PAST PROJECTS - POETRY
ARMAGEDDON
The purpose of this assignment was to create poetry that was in dialogue with the quote
“Poetry is above all a great premonition, hence, its supernatural tone.
When this poetic value begins to be or ends up being understood by everyone, the
poem loses its very essence: its prophetic power. Poetry ends when it stops being a
hypothesis; from then on its life consists precisely of that lapse in hypothetical reality;
and finally, truth transforms it either into an axiom or into the absurd.” and I took it quite literally, where I characterized the poem itself as supernatural, not poetry as a whole.
There is light, there is darkness,
there is surreality, there is certainty,
in the sky there is chaos, down below, stillness,
a voice booms, enveloping trained minds in it’s supremacy,
nothing will matter, it ventures,
nothing will matter, it repeats.
it talks of death like an old friend,
warns the courageous, comforts the weak,
death is inexorable, upon us,
nothing will matter, it ventures,
nothing will matter, it repeats.
There is divide, there is equality,
there is distinction, there is similarity
the diamonds will perish, rewards destroyed,
big houses will cry with loneliness,
and the small will lament solitude,
ministers, slaves, face similar decay,
men and women, the same burial,
the tiger will no longer prey on the rabbit,
the elephant will cease to trample the ant,
when death is inevitable,
nothing will matter, it ventures,
nothing will matter, it repeats.
There is love, there is hate,
there is anger, there is tranquil,
jealously will evaporate,
crimes and deeds, detach,
wisdom and stupidity, both shall walk away,
ache and agony are both still now,
the fortunate and unloved, both shall be together,
for when death comes,
nothing will matter, it ventures,
nothing will matter, it repeats.
There is power, there is weakness,
there is longing, there is contentment,
long after the voice is dead,
the silence pinches the carcasses,
for they know the voice’s truth,
nothing will matter, it ventured,
nothing will matter, it failed to repeat.