poetry - it will be what it will be

[Doreen Peri]

it will be what it will be –
an energy exercise,
a focus puzzle,
a dedication test,
an arrested moment,
a song in development,
an embellishment,
a gradation,
a sensation of sorts,
a substantial search
for substance, an
unencumbered luncheon
with yourself, me serving
it up raw, halfway broiled,
or very well done and you
deciding whether it's worth
sinking yer teeth into,
swallowing or spitting out

whatever this will be about
it's up to you to figure it out
.
.

[mtmynd]

i really don't understand this piece, Doreen.

o well... time to move on.

[Doreen Peri]

LOL!

ok

too funny

[SmileGRL]

i do...and i want to say "amen" love this doreen.

cecil...remember our "let it be what it is and let i fall where it is welcome" talk...this is the same thing right here. or maybe you did get it and i'm a little slow...

[Doreen Peri]

Thanks, SmilieOne

I'm pretty sure he was just messin' with me

[Lightning Rod]

you know that I don't hesitate to mess with you, doreen

but I can't mess with you about this piece

it is lyrical and musical and shows your natural chops

it's also a very erotic read

you are serving it up raw

I'll swallow rather than spitting it out

[sweetwater]

the thought of it is fantastic
as a long walk through town
with hip-waiters carrying
my rucksack and canteen for coffee
and looking very insignificantly enthused
or as a poem who has nowhere to go
but to feel quite comfortable about it
and the words that fill the space of time
in all its various colours
crawling out of the cryptic
and wondering if i am discussing
myself or someone else
as if were a stranger

[sweetwater]

as if i were a stranger

brings to mind

joseph conrad's

the secret sharer

as all poets are secret sharers unto themselves

and that another is not really the muse

but the muse inside onself