What's Real---Priceless

What's Real---Priceless

 

 

 

in the mall of composure

purchased confidence

from shops with harmonic window displays

mannequins make eyes at each other

no reach,

no hugs

safely confined to their places

 

humans have real hearts

risky shoppers try to avoid the expense

of devastation

if the purchase does not outlive

its warrantee

 

but alas, we can move

to a position of acceptance

handle with care

 

the future might be forever.

 

 

erin-cilberto

1/12/22

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

This poem is priceless. The mall is a fitting theme where people congregate, shop, eat, drink, date, get sick like the outside world and the new realities we live in. We really feel motionless by this Covid epidemic, we feel like mannequins distanced from each other. We all seek those warranties but we can't get them. The price of health is high, the price of sanity is higher.
Wonderful as usual sir Jacob.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

your response is better than the poem...thank you, Sami,
j.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! You are welcome sir Jacob.

[William Michael Reeves]

The whole mannequin thing is such a great idea! Maybe like today's youth that only communicate through text. Stuck in their place looking at each other through camera lens but would never want to embrace.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your insightful review, Bill,
j.

[Cyprian Van Dyke]

mannequins make eyes at each other
no reach,
no hugs
safely confined to their places - I think this was my favorite part, but of course, I can't take it out of the overall context of your poem.

Nicely written. I like your analogy poems their warrantee doesn't expire. tyfs

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Cyprian,
j.

[Lathen Griffiths]

A real feel of these modern times written within your words Jacob. I can see those mannequins gazing out of their shop windows.

Best wishes

Lathen

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you for your kind review, Lathen,
j.

[Unspoken poet]

I can feel the movement between the both in your write, nicely written

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Unspoken,
j.

[Patricia]

I prefer being the mannequin and their distant company but will be happy if we ever get to the point we don’t have to be so distant whether it be due to Covid or our own petty and destructive behaviors. I like the message in this.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I hear ya, Patricia...thank you,
j.

[Writergurl]

Such a truthful write here, This is wonderful Jacob

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, writergurl.
j.