Epoch of Mass Deletion

A Writer's Cafe exclusive. Something I have been thinking about since the accidental deletion of everyones' writings. Giving the situation similiar status to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

 

Epoch of Mass Deletion

 

Syllables graze

Upon the page

Amongst similes

And metaphors alike

As onomatopoeia buzzes about,

Alliterating thought,

Unaware of the coming plight.

 

Verbage soars

Through the sonnet fields

Seeking shelter

From the nature

Of haiku,

Its story, once upon a time,

Dwelt within poetic flight.

 

Wisdom roams,

Adjectively defined,

While hunting punctuation

Beneath participles dangling

From ideas blooming

In the brilliance of thought,

Birthed in both darkness and light.

 

The scene tranquil

Suddenly disrupted.

Words run-on, rampant,

Sentenced to silence

As the finger of God

Falls upon "delete"

Without rhyme or reason in sight.

 

Legion

26Feb08

Reviews

[Cold Coffee Magazine]

Were you drinking or on med.s when you wrote this? Most people have to be in order to create something with abosolutely no walls. This piece is like pure raw imagination, unfiltered, uncensored and uninhibited. I love it for its ability to tranverse. In fact its that very nature about it that might have me misinturpreting it. Maybe not. Either way I gave you salute for having the ability to let it all hang out like that.

Dave

[Gaiamethod]

Really good, I love the way the way the words create pictures of words. Writing is a creative process which grows and dies like everything else we create. Some is beautiful some is not but all is subject to death. But, like the death of the dinosaurs perhaps it makes way for even more fruitful writing........
Nice one.

[Kalliope [ u g l y b e ..]

You were right, this was definitely well worth reading.
The first three stanzas just had me smiling, my mind conjuring up all these great images of what wisdom would look like as it roamed, how ideas could literally bloom.
Found these sort of images very smart and clever and a lot of fun.

The ending as well was great.
Especially when put into the perspective of the destruction of the dinosaurs. Another line that just had me grinning (although it also caused me to remember the frustration and pain of losing some of those writings =P.) However, I love your style and the way you seem to have a somewhat...lighthearted approach to this writing. (not the right word but the best I can do. It's more a case of it just NOT being all doom and gloom and emo - which it could very easily have become if not for you delicate writing touch.)

Nice work
Spider.

[Wildfleour]

I dig this a lot! :)

[Kelley Pascoe]

I love how you ended this, it was kind of funny. Kind of like a misstake LOL. I hope you don't think I'm being rude? I love the writing.
Thanks for sharing.
Kelley Frost

[Lauren Xena Campbell]

This is wonderful, Legion. Really great. I especially liked the way you have made light of the incident and combined it with the extinction of the dinosaurs to represent the sheer gravity of the loos to us writers. I love this. It is very well written and it does you credit.

[Alex Walters]

Haha, this is one of the most creative poems i've ever read on here.

Unfortunately I can say that I can relate to you on this one :]

[flaneur]

Have you ever read The Exiles by Ray Bradbury? Dickens, Poe, Shakespeare, and others are on another planet... and are dying due to mankind's destruction of writing. Your poem reminds me of this story; it stretches beyond an isolated incident and echoes the fears of writers everywhere.

[Jennifer Welker]

yes, delete. i can relate. thanks!

[Jet Lag]

ok, it is in my past enough now that i can laugh about it... almost.

good write!

but "God?" ;)

[Tiffany Blair]

i think i know how you are feeling.. far away but there for the taking.. i don't know... interpretation can be different for everyone.. well regardless i like it.. cluttered and confused like me...