Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Words and leftovers

With Spartan led tenacity
I call the words to line
and drill them in the moment;
draw forth their inner realm.
If everything has meaning,
then nothing can be left
and begs to find its meaning;
demands that it be led.
The poems so quickly gather,
in clutterings of word
and fall in sure surrender;
their voice demanded heard.
It is as if they're waiting
for me to open doors,
unseen, unknown but real;
a holding place of thought.
Each scrap and tag and drift
of mind, is drawn in surety,
to a new place of being;
created fresh in time.
Some linger in the distance,
or straggle on the path,
but all do find their way;
divine their soulful truth. 




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3 comments:

  1. Wrestling with words is always an adventure and certainly feels like an animal tamer, or a pre-school teacher at times. Am glad that you herded them all to their meanings. I have a file, simply defined as "unfinished" and it grows with each passing year. I visit occasionally and sometimes actually bring them to completion. Other times, one or two will come demanding a place in the present. I gratefully allow them to do so.

    Elizabeth
    http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/leap-of-faith/

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  2. Your beautiful metaphors sum up the writing process quite accurately. I particularly like the image of the poems waiting for you to open doors and introduce them into reality. Lovely job!

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  3. As Andra has stated, the image of poems waiting for you to open doors, rings beautifully.

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