What Price Ignorance?

 

“Eye of Ignorance” by Alina Mar

 

 

what price ignorance
wretched unschooled
who number in billions
no continent free
despite our technology
interconnecting
live communication
where the teachers
where the classrooms
where the outrage
how did it happen
how does it resolve
how can we help
when lessons lost
when concern blunted
when hope dashed
why pay attention
why give a damn
why dream of more
which ideas unimagined
which talents untapped
which thoughts unheard
what cures undeveloped
what books unwritten
what histories unread
mean circumstance traps
too many young minds
in merciless jaws
of vicious illiteracy
will it end then or ever
will it end now or never

 

 

(originally posted April 2013)

Uninformed

 

“Small Minds” by Hans Hofmann

 

 

truth bangs its head

on low ignorant

beams of mistrust

it simply can’t stand

in cramped space

of small minds

 

 

(originally posted November 2013)

 

Oblivion’s Tomb

Graphic Video Game Art
From tes.ag.ru

some love their own voice

having ears for no other

effectively deaf

to a world full of song

all the music of wisdom

these the deliberately

ignorant happily dwell

in oblivion’s tomb in its

dull airless chambers

imagining knowledge

disposed to self-satisfied

fictions a narcissist menu

of baseless convictions

that deepen with age

till they smother and die

all alone in their echo

Ignorant Genius

“Birth of Knowledge”
Painting by Sebastian Pierre
From fineartamerica.com

mistaking the known
for the knowable nothing
worthwhile left to learn

Fibonacci Sequence 2

Fibonacci 8

Buy
No
Excuse
For more than
The cost of failure

Fibonacci 9

Run
For
Your life
Or perish
From apathetic
Self-satisfied citizenry

Fibonacci 10

Black
Curse
Befalls
Anyone
Crossing the shadows
Dragons cast upon moonlit grounds
Where not even magic of wizards can rescue you

Fibonacci 11

Purge
From
Your veins
Infectious
Hedonist microbes
Before they consume a new soul
Inflicting the pain of pleasure and lost compassion
Leaving a humanoid husk of intractable selfishness, courting catastrophe

Fibonacci 12

Cut
Swaths
Bravely
Through jungles
Dark with ignorance
Overgrown with choking tendrils
That bind up the intellect, stunting development
Of mechanisms for perfecting mind, body and soul of the whole human being,
Reducing mankind to a race of idiot drones, unable to fend for themselves beyond filling bellies from accidental harvests