imposters

It is so good to see you back case :-)  
I've read this one out loud a couple of times and I love your descriptions...I will never look at waiters the same way again and the buddhist line, well... ;-)  
I just read it aloud again and there's something very sad about it...as with most of your work I need to re-read again and again...I'll come back with more later on :-)  
PS    The last stanza is so sad...  
PPS  Why not do an audio to accompany the poem...  
 
 

Ah, the buddhist line, you see... "We all know that art is not the truth. Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand." Picasso  
 
Thanks for the RL and comment, Kate.

PS Don't be sad about the last stanza, it's only gravity.    

All of the references to water here, is an interesting flip on the concept of imitation. Water of course being a very female element, signifying intuition and emotion. Saying there are no imposters of an element implies a slight mockery of...well, everything really. To be honest the whole piece has this tentative passive-aggressive undertone that carries it through to the final dig. Picking up a slightly bitter undertone towards the end.

I had to read this a few times for it to really sink in. Glad it gave me something to sink my teeth into for a bit. I look forward to reading your next offering this time in two years. (.... jokes)

Thank you for the read.

Tentative passive-aggressive with bitter undertones... I sound like a right prick of a poet with an insecurity complex towards women!    
     
I could deny that the poem has anything to do with water and women and bitterness, but then I would be fooling nobody, but myself.   
     
Thanks heaps, Missy, for sinking your teeth in and for making me smile.

A real tubthump of a poem - would really lend itself to performance, I can almost here the words audibly spoken or maybe its just the voices in my head; either or this is a great write :-)

excellent ink :-)

Thank you, Mr Macleod for the positive feedback and for coming clean that you need psychotherapy. ;)

Great to see You back Ma'man!!!
Deep as Ever- Written where placement to ones life is universal!!!
Hope You stick around a bit bro!!!

Hey soul, not sure if I'll stick around for long, but it's good to know I'm deep as ever.  Thanks heaps man for the support.

Apologies if a slip happened....gardens are tended by the owner

jeez what a sign-off Case - much admired throughout
...the thud echoes

The thud echoes... that could be interpreted in so many ways. Love it! Thanks heaps, whale!

This some excellent stuff my friend

Thank you. I appreciate you dropping by, Matt.

false prophets & the sorrow of fallen angels;
the art of poetry, right here in  your crafting...

There's a very old cliche, much older than you Mr Feddeler, to do with gravity. Well, sometimes angels can't tell the difference between up and down...  
 
Thanks heaps, Mr Feddeler.

there's no blind watchman  
biding time for the atlantean comeback ...

I took this to mean we will never return to our true selves.

Biologically we are creatures of the sea ...A reflex called the bradycardic response makes babies hold their breath and open their eyes when submerged in water, says Jeffrey Wagener, a pediatric pulmonologist in Colorado. (Parents can cause this same reaction by blowing in their baby's face, a response that disappears after about 6 months.) Reference wiki.

All that to say your work reminds we've traded and sold that which is innate to the pimps in the pulpits and for moments of "reality" TV, and then later feast on the flesh of burnt carcasses served with a for sale smile ...

we have lost the purity of who we are.

BRAVO, Mr. Case!

Our true selves... what if it's all an illusion?

I was blown away by your words, lobo.  Your interpretation of this piece is on the money, but why was I so surprised, after all, you're my brother.  
 
Thanks for the RL and the awesome comment. It means a lot.

This piece sounds so angry and appears to be full of metaphor!

I believe the correct terminology for an angry poem is tentative passive-aggressive with bitter undertones.

Thanks heaps for dropping by, Ben Lee. Welcome to DU.

Case! Holy frickin shit! You're back!  I'm back too sorta i hope...
Awesome poem too.

Yeah, I'm sorta back too, both mentally and poetically.  Good to see from your profile pic that you're still crooning the mic... or are you holding a bible in your hand? Heh, jIMNUT rOARIN goes Gospel!  That would be heavenly.  Thanks heaps for dropping by to spread the word of our lord. Amen to you brother!