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A Poem That Makes Me Think of the 20th Century

For most of last year whenever I heard the phrase ‘Make America Great Again’ I thought of this poem. It isn’t a political poem, for me it just evokes the mixed bag the 20th century was. It seems like all I hear or see is unfettered optimism or profound despair in the last few years. I try not to feel either too strongly when they start to set in. They don’t seem like the truth if I just wait a moment and think. Having romantic nostalgia for the past is just as dangerous as is viewing it in the darkest of terms.

 

First Line To A Poem-

Everything I Love Is True . . .

Feel free to complete the poem in comments, I would love to hear what people have to say.

 

 

The Other Guy’s Version of Empathy

The subject was pain

Not related to you

Only what me

And mine

Have been through

Empathy is

My needs met

With little

Or no

To do

From you

Gene G. McLaughlin 2016

I Come To Take Your Hate

This I write

To make true

Decency is not lost

Love is not diminished

Grace is not absent

I come to take your hate

I will turn the hot stone

Into a cool wind

Fire only consumes

Remakes the world

In its own image

Of ash and ember

This I do

So that you may know your own sound

Breathe

Hear your heart

The beating

Of the engine

Hear the blood

How it flows

With quiet force

The sound

Of your fingers

As you gently

Rub their tips

Together

This is the sound of time

Without the weight of years

This I give to you

Gene G. McLaughlin 2016

 

 

When I Was A Ghost

When I was a ghost

Songs sounded like sorrow

The aural recognition

Of time fading away

But

When love shaped my form

I knew the song was melody

The joyous exclamation

That then is always now

Gene G. McLaughlin 2016

The Red Pill

Born with the red pill

Halfway down the throat

Taking the utmost skill

Discerning what that denotes

The burden of building bridges

Not moats

Gene G. McLaughlin 2016

I Google My Thoughts

I Google my thoughts

To known they’re originals

Some are bought

Most are aboriginal

My mind’s fraught

In search of the seminal

Gene G. McLaughlin 2015