Argument

Patrick W. Marsh
Hollow points are made through screaming,
true gold is made through dreaming.

The scene is this, school,
academia, college, whatever it might be,
rain on some spring night, rain on some spring night,
and people, late night, some old classroom.
The debate, argument, its there,
always there for us to muse over.
Like a legend, or myth, with a sliver of skin,
a sliver of reality.
The scene is this, congress, old men fighting over
old rules for old problems from old times.
They scream and rant, find flaws without
acknowledging their own.
A media studio somewhere, flashy with abstract
colors and decorations swirling beneath a camera lens
where distant well-groomed people yell in flashes,
and soundbites are substituted
for logic and reality.
Then the social gather,
drinks, fishing trip, birthday anything,
more, more of the rhetoric only slightly hotter,
heated, a fine point spear.
Did a titan melt the stars with anything else, but a dream?
Did he scream and rant to suns and sparks?
No rhetoric for the titan, no clamor for it either,
only hammering on wings of spinning cloud and light
in wild patterns against a poor lit and sprawling black.
More hammering, more hammering, more hammering,
not speaking, but hammering, acting.

Hollow points are made through screaming,
true gold is made through dreaming.

Published by Patrick W. Marsh

A science fiction fantasy writer from Minnesota. Currently finishing the final draft of a novel and publishing consistently on Associated Content. Completely obsessed with creative writing and producing wri...  View profile

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  • Verna Hendrickson2/18/2011

    This is an intelligent read. So much to say with all the right words.

  • Jon Michael2/17/2011

    "Hollow points are made through screaming,
    true gold is made through dreaming."

    This is pretty striking. Well done!

  • Stephanie Barry2/14/2011

    I like! Great work!

  • Delicia Powers2/12/2011

    Outstanding, thank you!

  • Gregory M. Harshfield2/12/2011

    Awesome work of art!

  • Lori Gunn2/12/2011

    Looking at that picture - one heck of an argument!

  • RANDY SHARPE2/12/2011

    Dig That!

  • Linda Riggs2/11/2011

    Cool poem.

  • Martin Kloess2/10/2011

    good post

  • April Caudill2/10/2011

    i like it:)

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