Friday, April 14, 2023

Give Us Poetry

 

Like thunder the soul shackled and freedom the rise into her arts. Aging. Facing mortality. Hopping into a mystery. Fire inside, flame upon a wire, linked to myriad souls. Re-fathoming prints, oaken lips, cypress violins. And Love wasn’t consuming, nor consumed.

I ponder the greats—to meet, lose the gaze and enter into insanity. Big sable eyed gem; a diary spoke it clearly, dead until we met, losing sanity, gripping reality, losing the miracle.

Needing to seem foolish. Needing to have reciprocity of insanity. Wondering what passion feels essence.

To die in each other. To awaken in each other. To eat, drink, breathe, hurt in each other.

            Poetry is myth, zoology, theoretical, body, mind, and index.

            Poetry is living and dying in one fantasy.

            So simply difficult. So difficultly unrealistic. Souls chasing ideals.

            Spirits trying to become sober.

            Hurting so much it feels like goodness, repentance, penance.

            Poetry is taste. Poetry is veins.

Poetry is trouble, indecency, the most precious form of existing.  

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