Indiscernible utterings
as syllables flew through the air
humanity’s mass confusion
corrupt with a veil of despair
as syllables flew through the air
meandering self sacrifice
dispersion with mass discontent
and verbiage so imprecise
humanity’s mass confusion
as the wrath was poured from above
that gave birth to a thousand tongues
disrupting the cycle of love
corrupt with a veil of despair
the tower of embers that burned
a warning that we should beware
a lesson that we never learned
Author notes
The Tower of Babel; is a structure featured in chapter 11 of the Book of Genesis , an enormous tower intended as the crowning achievement of the city of Babilu , the Akkadian name for Babylon . Babel was a city that united humanity , all speaking a single language and migrating from the east; it was the home city of the great king Nimrod , and the first city to be built after the Great Flood. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens." (וְרֹאשׁוֹ בַשָּׁמַיִם). However, the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was dedicated to false man-made religion, with a motive of making a 'celebrated name' for the builders. - Genesis 11:4. However God, (written in the Hebrew as YHWH; translated into English as either Yahweh , Jehovah , Allah or most commonly, the LORD), seeing what the people were doing and sinning against him, confused their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. Source: Wikipedia
This Poem: Retourne:
Like so many other French forms, the Retourne is all about repetition. It contains four quatrains (four-line stanzas), and each line has eight syllables. The trick is that the first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is the fourth stanza's first. Retournes do not have to rhyme.
I intentionally composed the abcb rhyme structure to add the intonation of confusion in S1, 2 and 3. The rhyme structure in S4 is abab to inflict the severity of our need to change our ways. I was inspired by the brilliant poem by; poeticweaver in his poem “ Between Invisible Lines” as I read his lines referring to; “lost within translations and
Dreaming in syllables of unknown tongues”.
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Amazing how much of what is said, what is written, what is thought is utter babble disseminated by the media and the internet.
