Societal Ask

Can we acknowledge the richness of our resources:
that which sustains and endures? Always looking for the next shiny thing,
craving the exotic, the surprising… pushing purpose, movement… toward what? Telling ourselves we want lifelong commitment, and then moving on… emotions depleted. How do we define standards, intuit and reassemble a frame, counsel a collective, when expectations, creeping and woven into consciousness, resemble oppression? Hope -as sold by patriarchal mindsets, striving to mutilate common sense – is useless to revive when society teaches us to blindly follow the unintelligible…

Full moon a warning –
reverence for mystery
not conspiracy

Society’s light
waning on the back of lies-
hopelessness surreal

Hate is born from fear
disinformation a tool –
We are being played.

Step back! Cautions moon
observe under a new light –
reconnect with love.

(This poem, derived from a dream, started as a haibun – prose followed by a haiku – but the haiku multiplied. Guess we will call it a variation on a haibun. Image my own.)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

29 thoughts on “Societal Ask”

  3. I wish we’d always try to reconnect with love regardless of the times but especially after this election. May the last 8 years taught us something. Beautiful poem and image, VJ!

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  5. This haibun (plus) is very timely, VJ. This is a nail-biter for me, too. I voted before we left for my daughter’s wedding in Utah. So grateful that my state allows that. We will just have to breathe for the next 18 days. Breathe through a poem like you just did.

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  8. We are being played–and it’s the same song over and over too. We learn nothing.
    I identify with the restlessness inherent in your prose section. I’ve felt it all my life.
    But I never forget the mystery, or the moon. (K)

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