'Confronted History'
if we looked at history
on a multi-plane spreadsheet
and compared the goings on
in each particular era
we shall find that at any given
period, no matter the advancement
there inevitably at a cost lay revealed
atrocities, genocides, discrimination
prejudices, and a lack of conscience
that mark the brute in humans
poets have also been present
ever alert on the front-line
emissaries of peace and amelioration
their words rousing, humanising
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good write my friend, mans inhumanity
Thanks my friend šš»šļø
most welcome
Tis true words filter through the rock and seep to wells deep below. Until man has a social revolution equal to his technological we will continue a brute species where our capability to inflict damage excels our ability to do good. Humanity has long been in wait of a paradigm shift toward unity and love.
Indeed. A most stirring reading of the poem, thanks dear Soren šš»šļø
You are always welcome my dear friend
Is the wheat forever being separated from the chaff? Just what is going on here? (Got a rhyme in the pipeline, Arqios! No that it "answers" anything.) Great write, my friend!
Quite so, my friend. Perhaps to be developed in verse at another time. šš»šļø
Thanks for the Fave @Salvia šš»šļø
Yes- plagiarising poets will be in the firing line! Argh!
I've always said . If you want to know what the Future holds: look at the Past.
Well said.
Iām with you, Rik...I want to read the poets who made people uncomfortable in their own time. And I hope I have the nerve to keep doing that in mine. š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
Fine words Rik but history has always been told by the winners, what if the losers were right?
Andy
Strikes a chord with me. It is the thinker who expressed dismay at the state of the world- then and now
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