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- Element, Asteroid, and Place (a riddle) at allpoetry
Just the newest element riddle that I've been thinking about for awhile, but just neglecting to get it done. It is experimental, and may g - Slight of Particle Hand (a riddle) at allpoetry
Smallest particle in the universe, / Three types of "flavor" in elemental purse. / Ghost in the machine / slight of particle hand, / No electrical charge in this decaying band. / We travel undetected, close to the speed - Color Me Black, Color Me Clear at allpoetry
Color me black, color me clear, / Organic I am-- traces everywhere. / My symbol is C, number is six, / Cycle of nitrogen-- astrophysics! / Suerly basis for all that is life, / Nonmetalic yet mixed I could be a knife
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on The Tyger by William Blake, on March 3, 2006
A True Classic
I have loved this poem ever since I read it in Sixth Grade, and I didn't understand it until analyzing it in College. Though I don't think it's his best work, I do have great affection for it, and him. And to whoever said that he/she would pan this if it were posted today on allpoetry, and having never been written before--wow-- well, you should really eat those words because this is TIMELESS! I recommend Blake's books, Songs Of Innocense, and its sequel, Songs Of Experience to anyone who hasn't read them. Blake was a voice for the oppressed, particularly the children who were forced into child labor (read the Chimney Sweeper). He is one of the greatest poets with the biggest hearts, full of compassion for the common folk. With sincereity, David
Powerfully Prophetic
I was introduced to this poem in College, in Film Studies, and was told to generate ideas from the film, "A Night of the Hunter" and this. The film is a powerful drama starring a young Robert Mitchum as an evil preacher with "HATE" and "LOVE" tattooed on the knuckles of his hands. He is after a cache of gold or money that is stashed in a little, one church hamlet. He is an abusive, ex-con, step father to a little boy and his younger sister.I was listening to a lot of punk then, especially The Clash, and remember how I thought this related to two of their songs, "Armageddon Times" and "Death or Glory." It was a period when I began making historical connections between certain timeless poets, (like Yeats), cinematographers, and musicians in a healthy, harmonious way; they were a vehicle of enlightenment-- a voice for the people who had no voice. The three voices here, with Yeats being the heart of the moral argument, is proven as needed by the people, even providing an alarm, even moral compass, whether one is religious or not, as Yeats was not. I remember that avarice and false preaching were my central themes, and how Reaganomics, and what George Prescott Bush, who wound up being the Vice President (the father of the numbskull who is President now), called Reagan's economic plan as "voodoo economics." Yeats would've went wild!
That was twenty years ago, and I think this poem is as strong and relevant in today's immoral political climate with proof being in the war in Iraq (no W.M.D.s), Hurricane Katrina (and how people were neglected by their own government), and the sickening disregard for the environment, i.e., global warming, as well as epidemics and the various health threats to people all over the world, especially those poor and uneducated in third world countries.
If Yeats were alive today, and wrote "the worst/ are full of passionate intensity," it would be powerfully prophetic. The times we live in with Bush et. al. are unstable with evil wars, immoral politicos (politic-ho's) and highly unethical corporate "pirates" (who fall under the guise of corporate lawyers and judges), genocide in Africa (as well as other Eastern Eurpoean countries in the last decade), molestation charges against a multitude of priests and deacons (that have been swept under the "burning-bush carpets of so many churches")! Third world countries are now capable of nuclear proliferation. It's wherever one wants to begin as there's a wealth of information to prove the argument that "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." Just listen to the Bushes, and read between the "lines."