institutionalized intention

institutionalized intention

 

 

frigid footsteps

sliding sanctuary

uneasy movement through life

stutter step strait jacket

why are we always in a cold snap

with logic

 

what has frozen love 

the wind chill in your eyes

numbs my bones

a nation of freezing rain

 

slippery conditions of hearts with no traction

biased bereavement of the old flower children

 

forced to grow up in a world as archaic amputees

the frostbitten evidence

of something that grew in the sun years ago

 

and now sits in a deserted greenhouse

of icicle plants.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

1/12/18

Reviews

[Jimmy Yetts]

Mindless anger is about as close as our self-centered contemporaries come to warmth.
Hopefully, good-things-lost will eventually reemerge in other forms.
Let it be soon.
Hard-hitting piece of work!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Jimmy.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

I think this is a global feeling now, we have lost the plot and everyone is on guard! Nice work Jacob. You certainly own the metaphor dictionary!:)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

you are kind, andrew...thank you for your words.
j.

[Einstein Noodle]

yes...and even Abbie Hoffman sold out didn't he ;{ ...your poem brings to mind (among other things) the sharp contrast between Woodstock and the Altamont Free Concert ...it put a cap on a simple, sincere idealism doomed from the start ... as if it were something new eh!? i appreciate the emotive imagery .. good stuff says i!?
E.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, the idealism just wore out, and/or faded away...it's different now...and i really miss it---read moreyes, the idealism just wore out, and/or faded away...it's different now...and i really miss it---
thank you for what you said, E....you relate.
you understand, i know you do.

j.

[Einstein Noodle]

it sure is jacob ... ours were quite the times

[Alessander]

stutter step strait jacket

Cool line!

a nation of freezing rain

Also awesome.

You always do a good job of staying on point with extended metaphors.

I'm usually all over the place lol

Interesting poem, as always Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Alessander.
j.