Kevin's Watch

While I'm working on my current magnum opus, here are a couple more:

SONS OF SAGES
We are the Gods of the Ages,
Songs of the Sages,
Drunk on the blood,
Caught in her flood.
To pick us up,
You must let us down.
What once was
Un-spoilt green
Became
Steely brown.
~
BLAND
All the best songs have been sung.
All the good movies have been done.
All the grand stories have been told.
All the great secrets have been sold.
Nothing feels new anymore.
Everything is a bore.

Only death lies unknown.

excellent!! SONS OF SAGES is brilliant!!

excellent!! SONS OF SAGES is brilliant!!

Thanks! I used it in a play I wrote a good while ago and then remembered to fish it out. The play was okay but the poem was great, so I put it with my "great" list of poems. Anyway, the first part is basically about how we are the Gods, the songs, the stories, etc. Basically, it's saying all our current answers for existence have been inventions by us. Which means, we don't truly know the Answer--yet.

The coda that goes like, "what once was un-spoilt green became steely brown" was kind of my view on industrialization's disregard for the environment. The part in the middle ("to picks us up, you must let us down") is something I just wrote as a bit of poetry. I had no idea AT ALL what it meant when I wrote it, nor do I know now. Maybe someone else can give his or her interpretation.

Oh yeah, and I've got no idea what "Drunk on the blood, Caught in her flood" means. Heh!

EDIT: if you ask me, and it's totally subjective, as if I were a fellow reader and had never written the poem, but I think "drunk on the blood" has to do with our society's mob mentality, inherent masochism, preoccupation with war, and drug abuse. The darker side.

“Caught in her flood” probably has something to do with how society is kept “doped” by sex and TV and the media?

"what once was un-spoilt green became steely brown" was kind of my view on industrialization's disregard for the environment

i really like the symbolism .. deep and critical .. i like that in an expression like poetry and music