New Oracles

Dawn of Last Civilization

By: Charles Giuliano - Nov 18, 2016

New Oracles

Origins
All cultures
Obscure beginning
Mist of myths
Fog of memory
Creation tales
Songs of heroes
Gilamesh to Achilles
Burning bush of Moses
Sermon on the Mount
Ancient texts
Image, symbol to sign
Sinful semiotics
Convenience of
Alphabets
Sounds and syntax
Father to son
Oral traditions
Passed down
Then written
Power of scribes
Hundreds of Homers
Endless evangelists
Masters of text
High ranked officials
Chroniclers of kings
Suetonius on Caesars
Beowulf
Mahabharta
Song of Roland
Einhard on illiterate
Charlemagne
Abelard and Heloise
Tristan and Isolde
Love stories
Shang Dynasty
Roasted turtles
Yarrow stalks of
I Ching
Past looking to future
Searching for clues
Bible thumping preachers
Chapter and verse
As it written
So shall it be
Allahu Akbar
Bonzai screams
The Samurai
Edge of forest
Swamps ahead
The new unknown
Grateful dead
To be human
Projective verse
Learning to breathe
Mother earth
Speck of sand
In the universe
Cosmology of
The next
Galaxies beyond
Yet within us
Celestial navigations
Self rendered asunder
Fear and trembling
The horror
Not over there
Syria here
Genocides
In each of us
Prattle of pundits
Talking heads
Decapitated
Headless horsemen
Sifting ashes
Covering asses
Real work
Future shock
Entrusted to poets
Sanskrit redux
Exquisite calligraphy
Spelling out
What next will be
For you and me