the poem that never got there
Posted: March 21st, 2016, 9:52 am
the kettle is hissing wildly
just prior to the whistle blow
the ground Blue Krishna from Bali
is waiting in the French press
the kettle is rocking to and fro
like a poorly timed Kia engine
insisting I get up from my poem
put down the pen, turn off the natural gas
the whistle is a new age shrieking banshee
it screams for me to pour the boiling water
but my thoughts are caught in mid-stream
so I put up with the racket a few more eternal seconds
as the poem fizzles into nothingness, this
once promising stream of ethereal percolation
now just a blind man stumbling without a cane
and I am forced to admit to myself
not all thoughts have a prism-like brilliance
rainbow beginnings don't always lead to a beautiful day
No. this is nothing but this trick I like to play on myself
I've not kept writing to leave a gem for posterity
but for nothing more than satisfying a primal urge
just prior to the whistle blow
the ground Blue Krishna from Bali
is waiting in the French press
the kettle is rocking to and fro
like a poorly timed Kia engine
insisting I get up from my poem
put down the pen, turn off the natural gas
the whistle is a new age shrieking banshee
it screams for me to pour the boiling water
but my thoughts are caught in mid-stream
so I put up with the racket a few more eternal seconds
as the poem fizzles into nothingness, this
once promising stream of ethereal percolation
now just a blind man stumbling without a cane
and I am forced to admit to myself
not all thoughts have a prism-like brilliance
rainbow beginnings don't always lead to a beautiful day
No. this is nothing but this trick I like to play on myself
I've not kept writing to leave a gem for posterity
but for nothing more than satisfying a primal urge