Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’

I fear the monoculture
because I know in the time of choosing
which culture will win out:
The Dominant One
the one that eats forests for breakfast
and oceans for supper

This song was written as a submission for American Idol’s first songwriter contest. Howard and Mark used Appreciative Inquiry to tailor the song for the program — the first time either of them had created a song fully through the use of AI. Learn more about Potluck’s custom songwriting service which uses Appreciative Inquiry to [...]

This song was written for a compilation album of songs inspired by the work of Daniel Quinn. Mark wanted to throw things for a loop with this song about being true to who you are. The appreciative approach he took led him to create an homage to some of the great disco anthems, both lyrically [...]

Went into the Cit-y
Escaped from the trees
away from the lions
chasing me
Bought me a robot
to fix me drinks
so I could sit on my porch
and do nothing but think
Planes overhead
through clouds of smog
shut the factory down
No more jobs
Homeless for miles
but the coal still burns
Bums on the freeway
amphetamine turns
Get me out of here
Can’t take it no more
Get me [...]

In his ancient marble tower
an Archbishop’s Divine Power
is impenetrable, unquestionable, his right
He makes promises for an hour
as the people below him cower
then shed money from fists once tight
For to reach the Immaterial State
with too much food on your plate
is harder than pulling camels through needle eyes
Poverty is but the first rule
and there are more of [...]

Cash sang a lot about jail
the long term kind without bail
Those paying for sins part theirs part ours
men and women at extremes
under the American dream
fermented and left out to go sour
But is not America
in itself a chimera?
What fools thought they could tame what God made
on the backs of Africans
and by theft of Indians
pretending men are [...]

I hate the man who appreciates the hatred
Can’t stand the one who tolerates them all
Least of all can I abide the ones
who set them up just to watch them fall
I love the woman who deals with my anger
I envy those she talks to in the hall
I ponder on those who think they own her
wonder why [...]

This piece appeared in the first and only issue of Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between, which evolved into this website.
I have conceded.
I am defeated.
I have been burned to the ground.
Every last pound
of putrid flesh
has been turned to ashes.
Nothing is left
but fragmented flashes
of a life of discontent.
But I am not done,
I [...]

This piece appeared in the first and only issue of Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between, which evolved into this website.
She was telling me about the death penalty
and the murders that hurt her family
The justice of the gun
and the victory of the righteous
I told her Jesus was cryin’ in his grave;
the [...]

Listen to .mp3 sample of After the Holidays.
Sung by Mark S. Meritt.

2007, 2002 Mark S. Meritt
Lyrics
Jingle Bells and Winter Wonderland
Take a Sleigh Ride, Let it Snow
But like Frosty’s one day
All these songs melt away
Though there’s so many winter days to go
They could light and warm the dark and cold
Not a holiday word sung
Yet somehow [...]