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.)
