The shining city on a hill
is real, but poorly built
and fragile;
thick with dust of neglect and shelved
short reach for grubby hands.
Shake, shake, shake!
the center quakes,
and our pitiless artifice shatters.
Of the shining city on a hill,
only ceremony stands.
For Real Toads
Friday, January 27, 2017
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- Maude Lynn
- Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ---Flannery O'Connor
14 comments:
Very interesting the shiny and fragile
Much love...
This is excellent. I especially like the "shake, shake, shake."
Made me think of the little balls you shake to make it snow... I say Rosebud
Agh. I was not a fan of Reagan, who I think coined shining city on the hill, but he was a breath of fresh air compared to the now. Really well done--incisive and scary, MZ, and hopefully not prescient. Thanks.k.
Of the shining city on a hill,
only ceremony stands.
Where the administration bothers itself in making populist assertions one dreads the reality that will affect the general good later. Ok on the ceremonies and trappings but the population will suffer!
Hank
"is real, but poorly built and fragile" needs a whole lot better care than what we are seeing. One fall and a pebble at landing could fracture it.
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Of the shining city on a hill,
only ceremony stands.
Brilliant!!
Sceptre and crown
must tumble down
and in the dust be equal made
with the poor crooked scythe and spade...
So many civilizations fallen to ruin, yet no nation can figure out the patterns of history.
Such a poem of our times.. of all times.
"only ceremony stands" With our current orange dictator that is turned vulgar. Powerful synopsis of our current event
it would seem that only the artifice, er, edifice remains.
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