Saturday, July 15, 2023

Rain Poured All Night

 

Alike to the tempo, such deeper feelings, listening to sky sins.

 

To indict the Father, sweet blasphemy!

 

Rain poured all night. We heard thunder. A mouse appeared. It trembled.

 

By tacit ritual, bathing anxiety, rinsing a third time.

 

Make it biblic, a goodly truth, make it part slanted, a goodly issue.

 

A Red Sea parted, a cactus cistern, a feeling made natural.

 

            I’m amazed by what we call normal.

            I’ll leave that to another poet.

 

With eyes opened—to fear great disappointment—with many saying: Concentrate on the riches.

 

            Yes. Totally understood.

 

            Something bothers, it pokes, it nudges, it claws at you: stars, cosmos, collective fires, dialogue between self & consciousness; something to seeing spirit, something needed in a dry county, something churchlike, esoteric, a need for ethics & morals & spirituality.

 

            Yes. Totally understood.

 

            Something hungers, if by satisfaction, if by another pleat, something gluing it all together.

 

            A lonely soul is a seeking soul.

 

Most were trending a spiritual wave & became enthralled by nuance, by intention, by song, by walking further into humanity.

 

            Indeed. Rain poured all night.

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