"Everyday in every way I’m getting better and better" - Emile Coue
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Crashing waves & rebellion
The sound isn't sweet murmurings
It is coarse with passion
Loud, booming bass
Shrill, cawing of black birds
An alarm raised
By night watchers
A giant beam of light
By tower guards
Towards other ships
Encroaching your land & peace
Towards tyrants & traitors
Wrecking havoc on your country
It is a roar of sea storm,
bleached by oil and chemicals
It is the heartbeats
of a million slayed elephants
for the love of earth
for the love of country
of mother towards children
erred of ways, unrepentant
It's not silent hymn of tears
But a cacophony of broken heart
Posted for D'verse Poets Pub - Hosted by Walter Wojtanik, Sound of Love. I wrote from an activist point of view having watched people demonstrations against governments, and documentary on slaying of elephants.
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I do love this activist love... the anger we can feel on behalf of our loved soil... of the slayed elephant and the spilling of oil... somehow love expressed in big letters becomes so much stronger
ReplyDeleteSo very true. Our love of country, loved ones - protecting them. a cacophony of broken heart...so very true.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is so powerful, Grace, from beginning to end. I love it!
ReplyDeleteHeartbreaking, truly. I love this take, Grace.
ReplyDeletei suppose it startED witH stoRing gRains..
ReplyDeletethen owning humans with paper work..
and owning even more than earth
until Lust and
Love fore
Earth
whole
disappeared
into an owning gAMe..
of taKing
more than
giVing
shaRing
Free.. oh.. A
deaTh oF Love
for NatUre and God sAMe..
in silos of destruction to come..
hmm..
hope IS A LovE noW
giVe and time share uP..:)
I am so truly overwhelmed by the emotion and depth in this poem. Really beautiful work here, Grace.
ReplyDeleteLots of love,
Sanaa
Wow, such power in these words!
ReplyDeletethe hate, the anger wrapped between the beautiful lines is just breathtakingly powerful. :)
ReplyDeleteHeartbreaking and beautiful. Such powerful and wise words, Grace.
ReplyDeleteWhat can I add to what others have said? You capture so well the state of being of the world as we know it now. I only hope it is not hopeless...if everyone would change a little?
ReplyDeleteThis is so very powerful. The final couplet is gutwrenching. A broader sense of the word "love" than most folks have written about (I started backwards on the list in my reading this morning). There is a broader love that is threatened by so much these days. Would that somehow, we could stem the tide of danger, hatred, and desecration of the earth. Powerful words you've shared indeed.
ReplyDeleteThe $$$ wins out in the end it seems, the greedy screw it up for the rest.
ReplyDeleteI lived close to the ocean once, friend Grace ... water level to reach land was 1 meter during high tide ... water level in my basement 1 meter during a storm ... SOLD and OUT OF THERE ... Love, cat.
ReplyDeleteI do appreciate the real meaning of your poem as well ... smiles.
DeleteGrace, so powerful, so affecting, especially the heartbeats of a million slayed elephants....."the cacophony of broken hearts is what it is, for sure..........the entire earth is grieving.
ReplyDeleteWow! Beautiful and powerful words. <3
ReplyDelete"It's not silent hymn of tears
ReplyDeleteBut a cacophony of broken heart"
I'm really feeling these lines today.
Beautiful, powerful and heartbreaking. Well painted. Appreciate this.
ReplyDeleteSo powerful, and heartbreaking. Wonderful imagery here.
ReplyDeletedark passionate and onomatopoeic - so strong Grace and your allusions are unique and striking. What a woman!
ReplyDeletePainful and beautiful...or perhaps beautifully painful...
ReplyDeleteHuman: Turmoil be they name.
ReplyDeleteThat song, too, needs to be heard!
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