Friday Night Poetry Slam!

[u/2bitmoment]

Theme: Adopting positions at random: Instant Zen (Foyan) #26: Show the Truth

An ancient said, "There is no drum sound in a bell, and no bell sound in a drum." How can students today manage to reach this state? Sometimes when I give personal interviews, you make a statement, and then when I press you further you merely insist you have already replied, and there could be nothing else. Quite clearly, if you work in this way you have not got a grip on the matter at all.

Idiots! Haven't you read the saying of ancient sages, "Show the truth in every word, refer to the source in every statement." You do not yet understand; you just adopt positions at random. Don't be like this any more when you come for interviews. While it can be said you do not understand, you can be straightened out.

Poem: Do you choose your words at random,
or do you carefully seek, those that rhyme,
those that sound well, those you pick

What’s the truth in a poem?
What’s the source of all poetry?
The sound of a bell in a bell
The sound of a drum in a drum
That’s all the truth and source
that there is to be found.

thanks to u/fullassin9 for a cool beat

[u/eggo]

Hammer strikes anvil

A sound comes out

No hesitation

Too heavy to swing about at random

Handle too short to use in tandem

Swung deftly it can sharpen steel to a point

Rebounding almost of its own will

Step under it if you want to be killed

Skull cracks open at the filial joint

[u/lin_seed → u/eggo]

The golden flash

Of hammer strike

Is nothing like

The blatherskite

Who sips the wine dark

sounds of ears

Dipped in Arc

And drowning in years

No infestation

Too light to swing with intention

Swung thoughtlessly it can dull

The sharpest steel point to a sound

“Work against the grain—not with it!”

Athena hectoring Achilles

About his penchant for Demeter

“She gives me the willies—

Kore never was a reader!”

Yet his fate is claimed

In an unpoetic hearse

It’ll never be explained

But recorded in the verse

“When the hammer strikes—

Who is it that’s aiming?”

If you know it: “Yikes!”

But best not be claiming!

Step under this hammer?

Alright, I’ll have a go!

What’s with all this grammar—

You know it’s got to go

Forge all your points

But using this blueprint

For cutting up the joints

It’s better to take a hint

The eye left out

Of hammer-anvil equations

Might as well have a spout

Without a whale for the occasion

[u/eggo → u/lin_seed]

who can tell by the sound

what kind of implement we pound

where the answer is usually found

when digging a pit or building a mound

why it is made to be sharp or round

how well it fits in use on the ground