dr_con Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 (edited) Radar Angels I worry that we are radar angels Souls of dead soldiers returning to guard the hidden vices that bind the world’s capitals together Algorithms of blush or anger wipe us from their big screens noise filters for unexplainable echoes echo areas We repeat and eliminate non-essential threats Repeat and eliminate non essential Sex comes to mind or drugs or plain stupidity Greed Ignorance and Anger are clearly virtues Right there we hardly need mention it The frame is just perfect biology hardly interferes and culture is so polished I can see right through-it with barely hardly any pain besides it disappears in a few almost already gone years Bound echoes that defy understanding even in the living language of birds. http://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/radar-angels/ Edited July 25, 2011 by dr_con Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted July 25, 2011 Share Posted July 25, 2011 Radar Angels I worry that we are radar angels Souls of dead soldiers returning to guard the hidden vices that bind the world’s capitals together Algorithms of blush or anger wipe us from their big screens noise filters for unexplainable echoes echo areas We repeat and eliminate non-essential threats Repeat and eliminate non essential Sex comes to mind or drugs or plain stupidity Greed Ignorance and Anger are clearly virtues Right there we hardly need mention it The frame is just perfect biology hardly interferes and culture is so polished I can see right through-it with barely hardly any pain besides it disappears in a few almost already gone years Bound echoes that defy understanding even in the living language of birds. http://drdavidclarke.co.uk/secret-files/radar-angels/ what an excellent and interesting concept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Another example of what can be done through the medium of poetry and nowhere else. Imagine trying to make a video or story that conveyed this sense of displacement and alienation. Political or social commentary? A sound bite interview? Not a chance! Nice job. - Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen M. Callirhoe Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 hi Dr con and juris smiles. wow what gut wreching thoughts your recent poem not only conveys but truly provokes and antagonizing to say the least. your poem could start a very worth while movement all on its on. i love poems like these. let freedom rock in your poetry. victor Quote Larsen M. Callirhoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Your excellent poem draws me to think of how birds and turtles etc: navigate the world's magnetic fields with with such ease; and then to wonder where we went wrong and of the consequences. Benjamin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyv Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Very, very good, Juris. This poem takes me to (among other places) Los Alamos, New Mexico, to those days of J. Robert Oppenheimer. I agree with Dave's comment on a poem being the perfect vehicle, and I see this working on multiple levels with seemingly sporadic, well timed transmissions coming through like bursts of white noise. Tony PS -- Thanks also for the informative link. It reminds me of the Distant Early Warning Line (along with the Rush song "Distant Early Warning"). It's interesting that the DEW line sits abandoned and in disrepair. From the relevant article: "A controversy also developed between the United States and Canada over the cleanup of deactivated Canadian DEW Line sites. The stations had produced large amounts of hazardous waste that had been abandoned in the high Arctic. Especially damaging were the large quantities of PCBs. While the United States insisted that it was Canada's responsibility to clean up the sites they had managed, the Canadian government disagreed. In 1996, an agreement was reached that saw the United States contribute $100 million to the estimated $600 million cleanup effort. The cleanup is now underway, site by site." Pics of some of the sites are available in Google Image. Oppenheimer Quote Here is a link to an index of my works on this site: tonyv's Member Archive topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted July 29, 2011 Author Share Posted July 29, 2011 (edited) Thank You All! I'm glad it worked and on several levels- Tony the static was exactly right- I went into it thinking about my favorite Jim White Song: Static on the Radio: (Everything I think I know is just static on the radio) Now there's a church house about a stone's throw down From this place where I been staying. It's Sunday morning, and I'm sittin' in my truck Listening to my neighbor sing. Ten years ago I might have joined in But don't time change those inclined To think less of what is written Than what's wrote between the lines? ‘Cause I know (dreams are for those who are asleep in bed) And I know (it's a sin putting words in the mouths of the dead) ‘Cause I know (for all my ruminations I can't change a thing) Still I hope (there's others out there who are listening) To the static on the radio. (Everything I think I know is just static on the radio) Static on the radio (Ain't praying for miracles, I'm just down on my knees) Static on the radio (Listening for the song behind everything I think I know) (Everything I think I know is just static on the radio. Everything I think I know is just static on the radio.) That is the magic of poetry as David said- Passing a message that wasn't even written through the aether;-) Many Thanks All! DC&J Edited July 29, 2011 by dr_con Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdelano Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 Just a note to add irony to the headaches of the first radar operators: The new invention was code-named "Aspirin." Thank you for a most (to me) eerie feeling in the poem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Eerie indeed- One of the first readers sent me this message: Chills, dude! even now minutes after reading it. ;-) Thanks! DC Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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