Three Word Wednesday requires participants
to use the three words of the week in a composition.
The words this week are: enigmatic, grovel, and faulty.
Sun-Stroke
So enigmatic—
Serene, remote and aloof.
Is anybody home?
But they follow them:
A case of misplaced desire
And faulty thinking.
They grovel, prostrate
Before their golden icons.
Such misguided souls.
But is there a soul
That can then be misguided?
We will never know.
They seek more recruits—
There is comfort in numbers.
A pyramid scheme.
But is there a soul
That can then be misguided?
We will never know.
They seek more recruits—
There is comfort in numbers.
A pyramid scheme.
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© J Cosmo Newbery 2015
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They live in fear and are too ignorant to realise it. I stopped believing in fairy tales when I grew out of childhood.
ReplyDeleteIs there a soul to be misguided... The question begs to be asked doesn't it...!
ReplyDeleteI like the play on pyramid scheme -- from time immemorial there are always false gods, those who bow before them and what about those souls? perhaps that's the secret pretending to belong but keeping your self safe, untouchable and deliciously contrary in the back of your head...I bet even some who surrender on the outside are quietly repeating 'fuck you' on the inside..i hope so...but then i am uncouth
ReplyDeleteThe safety in numbers.. is Daesh in reality a pyramid scheme of death? Maybe I got carried away there....?
ReplyDeletecan the soul even be misguided is another question - loved the creative force that enigmatic, grovel, and faulty gave rise to here
ReplyDeleteWe worship different idols now don't we promising riches now rather than in the afterlife.
ReplyDeleteSuch a thought provoking verse.
ReplyDeleteSuch misguided persons...I won't even use the word 'souls.' A pyramid scheme indeed.
ReplyDeleteluv the question with reference to misguided souls
ReplyDeletehave a blessed Sunday
much love...
Oh wow this took me to so many levels...those who worshipped gods in ancient cultures, to those who worship money and fear and death now....well done!
ReplyDeleteThat is the wondering that I have - whether there are souls inside some bodies and, if so, how they can perform the crazed acts they do. Lost souls, I suppose, with a dark karma.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thought - The pyramid scheme - a scheme of darkness..
ReplyDeleteWitty and thought-provoking.
ReplyDeletePeople like to create the fetish of everything....and follow as if any perfection is possible...maybe it replaces the self awakening, or maybe these are just young souls....
ReplyDeleteI see it. Sunstroke is a good name for this blind following of the unreachable top.
ReplyDeleteMisguided? We are when we refuse to listen to the soul's knowledge.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
I'm comforted to know that these people apparently don't all live in the US.
ReplyDeleteBut they follow them:
ReplyDeleteA case of misplaced desire
Sounds very familiar! They follow blindly for 2 reasons, 1) they want to recover whatever they had expended 2) they are motivated by greed of enormous income. On both counts they lose eventually!
Hank
I like this.
ReplyDeleteA universal franchise and parliamentary system is what is missing. Too long there has been a rule of law and fear. Who can fathom the outcome while profits are still to be made.
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