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this is not the future promised.  

MulleenofMelb 58M
2284 posts
2/6/2018 3:08 am

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2/7/2018 3:01 am
this is not the future promised.

this is not the future promised.
This is time of the future of which I was told
yet to the promises given a mirror does not hold
we believed we would do things better and right
not succumb to the ills which did other generations blight
yet the artistic suburbs from which such hope grew
our mercantile gentrification of those places slew
we forced up the rent and forced them out
the poor and young have no place to shout
the<b> clubs </font></b>and bars where live music played
each in turn has been condemned and sprayed
the places and bars where writers gathered to discuss
the walls knocked down and roofs left to rust
in every creative sphere we ask how much will it earn
not what from this creativity can our society learn
our society has no time or space for those who dream
in every field of endeavour those dreamers we demean
and yet without time for reflection and allowing creativity to flower
our world becomes more typecast and dumber by the hour
who knows from where the next Mozart or Einstein will appear
can be sure in knowing will not be one forced to draw beer
forced to perform menial jobs to survive a creative life
for they will have no time to focus and overcome creative strife
no time to reflect and challenge the here and now
look forward or sideways not back and creatively plough
new lines of thought or principles of genius as yet unknown
without the space in which to develop inspiration has flown
instead we set them all to menial tasks to their spirit break
create a dis-spirited nightmare world from which we cannot wake.




Thoughts in sensual pleasure to erotic writing writ.

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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
2/6/2018 2:14 pm
    Quoting yesmamallthetime:
    That is very grim and negative. I understand that sentiment. I do hope some pockets of the globe have learnt that the arts are noble endeavors. Places where their governments don't think working like a slave to corporations is necessary to be a good citizen. Is there not that saying that on your death bed no one wishes they worked more. No, they wish they spent more time with their family or pursuing a creative dream. Thank you Mulleen for articulating disenchantment so eloquently.
I fear the corporate grip, the monetization of government services, to the point at which the Arts are fragmented and pursued purely for mercantile reasons.......you listen to the interviews with those "great" rock stars of the 60s, they didn't think they would become rich, perhaps gain some fame, and have some fun, but they picked up guitars for the fun of it....for the skill and craft in learning.

Now everything needs to have a path, a way forward, to a success based on things, not experience or feelings.

I am not sure if I do articulate it as eloquently as you read it, I suspect you overlay your own thoughts to enrich my prose. Thanks for the comment, and my regrets this post came across so grim and negative.
Thoughts in sensual pleasure to erotic writing writ.

Feel free to travel - click - to my blog: An exploration introduction


MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
2/6/2018 2:10 pm
    Quoting  :
there was an implication, by the teachers now long past, work hard, play fair, and get a job for life - for that was a world that then existed, though even as they spoke it was swift receding.

the idea land and house would be affordable, that corporations and companies would stand by employees, instead.....a swerve to greater inequality through less sharing in the profits of the productivity gains for workers, has resulted in a growing divide, between those with, and and those with less and vulnerable to slide deeper into debt.

anyhow.....your right......the verbal assurances of a better world were not worth the paper they were written on, and as, the teachers and leaders of society were not soothsayers of any great note should have been taken as the unlikely prophecies of those who knew not what may occur....
Thoughts in sensual pleasure to erotic writing writ.

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MulleenofMelb 58M
3024 posts
2/6/2018 3:08 am

 our future was to be bright and free
instead the grimness gathers around all and me.
Thoughts in sensual pleasure to erotic writing writ.

Feel free to travel - click - to my blog: An exploration introduction


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