Do those pseudo-human figures and heads ever give you the willies like they do to me? I had a Brownie ceramic elf coin bank that gave me endless grief. After I hid it from view, it inhabited my nightmares for many more years.
Witness
Everything in this peculiar world
Has a tendency to become
More and more humanlike.
Soon store dummies will be
Needing yearly check-ups,
And wig head stands
Will be requiring chiropractic.
I always had a deep distrust
Of things that looked human,
And pretended to be inanimate anyway.
Why did they have to look so alive,
If they had no warm flesh or coursing blood-
Living beings have blood that sings
To other living beings and it remembers
The consciousness it nourishes.
The flowing blood is a fingerprint;
A time stamp of being
That permits no perjury.
Only a truly creative mind could come up with this, even as a subject for a poem. To write such a compelling work is even better.
This is strangely beautiful, patti. very philosophical as well.
eerie i too hate those things great poem
Priceless, this! Such an unusual subject for a poem, which has really made me think. There are so many great lines, my fave being: 'Living beings have blood that sings To other living beings'
Scary lol.
Blood is the only true witness for living beings. When it flows out it brings death and when it flows inside the veins the life prevails... Naseer
Classic Surrealistic poetics, in draped glory,Patti !The pix to boot....Off the record....and i can't count on 1 hand what things in life freak me out (besides this site...lol!), but the human-like puppet thing always did & still gives me the Wee Willies !And my favorurite writing theme is DEATH & General Darkside...so go figure ! Enjoyed this, young lady !\\\FjR///
Interesting and imaginative Patti...you never disappoint...Love Sandra
The picture and the poem have given me goosebumps - it brings to mind the film Magic. I love thought of singing blood; '...a fingerprint; / A time stamp of being' - Superb! :)