The Camera Steals the Spirit

Native Americans told that every time your picture was taken, you lost some of your soul...

The elders spoke against the box

Covered with the cloth

That painted pictures on the glass

And they wanted not

Their picture taken, for they wished

Yo keep for themselves whole

For a man looses a little each time

When his picture is taken, it takes his soul.

 

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These times of the spirit are empty

Of hope we have little too

Faith has faded in freedom

And those who believe are now few

Little care for their fellow man

None lives to his need

All want at the expense of each other

All that powers us is greed.

 

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Every place we are

Everywhere we walk

Someone somewhere sees

When on our phones we talk

An image is recorded

We are not aware, yet we know

60 pictures a second

Taken on video...

 

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Maybe the Red Man was right

Our loss of our soul seems to stem

With the more images of us thats taken

For the sadisfaction of Them

Who worry about security and freedom

Who want to monitor and tag us where we go

It for our own good they tell us

That we have even less freedom we know...

Reviews

[Blade & Blood (The ..]

lol! I've heard of this. ^^ ...Creepy... It sort of reminds me of those laughing tracks you hear on modern sitcoms that were recorded in the fifties... most of them should be dead right now... so... technically, the dead are laughing at us... hehehe...

Anyways, great job with this! I love the idea! ;)

Ironically Yours, Blade and Blood

[Transhumanist]

The poet is probably right- the technology has stolen our souls. ...the arrow is in the air and soon we will know... (I have often wondered technology; without modern medicine, I'd be long dead. I guess the sad thing about technology, is that it opens endless possibilities of destruction.) I liked the poem, charly

[Scott H.]

This is great. I love poetry where the Old Ways and the New are at an odds. It also speaks very well about the 'modern condition' - great job all around.

[Andromeda]

Very, very good job. I'd heard that theory too and I always found it very intriguing, so I really like how you compared it to modern times. love it!

[dilettante1890]

I've head this before too. I like the poem, it reminds me of old memento mori photographs.

[emmajoy]

How very true, how very succinctly but creatively put!

If we did but know how much of us is 'unprivate' each of us would find his/her own deserted island. Problem, not enough islands, too many people... what IS the world coming to!

'Every place we are
Everywhere we walk
Someone somewhere sees
When on our phones we talk
An image is recorded
We are not aware, yet we know
60 pictures a second
Taken on video...'

^ Syncopated metre! ?^

[Deborah Shepard]

Well done the words and picture fits the worlds eyes

[Silent Kim aka mizmetap..]

How true, it appears that no matter where we are in this world some one is watching. If that wasn't enought they immortalize us in print. Well expressed and written.

[Donald Meikle]

and druids wait to see the end of greed. Wish I could wait that long!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I think this is very insightful to the "Big Brother" computer culture that wants to tag and track us all. A very good read. I enjoyed.