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original spoken-wordfeaturing the art of James Flaxman
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Abhorrent
rhythms of pop songs
flutter over the surface of dawn,
screaming banalities engineered
to make you tear up | sit tired,
clock in, hands barren,
clay-fired glossed up for the big game
the night before you:
settle down kettle-brown coffee pour
on the guest table all the way down
through the guest door,
but still,
let me guess,
you want more?
Clock out,
the report's due at midnight,
write it in slanted germanic misery.
You did well;
have a drink on me.
And don't you dare let the mind wander
and write another one, more secret:
scrawled in a purple diary
to expose debauchery delinquent.
Don't you ever wonder;
don't you speak the unspeakable.
Keep quiet with the blunder;
keep thinking the unthinkable.
Written & Spoken
By @d-pend
8/4/18
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Art by
James Flaxman
.1 (and 4) = "One Must Fall"
2 = "Shell of a Hedgehog"
3 = "The Wrong Trail"
Interesting indictment of pop culture. Great images. I did not know the artist. Help illustrate your point. We are saturated by "abhorent" noise and poor taste forced-fed as art.
Of course, artist would have to agree that beauty is relative and all that, but as it happens with literary classics, time and the confluence of critical voices end up prooving certain premises right.
Not everything call artistic is art; not everything elevates the spirit and enhances human sensibilities and potential (asuming that's art's purpose).
Selfish self expression has always existed in all artistic manifestations, but they are either forgotten or become the cults of sub-cultures.
"Engineered" art, for money's sake has the capacity to saturate itself, though and allows more elevated manifestations to pop up ;)
Yo @d-pend! We really ARE livin' in HELL these day, aren't we? It's like the world if being FLIPPED upside down, and the children are morphing into "adults" and the adults morphine into "children". Total mind-f*ck in my opinion, but it's been this way for as long as I can remember. I think the only hope is that we will eventually reach a "point of diminishing returns" where thing flip BACK OVER. Anyways, I LOVE this artwork by James Flaxman. Thanks for showcasing his work and introducing making more people aware of it. I hope you will collaborate (and thus showcase) some more of these quality artists on Steemit, so we can all expand our connections...
Lines these days are written with tension - rather than say it overtly, fearing it is subversive, offensive, we write it as something cryptic (subverted by forces) - to divert or provide a way out should any accusation emerge about a particular, non-allowed meaning.
James Flaxman's artwork is really good and his stories amazing too.
@trumanity,
I say it overtly.
Quill
Here's an ancient African saying, Quill:
Humans with gonads of steel,
are made to answer several questions by security,
Others use grease.
The African saying has been de-toxified
& should not not cause indigestion
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor
@trumanity,
I LOVE IT! Inherited wisdom.
Although, I spent almost 5 years in Africa, and, surprisingly ... I don't recall that particular aphorism. Perhaps I was too far north. :-)
Quill
Amazing images and lines @d-pend,
I was glad to hear your voice although this poem has a slightly ominous and sarcastic tone.
And what are you writing in your purple diary?
"And remember, I love you."
I thunk that.
@d-pend,
Interesting theme.
It always comes down to conflict: Man against Man. Man against Nature. Man against the Expectations of the Status Quo.
But in the end ... it's Man against Himself.
Each one of us decides upon those things for which we will pay a price, and those things for which we will not. Poetry is written about the former, the latter is explained away in prose.
Quill
Music is an ambassador of culture, that is why songs must have meaning. The compositions must be made to last. Music can not be a monster that aliene the culture of other lands with banalities. As a poetry teacher, your songs have everything; depth and meaning.
It's been a long time you did something from Dsound I'm not sure though, but I love the way you dived into simplicity at one stage in the poem and the rhyme scheme in the 2nd to the last and last stanza as well, it's a beautifully written one here, cheers buddy.
@d-pend What beautiful images, very creative, I like how with your images you transmit us many feelings, rhythms of pop songs at dawn is spectacular, I like alarm clock like this, charming. Thank you for writing so beautifully and sharing it with all of us. Have a nice weekend.
Hello @d-pend thank you for your upvote and apprecaition. Thanks a lot