Poetry Challenge: Enter The Matrix?
Question by NexxJordan: Poetry Challenge: Enter The Matrix?
Here’s the challenge. Make a poem that is based on your favorite movie. Mention the movie you’re using at the top, or leave the reader guessing by putting it at the bottom of your poem. It can be as long or short as you want. I’ll start. I thought about mine for a while, so yours doesn’t have to be as long. Tell me what you think of it:
“The Matrix”
What is a slave?
Is it an organism denied control of his own life
Confined to a cell
Forced into manual labor
Persuaded to follow a stiff, rigid template of rules and laws as others see fit?
What is freedom?
Is it a right or a privilege
Is it sacred, or can it belong to anyone
And more importantly
does it have a price?
They called the War a revolution
It cost 15 million dollars and 25 thousand lives
Entire squads of troops left bleeding and dying in the middle of hostile, brutal, unforgiving trenches
Families torn apart, friends lost
Billions of dollars spent in wasted combat
All so you can wave your pretty little 13 stripes
Over this filthy piece of land you call home
And for what?
So that everyday you can pass by this stained green giant holding a damn torch in her hand like she’s king of the world
Or by a patriotic monument so great and wonderful that it’s cracked, useless, and mispells the very city it’s placed in
Or by those 9 giant white picket wood letters heralding the fakest city in the world like it’s something to be proud of
On your way to work
Where you’re confined to a cubicle
Forced into labor
And kindly persuaded to follow a stiff rigid set of rules and laws as your bosses see fit before they threaten to hand out the pink slips
This is your freedom
Also known as slavery
but you wouldn’t have it any other way
would you?
Your turn
Best answer:
Answer by Civil
_______________________________
Strange sighting
or just inviting?
A mound of mud
grows in the home.
What are they hiding?
Government denying.
Does this prove we’re not alone?
Vindication! Communication!
Majestic ship revealed at last.
Wow! What is it?
They want to visit.
The human race grows up real fast.
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(Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
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