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Dances through time

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Ancient rites, once revered, now reel

In playgrounds where children peal

With laughter, unaware of the seal

That time has placed on what was real.

 

Solemn steps of shamans past

Morph into games that last and last,

As cultural currents, swift and vast,

Erode the essence, unsurpassed.

 

Tribal truths, once held so dear,

Trickle down through time's frontier.

Sacred symbols disappear,

Leaving echoes faint but clear.

 

Profound becomes profane, we find,

As generations leave behind

The weight of wisdom, once enshrined,

Now light as air and unconfined.

 

From archaic altars to schoolyard scenes,

The dance of time intervenes,

Transforming what tradition means—

A metamorphosis of memes.

 

So sacred turns to silly play,

As yesterday fades into today.

Yet in this change, we might survey

The threads that bind us, come what may

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This poem was inspired by Sir James George Frazer and his theories discussed in The Golden Bough.

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Ramblings of an Idiot

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Sometimes the synapses fire off a little too vigorously when im brain scraping .

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"Earned Helplessness"

Author's Notes/Comments: 

2002,  inspired from the following poem:

 

"Learned Helpfulness"

by Camus (Not Albert) 

 

I'm wired to live
like it's a game of Operation:
grasping at what I need
without tripping the wires,
setting people off.
Making small moves
to avoid losing everything.
Practice makes me pretty skilled:
since my nerves are tuned
to a grating alarm,
failure feels like obliteration.
Even surgical precision, though,
yields only a pile of plastic;
winning means
I didn't make a sound.
Maybe it's time to learn a new game.
I don't know how to put
the tweezers down.

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Joker's Living Ways

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Genesis

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Games

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I like playing games

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SIMPLY SPOKEN #2 A CHILDHOOD GAME

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The Ancient Maya game of Tut to Tut. Warning!.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Wouldn't like to have been a coach or referee.


Anyone for a game of Tut to Tut?.

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Indisputable women

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Dispair
Author's Notes/Comments: 

Cause the begging is do genuine and then once they have you they think they can make that change... And we fall right back into.... Well!!! Where you are right in this very moment. For all you guys out there that are living in this moment

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