Sublime

For Junie and the like. Sublime Story

Delilah June under an old Alabama moon
Realized together “Wordsworth never spent days preparing food
Coleridge didn’t have to sneak around to read a book
Those who sought the sublime were white men of lives of leisure
They sought an unattainable beauty because they’d already attained everything else”
Makes you wonder as 4th of July comes
with all the free will to the men
we still need help
All the birthright citizens suddenly are bums
USA in her season, out of order and of good luck
are the low income citizens feeling the freedom?
As MAGA making her great again seems to come from the fires of hell
weaving their own evil spell
waving their red flag
while the homeless and hungry are left feeling like a crumpled paper bag
As I sat in church last Sunday
this translated scripture came my way
“Be valiant in war and fight the ancient serpent and you shall enter the everlasting kingdom
Alleluia”
What if we don’t know the Serpent’s face
how can we do what this thing say
Delilah June born under that old Alabama moon
She was born also a slave
yet she still was one of the beautiful and the brave
The people from MAGA lead by white supremacy Confederacy on the ugly side of humanity and truth
Try to rewrite the history
in the end we clueless humans dont know what is what
However there are writers given the mission to tell a story with love
Junie aka Delilah June from the Alabama moon
We met in a beautiful book by Erin
In one day her story was consumed
true or not true
inside is the ghost, the voice who the masters leave long buried
the winds lift them to be carried
as they are resurrected in the stories we tell
their voices released from the evil spell
if only for a while
so they can one day smile
under the moonlight,
sublime

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I think there are several serpents. I saw one today doing an interview on a news program.
I saw the devil in his eyes and heard him come out of the mouth...Yes, so many birthright citizens becoming bums....Why?
This group of leaders takes everything overboard...But that is okay because all this bad stuff is still the previous administration's fault...and it might be for the next three years.
A very ugly side of things, and there is not so much to celebrate today...and that is quite sad.
j.

[butterfly]

There may be several serpents true. Thanks for the review!

[Davidgeo]

It's lovely, you tell a story with your poetry that is pretty sublime. It's not always pleasing to read but I think you do well here.

Are you a fan of the band Sublime? There is a song by the name of Summertime by them that I couldn't help but think of.

[butterfly]

Thanks for the review!