This is about the failure of education, the loss of compassion, and the death of integrity.
Original digital surreal art: “Futility Of Caring” by: rob kistner © 10/3/23
Our hunger for green knowledge
starved bone brittle by hollow echoes
slap sided on dead end chalk boards
askew in silent black-roofed facades
screams into a cold shadowed void
as once it was the colour of saying
now the great roaring unclean
surge and swindle
dumbly blank
whispering in tangled tongues
of forfeit’s hard foolishness
as the liars rise up to backslide
over taunted poison waterfalls
on revved up motors of ridicule
burning the fuel of unrefined truth
now the gentle seaslides of saying
I must undo
with fist and swift
seeing one-eyed blind
through the exasperation
of sullen box-bound broke light
to the heart meat of slain freedom
families bury safety and sanity
in fields of concrete and clay
as dangerous lovers
in the dirt of their leafy beds
hide and huddle
concealing the sly reasons
for held secrets
and unsung songs
spinning wild fiction
in whirlpools of deafening chaos
and dead flowers
now my saying shall be my undoing
knowing the bloodied futility
of the toxic dull-ached search
because veracity is soul-orphaned
pronounced grey-bluingly dead…
…no longer green
Original digital surreal art: “Death of Truth”
by: rob kistner © 10/3/23
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rob kistner © 10/3/23
Poetry at: dVerse
Truth can be our undoing in a world built on pillars of lies. Love the response
Thank you Björn… 🙂
Oh Rob, this is so Dylanesque and yet a modern poem on topical themes. I love the sounds in the lines:
‘…starved bone brittle by hollow echoes
slap sided on dead end chalk boards’
and
‘dumbly blank
whispering in tangled tongues
of forfeit’s hard foolishness’.
And these lines made me feel so sad:
‘because veracity is orphaned
pronounced bluingly dead…
…no longer green’.
Glad you dug it Kim thank you
Wow Rob – this is brilliant. I especially love:
now the great roaring unclean
surge and swindle
dumbly blank
whispering in tangled tongues
of forfeit’s hard foolishness
Thank you Km… 🙂
One line flowed nicely into the next. Wonderful lyrical sound. Yet, thought provoking and a bit sad.
Thank you Patti… 🙂 …much of what goes on in the world today is a bit sad…m 🙁
Oh wow, Rob! I love Dylan Thomas’ works… and what you did here is quite marvellous. Reading this, you both could have swapped notes. Such an excellent piece of writing – what a great response poem. Love, where it took you.
Thank you so very much Miriam. I have always liked DT! 🙂
Wow, I didn’t need to read past the opening lines to know this was a response to Dylan’s poem! Simply brilliant, Rob.
Thank you very much Dora. This one was written very SOC then edited through several read throughs. I am happy with the result, and I am pleased you enjoyed it… 🙂
Tangled tongues hold much meaning for me, a great read Rob. Also, King Crimson, yes indeed!
Glad you liked it Paul… 🙂
Excellent poem, Rob. Love the artwork!
Thank you Sara… 🙂