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Open Poetry #18

Poetry’s Timeframe

D.Lester Young
Senior Member

since 2001-12-08

Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-01-25 08:07 AM

Is a poet’s voice one
Indifferent in tone
Emotionless in time
Void of deep emotion
I think not

Most of the great thinkers of any time
Have written prose
In verse so different that they questioned
Their surrounding images of light
To ponder sometimes the simplest of things

In the mind quest for salvation
In the inner peace of verse
Challenged quicksand mires the mind
In mists of haze that blinds
In tortures of self inflicted creativity
The poets mind creeps

In a slow motion of a flow of lava
Hot thoughts penetrate the mind existence
To ponder a line
In white-out it keeps being reformed
The foundation has solidified a stanza

The magic joining of spells of verse
Keep intertwining in whirlwinds
Storming out sometimes so soft
As to brush your mind
But sometimes so hard it cries

The realization that no minds are the same
For they will not create or read the same
Will take you down a trail of solitude
For the verse is only for you to interpret
And only then join the views of others
In harmony of creative critiques

So will time see the same scenery
Probably but by then the wrinkles
Will have created different reflections
Critiquing in a different timeframe
And if it should stand on it own
Then you created a masterpiece in any time

D.Lester Young (01/25/02)
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry)

sodpossom
Senior Member

since 2001-06-15

Posts 723
N.C

1 posted 2002-01-25 10:45 AM

Very well said and so true!

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