Black Friday
By Philip Sidney
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Look as
Black Friday
leaks across time
an inky comfort blanket
against the chilling nightmare
that has frozen our minds into torpor
our collective imaginations cannot dredge
into existence some way to navigate dark passage
across the serpentine labyrinth that thrashes around us
we spend to pretend acquisition will cover the abyss into which
we know we shall fall to blank out faces disappearing beneath the surface
to pass time trying not to look down as life slips away waiting for things to get better.
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I feel the nightmare as it
I feel the nightmare as it grows with the poem. Cleverly done.
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Wow, love the words pan-pipe
Wow, love the words pan-pipe arrangement and the deep meaning. Black friday, should be only friday, my oppinion, discounts are usually fake :)
T.
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Discount heaven, now there's
Discount heaven, now there's a hell. I like the swell of your poem.
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very true, and very well put
very true, and very well put
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Chilling, and heart-breaking
Chilling, and heart-breaking 'pretend acquisition will cover …' so much, pitiful, supposed satisfactions leaking away. Rhiannon
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What a superb interpretation
What a superb interpretation of the I.P., Helen. Topical and so descriptive of the illusion engendered by the Black Friday concept that such occasions bring great rewards whereas, as your poem points out, this enterprise is "an inky comfort blanket" and "we spend to pretend acquisition".
While superficially the poem seems to be about that marketing ploy, if we look beneath the surface, we can read it as metaphor on life.
I like the format too.
Luigi x
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Your work never fails to
Your work never fails to deliver. I love the shape as well as the content. A great piece of work.
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Hi Helen
Hi Helen
what an intereting poem, both in shape and content. My daughter did well out of the Black Friday sales however - as the charity she is a director of won a lottery bid to start a meal service for persons in their part of Yorkshire with Alzheimers and their carers, and she got a huge discount on a large food processor to use in the project.
Jean
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Black Friday always sounds
Black Friday always sounds ghoulish, and it is. You've captured it exactly. Terrific.
Rich
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"we spind to pretend
"we spind to pretend acquisition will cover the abyss
amazing
powerful
wonderfully visual
and ......................................tragically true Thank You
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