Monday, April 27, 2020

What is Poetry? (Revised)


But winds such sweet seesaws by love until death becomes warlike or activation, by cross-fire towards existence or mirage. The sweet destiny of sonnets, so thwart by humanness, so accustomed to sensual fires. By tale to self by madness disclosure or so far blank it means remorse. Maybe by limerick to chuckle or maybe free verse to cry while agony just assailed a villanelle: shredding manuscripts, so distressed by baggage, while a cheat-sheet is filled with couplets. What by its animal the furious creature so much an extreme elegy; to flow by tenderness or to die while livid or tugging at fane and art or alive by ropes. Our thirsty, near hung ballad or epic a nightmare seeking beauty or so dislodged or so afloat a mere illness might suffice. Such content handicaps such seam if we might or justice so chaotic, we nurture hemlock; the sestina-vase our repetitions or assonance and violence but it was so rewarded—our exiled curse our moving devastation where one might partake while begging for clearance.   What by its monster as so addictive while one can’t wait to suffer? this Jesus Piece this realized upheaval where satisfaction comes by fleetingness; those holy leaflets or permanent mind-shifts where in private one might feel visitations: by otherness the uncanny friendship while so intimate with what it has created; such irritability or breaking from feelings while confined to an opened door: those posts or these unlatched windows while deeper design is harboring dissonance; so dysfunctional with nary a sign where the poet has become such crucifixion.                       Wherefore, were loses            sweet ignescent tragedy the world-acclaimed rumor but fury or chastity where it afflicts or frustrates; those incomplete thoughts or fragmented whispers or pure profanity when channeled by interior; this wrenching furnace this designated arrival while souls are smelted by dear refinement. Such living haikus or so metaphorical where similes are often hiding in texts, to imagine travesty or so tragic by lights.

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    The strength to withstand the winds; a spell as it effects/affects some creature. A sudden moment filled with absolute certainty, so wro...