A Cry in the Wilderness - Exoteric Descent into Iniquity

Today I am sharing some social/political commentary - this poem is in the 'Visions' section of "Shadows on the Carpet".  A Cry in the Wilderness - pointing out what is going on.  Wake Up!  It is still not too late to turn things around.  Just saying....

For audio version with Chuck Berglund's soundscape click here

Exoteric Descent into Iniquity

Good manners and common sense

Are trashed as ineffective

photo art by AVR © 2013

Measures of controlled control

Replaced by political

Correctness masquerading

As concern or compassion

Inappropriate response

Touted as the ultimate

Non-empathic tool du jour

Un-emotive expression

Obtuse communication

Belie clandestine contempt

Synthetic salaciousness

Valid malapropisms

Conditioned complacency

Preclude imperceptible

Declining - descent into

Death of human decency

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2006

English/Czech - Midnight Sky/Noc v Ražicích

This week's English/Czech posting was written (and translated)  in the Czech Republic in 2007.  Inspired by the moon, I wrote this poem.

Midnight Sky

photo by AVR

Broken moon fragment

Fallen cracked edge of

Shining smooth saucer

Spilling the curdled

Primordial

Soup of illusion

Into the sieve of life

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 2007 – Czech Republic

Noc v Ražicích

Rozbitý kus měsíce

Spadlý křehký okraj

hebkého svítícího talíře

Rozlévá sraženou

zárodeční hmotu iluze

do cedníku života…

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 2007- Czech Republic

Shadows on the Carpet - Clarity

Clarity is the 9th and final section of "Shadows on the Carpet".  The journey has taken us from the darkness to the light. Today I am sharing the poem 'Clarity'.

photo by AVR

Clarity

See the silence in your mind

Hear the colors of your heart

Be still and travel far

Search wide to find the

Treasure that is truth

As colored sands of time flow

Like rivers into eternity

And in this moment

Creation is our only reality

© Alice Vedral Rivera 3/17/12

English/Czech - Purification/Očištění

The 5th and last ekphrastic poem in the series of poems inspired by the abstract art of Ivan Pavlíček:

Purification

original art by Ivan Pavlíček

Flames engulf

Our hearts in

Blazing bright

Red intense

Crimson shades

Of scarlet

Desire

The fire

Burns and turns

Scar tissue

Into hot

Embers of

Pure love mixed

With passion

© Alice Vedral Rivera – 1/24/2013   2:00pm

Poslední  v sérii ekfrastických básní inspirovaných abstraktní malbou Ivana Pavlíčka:

Očištění

Plameny zachvátí

naše srdce ve zářícím ohni

ostře červené tóny karmínové

a šarlatové touhy

Oheň pálí

a mění naše jizvy

v žhavý uhel uhnětený 
z čisté lásky a vášně

© Alice Vedral Rivera