back with avengeance. Yoor spirit lives on a wail in the void.

J

Im not sitting on the curb awaiting for or against salvation
that would be interesting though
....as if the Dutch when over run by the Spanish gave up
waiting for the death that swept through...all in the name
of the cross of course! Or Vietnam when the americans
withdrew and Pol Pot scoured all the intellectuals including
poets and killed them by the millions...Imagine Sydney
cleansed and just the pure working ethical people were left
the ordinary would not want any intervention..
Like us natives just sat waiting for extermination

no poets allowed Just state approved if you argued
or tried to cause a fuss they just shot you and that shut
things up... interesting I like democrasy and freedom
and I worked minimum wage as a labourer so I would
just do as told with shovel and pick like the soviets

Kaliashana I always liked your work and this is no
exception

Thank You

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