Poems
by KJ Hannah Greenberg

 

Propinquity

 

Proximity, close kinship, never turns from concord procured

By coercion. Rather, when lacking consanguinity, it’s sound

Uniting accordant goals, quickly employing stated ablutions.

 

Sure, we can circumambulate conflicts by not listening, else

Refusing to acknowledge differing crews. Nonetheless, best

To ignore inscrutable remarks, embrace other folks, venture.

 

Too often, interpersonal connections are dashed by manners

Of personal culverts. Note, purulent words, more often than

Not, flense organic possibilities for meaningful interactions.

 

Some clarity might not have fit discrete public's needs, just

Rhetors’ sponsored ideas. Gage how verbal quays, perhaps,

Can salvage warring embodiments, avert preset affiliations.

 

Carnate wisdom ever moved rapporteurs proposing to join

Enemies instead of selling armaments. Dissention’s outlay,

Measured in mulctuary costs plus concessions, causes pain.

 

 

 

 

 

Literacy and Knowledge

 

People’s unequal linguistic skills, along with social pressures, lead rhetoric to harsh ends.

Consider, victory over vice just temporarily yields happiness and only for haughty hearts.

Kingdoms’ failure to overcome conflicted interests between denizens and rulers regularly

Necessitates promoted crowds plus military folks’ freedom might be missing parameters.

Ever and more, the morality of meaning gets lost in high falutin speeches, papers & texts.

 

Concurrently competitive and cooperative, individual and socially-indebted, needing

To also assert, to integrate, these standards are predestined to achieve jutting finishes.

Nonetheless, providing matter, i.e., material goods, cease to convey adequate identity

Barbarians, in spite of everything, are wont to force their wishes’ satisfaction. Watch

How we greatly increase ideas’ dissemination when brazen others facilitate activities.

 

By and large, our motives don’t reflect any social mores; people satiate crude desires.

Predominantly, tests of truth bring round not solely patrons but entire, sticky cultures.

Altering reality to fit linguistics, time and again, is only effective when metaphysical

Speculations focus on utility, not discovery; no one appears to appreciate uprightness.

Intellectual virtue, unlike its moral kin, never sat up, begged, never sought validation.

 

In addition to the systemization of children's education, their acts nearly always cull

International influence— contemplate the ways in which “translation” among media

Reconnoiters all manner of goings-on such that provocations readily stipulate much

Nonsense. Essentially, our society’s grown on one-upmanship. Additionally, we are

Employing practical philosophy, which, when actualized, crumples shared goodness.

 

Forged unity only exists where spiritual excellence overcomes various

Emotion-laden verbiage. It could takes down lawgivers’ carefully laid,

Suitable utterances, could power through ridiculous, criminal, suasory

Assemblages, could encourage cosmic patterns to integrate rewards or

Public esteem until the populace’s interested in literacy & knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

Prevaricating

 

Speaking evasively seldom concedes ansible access,

Or otherwise is revealed as all resolutions of cosmic

Conflicts. Watch, interstellar denes aren’t born from

Natural occurrences—various species develop them.

 

If only healthy offspring would protest current fads

In negotiating among star systems, we elders might

Make better use of visitor refusals, unwanted cargo

Drops, further, maneuverings costing whole worlds.

 

Concerning humanoids, gold together with silver

Threads imply otherworldly healthcare directives

Will go unheeded, ignored, all the more inverted.

Such “peripheral nature” has devastated galaxies.

 

After all, we seem to want galactic peace despite

Our contrary protests plus masked conversations

(it would suit us to forget pelerines, except those

Capable of warding away waves; samite’s best.)

 

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