Keeping America Beautiful

Keeping America Beautiful

 

 

 

i spill words everywhere

with not the decency 

to clean up my mess

 

leaving you to disinfect

the pages purloined

with improper verse

 

and vile verbiage

rabid rants

and accosting assertions

 

that leave only the properly vaccinated

minds,

to escape the diseased diction

 

i have carelessly

conjoined

in poetic pretense.

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

9/15/19

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'Keeping america Beautiful,
Jacob erin-cilberto,
This was great! Honest communication is refreshing within this world where it is sometimes so hard to know what is real-true and not. Words come from our inner emotion and response. I admit it is sometimes hard to find a balance between what is said and what is meant. You described this beautifully.
Blessings,
Kathy

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, Kathy,
j.

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Jacob you are always very welcome. Kathy

[barleygirl]

All the sad/ridiculous policy trends aside, here you hit on the one central aspect making me unable to absorb any more of this mean-spirited leadership. So many disgusting pigs when it comes to uncaring human interactions and I can't watch this train wreck anymore. Your poem resonates with my disgust (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Amen, Margie...Amen...
a train wreck if we look at this politically...for sure,
j.

[Ted Kniffen]

Perhaps the difference in "spilling words" and "vile verbiage" is that we, while not exactly required to think before putting thoughts on paper, tend to do so, out of respect for our craft and for those we hope will make sense of our scribblings.
The alliteration here is outstanding and the message clear...no poetic pretense to be found my friend.

A good write.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your very kind review, Ted,
j.

[John the Baptist]

Very amusing piece here. The most"vile verbiage" and "rabid rants" these days seem to come out of our nation's capitol.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

sure seems to, doesn't it.
thank you for your words, John...
j.

[Dave Brown]

This is perfectly applicable to the Canadian condition
federal election going on
much in the way of vile verbiage and rabid rants

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for relating, Dave,
same everywhere i guess...or at least many places.
j.

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

Jacob, your poetry is a cleverly witty word salad that speaks clearly to the poetic mind. An excellent write!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind words, Tamara,
j.

[Tamara Beryl Latham]

You're welcome. :-)

[Chris Shaw]

Very easy to spill words these days. Get it out there in the public domain via social media and tweets and watch the fall out. Words conveyed in haste can cause much damage. Wide scale damage, especially with tweeting politicians. How times have changed and not always for the better. Your lines are about America, but could so easily be the UK.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your insightful review, Chris,
j.

[Kesch (Finding Julia)]

leaving you to disinfect
the pages purloined
with improper verse

Love this part, This is so good. I also love your closing words. This is really well written. well expressed write.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your words, Kesch,
j.

[Edie Blue Starfish]

a strong message in this one and I can't help but think of the permanent damage we have little hope of cleaning up because of this digital age we are in where tweets and instagrams and other social media posts are often a permanent stain when their message and sentiments are damaging.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

amen to that, Edie...thank you for your insights.
j.

[h d e rushin]

Poetry keeps America beautiful just as dahlia's make broken porch steps sturdy. There is something in the hand method of producing patterns like when tie dying was all the rage and you tried to tie dye everything in your wardrobe. Eventually nothing matched but all things were at least colorful.....great poem my friend...dana

[jacob erin-cilberto]

so true. nothing matched....still doesn't for me.
thank you for your words, dana,
j.