The Mosaic

The Mosaic, Fall 2008 Edition, Marist College Literary Arts Society.

The Mosaic really shows the talent of fellow college students across campus. It is a local publishing of a variety of poems and other works written by Marist students in the Literary Arts Society, including Poetry 311's own, Michael Cresci. It is a collection of some brilliant works done by current students who have amazing talent and incredible ability. An example that was particularly striking to me was...

Stubborn Conscience
by Chris Cho

Fractured and beaten, his own words he's eaten with a hearty humble pie.
What would possess him to commission such an ambitious mission delving deep into
one mind's eye? He hears songs sung alone with words too well known as heavy
steps carry feet along. Silk-clad and sad, the hatter jabbers mad, smooth inconsistencies
to attempt all who he may deflower in the wake of his suave debonair. Making
rankings and rantings with ratings and hatings he judges with the haste of a mullah
glut of pride. All smug and consistent, his thoughts are resistant to the hypocrisy that dribbles down his chin. Each sip of tea, another catastrophe of a human being who has
sinned, their life the only cost. However fault is crass and malicious, altogether vicious,
but brutally honest all the same. She finds him alone, locked up on his own, conversing
with the callous voices that see to the end that the honor, much to his horror,
feels like salt in his wounds, like sulfur. Thus he eats his own words, all twisted with
verbs that have him tearing away from the glass. The mass imperfection, mirrors so much rejection that skims only the surface in the deepest parts of him. It's more than
obscene, his face so clean-cut and lean, staring back but lacking humility.

I found this poem particularly striking because of it's brilliant rhyme scheme and just how well it flows when read making it more fun and appealing to the reader. The tone, rhyme and flow help to keep the reader's attention and also help to make the poem more powerful. From the very first line i was immediately attracted to this poem and found myself sucked in by its presence and the rhyme scheme helped to keep my interest. I find this work to have the potential to be a great song for some reason but can't put my finger on what kind of genre it would belong to or what kind of music would accompany it.

The Mosaic is printed every semester by the Literary Arts Society and the Mosaic Staff at Marist College. I'm not exactly sure how to submit personal works to the staff to be included in other editions, or if one has to be a member of the club, but the club advisor is Tom Zurhellen.