Hi! I am an artist, author, and blogger who also happens to have Asperger’s Syndrome. I have won several awards and honors for my writings and artwork. I suffer from a few severe mental illness and chronic pain conditions (Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Fibromyalgia, CFS/ME, Ehlers Danlos, Degenerative Disc Disease, etc.), which greatly affects my life and makes me want to advocate for others going through similar things. Other interests of mine include reading, writing, drawing, watching cartoons and movies, collecting toys, hanging out with my family, and annoying my 3 cats.
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22 thoughts on “Poetry – Modernity”
Maranda, lately, I think we have all been “traumatized!” 🙂 Loved your poem. ❤ Stay safe and be happy! Cheryl
Powerful in many respects, though I’m curious about your listing “baptized” as first here. Baptism certainly reaches long back before modernity, and I would argue that it roots one’s personal identity in something that entirely transcends, and calls one to resist being mastered by, the industrial-technological-etc. context of most of these words. In this sense, one could see it as nearly the opposite of or alternative to most of the rest. (And many Jews would say something similar about circumcision in its religious meaning).
It is kind of a merging of the past to present I suppose. A lot of people are still baptized and circumcised, even in today’s modern culture. It is the “start” to life that many still receive (especially in the western modern world), so it seemed a good way to start it off.
Ah ok, yeah that makes good sense from the perspective of “starting.” Personally I would then read the rest of the list as kind of a betrayal of the beginning rather than a consistent continuation of it. Much art is conducive to different interpretations after all!
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Maranda, lately, I think we have all been “traumatized!” 🙂 Loved your poem. ❤ Stay safe and be happy! Cheryl
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Yes, definitely traumatized lately lol.
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So true! Great poem!
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Thank you! ♥
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And perhaps soon to be pulverized…
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I fear so.
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Loving this poem…short….precise….deep….intense
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Thank you! ♥
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You’re welcome
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Great pic with poem. I feel it every day.
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Thanks, sorry you feel that way too 😦
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Then I read or write and escape from reality. 🙂
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Powerful in many respects, though I’m curious about your listing “baptized” as first here. Baptism certainly reaches long back before modernity, and I would argue that it roots one’s personal identity in something that entirely transcends, and calls one to resist being mastered by, the industrial-technological-etc. context of most of these words. In this sense, one could see it as nearly the opposite of or alternative to most of the rest. (And many Jews would say something similar about circumcision in its religious meaning).
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It is kind of a merging of the past to present I suppose. A lot of people are still baptized and circumcised, even in today’s modern culture. It is the “start” to life that many still receive (especially in the western modern world), so it seemed a good way to start it off.
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Ah ok, yeah that makes good sense from the perspective of “starting.” Personally I would then read the rest of the list as kind of a betrayal of the beginning rather than a consistent continuation of it. Much art is conducive to different interpretations after all!
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Very true. I like to hear people’s various interpretations.
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Modern life has lots of advantages, but you’ve covered the painful reality of the disadvantages well with these word choices! x
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Thanks ♥♥♥
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True! And more and more dead to the world!
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😦
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… and after that shot of antiseptic,
Sanitised 😎
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lol yeah
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