by Miriam Mccue |
Categories:
confusion, hope, love, philosophylove,
Hope!
Hope for what?
Change!
Change to what?
Change!
Change what?
Believe!
Believe exactly what?
Reform!
Reform what?
Reform!
Reform exactly into what?
Love!
Define Love.
Love!
Love what?
Love!
Love whom?
Love Humanity!
Humanity isn’t a person nor an animal.
Love Humanity!
Humanity is an abstraction.
Love humanity!
It’s easier to love humanity than a person.
Love humanity!
I’d rather love you!
by Sherwin Balbuena |
Categories:
work,
'Tis intangible
Unlike the spears and the guns
Of the daughters and the sons
Unconquerable
But partly they symbolize
Its abstraction ere our eyes
The time has passed by
And the world has also turned
From chaos into concord
Now we say goodbye
To old discrimination
Racism and commotion
There's a new picture
That appropriately depicts
Our genuine love and respect
For our own culture --
Raising our right hand to pledge
And doing our job with badge
by Gina Young |
Categories:
lost love, love,
listen to the moon drop silver down. hearts are out of season. and my love was hunted down, killed by the ripping of patience. pretty stars lit up by the dark. i see brilliance in your eyes. last time. skin so warm. you taste like cyanide. and i cried in absence tonight. grind my teeth in pure abstraction. rub the hands that fill me up. stretch love over seas.
by Declan Molloy |
Categories:
satire, truth,
I want a fancy hat
it's as simple as that
I want to be divine
and that is really that
I want to be revered
to be universally feared
Instill love and dread
then grow a god-like beard
I'll hold my head up high
mumble, chant and mystify
Telling them what they need
making sure they all comply
then standing on celestial alters
I'll bless them with sacred waters
Watching the fools march on
to some pointless slaughter
Filled with love and passion
an invisible distraction
to be obeyed and feared
mankind's sad abstraction...
by Abdul Malik |
Categories:
confusion,
I don't get peace in tranquillity,
Nor happiness in bliss,
In vain I seek
some accord in harmony.
Love does not warm my heart,
Friends no longer enliven my spirit,
I find now in rivalry
No challenge!
At home in a state of chaos
I feel listless in gathering peace,
Wrapped up in worries and problems
I ponder over the ensuing solutions.
Lost in the pursuit of abstraction
I seek an icon of perfection,
I dream of things sublime
And reach beyond time!
by Kelli White |
Categories:
allusion,
Tethered to a sandman’s chair
Oblivious and yet aware
Who would think or know
Abstraction would be a show
Of endearing love and such care
Nonetheless fingers crossed in air
Cuffed and bound no escape
A tethered rope invisible stake
Yet here I sit and simply stay
Sandman’s victim on this day
Seeking freedom from this curse
Laiden bare within a hearse
Run my soul and free yourself
Brass cross entangled on the shelf
Feathers from high talk to me
Angels whispers to set me free
Run run my freed soul
Whispers peak to make me whole
by Gregory Colodub |
Categories:
depression, leaving, love,
I don’t remember if I ever felt so bad
I’m short of breath, have no idea why
I literally spend my day in bed
I’m deadly tired and drowsy all the time
Is that the lack of sun, too much of snow
Or maybe lack of anything I tried
To be attached to, but I was too slow
And missed the train and also plane to fly
They judge me like an enemy, by such
Criteria that they themselves don’t meet
And when I go with thank you very much
They disappear somewhere in the sleet
I never lived in any vast abstraction
Generalize me out of any scheme
To take me as I am you need no action
I’m there already, see I’m there within.