The Coming Age

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The Coming Age is a poem that plays off of the end of the world theme which comes up periodically in my poetry as people talk about 2012 and the end of the world crap that is so common place.  It is yet another way of retelling the supposed “doom” that falls upon mankind when what some believe will be Solar flares strong enough to burn away the surface of the world.

The Coming Age

Pray for the savage storm coming
most unwelcome and unnatural vaudeville
where collision of bizarre fire and rain
seek to undo superfluous human existence
poet and prophet are brothers in fear
people volunteer their souls as penance
and every magazine preaches the nearing end
with birds chirping their final tweet
from Sidney and London to
Oklahoma City
no country left unscathed from this totality
as this birthday will be our last day

-poem by Justin Germino

This poem incorporates 13 random submissions  (in bold) and was originally published on April 20th.

 

dragonbloggerJustin Germino is the author behind Dragon Blogger’ and 'Wanderer Thoughts’ amongst a few other blogs. He has created over 260+ ‘twitter poems’ via random submissions on twitter. He believes you only have one life and you have to live it. Follow him on Twitter @dragonblogger

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Thanks for the reprint of my poem, one word of advice though the yellow colored links are unreadable against the white background. Try a darker font color for those links, maybe red or tan.
2 replies · active 736 weeks ago
Thanks for feedback. The links were originally orange; slight glitch in WLW. Hopefully it's fixed now. =)
Much better, thanks and I have the same issues when using WLW with coloring and styling sometimes.
Interesting poem Diva. I am not for sure about this 2012 thing. It might be the begining of the end but who knows. Have a great weekend my friend : )
It's just as much a farce as the May 21st 2011 which is now moved to October 21st because he interpreted it wrong.... All a sham, but makes for some good apocalypse stories and poems.
Interesting poem there and a real nice one..:)..
Hi Justin, (I think I have mentioned this before, but I'll say it once more) I think it is so cool that you use random words from your Twitter followers and device poems. My poetry is usually very freestyle so I would feel confined by having to use random words, but you make it work very well.
2 replies · active 723 weeks ago
Hi there thanks for stopping by and sharing your comment :)
I totally agree with you - its super cool how Justin uses random words to put together his poetry.
I might try my hand at it then next time he's playing the game :)
Thanks, just finding all the poems that were shared and checking for comments on them now. 12 weeks later!

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