5 march 2012

Watching Homs

the world is adorned with a million windows
the bleakest night has a thousand eyes
daylight shines into the globes darkest corners
truth will ultimately expose all lies

NASA’s satellites circle
Tropic of Cancer latitudes
cameras pinpoint the disease
metastasizing in the body of Homs

from stratospheric limits
sensitive lenses read the names
magic markers have scrawled
onto white sheets covering the dead

YouTube gets Oscar consideration
for grisly cinematography
a real-time visceral docudrama
of panting fascists gleefully tramping

through the desecrated streets
coolly administering a coup de gras
to a city on its knees, pleading release
from an orgy of incessant bloodletting

twitter records desperate tweets
the batting wings of endangered flocks
furiously thumbing into the blogosphere
calls for UN intervention that falls on blind eyes

BBC reportage,
the global gold standard
for journalistic excellence
scoops the stories
of London based FSA partisans
awaiting repatriation to scatter
Bashar’s Kodachrome killers
 
Has the All Seeing Eye
who has graced us with sight
laughingly cursed us with vision?
 
Does the
One Caring Eye of the Universe
bless us with perception
to haunt us with images?
 
Has
The One Thats Sees Everything
blinked closed the eye of compassion?
 
Has the horror of Homs
become too much even for
The Universal Eye of Love?
 
the opened eyes
of a dead child
reflects our
cold winter
of indifference
demoralizing
dehumanizing
a watching world

Music Selection
Grateful Dead Eyes of the World

Oakland
3/2/12
jbm


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Ailill,  

I've read a couple of your poems and like how you are using poetry as an avenue of protest... plus, that Jazz Kisses was a nice romance piece.. I like how the one above verses disillusionment with all the 'spinning' 'tweeting' of 'news' yet nothing ever changes.. and how you voice anger at the existential predicament we are in... viewing, observing, but still caught up in the flow of events.. without having the power to change the folly of others... there was a typo, hope you don't mind me pointing it out? This line, 'laughingly curse(d) us with vision?' but it is a minor cosmetic thing that does not take away from this piece.. engaging read!

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jimmymac,  

Dear Ailill, you have been hired as my editor in chief. thank you for the read and for your observations. I started to read your poems. You seem like quite the Romeo. I'll have to spend some time with them. I surmise considering how you structured your poems you have music and tunes to accompany this wonderfully slender ballad. I'll be in touch. Thanks again... jbm

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