I hear the droning in the sky

I hear the droning in the sky

rioting words

a head full of protest

there have been wars

of rampant prejudice

ill fated phrases

like Zeroes

crashing into conscious countryside

launched to land with leering hatred

reason is an army retreating

poetry tries to intervene

but is blasted to bits

by those who refuse

to come to the table.

erin-cilberto

12/7/24

Reviews

[keith]

my words my writes all mean nothing
when exhaustion finds comfort within my soul
most times my ink fails to flow
this write gives me the freedoms to breathe again

thank you jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for this response, keith. We can only hope our poetry can find a home with our readers...and there is some connection.
j.

[keith]

you got good ink!

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I've been saying that logic and reason are in decline all my life and so they have been. The world is being overtaken by an army of morons but don't take my word for it, just turn on the evening news and it won't take but a minute to spot a scout of the advancing force. They call themselves, "woke" with pink and purple hair; dystopic and delusional, tattooed and pierced and gender unspecific telling us men can menstruate and having no definition for what a "woman" is. Yes, they even aspire to be Supreme Court Judges. My father had calculus in the ninth grade. Ninth graders today can't spell calculus. And as Walter Cronkite used to say, "That's the way it is."

[jacob erin-cilberto]

They can't spell a lot of words....and grammar is getting tossed out the window...
and Paul Harvey would end with his hopeful, "Good Day!"

thanks for your visit, Fabian.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

I loved Paul Harvey and his commentaries; especially "The rest of the story" segments. Those were always informative and entertaining.

[Desert Knave]

It feels like reason is on the verge of being outlawed in the name of hatred. ~Jim

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, it certainly does, Jim.
Thank you,
j.

[John the Baptist]

Reason does seem to be in retreat, what with the power of influencers and conspiracy theorists at this time. One of our president elect's former employees says he lied over 30,000 times. What does poetry do in the face of that, when so many people believe those lies?

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Can poetry lie? I imagine it could but hope it doesn't...there has to be truth left in something.read moreCan poetry lie? I imagine it could but hope it doesn't...there has to be truth left in something.
thanks, John,
j.

[redzone]

so much to say about this alive poem, Jacob. Our poetry is one of the needed weapons in bringing down those "drones" in the sky that get louder every day, every hour, every minute. But words will not be enough to stop the onslaught, though we should never stop using them to rouse people. The people who "come to the table", will be those who have confronted words, yes, but also the reality of what they are seeing, what they are forced to accept. Decent people will come to see the need to, in deeds, remove those drones from the skies, and the people controlling them.
-Curt

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your words of wisdom, Curt.
j.