Instantaneous Beauty

This is a LYRICAL POEM/LYRICS.

“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable."

                              - Primo Levi-

Life's summary is written with graphics -

Need a shower to distract me

from blind images

But water is a tap of dropping noise -

Soap fakes purity -

skin the overrated God

 

Oh memories, I dare you

My brain - a painful relic like Auschwitz-Birkenau

Old-fashioned self-abuser

Consumed by millions of aching thoughts

Primo Levi and me know what a satrap is

Everybody wants instantaneous beauty

 

Tyranny is full of foreign yelling

Demanding respect is for

opulence seekers

Blame DNA for ugliness

Dying in such restricted ignorance -

From ashes to ashes

Snail slime

 

Oh memories, you dare me

My brain - a painful relic like Auschwitz-Birkenau

Old-fashioned reclused

Tempted by millions of aching thoughts

Primo Levi and me know what a satrap is

Everybody wants instantaneous beauty

 

Instantaneous everything

Instantaneous monstrosities

Defining beauty - utopic sense

of contradictories

Destroying everything in a blink

with powerful weakness.

Author's Note

This is a LYRICAL POEM/LYRICS.
That's why there's parts where I 'repeat myself'. They are called 'chorus'. Please do not judge the quality of my piece without asking what you don't understand, just its content. Or not, judge as you wish - I love a free nation. ;)

Reviews

[Patches I'm not so new..]

This is a sobering poem--- no one enjoys being reminded of what went on in the Naizi deathcamps but the world needs continous reminders of this evil and you have done a faboulas job in reminding us. Evil does not sleep but lurks unnoticed in the shadows waiting only for the right moment to spring forth.

[Magdelena]

Hmmm , I like this! You write with heart, and many will not understand that. But what you feel in soul, heart, thoughts, brings forth for though it may not comes across in whole, it comes across to those that see with eyes that feel your soul.
There are many images inside your words. One can take them many ways. i see this as all of us striving for perfection. To be the perfect image of what we think the world wants us to be.. We all wish to be something, in today's society it is what you look like, act like, and be as important as possible, you think others will think you are sheer perfection.. Sad i say, it is how we were trained from day one, conditioned to be from the beginning.And all along it all comes down to be yourself and the rest will follow.

[Ravyne Hawke]

Wow.. what a powerful piece this is.. the weeding out of everything not considered beautiful by some facist jerk.. I never understood how religion or lack there of can be used to allow idiots to attempt their genocidal tyrade. Anyway, excellent write, well used language and metaphors.

[Antonio Valentino]

Oh my gosh, you're Neftali's grandaughter!

This is just my style. Many of the lines, a poem in themself. A maze of cryptic symbols just waiting to be deciphered by those, who dare for truth. I will be reading this also, over and over, until, I squeeze out, my real understanding of this as a whole.

I'm at a loss for the right word to describe how much I think of this... I will have to simply say, that it reached out, and put its hand on my shoulder, and looked into my eyes... and my eyes smiled.

Antonio

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I have to admit I got a bit lost here too, but oh how powerful your words are, I couldn't help but keep reading and piecing together my understanding. Wonderful piece!

[Dahlia Phoenix]

That was absolutely beautiful.
I see these kind of poems and they bring something more in poetry than others who simply misguide to nowhere.
I love your word usage especially when you wrote:
"Instantaneous everything

Instantaneous monstrosities

Defining beauty - utopic sense

of contradictories

Destroying everything in a blink

with powerful weakness."
That was powerful.

[The Red Queen]

Another great one :)
Your words baffle my mind yet I'm calm and wanting to read more and understand the writer.
and I'm hoping 'baffle' is a properly invented word hehe

Very inspirational.

[ice]

And she chooses, a survivor, a witness to introduce
a poem, the while the heart beat of Brazil beats
In her breast, her mind making love to words;
Neruda like,
She twists the hair of the poem with her fingers.

I fall gently down the stanzas, a dry leaf in autumn
And I feel self doubt, and sad association with the drama
Of concentration, and the worlds take on what beauty is;
Stanza, stanza, stanza, down into the belly of the whale.
I am a caught Jonah, the poem, the fish that swallows me.

Down, down until the last drop of poetic broth is consumed;
I feel sate, as all good endings make a reader feel-
Sate but not without thought, it seems to be
That the metaphor in the last grouped lines
Are warnings of hazards found in living modern life,

And that the beauty of the world is at risk, as moderns
Put the earth, including, us in a subliminal Auschwitz;
That captains of industry, are the satraps
With one hand on on the valve that turns on the gas.

Your excellent poetry inspires...and earns the 100 rating

[Also known as Clare.]

thats really cool:o :)

[Karina Longo]

You don't need to understand poetry sometimes, or at least not what I am trying to say - feel free to define it as you feel it