Today’s quote from the poetry of W.B. Yeats is taken from ‘The Rose of the World’.
‘He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.’
The World of the Rose
Banish the armies harvesting blood,
The rules of the market that grind lives to dust,
The spillage and wastage, the plastic plague,
And stop your ears to the false litanies
That say, what a shame, but this is free will,
A gift from above, to plunder and kill.
Strip back the carnage and the dull, dead eyes,
Find the green beneath, the rushing stream,
The beating heart within the concrete shell,
The reason the blackbird in the roses sings.
Would not a god, true man, worth his salt,
Have made this earth for his love, from a dream,
And not given such a bauble
Into the hands of the rabble?
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Happy Sunday, Jane 🙂
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/a-month-with-yeats-day-twelve/
Thank you, Lady Lee 🙂 You too.
A dark twist on one of Yeats’ lighter lines. Of course, I follow d your lead 😉
https://frankjtassone.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/a-tanka-for-a-month-with-yeats-day-12-poetry-haiku/
They all somehow end up dark at the moment, don’t they?
https://fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/november-with-yeats-12/
Oh, lovely quote. I think you’ll find I’ve gone much more romantic with this one.
It’s a romantic quote which I somehow didn’t rise to.
There are different ways to be romantic. I like your anger, and the idea of the world as a bauble is great.
Thanks Sarah 🙂 It’s a logic I don’t understand—God creates the world for us, lets us do what we like (after, of course throwing a wobbly because Eve ate one poxy apple), watches us destroy it and ourselves, and does nothing. Not even a short guest appearance to give us fair warning. What kind of a stupid god is that?
The kind we created in our own image…?
I think you might be onto something there 🙂
I tried to be romantic but not sure I measured up to it. The photo of the rose in my poem is from my backyard, first bloom of a new rose bush.
It’s a lovely photo, and I like that your poem isn’t saccharine, there’s a message in it.
Except drinking diet Coke occasionally, I do not have any use for artificial sweeteners in life. I like the real deal but need to stay away as much as I can to ensure that I do not make the doctors(and pharmaceutical industries) rich.
A very good reason.
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Oh brilliant- into the hands of the rabble! Love a good punch! Bravo!
There seems to be a very large plot hole in our creator story.
Yeats is bringing us all to the dark side 💜💜💜
I think we’re there all the time, we just don’t always acknowledge it. Life is hard.
True it’s not easy ! 💜
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I wholeheartedly agree there being something very wrong with a man-made God (man in the gender-sense) who stands by – impotent!
Religion is an activity I’m prepared to ignore as long as it isn’t thrust in front of me and presented as an excuse for imbecile behaviour.
#metoo!
I didn’t read yours just till now. I liked your anger, but I went more romantic–though I also couldn’t resist a little dig. 😉
https://merrildsmith.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/a-love-story-a-month-with-yeats-day-12/
When it’s entirely sweetness and light, I start looking for the warts too 🙂
Hahahaha. 🙂
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Convergence
https://rivrvlogr.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/convergence/
Here’s my thoughts. This time a la terzanelle. https://katmyrman.com/2017/11/12/through-the-breach-of-tar-and-pebbles/
Here is the short link to my post today : https://wp.me/p73yZZ-3PY
“Would not a god, true man, worth his salt,
Have made this earth for his love, from a dream,” – a dream that is sullied perhaps.
We have messed it up, but god knew that we would when he handed it to us. Or so we’re told.
I am not sure about what was handed to us in the primordial soup.
God spent far longer being amused by the antics of the godless dinosaurs than he has spent watching us destroy everything. One has to deduce from that he didn’t actually create the world for us, we just happened.
Be careful about the world was created in seven days zealots.
I’ve just been reading about the different kinds of Creationists, and there are some really wacky theories out there. The one I like best is that the earth really is only a few thousand years old, but God created it with ready made fossils to make it look as though it was billions of years old.
Your dark side is in full gear today, my friend. Have a wonderful week. Jane. Hugs.
Well, it is November 🙂 Have a great week, Michelle 🙂