Thursday, September 24, 2020

AGAIN




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Never again, they said
As if never is a place 
In time's non-existence
So that by mere exclamation
We can rest
Assured 
That lessons learned
Are eternal

But time is an incompetent teacher
Unable to engrave marks on its own story
Instead like a child who enjoys the same book
over and over
Time repeats
Stories of disasters in a world deranged
Like the story of now

Again
Some are convinced that subjugation
Is necessary for their own elevation
While we, (the sane?) protest
Because we're convinced
This time we change 
Humanity can rearrange 
Time's never ending story
To be repeated time and time again
 

 


( For Dverse poets where Grace asks us to write a protest poem.)

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14 comments:

  1. JadeLiSeptember 24, 2020 at 4:58 PM

    Keeping hope alive for a wrinkle in time that interrupts the same old story...

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  2. GraceSeptember 24, 2020 at 5:35 PM

    How sad that we never seem to learn our history lessons and we are bound to keep on repeating them. At the same time, this also tells us that no actions have been done to resolved them. Good to read you again Myrna. Hope all is well.

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  3. Sherry Blue SkySeptember 24, 2020 at 6:25 PM

    Lovely to read you, my friend.......humanity can rearrange the story, if we wish it........and if we hurry.

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  4. Dwight L. RothSeptember 24, 2020 at 7:49 PM

    I really like this poem!

    But time is an incompetent teacher
    Unable to engrave marks on its own story

    This is such a great analogy to history repeating... Well done.

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  5. WolfsrosebudSeptember 24, 2020 at 8:33 PM

    My dad served in WWII. We lived a simple victory like. Confident of being secure. Your words show a contrast, as the photos did of two very different worlds.

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  6. Elephant's ChildSeptember 24, 2020 at 10:36 PM

    Indeed. Though rather than time being an incompetent teacher I would classify us as distracted, unwilling, failing students.

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  7. IngridSeptember 25, 2020 at 1:51 AM

    'time is an incompetent teacher' - and we are seemingly incompetent pupils. Hopefully this time we will learn. I love this extended metaphor.

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  8. Kim M. RussellSeptember 25, 2020 at 3:52 AM

    I think you’re right, Myrna, ‘time is an incompetent teacher’, but many human beings are reluctant learners and happy to repeat the same thing over again, good or bad, until someone gives them something different. It’s up to us eager learners to present them with alternatives.

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  9. indybevSeptember 25, 2020 at 8:56 AM

    "Time is an incompetent teacher" .... what a wise phrase! Please, Lord, that those of us who remember can avert repetition!

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  10. Ken GierkeSeptember 25, 2020 at 9:12 AM

    Well said.

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  11. ashokSeptember 25, 2020 at 11:49 AM

    Loved this

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  12. Sanaa RizviSeptember 25, 2020 at 3:33 PM

    "But time is an incompetent teacher unable to engrave marks on its own story,".. this is so poignant! Gorgeously rendered, Myrna!

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  13. purplepeninportland.comSeptember 26, 2020 at 1:36 PM

    Well done, Myrna. I love the start of this.

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  14. brudbergSeptember 27, 2020 at 9:17 AM

    I fear even more that we learn the wrong things from the past... it will be even worse this time I fear.

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