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

[ah]

yea, this is straight up ridiculous lol, amazing write

[Melody P-]

I love your style on this one:)
your similarities well put*
I love how you ended with..
"Without rhyme or reason in sight" great closing**
so many aspects you've covered, by far too true for most whom indured the deletions+_+
great way of putting it**
loved it;)

[Alorra Peltier]

You know one of the main things I love about reading your work is that not only does it provoke genuine thought but every single time you can rest assure that it's going to be an original thought described. Something you KNOW you've never read before. I like that a LOT, today we live in a society of mediocrity and routine there's not a lot of room for originality. You my dear are a breath of fresh air. Thank You for that.

[Joseph - Michael]

Sure, there's always something to think about after the creations being deleted, destroyed, erased, and so on. BUT, there's always a fresh start to start all over again. For instance, I didn't repost all of my writings just like that, I just reviewed and revised my writings before reposting. I did that just to make them much better and worth reading than the originals, you know? We all learn things from the past to make things much better (and improved) for the presents and the futures...

Anyway, I really enjoyed (and agreed) your writings, so it's all good here...

[Floydina White]

As a writer (not only of poetry but of other various things) I can appreciate this poem. Funny how we never stop to think how the words feel about being obliterated, huh?

We writers ARE Gods, aren't we? We constantly create new worlds with every sentence, every word...you're a genius, I say.

Great read!

[Hellchan]

Wow, I just love your choice of words.

[Jayne Ann Saporito]

This is great, and although I did not suffer mass deletion, I can sure identify with it. In fact, I almost threw away a whole novel once at 3 am, but glad I did not!
Good writing, and I truly enjoyed this.

[Red_Queen]

someone alt f4rd all of our writing.
very good.

[Kenji Light]

Wow, very powerful language in this piece and great use of the roaming dinosaur imagery. I was quite amused and yet, relived the bitterness that was months ago. I really liked the way this was set up. I think it would be best suited as verbally delivered poetry personally because it has this amazing feel to it. With the right delivery it can even be musical because of the great flow of the piece. My only real suggestion is to maybe make onomatopoeia plural and then change buzzes to buzz because buzzes seemed to disrupt the flow a little. Good write!

[Jeremiah Medina]

Damn this is freaking great poem. Nice imagery and as with all of your poems its very well written. Very imaginative and very cool.