When brainwashed mankind blindly follows received doctrines and unquestioned information, it is sucked into a kind of dumb charades, often inextricably, conveying nothing but despair for itself.
Wanton, how man has your grace forsook,
Spurring earthen toys to games of war;
When your name he has erringly bled
In the careless ooze of unctuous gore;
With false truths, and no regrets,
His rallying calls on trumpets blare,
And, following blindly, the man-herd
Plays its dumb charades of much despair.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Such is the Embarrassment
A self explanatory poem that underlines in my own words the age old thought of the insignificance of Man in the entire scheme of Creation, known and beyond. By calling all that compounds Man -- his drives and achievements, an emabarrassment, the suggestion is clear for him to eschew every sense of importance, arrogance, and pride.
Such is the Embarrassment
As wispy, vaporous risings that
Permeate a patch of time and space,
To end, but banished into the vast
And boundless void, all history of
Deeds and graces of every man and
Hominoid will perish, with useless
Strife and struggle for all his beliefs,
His shibboleths and spectral wraiths;
Such, indeed, is the embarrassment
Of human importance, fame and faiths!
From The Unsung Log by Ronnie Patel; (C) Ronnie Patel 2006
Such is the Embarrassment
As wispy, vaporous risings that
Permeate a patch of time and space,
To end, but banished into the vast
And boundless void, all history of
Deeds and graces of every man and
Hominoid will perish, with useless
Strife and struggle for all his beliefs,
His shibboleths and spectral wraiths;
Such, indeed, is the embarrassment
Of human importance, fame and faiths!
From The Unsung Log by Ronnie Patel; (C) Ronnie Patel 2006
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- Ronnie Patel
- Viimsi (Tallinn), Harjumaa, Estonia
- Born in Bombay prior to independence of India from the British, Ronnie Patel spent several years of his life in London of the fifties and sixties. During that time and since, sometimes in turn, sometimes concomitantly, he became company executive, businessman: fashion garments and poultry farming, actor, film-maker, writer and poet. He has lived and travelled extensively round the world for business and pleasure, and has been an exemplary generalist. Except for the occasional forays, he retired from active corporate and business life well over a decade ago, even to shed, at last, the ubiquitous euphemism: consultant. Among his other interests, which include scuba-diving, golf and bridge he has recently taken up oil painting.
