You put smiles
on faces that always frown.
Yet you don’t bother
putting one on your own.
Holding hands
of those who need your help,
you guide them.
You lead them.
You support them.
You listen to their words of aches and pains.
Through darkness,
you bring them light.
Such a “wrapper” you are,
for you are, all candy inside.
But taste buds deceived you,
you act bitter now.
You have forgotten
the sweetness candies bring.
The sensation down your throat,
the hyperactiveness they cause.
Remember it soon,
as time flies too quick.
For no candy is anymore sweet
if the wrapper is old and grey.
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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 Angeli6 days ago in Poets
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Whoaaa this was both so deep and very relatable! I loved it!