Beautiful day
All beyond the heavens
Down the rivers pure
Flows the love that I do so adore
Nestled in the mountains
Crafted by the love that only the dawn of time possesses
By the cool shade the azure pools glisten
In sprightly dance,
The friends of the pools splash with glee,
Gliding in the silky droplets,
Sliding in the murky outlets,
There in the tranquillity sits a woman,
She sits as if in the lotus position,
Mind projecting vibes of solitude and peace,
When she breathes the world smiles,
When she awakes the world is beautiful,
While she is in thought, the world is in turmoil.
Crippling is her desire,
For the world to join her by the soft waters,
Light laughter echoes the sound of tropical animals in the bliss.
Her desire not quenched by any material item,
She sits in the happiest of places,
Alone upon the heavens,
Comfortable in the clouds
Lulled by the song of the world,
Slowly her eyes open,
The TV still blinking,
He says “this is the jungle”
She looks out to the world she is now in
“My concrete jungle”
The azure pools now forming from passionate tears,
The lulling music gone,
Now the low mumbling of cars as they rush past talking loudly to each other
The mountains the high-rise flats in the estate she lives next to,
She opens her door,
She walks into flames,
And all is gone…..
Parodied Irony
Author notes
The title to me fits the poem, I dont know if i have actually parodied irony within the poem but the title has always just seemed to work for me.
Please tell me what you think
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I really enjoyed this poem.
It actually had nice grammer and such.
Lovely write.
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Slowly her eyes open,
The TV still blinking,
He says “this is the jungle”
She looks out to the world she is now in
“My concrete jungle”
nice lines..well knitted.
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I am not sure there is any parody or irony, but there is definitely a twisted ending.
Loverly imagery. Some grammatical slips. A very pleasing form.
Overall, a pleasant read, if an unpleasant subject.
Thank you for sharing.
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A wonderful poem, with lots of amazing imagery and emotions. I loved these lines:
"She opens her door,
She walks into flames,
And all is gone….."
I feel they ended the poem perfectly.
A great write, well done.
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Interesting piece to be certain, nice flow to it if the concept is a bit stark?, well, i dunno hard but in a good way. Best of luck in this and all of your endeavors.
Hetohke'e 
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a wonderful poem full of emotions and imager.
just wonderful
keep writing
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poignant
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Is this double or triple entendre?
A parody is a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule, from the Greek parōidiā : para-, subsidiary to; see para–1 + aoidē, ōidē, song. (American Heritage Dictionary). The question then is, what author or which work is being parodied? The author might tell us in revised notes, or we may do some literary detective work.
Could the author be mocking the exagerrated and often patently false depictions of places, such as that which purewaterwilderness.com places on a web site, thus:
"Five main rivers flow through the Florida's Pure Water Wilderness area, irrigating its fertile land, providing a perfect eco habitat for numerous species ..."
We know today how much contamination and plain waste floats on practically every water which passes any significant human population. It is not hidden knowledge that farmers and cattle ranchers contribute vast amounts of pollutants to rivers.
Could the author be mocking the new age religions which often borrow from Eastern tradition? Poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, interviewed by Diane Covington in this month's Sun (April 07), opines that "a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimensions. In general it is not rigourously thought out, but is what I would call 'soft' thinking."
Could the poet be mocking the Western eye via the media , including television, that passes on such a narrow and distorted view of nature? From a review of the film "Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" we have another bit of parody:
"After credits which play over random jungle footage (and which also reveal that additional dialogue is by a guy named "Ukie"), we of course hear the voice of a omniscient narrator. Hey, when your movie's barely over an hour long, you have to use certain devices to accomplish things quickly. The Narrator booms, "This is the jungle!" Alright, thanks for the tip-off.
He calls it "the vast wilderness of giant, lush foliage! Of tropical birds, and fierce animal life!" As he narrates, lots of grainy (I mean, even grainier than the actual movie) stock footage clips from nature documentaries are shown. "
My favourite part of the poem is the waking realization of the woman in the poem:
She looks out to the world she is now in
“My concrete jungle”
The azure pools now forming from passionate tears,
The lulling music gone,
Now the low mumbling of cars as they rush past talking loudly to each other
The mountains the high-rise flats in the estate she lives next to,
She opens her door,
She walks into flames,
And all is gone…..
I only regret, or rather think that the last line might be omitted without any harm whatsoever to the poem, for the poem has already achieved "parodied irony."
Yet if we only look at the parody aspect, we may be missing the irony. Defined by American Heritage:
1 a. The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
b. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
c. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect.
If the author knows that others have already become so stock, so very trite in their own use of irony, then the author might be making a parody of the irony which has become so much used that it has become common place thinking. What does the author mean by "Crafted by the love that only the dawn of time possesses?" Could he be poking fun at the creation myths or old testament account of the Genesis?
2.a Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: “Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated” (Richard Kain). Were we to expect that the woman in the story, maybe an Eve archetype, seems to walk into destruction? Where is the irony? Perhaps we were hoping that she would make it all right somehow, through her meditation and creative powers, however originating or channeling through her. Whence come the flames then? The ending may not be finished.
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