Why should a poem exist in this world?
by Jon Rappoport
November 26, 2013
Because our great energies are divided
Because there is a room,
and flasks on a dusty shelf
one for your heart, one for your mind, one for your soul, your psyche, and your imagination
Put them
into the flasks
and then
you will see
what everyone sees
and then there will be men out on the sand fighting and killing for banks, drugs, oil, and fire
men who remember their childhoods the lawns the streets the garbage cans the alleys the sirens the dark empty buildings whispering messages in the middle of the night
the cemeteries the graves the markers the schools the factories
men out on the sand fighting and killing for the great Reality that drifts like paper into a roaring furnace
gray faces hovering over burnt sacrifices
a banker on a stage
rubbing his gloves
and pulling money out of his satin mouth
the princes of television
releasing their drone packages
and a third party calls to us across a vine-threaded wall
an unpredicted outsider
who’s known the sacrifice was torture
since the beginning when the river was turned away from the forests and spun into great rotting pools
of gangrenous empire
the outsider is divided and separated in the room of sacrifice
poems, blood filament by growing filament, fill in and connect the spaces
and the sun and moon shine on the blood and make it whole
the poem explodes in the self-separated human who is quite convinced he has nothing to do with a poem, has nothing to do with the soul that is dying inside him
I write poems
people tell me I’m crazy to do it
I’m committing a form of suicide
but I’ll tell you this
it isn’t a sacrifice
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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Beautifully said and deeply felt. Thank you, Jon Rappoport.
Our great energies are divided in endless compartmentalization of the mind and soul keeping us from recognizing our true potential as individuals and as a truly free civilization.
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Why should a poem exist?
In a Cartesian-Reductionist world, only tangible, visible connections are deemed important. Supposedly, the world is a clockwork mechanism. When something goes wrong, it can be fixed with a hammer, screwdriver, or oilcan. But we sense that there is something more to making things function than drive trains, sprockets, cells, or synapses. There is something undefinable that pulls things together and imparts an overall purpose, whether by design or collaborative, random process.
We are something greater than the sum of our parts. Take some water, iron, flesh, and bone and put together a functioning being. It cannot be done. Place together a string of words and we will discern meanings, connotations, and currents over and above what is found in the words, themselves. Words are symbols, and symbols are not stand alone concepts – they connect to other things.
Poetry helps us recognize and make these unseen connections. It facilitates a deeper understanding of the human condition and our relationship with our own Psyche, Animus or Anima, and Shadow. It helps us relate to others in meaningful, spiritual ways far above and beyond the simply transactional state. Poetry is a working tool which aids us in imparting value, worth, and meaning to lives which, in the end, are all tragic.
Strip away poetry from one’s life, and all that is left is a Martingale, where all occurrences are random fluctuations within boundaries, dancing around a measure of central tendency. However, we will not long be divorced from poetic influences because of the connections and meanings we must continually derive to engage in simple thought processes needed to get through the shortest day.
In Jean-Luc Goddard’s 1965 film, “Alphaville”, the protagonist, Lemmy Caution, was able to save the human race from extinction because the evil, mastermind computer’s destructive design was thwarted as it could not understand the illogical poetry of love and human emotion. But through poetic means, we are able to intuit the necessary connections.
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