How We Live On Earth

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    How We Live On Earth

     How we live on earth: It would be better
    if we were flocks of doves or creatures living in the seas.
     
    Behind our memories we’ve put certain things away:
    Our primal origin, primal sex, primal slithering (from before
    we grew legs), primal gills, God’s absence, primal scales
     
    —behind our memories we’ve put these things away,
    no longer listening to the voice of falling snow
    (human clumsiness forbids this).
     
    Love has become a crippled master.
    Loneliness cheats at solitaire.
    Hate beats on drums of human skin.
    Light hardens inside closed hearts.
     
    Forgetting is a sunken ship with dead memories
    —we have forgotten our origins: the seaweed we used to eat,
    the taste of sea salt in our blood, the voices of whales,
    a sea star’s stillness,
     
    the absolute bottom of the ocean,
    the evolution of sea sponges into humans.
    Behind our memories we’ve put these things away.


    (from my first book: In Forbidden Language ©dah/Stillpoint Books 2010
    available on amazon, search: in forbidden language/dah)

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    MikeDomino commented on How We Live On Earth

    05-21-2014

    If we follow the laws of man and not the higher laws of nature we are doomed . The problems of mankind are like earth quakes . The shake the ground and building that men built topple and hurt and kills us and destroy what we have built - temporary. The earthquake does not shake the arid above the earth - in the spiritual realm . Your poem is apocoliptic and true . I purify my mind . I try to set an example and not let the impermanence and destructive tendencies of nam and society throw me off the path of natural laws .
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    dahlusion

    05/30/2014

    Mike, nice to hear from you, and thank you for this profound comment —))

    MikeDomino

    05/30/2014

    My pleasure - Good luck with your books . I have always admired your art and dedication to poetry ! There is a new doc out about Gore Vidal . I saw it last night . I highly recommend it to all writers and poets !

    LexLogic commented on How We Live On Earth

    11-13-2013

    Great Poem. All of it so true. My Take on it::We have separated ourselves from the natural connection we have to our origins. And because of it we sometimes have an almost inherent obsession with self pity/desolation/destruction and even an inner darkness that can be all enveloping because of that emptiness. Once again, great work!
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    dahlusion

    04/26/2014

    LexLogic, I agree with this statement. You, my friend, are in touch, not only with yourself, but with the magic of nature. Bravo to you!

    MootPoint commented on How We Live On Earth

    02-12-2013

    Interesting reading that has much creativity. I rejoice in the human capacity. No other animal comes close to the love, creativity, and wonderment of humans. I would like you to celebrate humans in one of your writes. It is true we are not perfect and sometimes harm what is around us, but our challenge is to rectify the wrongs. To make this a better place for our children and our children's children. I did enjoy your write. You have a rare talent.
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    dahlusion

    02/12/2013

    Thank you for this compliment, and it's hard for me to celebrate the human parasite and the mass destruction we have brought upon this one time luscious paradise: we can only blame ourselves for our ignorance in believing that we are more special than all other life on this planet; greed and fear=hate, something humans are masters at creating. Unfortunately. I will look deeper into my soul for something human to celebrate. Thank you again.

    sk8erpoet commented on How We Live On Earth

    02-09-2013

    Fantastic poem, it's as simple as that." hate beats on drums of human skin." that really struck me and will stick with me forever. Great write, and thank you for writing. -sk8
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    dahlusion

    02/11/2013

    Thank you for this wonderful comment

    KellyRedhead commented on How We Live On Earth

    01-23-2013

    I love your book and this is one of my favorites! One of the most arresting lines is, "Loneliness cheats at solitaire." You have a way of startling me into stillness that I like.
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    dahlusion

    01/24/2013

    Thank you for this praising comment, and, I have been told, that my second book, The Second Coming, out does my first—I like both of them. Thank you again!

    Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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