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    AC Benus
  • AC Benus
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  • 03/08/2016
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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My Twentieth Year - 10. assess

Poem No. 25

 

Portrait…

 

My God, what a lovely face she did once possess

filled with all the emotions we could ever need

Now is it drained of charm from every recess

by those who claim to be her rightful seed.

 

All that she had, she gave; nothing is left to assess

yet impatient fools, who only think of their greed

Try to draw blood from her every abscess

for when she doesn't look, then her children feed.

 

She was young, and oh so sublime, not so long ago

but then she bore the frightful scourge of herself

And her children, they sucked away her blooming glow

while she raised not a finger to say no unto their pelf.

 

She used to be proud

and held her head high,

but now covered with a shroud,

her children ask with a sigh,

'Is this the beauty who raised

my sisters and brothers?

This? Torn so by motherly duty…?'

 

My God, what have we done to our most important,

life-giving mother? Please forgive our earthly sins.

We thought we would never be accountable

and reduced to the status of your orphans.

 

…of our Mother Earth

 

 

Poem No. 26

 

Beauty is of itself, a whole thing.

It can't fight its enemies

And we, too stupid, don’t know

What they are.

So, Beauty suffers, while

We do nothing.

Copyright © 2017 AC Benus; All Rights Reserved.
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Parker Owens

The second is so much more straightforward than the first; in its soft, even tones, it is nonetheless a clarion call to act, so to defend that which is beautiful. But the first had me wondering about direction and situation until the very last line. I imagined a grandchild watching older generations bicker over family wealth; grey Dickensian scenes washing over my brain. And then the last line tilted that all over on its side. Thank you for both of these.

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On 03/09/2016 11:16 PM, Parker Owens said:

The second is so much more straightforward than the first; in its soft, even tones, it is nonetheless a clarion call to act, so to defend that which is beautiful. But the first had me wondering about direction and situation until the very last line. I imagined a grandchild watching older generations bicker over family wealth; grey Dickensian scenes washing over my brain. And then the last line tilted that all over on its side. Thank you for both of these.

Parker, you are good to leave a review; thank you! My 20-year-old self would have jumped up and down in glee to read how you were 'fooled' by the Portrait poem. I'm pretty happy about it too.

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