2003, November 1

Edward Graham Macfarlane
Global Poet Laureate

AN IMPORTANT SOCIAL WAY OF TRUTH.


I have dreamed of freethinking poetry throughout my thinking life.
I have thought it is a practice similar to the choosing of a wife.
So when I saw the TV story of the Turner Prize for Art,
And saw the picture of an untidy bed it nearly broke my heart.
ART need not just be pictures or paintings or sculptures from some sage.
It is possible to imagine ART is just lilting writing set upon a page.
Whether it is by Lord Tennyson or from a ploughman musing TRUTH for our AGE.
Tennyson wrote about WORLD PARLIAMENT bringing peace to a human national globe.
And Burns wrote about a haggis in deathless words quite xenophobe.
He also wrote on God Jehovah -- let me remind you now,
With words that were indicative of art working behind his noble brow.
"We labour soon we labour late, to feed the titled knave man.
And a' the comfort we're to get is that ayont the grave man"
Compare that with ex-USA-president Bush who wrote:--
"We are a nation of communities " :-- a foolish trouble-making note.
Is Burns not right to choose a WORLD OF "PEOPLE" here?
And to implicitly CONDEMN the "COMMUNITIES" that Bush hp;ds dear?
Anyway I ABHOR a world of nations as the foundation for our society.
I condemn it as UNTRUTHFUL compared with holding a WORLD OF PEOPLE IN UNITY.
It is possible to govern persons but not communities with guns.
This WHY Burns is a better poet than the USA PRESIDENTIAL ones.
We need a world of governed people -- GOVERNED by themselves.
And I tell you we can do it if we put BURNS' TRUTH UPON WORLD SHELVES.
So the basic OBJECT of my poetry is a poetry contest about TURNER TRUTH on law.
Far better than the nonsensical drawings that clueless artists tried to draw!
In this poem I have pointed out a GIGANTIC ERROR in the ideology of MEN in USA.
Who prefer to deal with "a nation of communities" which must be ABHORRED today
SEEK THE WELFARE OF ALL PEOPLE LIKE the folk in USA
But do it on a COSMIC SCALE as an effete Jehovah might essay,
How many years did a lifeless universe have to wait before the insects came,
How many years of dinosaurs before the mammals came?
How many trillions altogether before inventive men appeared.
To organise the internet and telephones which are no longer weird.
The Russians and the Chinese are doing their best to overtake.
The First and Foremost poetry is an art the best minds of all of us can make?
Come and listen to the truth-speakers in the new TURNER scheme.
A prize for artful poetry can be the new TURNER prompted dream.

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