Oh aimless be the turbulent volcano that is this world,
Aimless be the minds and bodies served upon karmic
plates, porcelain thoughts and limbs wandering
inside a nebula of angst.
Aimless be the regret that stumbles from the electronic
doors of rattling teeth and strip mall
socialization.
Aimless be the ancient lover’s neglected bed and the
rubics cube of normality and aimless the dead
clocks that rest upon cardboard mantles while
trees collapse in silence and the epitaph of
spiritual decorum swoons with all the angels
who eventually fall from the confused non
miracle of broken ladders.
Aimless be the decadent floorboards and nostalgic
ceilings, the defeated spider on Moslem
tombstones, the devilish pillow case of disgrace
that lies stained upon the fruitless bed of a
forever wounded Adam and Eve.
Aimless be the tragic notes of a celloed humanity that
laments the past and its continual
misunderstanding, the palm carved in the
stigmata of a voiceless pilgrim and the gold
and silver that fails to ease the flowing of acidic
teardrops falling down like fading stars into the
galaxy of the heart.
Aimless be the planet’s black book of history that
refuses to be closed, it laughs into our faces of
loss and displays a montage of bloody oceans, it
reveals an infant waving goodbye to its murdered
mother and slams a rusty door into the horrified
face of benevolent knowledge.
Aimless be the bones of the past that are piled up at
the entrance of the mysterious womb while the
fruit of wisdom rots upon the ground and the
tragic moan of humanity just drones on and on
as beauty tries to caress itself back to relevancy.
Aimless be the voice of the demented scorpion, the
crosses that line nonchalant boulevards, the
passion that is traded like a commodity on the
stock market of misunderstood emotion, the
beaten dog at the edge of the gate and the brothel
where we whore ourselves in the pursuit of
illusionary opulence.
Aimless be this extravagance of non-culture,
chronically hypnotizing the masses with
messages printed in perpendicular passivity,
colouring the mind with shades of conformity
and blessing them with a vernacular of artificial
consumption.
Aimless be the cannon bearers and the creators of
violent skies where wounded birds attempt to
resemble bandages, where the moon refuses to
enter the periphery of our hollow eyes, where an
invisible rain is always falling down upon the
Earth, trying desperately to wash away all the
illusive particles that have taken up residence
in the heart of man.
Aimless be the money zombies who gather together
to sing in the decadent choir, the priests who
preside over banks and the global village that
smells of sour sulphur that rises up in a mustard
minted haze as the crows wave goodbye and
the multi-coloured soldiers quietly weep on
the blood stained desert sand.
Aimless be the bovine blues that echo out across the
vast field of the Universe as the galaxies turn
away from the coffee shop of human alibis,
as the ghosts of slaves and Native Americans
stand horrified before the manna of the future
and find that it contains no nutritional value.
Aimless be the numb waltz on the darkened floor of
the great dance hall, the madness of tear gas
and the dull ache of assassination, the
whimpering historical body all full of bones
of non philosophical discussion and the space
between carnival rides and the decaying carcases
of a thousand crusades.
Aimless be the stupefying stadium where the heroin
users try to find a few seconds of sleep beneath
the bleachers while Christ remains strung out
on misinterpretation, where the unborn refuse
to enter wombs and where the mistreated women
escape behind prescription lives and school yard
parking lots seeking Hollywood carved
masculine bodies.
Aimless be the non poetic pavement of desolate
avenues carved with footprints of despair and
where a bell tower emanates in an explosion of
immature missiles and where Quazimodo
trembles in the corner of a dis-eased cathedral.
Aimless be the circus wheel that just keeps on
spinning, where drab coloured kings and queens
are so far out of reach that even the tears of
starving children fail to move the clinical and
clock like machinery pulsating behind their
ribcages.
Aimless be the indifferent slaughter of the spirit as
it staggers, leaper footed, across the broken
highway and aimless be this collective karmic
mess we have created and this continual
heartbeat of sorrow that is seemingly never
alleviated.
Aimless be the samsaric garden of empty wine bottles,
the trash cans of mediocrity, the hysterical
nonsense of newspaper headlines and the
metallic teeth of machinery which loosens and
slaughters the deep roots of ancient trees
Aimless be the political borders that grow like a
uniformed wall of mad mushrooms, the torn
edges of Tibetan prayer flags and the historical
battleground of burning pyres and skeletons
erecting line upon line of putrid white crosses.
Aimless be the factory where fiction wanders around
like a soldier wearing a regal crown, where a
petulant monk approaches midnight with a
moldy text that says absolutely nothing, where
love letters become weapons, where children
weep inside unwritten fairytales and where
innocence is butchered beneath a full moon and
the sign of the cross.
Aimless be the wretched wheel that whirls around
and around, spinning us into a foreign garden
where the serpent is wrapped about the ankles
of the deaf, dumb and blinded leaders of the
planet.
Aimless be the uncosmic horizon, the charred bodies
of Third World grandparents, the laughter of
hydrogen and napalm, the hideous metallic
gargoyle of industrialized weaponry, the hungry
loins of the economic whore, the cavalcade of
lost ghost forms wandering across centuries of
disillusionment and the half dead misdemeanor
that only breeds bloodshed and mistrust.
Oh but in the centre of it all, amidst all this seeming
chaos, all this nebulous mass of unconstructive
confusion, all this trembling and desperate
anguish that reverberates down the annals of
time, all this apparent never ending continuation
of death and definitions of an apocalyptic
ending, all these words of torment that I seem
to sing daily . . . an embryo is growing in an
unseen womb where all karmic calamity is laid
to rest, where this world of illusion will be
shattered and where every soul, past and present,
will be released and allowed to float freely
toward the ultimate purpose of existence.
Author notes
A rewrite of sorts, you may have read some of these images before . . .
In a list
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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o how the tree of life cries in autumn...
w curry, an naan
Jas

