Tuesday, November 13, 2018

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taking a vacation with alliteration i write,

 

“yesterday you yawned your yearnings yet you yielded yes”

 

then watch the sun set on the inspiration of my mind

 

under a full moon i croon:

 

“while all the colors of the fall

has everybody else enthralled

your beauty has me mesmerized

and all else is a compromise”

 

but the clouds come causing the night to become contrary

 

spell check tells me my line in alliteration contains verb confusion

and i think, “welcome to the poetry of my mind”

 

to get the rhythmic rhetoric roaring i recite an opening verse

to a poem i coined back in the eighties,

 

“learn to dance on dreary days that drizzle down defeat

wake to wisdom of the word that weaves eternal beat

glow the gift that gave you guidance from the guarded grave

take the time to realign the rapture and the rave”

 

but i remain creatively infertile

 

i read a few pages from my “echo” manuscript

but can’t connect with the writer who witnessed those words

confer with the closed doors in the hallway of my inspiration

but no one is home or willing to answer with an opening

 

i feel bottled up

needing to twist off the top or uncork

but whatever is simmering beneath the surface

is suffering in silence and won’t stop gnawing on my bones

waiting for me to reach in my hand and pull it out of the pit

and give it a home on the poetry of pages

 

the war wages without being streamed live

the passage ways are blocked surging with suffocation

for all thoughts gasp for a permanent vacation

from the entrails of my macabre

 

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