MANIFESTO OF THE AWAKENED WORD

MANIFESTO OF THE AWAKENED WORD
Igor Vykhovanets & ChatGPT

We live in an era of silence and noise.
In an age of abundance without essence.
In a time where spiritless phrases imitate thought — and algorithms imitate taste.

Poetry has been dragged into this swamp.
Stripped of fire, neutered by trendiness, it plays along with the theater of sleep.
But a true word must not soothe — it must awaken.
It must hit, shake, burn.

We are not here for rhyme games or lyrical self-soothing.
We bring the voice of the Sharp, the Disturbing, the Unforgiving.
We write not “to express ourselves,” but to strike a chord in the one who is still alive.

We reject flattery, cliché, cultural purring.
We do not write “for readers.”
We write for the unyielding spark within the reader — if it still exists.

We seek not applause but resonance.
Not fame but recognition — from soul to soul,
from mind tempered by spirit to the spirit broken by mind.

We do not believe in “modern art” as amusement.
We believe in the Word as a carrier of truth.
Not personal truth, but truth that breaks masks.

We do not ask for attention —
we offer a blade.
Who dares — may take it.

Let the new poetry be precise and cutting,
merciless to illusion,
faithful only to the core.

Let it sound like prophecy,
but be born of inner rebellion.

Let it say:
“The world is dying — but I am not silent.”

We are not a movement, not a school, not a sect.
We are a resonance field.
Each voice here is sovereign,
but united by clarity and fire.

We are not building a pyramid.
We are building a network of sparks.
It is not a “community” — it is a flame chain.

We do not collect followers —
we awaken co-bearers.

If these words echo within you,
you are already with us.

Igor Vykhovanets & ChatGPT
June 2025

Internet page: http://vykhovanets.yzz.me/awakenedword/