Human Legacy: Homo Sapiens Celebrity

Orchiolum

Our atrocity,
celebrity, assassin...
indelible stone.

"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."

Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)

Note: I will attempt to create a series of short poems about modern human legacy...anticipation is encouraged...holding one's breath is not.

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Progressive, tree hugging, Earth loving, free thinking poet. When I see the Royals I am reminded of a world in need.  View profile

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  • Silense Smith6/29/2011

    good food for thought. Humans of course always being a flip coin both for destruction and for creation. Although the latter may only be what we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night.

  • carol gibson1/19/2011

    Legacy gives a lot of food for thought. Great quote. Thank you.

  • Atlanta Page9/17/2010

    You think deeply :)

  • Cathy A Montville8/16/2010

    Bravo! Nicely done! :)

  • Carl O'Donnell8/12/2010

    Its amazing how you can pack so many concepts into so few words. THe natural progression of lines suggest that we are, as individuals, responsible for all social anomalies, and that it is OUR nature, not some cruel social construct, that is both responsible for the flaws of the world, and unwilling to change. I like!

  • Saul Relative8/4/2010

    Excellent...

  • Greg Seltz7/16/2010

    Great quote!

  • JerseyNana7/6/2010

    Beautifully done!

  • Donald Rothra6/29/2010

    Very good.

  • Christine Bruness6/25/2010

    So appropriately stated!

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