Saturday, September 26, 2015

Misterioso

It’s a female shaman, a silver rasp, a kernel to break free.
It’s a different country, and African rites, the soul of France.
I dance in it, to outfox self, to float freely. Was it freedom?—
and pearl diamonds, a strong instinct? I move to shift,
drifting through Spain, and looking at Natives. We’re
studded, a sacral flare, to write as it falls. I can’t for love,
to speak of love, shooting fireworks; and what for eyes,
speeding through Europe, and feeling sullen; for life the
poet, a mesto rite, an opus of words. Ensoul for winds, to
stir a brew, ever for love. If it spoke, to frighten a psych,
streaming through your life; and more for Rome, to travel
through myth, alive for minutes. I can’t to live it, a dear
afflatus, a charming brooch; and off to Greece, to pamper
hearts, familiar with all things. I’m but a child, a living
fable, filled with illusions. Such for dreams, speeding through
heartbeats, indebted for art. You spoke it to live it, to
sculpt a mocking bird; and was it power, racing through
Italy, even your life? The art is lethal, to surge a soul, falling
while rising. I see it to live it to clamp a voice.   

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