Pride & Prejudice... (Bunny style:)

maybe I can

Pride And Prejudice

 

In this place of pandemic segregation

Pulses an outcry crave of embrace

Our sequestered humanities situation

Reminds us of our hearts proper place

As we then gaze prejudices suffocation

Sit and watch our brothers dying face

With tears we peer righteous hateful indig(nation)

And keen in collective cries disgrace

And enraged I watched the angry demonstrations

Of many burning hearts displaced

And today as I watch this grand new generation

Dance in flash bangs, smoke bombs, sprayed with mace

My pride of them, in their true determination

Gives us so much hope for hates deface

 

And we smile

And we cry

And we start to breathe again

Or perhaps

Maybe

For the first time

Reviews

[barleygirl]

Carrying on from Jacob's fine observations, I might add that the ambivalence comes from the fact that we don't know what to expect anymore . . . after the "Trump Years", we've seen every previous cherished assumption about our precious democracy dashed like a dog t**d on the lawn. Friend posted the Biden lead (considerable) on FB yesterday, but I could not get excited. We've seen wine turn to piss, filet mignon turns out to be s**t-on-a-shingle. We don't know what the f**k to imagine as the future (will we wear facemasks forevermore?) and we're afraid to be hopeful or to even imagine anything at all. Maybe this was a necessary banishment of expectations (the curse of mankind). Anyhow, only a superb poem provokes such depth of introspection from me these days becuz I haven't been giving a s**t for two months & I applaud you for firing up that long-dorment aspect of my way of being. When I opened this & saw that "Pride & Prejudice" related to pandemic/race riots, I got a chill down my spine . . . such a brilliant connection! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Robert Trakofler]

hee hee I'm a Bad Bunny:) stealing book titles for selfish purpose:/ I was thinking I might post this one on the Zenith Page with a big thank you photo what do you think? too abrasive or does the pourage taste just right?

[barleygirl]

Post it! The reason it doesn't seem inflammatory to me is becuz you're not delving into the blame game. You speak to us all as an undivided nation, even tho we're horribly divided!

[Robert Trakofler]

I do it then:)

[Eilis]

Your title drew me in, haha. I do have a bit of an obsession with the original story. But, I love what you've done here--building on the old idea of how pride can lead to prejudice when we are too wrapped up in our own viewpoint to see past it into what a hurting person is trying to say.

We are living in shuddering times. We are living through the stuff of history books, and if a generation from now there are still history books being written, this period in history will be a great teacher. What it will teach remains to be seen, but your hopeful vision is heartening.

Seeing so many people determined to press the tides of change is a wonderful thing. Change is never smooth. Complacency is smooth, but it leads to rockier roads than real lasting change. And we are sort of seeing that now in all that is happening. I do enjoy the way you both speak to the present and offer something to look forward to in the future. The Bunny always tells me something I need to hear. Great poem, Robert.

[Robert Trakofler]

watching them take a stand fills my heart with hope dear Eilis there are protests and there are movements this is a full blown movement now:)

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Yes Robert, mayhap the butterflies are stirring and starting, now, to flutter their wings..”Maybe”there is a new, fresh current being carried on the air in ever-widening circles...wouldn’t that be wonderful, magical, long-awaited? You capture the paradox of our imminent despair and burgeoning hope so eloquently and profoundly in this well-penned, perfectly rhymed contemplative poem. “Maybe..for the first time” in an interminably long time...yes. Bravo for brave writing my dear friend!

[Robert Trakofler]

One day I’m going to be driving thru New York and I would drive another extra 100 miles out of my way just to hug you! Thank you Annette for always being such a billow

[Ayesha]

Absolutely amazing.
We, (this generation), were not the initiators of such 'unjust cultures' handed over to us, but certainly we will be the ones to put an end to them.

[Robert Trakofler]

For the longest time I was filled with this sense of dread for the younger generation:( I have been in the throws of all the yuck of our current president billowing hate doing his best to fracture people and separate us to divide and conquer as it were. Now I see this united youth tired of watching as their world is getting destroyed before their eyes tired of hate, tired of greed, tired of being pushed around and marginalized! and it makes me so damn proud and gives me so much hope in a time when hope is such a stark contrast

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

Cheer those along who' are fighting for justice. You feel such compassion for them my dear friend Bunny. Just reading these lines makes me feel your pain.

[Robert Trakofler]

HI Dhara i am sad but it is also a happy sad these days I am so proud of the people banding together for change in the end of this poem is a tear of pride and hope:)

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

All your dreams of better times will come true, dear Bunny. I believe we're inching towards a better world!

[AJNJ]

There's so much happening out there. Its enough to shake the toughest human. No one can be left unaffected, untouched. Those who say they dont care are ether in denial or absolutely disconnected and disninterested in the suffering world around them. Your poem is very emotional. I think we humans are capable of a lot of endurance and after all the grief and crying, we will breathe, smile and laugh again. Got to hang in there friend.

[Robert Trakofler]

these are dreadful and magical times my friend Mr. Peston:/ even in the stirs of the pandemic i can feel the undercurrent of change

[AJNJ]

Indeed...we’re living in great times. :)

[Dave Brown]

I certainly hope you are right
The words 'This time' have been repeated too often in the past.
Today, in our little backwoods, a black girl was verbally assaulted just because she was a black girl!!
Will it really ever end?

[Robert Trakofler]

Those folks just aren’t giving up my friend (The protesters) I applaud them now:) I even donated to a local defense fund:)

[Ana Papaya]

I'm hearing you. It's all scary s**t to watch unfold.

[Robert Trakofler]

The civil insurrection aspect warms my heart now:) I see day after day all of the different races, religions, gay, straight people all of the marginalized stand in unity here and in Europe really all over the world and it makes me so proud. I havent felt more hope for humanity then I do now dear Ana... because of the young people! As I spent so very much time in this sequester praying that this time in isolation might give us all a chance to reflect on what is truly important about what sort of world we want to rebuild and even that it came from the killing of a single man on live television for the world to see the hate that underscores our daily lives:( The people will not stand for it and I am left with hope:)

[Unspoken poet]

There is so much truth in this, it's a sad world that we live in.
I like what you had to say here, so much truth.

[Robert Trakofler]

Hi Choose:) is that your horse? what a beautiful picture! but seeing all of the younger generation rally and stand protest make my heart soar with hope:)

[Unspoken poet]

I have 6 horses, and yes, thank you. I can't handle 2020 anymore, it's all just so sad. I wish we would stop protesting and all the hate and violence, i can't wait for 2021.. I want something better than this year.