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Race_9togo
Member since December 4, 2007
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An Audience Of One
It occurred to me
as I came across another
interminable entertainment slaughter
unfolding on my so-called smart TV
That the carefully crafted
blood and pain and fear I saw
was the same identical engulfing maw
of hatred murder rape and torture
that fills almost every media item
in our despairing poisoned broken land.
How much violence do they want
to pollute our daily lives with,
How much horror is enough
to sate the brutality of profit?
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How much more innocence do I have to see
butchered by another empty thing
born human, but now just gleeful monster
filled with pleasure and satisfaction
at another’s painful, brutal death?
And as an afterthought,
some punctuation ending the trail
of screaming human wreckage
is an occasional thing called ‘justice’,
placed as if it solves all problems,
makes carnage worth the agony
of watching others beaten, burned, shot and stabbed to death...
Fuck it.
As the lines between reality and
entertainment further blur,
I think I’ll just stop fucking watching.
Race_9togo’s timeline
- September 2023
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23 SatReceived a critique
on An Audience Of One from @Triskelion
"...to the man behind the curtain! Lol...as much as I'd like to argue the concept of ai, I don't think it warrants the attention, although there are millions of people who should feel threatened by it. You are not one of…" -
22 FriReceived a critique
on An Audience Of One from @Triskelion
"...the ai missed the biggest point in this (rant). It looks like frustration spurred a response not genuinely welcomed. Driving home tonight, I was pondering a like thought, so this inspired my comment. I don't see any…" -
21 Thu
- March 2023
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19 SunReceived a critique
on Finality of limit from @swamp-witch
"that's a doozy of a phrase, Race. Good to see you here. I am freshly back. It's been a while! Would you consider more commas in the following line? tiny spinning rocky ball, --> tiny, spinning, rocky ball, The flow of t…" - December 2022
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03 SatAnniversary
15 years of membership
- November 2022
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05 Sat
- October 2022
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27 Thu
- December 2017
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03 SunAnniversary
10 years of membership
- December 2012
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03 MonAnniversary
5 years of membership
- November 2010
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15 MonHighest posting month
November 2010 — 23 poems
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06 SatPosting milestone
100 poems posted
- June 2010
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19 SatCritique milestone
1,000 critiques given
- March 2009
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18 Wed
- December 2008
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03 WedAnniversary
One year of membership
- December 2007
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04 TueFirst critique offered
on "Voices Seen" by @IKnowNoBox
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04 TueFirst publication
You, Me And Old Winter
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03 MonJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
Stressed-filled mother-loving very-married ex-homeschooling scotch-drinking technology-ridden fast-driving food-loving home-cooking heart-diseased gardening fishing winter-loving tree-hugging christian debt-ridden poem-writing computer-programming life-loving drug-overloaded prog-rock-jamming amateur-drumming family-oriented honest-to god (honest, God!) human being who still believes, in spite of our species' best efforts, that homo sapiens are worth saving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WaD_KqLp8 <- This is Unitopia, from OZ; they ROCK
I love this place, the only briar patch on the web where I feel completely at home. I'm a poet because of the people here - a GOOD poet, many people tell me - and there are no words to express how I feel about that, and them.
'Call me ageless,
Call me ghost;
The diamond dude behind the shades,
The sunflower beneath the skyline,
Swaying in the land of snakes,
Hey I used to be a king,
Now I’m just a king of laughter,
Put my faith in anything,
Anything that’s close to wonder...'
