A weak sun.
Day is almost done.
We have had our fun.
Soon the dark will come.
October 2015
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Ploughing
I shall plough my furrow
watching others burrow.
I shall sit with unclouded brow
Observing my fellow man worry about when and how.
I shall stand aloof
While others concern themselves with the truth.
The sun shines.
My lines
run on.
The time is long since gone
For expressing anything other than amusement
Or bemusement.
Who will smile in the end
When the axe descends?
For The Good Of Humanity (satire)
For the good of humanity we must sacrifice the paltry joys of the here and now for the ultimate bliss of tomorrow.
For the good of humanity we must abandon the selfish goal of individual fulfilment for the common good.
For the good of humankind we must place freedom on the backburner for we are building an earthly paradise where “the people” shall rule.
Yet Eden remains, floating, somewhere forever out of reach while “the people” shrug their shoulders, and smile or weep.
Written after reading an article on North Korea).
Paradise By Kevin Morris
Show me paradise where information pumps like an ever flowing river through the brain. Show me Eden where we are always connected, where sad thoughts are drowned out by the chatter of the information superhighway. Show me happiness where chips smaller than a grain of sand control our emotions, where reality and the virtual meet, but to what end? Show me pleasure unbounded, love without strings where virtual partners fulfil our wildest dreams. Show me a world of smiling, happy people where the god of pleasure reigns and I will show you a kind of hell.
Darkness
From the darkness we came and to the darkness we shall return.
The above words came to me when I woke up today, on a gloomy UK morning. Looking them up on the web there are variations on the quote but not the precise wording given above.
We come from the dark womb then, sooner or later we enter, as Hamlet so eloquently puts it “The undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns”. Am I in a dark mood? Not particularly. The quote popped into my head this morning and seemed appropriate to share it.
K Morris - Poet 