LIKE A HIVE
We swarm into cities,
filtering in ethnic groups, like-minded in lineage and faith,
migrating by geo-necessity
to safer spots of wherewithal:
is community and company
more precious and workable
in the long-term
than immediate real-politique -
the cruelty of unseen agendas?
In traditional eras and life-styles
the tribal nature of clans, families
and customs
ensure social cohesion and sense of place:
roots, origins, solidarity and belonging.
Avaunt ghettoes, over-flow camps
of refugees or survivors:
unwanted souls with nowhere to go,
reminiscent of Siberian gulag enclaves
and reservations for the enslaved or disenfranchised.
When entire populations are adrift,
from wars and every sort of disaster,
all underlying principles and policies fall apart, rot or decompose.
Some bees are sole operators,
out-sourced mutant survivors, ostracized avatars,
who butt the trend, don’t colonise;
yet the homing instinct is endemic
even so and if
their home-base and goal is heaven:
the Above and Within
- destiny for all.
We gather
in gregarious collectives of Kinds.
down the street, next door, upstairs ensembled, enmasse:
enlarged families and communal groups
networking webs and matrices
multifareous or specialist,
based on skill, belief, conditioning
and genes.
exclusive or inclusive.
Diversity is a wondrous, creative seed
thrown into cultures of homogenuity
by chaos and randomness:
- the fresh blood, evolving look,
transformative upgrade,
unthought blendings and mergers
of polarities, differences, paradoxes.
It’s called growth - growingness:
how things age, mature, adapt, change - and replicate.
Alchemical stages as well as chemical processes.
Meanwhile,
homeostasis is kept alive and ticking over
by our love of the boring Norm:
the everyday instinct for routine, rhythm, with the solace of company,
familiarity and pattern.
Besides our curiosity and disruptive drive
for variety, excitement, information!
LIKE A HIVE
We swarm into cities,
filtering in ethnic groups, like-minded in lineage and faith,
migrating by geo-necessity
to safer spots of wherewithal:
is community and company
more precious and workable
in the long-term
than immediate real-politique -
the cruelty of unseen agendas?
In traditional eras and life-styles
the tribal nature of clans, families
and customs
ensure social cohesion and sense of place:
roots, origins, solidarity and belonging.
Avaunt ghettoes, over-flow camps
of refugees or survivors:
unwanted souls with nowhere to go,
reminiscent of Siberian gulag enclaves
and reservations for the enslaved or disenfranchised.
When entire populations are adrift,
from wars and every sort of disaster,
all underlying principles and policies fall apart, rot or decompose.
Some bees are sole operators,
out-sourced mutant survivors, ostracized avatars,
who butt the trend, don’t colonise;
yet the homing instinct is endemic
even so and if
their home-base and goal is heaven:
the Above and Within
- destiny for all.
We gather
in gregarious collectives of Kinds.
down the street, next door, upstairs ensembled, enmasse:
enlarged families and communal groups
networking webs and matrices
multifareous or specialist,
based on skill, belief, conditioning
and genes.
exclusive or inclusive.
Diversity is a wondrous, creative seed
thrown into cultures of homogenuity
by chaos and randomness:
- the fresh blood, evolving look,
transformative upgrade,
unthought blendings and mergers
of polarities, differences, paradoxes.
It’s called growth - growingness:
how things age, mature, adapt, change - and replicate.
Alchemical stages as well as chemical processes.
Meanwhile,
homeostasis is kept alive and ticking over
by our love of the boring Norm:
the everyday instinct for routine, rhythm, with the solace of company,
familiarity and pattern.
Besides our curiosity and disruptive drive
for variety, excitement, information!