the color of academia

the color of academia


blue faces,
ocean children
riding crests of avalanche waves
turmoil brains floating away from
the scholastic current
too strong for their slight academic rafts

confiscated apathy to today's world
and degrees of navigation towards
the expanse of knowledge, like
seeing land through the lenses 
of a crow's nest

binocular thoughts honed in
but mutiny is written across the cheek bones
the parrot driven dichotomy
inhibits the sensational passage
to new truths...

just the hand-me down sailors' breath
that once was strong enough
to move mountains...

all lies dormant
at the bottom of an ocean
guarded by 
blue faces.


erin-cilberto
2/9/17 

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

We have encouraged more and more people to get a university education and many do it because it is expected or available or easier than the real world. In the process we have allowed the value to higher education to be diluted. I see blue faces in many guises in this. One the traditional academics who try to maintain the history and value, oh and grandeur and elitism, of the system and two those who are exasperated by that system and its 'fake' value. You certainly know how to stimulate thought Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i really like where your thinking went on this one, John....i see both sides so often...where is that happy medium?

thank you, my friend.

j.