Vulture of Culture

Culture rhymes with Vulture, and this is Culture personified

I am a vulture of culture

I con up scraps, of history

Of nature, of stature,

Ingenuous traps, of mystery. 

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Scavenging catharsis,

Avenging the verses

Of misfortune, frivolous

whispers, tunes, scrupulous

setbacks, those unkind perils

At tracks of mankind, their ills.

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It's the multure of culture,

with a dull chirp, a vulture

cons up, scraps of history

And I curl up, as a sliver

In the wraps of this tree.

Author's Note

Suggestions, Opinions, Criticism welcome.

Reviews

[Eilis]

What a great commentary on our times. I read it as someone who partially understands what influences them, but isn't willing to go much beyond the surface to find out the depth of history and culture and absorb those things in meaningful ways. I suppose this could apply to many things in our current moment. What seems to define the modern human is the ability to say and share things that grab attention, but sometimes true understanding is overlooked. I really enjoy the way your poems offer a sense of sophistication to a rhyming format. You have interesting messages in your poetry. Great to meet you, Akshay.

[Akshay Rawal]

Exactly my point, Eilis! Though I realized we're suffering from an attention economy much after I wrote this poem. Today, with information explosion, there's an attention deficit and every media channel makes their information exaggerated, piquant even if on amoral and false grounds, just to grab attention. True knowledge requires inquiry and introspection but are we left with the time to do that? And where do we start?

Thanks for pointing out this great point. Nice to meet you too :D

[Ana Papaya]

Culture, personified. And so many beg, borrow and steal from others.
This is unique. I like it. The flow is kinda lyrical too.

[Akshay Rawal]

Thanks Ana. Glad you liked this poem. And yes, history is full of influences, carrying legacies, stealing and passing on of wisdom and culture. :)

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I feel this is wonderful Metaphor.
Taking bits of history, of life...the scraps others may leave alone...
we jump at the chance to get them within our writing beak...and poeticize...
j.

[Akshay Rawal]

Aren't we all vultures, looking for scraps of heritage and lessons History has left us :) when we would also become scraps some day and some other vulture would take out scraps from our life. I guess that's how our culture is formed, out of happenings that just lay on the sands of time, for some vultures to come and scrap out what's useful.

Thanks for reading. And I agree history helps giving us ideas to write :)