Words of the prophets

Wisdom spoken from mouths insane

Sacred words flow from tongues profane

Prophecy scrawled on bathroom walls

Holy men teach the gutter's calls

Knowledge sprouts from garbage heaps

Healing out of moldy bread creeps

Spider excretions stop bleeding

Feces give strength after seeding

Germs flavor fragrant cheese

Iron health forged in a crucible of disease

Salvation's silk from a cocoon

in woven words of a drunken buffoon

Reviews

[Martiya Daman]

This poem captures the paradoxical beauty of finding wisdom and value in the unlikely and the overlooked. Its contrasts—profound truths emerging from the profane, healing from decay—are striking and thought-provoking. A unique perspective on life's strange yet poetic balance, Soren!

[Soren]

Thanks Martiya as always you see right to the heart of the meaning. I thank you for your most thoughtful read and comment

[John the Baptist]

One wonders which prophets are being blasted here. This one is more fitting for conspiracy theorists.

[Soren]

Thanks so much John for the read. It is not so much to blast the words of prophets past but to acknowledge the words of the unheard. Prophets have never been acknowledged in their time and go unheeded. So it is today with the voices of the poor and weak being unheard by the masses.