I Am The Sun by The Flower Kings (Swedish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWahVEaiaLc
A list of living proofs that God exists:
Clair d'Lune by Claude Debussey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
Hela Good by No Doubt (American)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtTj4cramPM
The Miracle of Being by Capercaillie (Scottish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OB6yI5f3E
Kitty Cat by Beyonce (American)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-pWibZB-ww
Hello Its Me by Todd Rundgren (American)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas (French)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yH4B9deok
Recycled Waste by Waste Lagoon (Norwegian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmDPUeP7dNQ
Raja Raja by Red Budda (German)....Can anyone please tell me which Kabir song/poem this is? Or can you translate it for me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAtDlAFH7Nw
The Sense In Sanity by IQ (British)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoPeuBRI_1M
Mandrake by Gong (English/French - a bit of master5y from 1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks9YscGny8g
We Were Born To Be Loved by King's X (American)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0cEtyQjz7g
What You Won't Do For Love by Go West (American)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpCqRTG7ckg
Come Alive by Planet Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1lHTQGUqIw
"Come Alive," she said,
"Don't go, don't leave before you know,
Don't get it wrong just when you could have got it right...."
The Fire Inside by Steve Hillage (English - classic Hillage; dance to THIS if you dare!))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w-o4zw_B6s
The Bonnie Yew Tree by The Battlefield Band (Scottish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uri_RpWzq8
Toys by Frost (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJk61r6iUX8
Crown Royale by Jill Scott (American - This lady SERIOUSLY rocks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2LJ_z0XbQ
Over You by Robin Trower (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG4P2w2YSeg
'Whether sorrow lives,
Whether time forgives,
Don't forget, that I'm dying, here inside,
Over you...."
Heart of Gold by Neil Young (a bit of magic from the master songwriter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE
Steve Vai and Tony MacAlpine - live in OZ (Two of the best rock guitarists on Planet Earth)
Not only does God exist...HE ROCKS.
SO glad I lived long enough to hear THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIenY-zNR5k (Part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEgTXu9D-HQ (Part 2)
The Roving Journeyman by The Corries (Scottish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5LzHSci1Lg
Unravel Your Soul by Moonrise (Polish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvLuyjRAbLY
Serious Dreamers by The Flower Kings (Swedish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N7AivCpuic
Baila me Hermana (Dance, Sister, Dance) by Santana
I dance so hard to this (and have for fifty years) that my heart hurts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfb7edKeOA
Lament For The Fisherman's Wife by Silly Wizard (Scottish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC1ZY8SC4ew
Finally...
This song says it all:
You and I,
we are strangers by one chromosome
Slave to the hormone, body and soul
In a struggle to be happy and free
Swimming in a primitive sea
You and I,
we must dive below the surface
A world of red neon and ultramarine
Shining bridges on the ocean floor
Reaching to the alien shore
For you and me, sex is not a competition
For you and me, sex is not a job description
For you and me
We agree
You and I,
we are pressed into these solitudes
Color and culture, language and race
Just variations on a theme
Islands in a much larger stream
For you and me, race is not a competition
For you and me, race is not a definition
For you and me
We agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore
You and I,
we reject these narrow attitudes
We add to each other, like a coral reef
Building bridges on the ocean floor
Reaching for the alien shore
For you and me, sex is not a competition
For you and me, race is not a definition
For you and me, we hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me, we'd elect each other president
For you and me
We might agree
But that's just us...
Reaching for the alien shore
~Alien Shore by Rush (Canadian - arguably the best progressive rock band of the 20th and 21st centuries)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f5Mb6_35jM
Location: Earth Vicinity (within a five light-year radius), ZZC
Favorite Poets
John Donne
T.S. Eliot
Serendipity
Emily Dickenson
Kailashana
Charles Bukowski
Kabir
Rett
Dalton
W. B. Yeats
William Blake
Rainer Maria Rilke
and many other Neopoet poets; Neopoet has heavily influenced my poetry and my ability to write it well.
Recent Work
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First Snow
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You, Me And Old Winter
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Workshops
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| IMAGERY IN POETRY( ready to start?) | (syllabus) | Splash Pool | Started 2017-06-24 | Concluded |
| More Meter | (syllabus) | Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2012-01-11 | Concluded |
| Rhyme- use, variations and forms. | (syllabus) | Shark Pool, Plunge Pool | Started 2011-10-12 | Concluded |
| Cliches and their use | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2011-06-20 | Concluded |
| Olympic Pool (initial workshop) | (syllabus) | Olympic Pool | Started 2011-05-16 | Concluded |