Hello my fellow TOT’s, I feel it is time that we once again had a space to post our own poetry, so please feel free to post any of your penned thoughts here:
I’ll open this thread with an old one of mine.
The Imbalance
All along the sleepless hours’ men dream within their Ivory towers,
Of profit looming large as life while hunger cutting like a knife,
Precedes the Reaper with his blade and fells a man who is betrayed,
Not just by ‘brothers’ in the West whose butter-mountains are the best,
But also famine in the East where the masses have increased,
To levels which they can’t support and just to live they must import,
All food at an inflated price – an economic cash device,
Which makes one rich, another poor but all this must be changed before,
This beautiful and ancient race has disappeared without a trace,
From this our own fair Mother Earth, whose nourishment about her girth,
Should be enough for all to share, and feed the starving everywhere,
Here, where selfishness is rife, what then is the price of life?
For caring people seem so few, yet others say: ‘What can I do?’
Now is the time; become aware, no longer just to stand and stare,
Act now please make a solemn vow, dying children need you now,
The sharing-out has just begun there is enough for everyone …
John that's absolutely gorgeous, love it mate! This isn't poetry as such it's rap but its very spiritual and of course writing rap lyrics is a form of poetry in itself, so I hope you don't mind me posting it?!
It's called Keep Me Awake and it's written, produced and performed by me. i made the video too, not that thats much of an accolade lol. Hope you enjoy!
Excellent Ben! I love the sentiment in the title – keep me awake, I wish I had thought of that line for a poem … Don’t put yourself down the video is pretty cool too. I would love to see the lyrics printed below the video as a stand-alone poem and just for reference rap is poetry …