Know Thyself by mfarnold

 Know Thyself by mfarnold

With one's Origin in Heaven
Where Body, Soul and Spirit, Divine
And Peace, Harmony and Safety, No decline,
Each knew The Real Mine -
Courteous, Appreciative, 
Gentle, Balanced and Humble 
In The Presence of The Sublime,

Descent to the Lower heaven,
With forgetfulness.. The Path is for A striven,
To reach for The Hidden
Qualities Already Given.

One Achieved Total Human Excellence, 
Others followed,
While many faltered, who cowered
Under the Tests from the cowards
treacherous, oppressors and "disregards",
unaware of the strengths inward,
Which can link with Cosmic outwards.

The Road to this success,
needs an inner beauty Dress,
That sees every creation with thankfulness,
without a stress,
Through a conscientious 
effort for gracious sacredness,
humble connectedness,
contemplative thoughtfulness,
non-prejudiced objectiveness,
with Refinement and economic acts of Fairness.
 
Resulting in maturation of Reflection,
Friendly volitions,
in qualitative communications
with the inner-self and companions
Achieving heavenly articulations
of Enthusiastic preservations
In every creative, productive execution
.. the aim of spiritualisation...
in every moment's actualisation,
...JOY then...
The Experiential, Living Expression !

Cult of Academia Poem

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786 
The Academic Cult
by mfarnold

Manipulation of marks
Authoritarian trademarks
Mind-control into deliberate darks,
Destroying young beautiful larks,
Through trapped, peer-group, graded demarks.

Systematic programs for indoctrination
through standardised curricula and examinations
that marginalise large populations,
deprived of housing by politicians,
in elitists designed diction questions,
that perpetuate manipulations
of Cultish philosophies, that attack religions
to break family unions.

Fear is the main agenda
to accept its propaganda
through pass and fail referenda,
that break the self-worth from preprimary
to university
to provide mindless workers for the industry,
at the expense of dignity.

To join this Cult, wrapped in debt
Is to enter a place of soul bereft,
from teachers to ministers
blinded by evil sinister,
that destroy learning to sinders,

To the middle class, whose ego is stroked
Through degrees clocked
That damage and choke
the creative life out of every youth
Creating rebellious uncouth
desperately trying to uproot
a subtle colonial Slavery suit,

We call you out
To stop creating doubt
causing a creativity drought

Give a deep thought
To what academics brought.
And support those besought.