Where did they go,
They used to be everywhere,
Sending everyone in a tizzy,
Paralyzing the masses of the countryside,
Apparently, no-one has use for them anymore,
Which is a crying shame,
Everyone is wrapped up in their cellular devices,
Even driving with them in their laps,
Yes, I remember them,
And yes, they still exist,
Inhibiting us from making major decisions,
The mission is to completely absolve them,
Taking back the memories of the days where we talked to each other,
In person,
That will never happen in my day and time,
Concentrating on the habit of fair trade.
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A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
By Rob Angeli5 days ago in Poets
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