Pockets Lined With Jade

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A Mind that dreams............of a better place, must seek justice first.

Pockets Lined With Jade


We are the pests,

the pesticidal sprayed.

Look into the sky,

where the cocktail is laid.

 

Survival depends on immunity.

Some ask,” is there a God -meaning unity?”

“What happened to our global community?”

 

Is not our fine brother,

looking over our nest?

Our sovereignty is at stake, at best-

you jest?

 

When will human kindness

wake up from their blindness?

The worm is in the net.

How much more atrocious

does it need to get?

 

Seated in a house of cards

where all the players played,

performing all their evil against

a bright charade.

 

The indigenous ones-

simple-minded and blinded,

in their beds were made.

Bled until their eyes were gone

for pockets lined with jade.

 

-M. Jacobs

 

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aw3haiku commented on Pockets Lined With Jade

02-23-2011

i really like this, especially the last stanza. really does it for me.

danmartyjake1

02/26/2011

Hey thanks for reading "Pockets Lined With Jade", I didn't hear much from anyone on that one. Glad you liked it. ;-)

train64 commented on Pockets Lined With Jade

02-02-2011

Well done..poetic questions about our world. 'Survival depends on immunity..' immune from our seemingly desire to poison ourselves or..are we immune ot the suffering? or both? Good write. T64

danmartyjake1

02/02/2011

Thanks Train, you made me ponder my own poem a different way, thank you for that. I would love to hear from you again on any one of my other poems.;-)

ginga commented on Pockets Lined With Jade

01-20-2011

Metaphorically outstanding and well stated in a world where smoke and mirrors exist and are constantly there to throw some more jade our way. ginga

danmartyjake1

01/20/2011

Thanks, Ginga. I always appreciate your kind words of wisdom and really admire your poetic offerings.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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