Prevailing Winds
Prevailing Winds
I worked in order to eat
I've regarded my cowardice as genius
found peace in deceiving myself
I looked for the human in human being
found only the writers of accidental circumstance
hidden in the comic pathos
stripped bare to the rib cage
i noticed the dreamer was an educated man
so he purposely withdrew from the world of contingency
he was the artist of his very own life
and the hero of his dreams, dreams of
limitless rapture, unaccountable for the impulses
that oxidized his joints, that threw saltwater
on his desire to remain bright and new, unable
to explain the details of his whims and fancies
floating by me on a bohemian cloud without a rudder
this man so creative, this master of disguises,
this animal, that can get accustomed to anything.
I've regarded my cowardice as genius
found peace in deceiving myself
I looked for the human in human being
found only the writers of accidental circumstance
hidden in the comic pathos
stripped bare to the rib cage
i noticed the dreamer was an educated man
so he purposely withdrew from the world of contingency
he was the artist of his very own life
and the hero of his dreams, dreams of
limitless rapture, unaccountable for the impulses
that oxidized his joints, that threw saltwater
on his desire to remain bright and new, unable
to explain the details of his whims and fancies
floating by me on a bohemian cloud without a rudder
this man so creative, this master of disguises,
this animal, that can get accustomed to anything.
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading
you may end up where you are heading
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I strongly identify with this piece, to a degree. Years ago I heard a voice (my own?) in my head, telling me, "Make your life the artwork." It struck a chord with me from my reading of Kesey, one's life as a movie, bringing them into your movie, etc. Cinema is art. Make of your life art. Live your life like you're in a movie.
When I reach the conclusion, I'll let you know how it all turned out.
Peace,
Barry
When I reach the conclusion, I'll let you know how it all turned out.
Peace,
Barry
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thanks so much for the kind words of approval, Clay and hester....
I highly regard your opinions......I kind of liked this one myself, but didn't get any response on a couple of other sites.....so I am pleased to get some favorable comments here at S8.....Thanx
I highly regard your opinions......I kind of liked this one myself, but didn't get any response on a couple of other sites.....so I am pleased to get some favorable comments here at S8.....Thanx
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading
you may end up where you are heading
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i really identified with lines in this poem.
It was extremly polished and it didn't feel contrived.
I really loved this work too.
wow-complexity is something that is often missing in poems- either that or poems are complex and they feel like the person wasn't intending to make a work of art so much as get frustrated about something= this felt like neither- this felt perfect.
It was extremly polished and it didn't feel contrived.
I really loved this work too.
wow-complexity is something that is often missing in poems- either that or poems are complex and they feel like the person wasn't intending to make a work of art so much as get frustrated about something= this felt like neither- this felt perfect.
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