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Aimless be the stupefying stadium where the heroin
users try to find a few seconds of sleep beneath
the bleachers while Christ remains strung out
on misinterpretation
Well, that would be my favorite part, but this entire poem is breathtaking. I don't normally enjoy long poems like this, but your style is so refined, I can't help but to indulge. Some may complain that this is too long and drawn out, but I think that's exactly what makes it so great. You keep coming up with more and more ways to put your ideas into words and really drive home the message. Great work! I will be reading more of your poems for certain!

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Awestruck
How could I possibly find any words to review this outstanding piece? This is so powerful,what a master of words you are. I am in awe!

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magnificent
fantastic! every stanza is its own miniature poem.
a great read -
this a awesome poem
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woa! that was loong...But worth the read. Its a very thought provoking poem. Good job

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This is way too long for me right now. I didn't know what I was getting into when I clicked on this. I got about halfway through and then skipped to the last stanza. I can honestly say that I don't think you need to go on and on and on in the middle. You make a good point in there, but then you keep making it; sometimes less is more. I'm tired, so I'm sure that is also skewing my opinion. It felt like I was reading stanzas over and over, the same thoughts just said in a slightly different way. Great imagery though! But overused repetition. Overall, I'd say I really liked this.
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Hmmm.
This was too long for me. The images piled up and piled up, and seemed endless, and I lost interest. I think rubics cube should be rubic's cube, though I may be wrong. And 'devilish pillow case'? Sorry, that one made me smile. -
This is...WOW........great job! ^w^
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This is not a poem ! It's a manifesto !
WOW!!!
...didn't YOU scramble "the rubics cube of normality" !!!


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aimless?
really?
hm.
even in death and destruction, madness and mayhem, carnage and chaos, there is eternal purpose,
isn't there?
a truly thought-provoking poem.

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Thank you for reading . . . In response to your question . . . yes, there is eternal purpose . . . that is what I am trying to say in the last stanza . . . all the dark images are a lead up to the epiphany at the end . . .
Marc
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then, you agree, there is no true aimlessness. all difficulties are a road, a way, a direction, though dark, that lead us to the light.
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'Aimless be the cannon bearers' you know I had to smile when I got to this but somehow I resented the aimless lol...just kidding, but my voice always seems to find a purpose somewhere and someone who listens, whether it changes them forever or just for that moment we talk, I am never sure, but at least I do know like you, once the words are out there, we can't take them back nor would we want to, this is self expression and opinion and definition and I adore those from you because I see so much of what could and should change and also the beauty of the smallest things we forget to look at
C


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No matter what avenues you may walk, or how desolate they seem, the stones smile as you pass, my oh, so poetic Friend. As for the amoeba that's always in such a hurry, I would sing to him Simon and Garfunkel's tune, "Feelin' Groovy"...you know..."Slow down, you move too fast. Ya gotta make the mornin' last." Love the poem and you, dear Scribe.




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Interesting write and word play
all is not for naught.....

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annuls or annals? has sense anyway
absurd obliterating absurd is as logical as it gets
the ugliness of this place is not aimless
mother earth tries to own all life it can get
constantly swallowing corpses in an impotent search for self
and man the supposed peak of its conscience
caught in a feeding frenzy that satisfies no hunger does the same
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