Who is responsible.

narrative verse

Who is responsible.

 

When molten magma surfaces

 beneath an ancient glacier.

A bitter struggle then takes place

 to prove which is superior.

 

The superheated steam produced

expends its force explosively

With molten rock and ice reduced.

Almost instantaneously.

 

To particles of dust and smoke

 projected high into the sky.

Just Mother Natures little joke

A fact that no one can deny.

 

She demonstrates her power to show.

That though we think we’re in control

 that we are not. She lets us know

  that she’s in charge from pole to pole.

 

She forces us to ground our planes.

Ensures it isn’t safe to fly

as long as the ash cloud remains

suspended in the upper sky.

 

There’s very little we can do.

Except to wait impatiently

and let the scientists review

 the situation constantly.

 

If and when they do decide

 the sky is clear and safe to fly.

 And not potential suicide.

There will be many asking why.

 

It took so long to satisfy

The powers that be, we could fly

without compromising safety.

We’ll ask but will get no reply.

 

We can accept as being true.

We do not trust the government.

Regard it with a jaundiced view

 A bias which is permanent.

 

Damned if they don’t damned if they do.

We aren’t prepared to recognise.

 That what they say could well be true.

That we were taken by surprise.

 

An act of God it’s classified

 that lets insurers off the hook

 Our claims will not be ratified.

They will go strictly by the book.

 

They will not lose they never do.

The small print will make sure of that.

It may be sad but it is true.
most claims they’ll simply turn down flat.

 

They’re glad to take your premiums

 but they pay out reluctantly.

 and only pay the minimums

 They have to pay out legally.

 

Volcanoes, earthquakes acts of God

Although they happen frequently

myself I find it rather odd

are not covered by your policy.

 

Disaster strikes you’re on your own.

As you discover far too late

Although in fact you would have known

 if you had read the rules they state..

 

Though well concealed in the small print.

You can’t complain they were supplied

Insurance companies make a mint

 and we are left unsatisfied

 

.Wednesday, 21 April 2010

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Reviews

[Christopher Kelly]

-__----===---__-----============+++-__This is some of the best (contemporary) poetry I have read in a while. While I am not one for minimalism and strict rhyme scheme, this works for me because it is a proper tone; and I emphasize here the difference between tone and style: namely, style is the selection of (multitudinous) tools with which the writer chooses to create; tone is the attitude they take with their subject matter. I felt here what I call Cosmic Anarchism:-a special spirit that describes the exact and precise demarcation between the realms of societygovernment, and natureindividual. The latter two are better off either without the former two and are seldom complimentary with it each other: the Individual creates societies and governments, which, being intellectually raped by themselves and their own knack for common stupidly (due to cultural conditioning and ignorance of nature), are ever a lost cause. Thus have the Vedic’s called reality illusion: flocks of blind leading the blind.