Picking Up the Pieces
The old society has been destroyed,
we are forging a new world
out the shards of the old.
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The old society has been destroyed,
we are forging a new world
out the shards of the old.
(90 Characters incl spaces)
#Micropoetry
no matter how much we change
or are changed by technology,
we will still remain
recognizably human.
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And tomorrow should have been
better.
And yesterday’s smashed stones
and silted concrete
tell no tales.
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Sissyphus sits by
having a smoke break amidst
the eternal flames
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Richard, nine years agone
calls now from a new field,
where he has taken wing.
He has slipped gravity’s bonds
to the tune of three hundred pounds.
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They don’t even hear
the score of the tragic opera
they sing with aching,
noble, honeyed sadness.
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Chiaperelli saw the lines
on the surface of Mars
and assumed they were caused
by intelligent life.
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Once they enticed water,
enslaved a disoriented river
to run angelic mills that chained lightning
and pushed back darkness
even if only for their today.
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I watch the things
that annoy me
to clarify
my thoughts.
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What kind of ambulance
can revive someone from
that kind of letdown?
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