{"id":740,"date":"2022-12-31T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrybirdgenaw.wordpress.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2022-12-31T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T17:56:09","slug":"poems-of-the-antunite-chronicles-part-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrybirdgenaw.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"The Poems of The Antunite Chronicles\u2014Part V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>A swivel of civil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This blog moves to the second epoch of <em>The Rise and Fall of Antocracy<\/em>. The epoch begins the dark period in the novel as Antilla goes off the rails with his totalitarian control. With the rebellion\u2019s leaders now gone, the opposition to his rule crumbles, and Antilla takes advantage to the planet\u2019s detriment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The poem at the beginning of chapter 7 foreshadows this dread, harping on how easy it is for a civilized nation to become evil. 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Narrant explains that he is intrigued by how many human languages use letters to form words, rather than the chemical structures used for insect pheromonics. Being new to letters, he says he sometimes mixes up their orientation. He suggests that perhaps such a letter misalignment triggered his realization of how close the structure of the word civilization was to the phrase evil nation. He then laughed when he realized how little it took for a civilization to devolve into a corrupt society, just like it was simple to rearrange the letters to change the words from one to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A half-wit may tarpit the climate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as using familic cleansing to exterminate cyborg insect families that he dislikes, Antilla\u2019s greed and power-hungry nature lead to a slowly developing climate crisis. ANTs crave honey, and Antilla supports their addiction so much that he ignores the environmental damage it causes and its threat to the planet\u2019s atmosphere. Since their honey production requires the burning of trees, trees are critical for maintaining oxygen, and their incineration destroys the ozone layer, refusing to stop the blazing threatens the planet\u2019s existence. Here\u2019s the poem for Chapter 8, one of my top three favorites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Plans made sans rhyme or reason.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>A forest is lost for want of trees each season.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Arboreal breath now birthed and died.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Things do come in threes. Or so it seems amid crises.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Like Peter and the crows, \u2018tis science, truth and reality denied,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>ere climate is crucified.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>To fear a spear to the atmosphere<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple rhyming poem, where Narrant shows off his multilingual communication skills and laments the death of so many forests on his planet. And what is poetry without references to the bible, with the warning of the cock\u2019s crows ignored, a trinity of veracity rebuffed, and a climate catastrophe henceforth realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last chapter of the epoch is also the final episode for life on Poo-ponic, and the poem for Chapter 9 reflects this loss. 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