listen -
out of silence
unblinking eyes scan existence
and evidence of life for a day-to-day hum
it grows at the pace of walking,
against in the lurch and pitch
of hauling turmoil, scraping by
hear industry’s clicks and clangs
as they vibrate in waiting waves
over mound and plain, broadcasting
destiny’s burden -
in rhythm to a believer’s hymn
all the while resistance rings, protesting
like a blacksmith’s forge
in search of meaning lost between all the noise
Author notes
Prompted => Sounds of Life, in 15 lines
A contest entry
- Sounds of Life by crivanea.
400 points, ended July 9, 9 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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Reminds me of the assertion in sci fi spacial encounters that humans are 'not mature' enough to play in space as full members...
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wow!!..that's so different!..i got so a different image in this voice!..you speak of justice..of freedom..of belief..of progress..of industrialism..all said in such a fresh and original approach!..a very different type of "sounds of life"..lovelovelove it!!
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