Red Pill Blue Pill

The matrix awakened an ancient idea

I suppose for our youth to recall

What the Greeks always knew

the choice was their birth rite

 

Drink of the river Lethe

Walk the earth another time

Drink from the Mnemosyne

Live in Elysian Fields forever

Reviews

[KAOlmsted]

I had to Google the movie reference; I never saw the Matrix...but I saw an episode of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series where some cab driver went box of frogs and made his fares choose between two pills...they took one and he took one and it was anybody's guess which pill would be the fatal one...Watson ended up sniping the guy through a window...it was pretty f*****g good. *blink blink* Oh yeah...your poem xD Sorry...great stuff, actually. "The choice was their birth rite..." Nice. Thanks for sharing this with us...

-kimmer

[DCT ponderings]

I love Sherlock! Thanks for sharing this episode.

So you never saw the Matrix. You have to like Sci-Fi I suppose. The first time I saw it I came out of the theater feeling like the entire world was simply an illusion. Like I had swallowed the red pill and woken up. So I would say it was a very effective movie.

[KAOlmsted]

Oh sweetheart...I love love love Sherlock...No. Never saw the Matrix. I've seen many parodies of it, though xD It's that Keanu person, yeah? Holy cats I abhor him...as an actor, I'm sure he's a lovely man...or maybe he's not...maybe he walks around Hollywood over enunciating s**t and being completely annoying ;-)

My pleasure...I liked this piece (says A.D.D. woman xD)

[DCT ponderings]

How about the new Sherlock?.....Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary. :)

[KAOlmsted]

No, because Watson is a woman...kimmer loves her gay boys...even the insinuation ;-)

[quinfinn]

this is brilliant, both in significance and in showcasing your writing ability. as me me, i would have chosen strawberry fields forever...but hey, i'm just an old hippie. and that is not how it was written then!!!!! well done!

[DCT ponderings]

Strawberry Fields, Elysian Fields everyone has their own Nirvana. Thank you Quinn.

[quinfinn]

always welcome, friend.....

[Sirius King]

i love how you intertwined the old idea in with the new

great write

[DCT ponderings]

Thanks Serenus!

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Oh, this is absolutely stunning! One of my favorite movies (watch it and rewatch it and rewatch it...it gets a little obsessive sometimes...lol), and the way that you brought it back to one of my other great loves, Greek mythology, is just brilliant. This is officially the best poem I have read today! Straight into the favorites and highest marks for you on this one!

[DCT ponderings]

Thank you my dear. I actually thought of you as I wrote it. It has been reading your poems incorporating Greek mythology that actually brought this to mind for me. I hoped you'd enjoy it.

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Truly I did! Thank you!

[DCT ponderings]

It did indeed. You had me looking up Mythology while reading some of your pieces. It was like me own mini refresher course. Then while writing my muse poem I remember their oft forgotten mother and it all fell into place from their. So, no truly, Thank you. This time you were my muse. :)

[Tree]

One of my favorite movies, but I like the Greek story version just as well. The root of an idea that seems so intuitive and at the heart of every person's gut that it just might––– in some version of the idea, be true. We shall all see. Thank you for sharing this.

[DCT ponderings]

One of my favorites as well Diego. Thanks.

[Sami Khalil]

A splendid read and write . It awakens ancient senses and conjures great times...:)

[DCT ponderings]

Thanks Sami

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure...:)