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Reassessment : Senryu
REASSESSMENT
Everything scared me
With a slight readjustment
Now all is sacred
Two Roads
TWO ROADS
While Teaching
Is a sacred calling
An opening
An awakening
An endless blessing
This (Mis)education
Better called Schooling
Is demonic
Is a lifelong blight
Is a shackle and a curse
The Power Of Words
THE POWER OF WORDS
To know
That a tomato
Is a fruit
Is knowledge
(q.v. Miles Kington)
To know not to
Put it in
Your fruit salad
Is wisdom
(q.v. ibid)
To believe
That a tornado
Is a fruit
Or put one in your fruit salad
Is (what they call) madness
And yet
We do similar every day
Confusing “sacred space”
With “scared space”
Being but one common exemplar
Standing Rock
Nov 25
Posted by Ben Naga
STANDING ROCK
I have a struggle
In comprehending those
Who are using rubber bullets and tear gas
On these unarmed and peaceful protesters
How far they have lost their way
Since their birth as innocents
I wonder what lives they have endured
To have them land up in this dismal situation
Still, you do get a kind of identity
And the uniform and weapons come free
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Posted in Prose With Pretensions
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Tags: Evil, Injustice, Insanity, Life, Lost, Sacredness, Social commentary, Spirit, Stupidity, Violence