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An Aimless Amoeba Tries to Quicken the Evolutionary Process





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.
           

         
         




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  • Climbing2nothing
    November 6
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    o how the tree of life cries in autumn...

    w curry, an naan
    Jas


  • CaptainObvious gold member
    October 29

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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!

  • miamigirlno1 gold member
    October 25

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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!


  • Howl- gold member
    October 25
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    magnificent

    fantastic! every stanza is its own miniature poem.
    a great read

  • abean045
    October 25
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    this a awesome poem


  • zee91190
    October 24
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    woa! that was loong...But worth the read. Its a very thought provoking poem. Good job

    All the best on AP.


  • Lo Justin
    October 24

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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.

  • Pilgrimage
    October 24

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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.


  • World So Cold
    October 24
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    This is...WOW........great job! ^w^


  • none the less.
    October 24
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    i love the repition.

    wonderfully done.


  • DogFish silver member
    October 24
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    This is not a poem ! It's a manifesto !

    WOW!!!


    ...didn't YOU scramble "the rubics cube of normality" !!!


  • PurpleAraucana
    October 24

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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.


    • marc creamore
      October 24

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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

      • PurpleAraucana
        October 24
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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.


  • Cannonsfire
    October 24

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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


  • Night Hope gold member
    October 24

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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.



  • MizzConstrued
    October 24
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    Interesting write and word play
    all is not for naught.....


  • IronIcecream
    October 24

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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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