these are the words you should never use in poetry
Posted: January 30th, 2005, 2:32 am
I used to fashion myself
a swarthy poet; up past midnight
to catch the eye of the moon when
it was soon ignored by another,
me, the lucid participant
ready
for a
glare
I would dare a formidible
lightflare with an uncertain
doubt or route pleasures
like dignitaries exhalted
by the parade!
I have made
metaphor from doesn't matter,
transcribed my trade-offs with
plays on words while all the time
playing the lure for word
tricks.
This
was my mantra.
Did I repeat myself?
This was my mantra.
Scat this back to the beat
on the last row, throw me yer
cavanaugh hat, let it land
above my right high eyebrow
sitting at a slant
threatening
the rim
of glass
vision.
Ah but I was a fool to believe
a fool like me could seize a moment
with a word.
I designed myself,
as it would be or as it wouldn't,
an absurdist blue on a white canvas
awaiting explanation.
But how could I possibly
explain syllables? How
could the purposeful dismissal
of imagery make me any kind
of thinker at
all?
Listen, these are the words you should
never use in poetry, words that have no imagery,
words that are purely the beat of your heart, words
not a part of apart from cliche, words that play
havoc on the bassline, words which intertwine
the nothing of empty space like the way
your eyes pretended to penetrate my vision
a swarthy poet; up past midnight
to catch the eye of the moon when
it was soon ignored by another,
me, the lucid participant
ready
for a
glare
I would dare a formidible
lightflare with an uncertain
doubt or route pleasures
like dignitaries exhalted
by the parade!
I have made
metaphor from doesn't matter,
transcribed my trade-offs with
plays on words while all the time
playing the lure for word
tricks.
This
was my mantra.
Did I repeat myself?
This was my mantra.
Scat this back to the beat
on the last row, throw me yer
cavanaugh hat, let it land
above my right high eyebrow
sitting at a slant
threatening
the rim
of glass
vision.
Ah but I was a fool to believe
a fool like me could seize a moment
with a word.
I designed myself,
as it would be or as it wouldn't,
an absurdist blue on a white canvas
awaiting explanation.
But how could I possibly
explain syllables? How
could the purposeful dismissal
of imagery make me any kind
of thinker at
all?
Listen, these are the words you should
never use in poetry, words that have no imagery,
words that are purely the beat of your heart, words
not a part of apart from cliche, words that play
havoc on the bassline, words which intertwine
the nothing of empty space like the way
your eyes pretended to penetrate my vision