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Obstruction
OBSTRUCTION
Solitary, ashen
Hollow footsteps echo
Across the great hall
Absent any like-minded
Outside in the glare
A multitude in sackcloth
Sheep and cattle tethered
We see in it greatness gone
And the lesser come upon us
A market place
A slaughterhouse
A gaming house
A gaudy brothel
A mortuary
A graveyard
A withered stump
Words To Music
It’s a while since we had music. But no more. 😀
Words?
You want words?
Hear and think on.
Awakening is but a breath away.
But staying (t)here …
Now, that’s another matter …
Meantime … (Me in time)
sit back and enjoy …
Talk, it’s only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It’s only talk
Talk, it’s only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It’s only talk
Back talk
Talk talk talk, it’s only talk
Comments, clichés, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It’s only talk
Cheap talk
Talk, talk, it’s only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialogue, duologue, diatribe,
Dissension, declamation
Double talk, double talk
Talk, talk, it’s all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It’s all talk
Elephant talk? Elephant talk? Elephant talk!
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE WAKE UP…
If not now then when?
It Is Imperative That We Wake Up…
and recognise the illusions
The DNA of the mind; the genetic information and characteristics – physical or mental – that are passed from one generation to another.
How easily we conform to being manipulated, and then pass this behaviour on to others.
The Milgram experiment shows how people, against their better judgement, obey someone in a white coat who instructs them to inflict electrical shocks on another person. This was a staged experiment using actors; an unsuspecting participant was told to inflict pain on an unseen individual as a ‘punishment’ for an incorrect answer to a question. No pain was actually caused, but the person who pushed the switch did not know this – and despite believing that they were causing pain, people still complied with the commands they were given.
The video below shows how this procedure is applied today with the objective of creating compliance to those in…
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The Loop (A Four By Six)
THE LOOP
Woke in an asylum
Happily just a dream
Lulled myself back to sleep
Woke in an asylum
Unmasked
Oct 23
Posted by Ben Naga
UNMASKED
Not until they wake
Does the sleeper realise
They have been asleep
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Posted in Poetry, Senryu
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Tags: Awakening, Awareness, Sleep, Social commentary, Social control