November 16, 2021
By Yesu Ben Leah Dancel and that is why it is losing its flavorful whiffs and dying. Here's a poem for that:
CARNATION
(or On the Death of Poetry, 3 lines fixed for rhyme)
A grassy walk, carnation-lined stone stairs
I climb to see them murder my adored.
For centuries, I’ve paused to smell her hair
and adulate a scent no queen has poured
Onto her palm. They’ve fought for one mere whiff,
one vision quick of her entrancing sway.
And having learned, her sweetness smeared as if
she’s lost her drift, and earned their heartless bray.
My garden’s carnations have disappeared;
The wondrous fragrances have lost their trails
and weeds of hatred overgrown have cleared
the path of rhyming flowers, rudely flailed
inducing age old Mother back to sleep
that her sweet rhymes, be thrown into the heap.
My Comment
Yesu Ben - This reminds me of what happened to our Philippine movie industry. Pinoys tend to gravitate towards parrotism. They simply love to keep up with the Jones. In essence, we lost our sense of identity. We copy everything Hollywood feed our cinema, so the trend begins... Our moviedoms became polluted... i will let the readers digest my point. Now, this poetry...
