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D.Lester Young
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since 2001-12-08
Posts 1219
Austin, Tx

0 posted 2002-12-11 04:57 AM


Turn off the spigot
Of God’s gift of creative flow
Put it on the back burner of life
Destroying a pride of self worth
Stagnant waters of the mind
Decaying from hidden exposures

The act of sharing your verse
With your fellow man
The seeds of your mind
Germinating and bearing fruit
So ripe in visions
That they can be tasted in its imagery

Words of mental images
Caressing the winds in tender textures
So warm they melt into you
In the chill of new found awareness
Icicles so mentally cold
Joining with flames of burning passion
Freezing into your memory
Burning in torrid desires

The eruptions of who you are
Need to flow on their natural course
Unhindered by an imprisoned fear
That chains you to a life sentence
Of negativity which cracks mirrors
In shattered lives

Release the bondage which is self imposed
Release the wrapping around your inner soul
Let the naked truth shine in its glory
A brain unconstrained willing to fly free
In the spirituality of immense beauty

Never let anyone dampen your spirit
In the guilt of who you are
And what you have done
Do not let the judges of accepted norms
Hide the masterpiece of talent within
For the only reason to ever change
Lies deep within your own choosing

Open the spigot in fresh waters
Flowing from the elixir of self intoxication
In a burning fervor of blossoming fragrances
Exposing the inner delight
Of your dynamic personality

D.Lester Young 12/11/2002
Tuscaloosa, AL
Copyright © D.Lester Young (White Eagle poetry)


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RSWells
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since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533

1 posted 2002-12-11 06:43 AM


An articulate array of good advice.
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