Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

poetry doesn't always need to be
jaw-dropping
the grab bag of metaphor
is stuffed full with snippets
of life, puzzle pieces, random
pinatas of all that has ever been dangle
waiting to be struck by a blindfolded
stranger with a club of imagination
so sonnets can mingle in mid air

come to life in wanderlust confetti

it's ok to try to force odd shapes
into irregular spaces, sometimes ideas
are jagged, have protuberances, but sometimes
they are bouquets of inventive color, the mums
of literary autumn, so vivid they don't need
to shout to get your attention, so bear
with me, embrace my gentle side tonight
I hope that's not too unmanly for you

I can't always be this one thing you desire

do my chosen words always need a reckless car chase
for you to pay some attention to me, would a slashed
throat give more pop to your eyes, I'm sorry
at heart I'm really just a teddy bear square, No
make that a teddy bear cube, so roll the dice my luv
I always have at least six sides for you to consider
let me be this tonight, tomorrow may never come

The voices, moods, feelings, transpire on paper in all the keys and musical time signatures....I find in performance especially in a bar it's the wild wireman grabs em......in a bookstore or coffeehouse wired n mellow works fine .......I have yet to reach that plane called spiritual, even though I have a tendency to rave like a preacher in the pulpit....like this piece mucho Steve .....makes my mind wander

Nice------

Points are well made.

Dan & Mark, thank you.....as Cat Stevens said, It's a Wild World....full of diversity and moods