It’s “Meeting the Bar” at dVerse, where Bjorn asks us to use the autocomplete function in Google to generate lists that transport us to imaginative poetic heights. Check them out by clicking Mr. Linky and join in!
I began with typing in “Give me” as a search term which led me down rabbit holes ending with typing in “silence” midway, trying to find my way out of the dark wood in which I’d ended. Beware Google.
Give me one reason, sister silence, give me directions home, oh sister do you hear? give me the time of day a nightingale sings Silent bays, skies, silent rage and silent lambs must sit on silent hills, searching Google in Thrace Satyr Silenus, do you hear, your drunken nights by Dionysus's side have all led you to make a king turn a daughter's flesh to gold, oh, oh, oh! Give me liberty sits enthroned, untutored, give me love lyrics for dirty ears, Alexa! ask tongueless Philomela, oh sister hear! "inappropriate predictions" don't you think? Google, show me the severed head of Itys unmourned unseen, "I'm feeling lucky," tereu, tereu Non, silento! Basta! Enough! Give me love I don't need the win, just directions home from here to there. Give me Jesus. Please.
This Jolly Beggar 
I love these lines:
“Silent bays, skies, silent rage and silent lambs
must sit on silent hills, searching Google in Thrace
Satyr Silenus, do you hear, your drunken nights
by Dionysus’s side have all led you to make a king
turn a daughter’s flesh to gold, oh, oh, oh!”
This is amazing poetry. Google is quite inspiring, no? Hehe. But truly, I love how you wrote this piece and the beauty in each detail, well, I have no words, it’s amazing. Brilliantly penned. 🙂
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Oh thank you, Lucy! I’m smiling quite happily at your lovely comments, generous as always! So glad you enjoyed reading my “beat” poetry 😀
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Sometimes silence is all we get for our cries…. Looking for love to take us home! A great poem.
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Amen, Brother Dwight! And that’s the gospel truth, praise God. Thank you for reading and commenting. I appreciate it so much. 😀
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Wowww!!! 💝 This is amazing 😀 the poem flows so naturally as though the words were meant to be arranged in this manner all along. *swoon*
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Lovely compliment, Sanaa. You’ve made me swoon with your own writing so I’m glad I can return the favor! Thank you so much 🥰❤️
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I can see why “give me” would be a rabbit hole, but that opening line is the best, especially when used by Tracy Chapman..
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Yes, it pays to be prudent using search engines, it can take you anywhere/everywhere fast 🙂 Thank you, Ken.
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Dora Dora the poetry explora. Sorry about that 🙂 it got stuck in my head the first time I read your name which incidentally is a killer name! And you kicked butt on this please wow strong.! I really enjoyed it. Great writing!
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Dear Rob, You have no idea how provoking that name can be! But you’re freely forgiven. Thank you for your very kind comments. 🙂
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Beautifully penned and I love your first line.
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Thank you kindly, Eugenia.
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I was just thinking about Tracy Chapman today. “Give me” is such a phrase for our times. Well done. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe.
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Sister, Sister .. I got your number!! This is one amazing piece of poetry. Amen.
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Thank you Helen! 🙏
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I love the search words, and the found poem. The verses with silent, I read with a voice of someone shouting (great irony).
Thanks for joining in.
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You read it in the right spirit then, which is very gratifying. Thank you Grace. 😀
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it is evident, the creative journey Google has taken you. this made me smile and then desperate. great one!
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Haha! Perfect description of my “adventure” 😀
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Dora, I love your distillation-synthesis of your findings. I noticed in the lists that popped up for me there were so many song titles as well. Makes me wonder what’s going on there. Are that many people really googling song titles are does google have a deal with music houses to push those results to the top. Regardless, you took the list and soared with it.
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I’m always googling songs I happen to hear and wonder who the heck that is, so I’m not surprised song searches are popular. But I wouldn’t rule out some monetarily-induced or politically-rigged search results across the board. It was a fun prompt. I did feel I was channeling Alan Ginsberg a bit though, heh. Thank you so much Lisa 🙂
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You’re welcome 🙂
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This makes me think of sister Google as the oracle of Delphi giving her answers, and we are sometimes left puzzled with a lot of room to interpret.
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Haha. So true. Perhaps intentionally so, and as much to our harm as our good. The equivocation involved in any search for knowledge and truth must give us pause.
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